Day: October 21, 2026

The Top Three, Illustrated: Inside the best prosecution histories of October 20, 2026

The top three files from the October 20, 2026 weekly review, shown with the pages that decided them: the examiner’s Air Up comparison that Amazon’s own AI re-dated, a single plan view of a power tool housing that survived 112 under Maatita, and the TikTok post a restored priority date

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Nobody Answered: What 51 abandoned design applications show and what practitioners might consider

Of the 51 design applications abandoned October 12 to 18, 2026 after a rejection, only 5 applicants ever replied. Sibling Hague registrations were rejected over each other, three files died on rejections a terminal disclaimer would have cured, a grace-period disclosure went unclaimed, and one allowance was pulled back after

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