Respond to Amendment/Correction Issue

If the Commissioner is not satisfied that a request for amendment/correction of a patent includes information or documentation sufficient to permit a decision to approve or decline the request, the issues concerning the request will be reported in a letter and a response task Respond to Amendment/Correction Issue will be set for the requestor on the amendment/correction case in the case management system.

A two month period will generally be allowed for the applicant to complete the task and rectify the request.

Completing the task:

1. Open the task Respond to Amendment/Correction Issue from your task list in your inbox.
2. Read the Defects Report.
3. Add one or more Objection Response Documents: either Response to amendment/correction or Evidence Documents.
4. Add further amended specification and description of amendments proposed documents if necessary, and
5. Submit the response.
6. Alternatively, select Request a Hearing which will take you to a Request Proceedings – Hearing Requested form.
7. Your response will be recorded on the request case for further consideration by the examiner.

Failure to complete task by due date

If the respond to amendment/correction issues task is not completed by the due date (normally a two month period is allowed), then the request for amendment/correction will be declined and the case will be closed, and another request will have to be made if the applicant wishes to affect the amendment.

Hearing requested

If a hearing is requested, then no response will be able to be made on the request case Respond to Amendment/Correction Issue task and the request case will be closed.