{"id":2261,"date":"2018-10-28T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:04:14","slug":"fractional-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Fractional Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, a fractional patent is not what you have left over after the PTAB gets a hold of your patent. Fractional patents are actually patents with fractional numbers.\u00a0 The practice started back when the USPTO was trying to reassemble the collection of patents issued before the Office numbered patents.\u00a0 These pre-number era patents are known as the &#8220;X&#8221; patents, and as the Office was assigning these patents numbers, they would occasionally come across patents whose issue\u00a0 dates were between already numbered patents.\u00a0 In order to keep the chronological sequence, the USPTO needed to issue fractional numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2263\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List-1024x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List-1024x372.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List-768x279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List-500x182.jpg 500w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractional-List.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact the USPTO even created a letter code system to identify the fractions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2262 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fractions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surprising thing is that the fractional number scheme continued from time to time even after the USPTO began numbering patents.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">126\u00bd,\u00a01400\u00bd,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RE1217\u00bd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, RE1242\u00bd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, D1093\u00bd, 2712152\u00bd,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2712152-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2264\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2712152-5-790x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3262124\u00bd,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3262124-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2265\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3262124-5-793x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> a<\/span>nd\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D90793\u00bd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, a fractional patent is not what you have left over after the PTAB gets a hold of your patent. 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