"Ms. Grasty filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office ('PTO') on behalf of herself and eight co-inventors. The patent application became abandoned, among other reasons, for failure to submit a declaration signed by all the inventors. Ms. Grasty twice petitioned to revive the application. However, each petition was dismissed in a non-final action which provided instructions on how to prepare a proper declaration and grantable petition."
Abandoned application
Definition
Refers to the abandonment of a patent or trademark application. An application is removed from the docket of pending applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office when the applicant (either directly or through his attorney or agent) files an express notice of abandonment, does not pay the issue fee, or does not take appropriate action sometime in the prosecution of a nonprovisional application. An abandoned application may be revived upon petition.
