USPTO Changes After Final Practice by MPEP Amendment
With the June 2020 revision, the patent office has changed MPEP § 706.07 to seemingly more easily allow first action final rejections, post RCE or continuation filing. As acknowledged in the change summary (https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-0005-change-summary.html), the requirement that claims be directed to the “same invention” has been replaced with language requiring that the claims be “either […]