Triantafyllos Tafas is best known for his complex inventions. But now he’s won an important legal and regulatory victory that, he and his lawyers believe, will assist small companies and individual entrepreneurs across the country writes The Connecticut Law Tribune.
A lawsuit Tafas filed in 2007 halted new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules from going into effect. The rules would have imposed strict limits on how many times an inventor could make revisions to a pending patent application.
Opponents of the rules limiting so-called “continuations” said they would hurt small businesses and individuals who could not afford the high cost of repeatedly filing for entirely new patents. “It was going to be an extremely costly exercise to be in compliance with those rules,” said Steven J. Moore, one of two attorneys at the Stamford office of Kelly, Drye & Warren who represented Tafas. The other is James E. Nealon.
Now, with a new administration in Washington, it’s clear that those proposed rules will never go into effect. On Oct.8, new patent office Commissioner David J. Kappos officially rescinded the highly controversial “anti-continuation” regulations, and moved to dismiss the lawsuit.
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