{"id":2257,"date":"2018-10-26T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2018-10-26T09:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:11:55","slug":"goldilocks-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Goldilocks Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rules of claim drafting are numerous and arcane.\u00a0 Even after years of prosecution experience, however, it seems there are more to discover.<\/p>\n<p>While the <em>wording<\/em> of claims is obviously important, recently, several office actions revealed the criticality of the <em>spacing<\/em> of claims.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want the spacing to be too much:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2258\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing-1024x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing-1024x102.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing-300x30.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing-768x77.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing-500x50.jpg 500w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing.jpg 1786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>nor can it be too little.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2259 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spacing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the spacing needs to be <strong>just right<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules of claim drafting are numerous and arcane.\u00a0 Even after years of prosecution experience, however, it seems there are more to discover. While the wording of claims is obviously important, recently, several office actions revealed the criticality of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prosecution"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}