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Five Reasons an IDS Is Filed but Never Considered
An IDS that fails 37 CFR 1.97 or 1.98 is placed in the file but never considered. Five failures account for most of them, and each is checkable before you file.
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How Do You Build an IDS from Unstructured Documents?
Build an IDS from emails, foreign office actions and search reports by extracting each citation into the fields 37 CFR 1.98(b) requires. AI can do the extraction; the signing practitioner still reviews every entry.
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