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A patent application becomes abandoned for failure to file a complete and proper reply as the condition of the application may require within the time period provided under 37 CFR § 1.134 and § 1.136 unless an Office action indicates otherwise.
Abandonment may be either of the invention or of an application. An abandoned application, in accordance with 37 CFR §§ 1.135 and 1.138, is one which is removed from the Office docket of pending applications.
-- see MPEP 711 for more -- see express abandonment
USPTO - Cite This Source - This Definition- A trademark application that has been declared abandoned is "dead" and no longer pending. Abandonment occurs under several circumstances. The most common reason is when the USPTO does not receive a response to an Office Action letter from an applicant within 6 months from the date the Office action letter was mailed. Another instance is when the USPTO does not receive a Statement of Use (or request for an extension of time to file a statement of use) from an applicant within 6 months from the issuance of a Notice of Allowance). Applications abandoned for failure to respond to an Office Action or a Notice of Allowance can be revived or reinstated in certain circumstances. For more information, see Petition to Revive and Request for Reinstatement.
USPTO - Cite This Source - This Definition - Abandonment of Patent Application, Copending Application or Copendency, dead, express abandonment, notice of abandonment, pending, Petition to Revive, petition to revive an application (trademark matters), request to reinstate an application, Revival of Abandoned Application, Special Status
- An actual or implied giving up of an application or invention by some positive act or failure to act within a reasonable or statutorily fixed time.
University of North Texas - Cite This Source - This Definition - Abandonment of Invention, Abandonment of Patent Application, express abandonment, Invention, Abandoned, Petition to Revive, Revival of Abandoned Application
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