{"id":6469,"date":"2014-01-23T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T23:47:26","slug":"application-no-vs-serial-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6469","title":{"rendered":"Application No. vs. Serial No."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Circuit sometimes uses “serial number” in a different way than that used by the PTO. \u00a0The PTO identifies an “application number” by a two digit “series code” and a six digit “serial number.” \u00a0See, e.g., 37 C.F.R. 1.5. \u00a0The Federal Circuit will sometimes use “serial no.” more generally. \u00a0For example, in the case decided yesterday, Medtronic CoreValve LLC v. Edwards LifeSciences Corp.<\/span>, the opinion states:<\/p>\n

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A complete priority chain claiming priority to International\u00a0Application 2b under \u00a7 120 would have disclosed\u00a0the following:<\/p>\n

The present application (U.S. Application 10)\u00a0claims priority under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 120 as a continuation\u00a0of U.S. Application Serial No. 12\/029,031\u00a0(U.S. Application 8), filed February 11, 2008,\u00a0which is a continuation of U.S. Application Serial\u00a0No. 11\/352,614 (U.S. Application 6), filed February\u00a013, 2006, which is a continuation of U.S. Application\u00a0Serial No. 10\/412,634 (U.S. Application\u00a04), filed April 10, 2003, which is a continuation-inpart\u00a0of International Application No. PCT\/FR\u00a001\/03258 (International Application 2b), filed October\u00a019, 2001.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The application no. “12\/029,031” is this example is comprised of a series code “12” and a serial no. “029,031.” \u00a0So, the above example given by the Federal Circuit can be a little bit confusing to new practitioners. \u00a0One would preferably use “U.S. Application No.” (as the MPEP instructs) in place of “U.S. Application Serial No.” as indicated below:<\/p>\n

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The present application (U.S. Application 10)\u00a0claims priority under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 120 as a continuation\u00a0of U.S. Application Serial<\/span> No. 12\/029,031\u00a0(U.S. Application 8), filed February 11, 2008,\u00a0which is a continuation of U.S. Application Serial<\/span> No. 11\/352,614 (U.S. Application 6), filed February\u00a013, 2006, which is a continuation of U.S. Application\u00a0Serial<\/span> No. 10\/412,634 (U.S. Application\u00a04), filed April 10, 2003, which is a continuation-inpart\u00a0of International Application No. PCT\/FR\u00a001\/03258 (International Application 2b), filed October\u00a019, 2001.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Curiously, the PTO search page still allows one to search by “application serial no.” but no longer by “application series code.” \u00a0So, every “application serial no.” search produces about four to five results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Circuit sometimes uses “serial number” in a different way than that used by the PTO. \u00a0The PTO identifies an “application number” by a two digit “series code” and a six digit “serial number.” \u00a0See, e.g., 37 C.F.R. 1.5. \u00a0The Federal Circuit will sometimes use “serial no.” more generally. \u00a0For example, in the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6469\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}