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As I wrote earlier this week, Director Kappos is championing international worksharing as a key mechanism for addressing the growing workload facing patent offices around the world. To make worksharing work, the Office of First Filing (OFF) has to examine the application first. This means that patent offices participating in international worksharing programs will be encouraged to give priority to applications for which they are the OFF—usually applications filed by domestic applicants, with no priority claim or a priority claim to a domestic provisional application.

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