Comments on: A Discussion About S-Signatures With Examples http://patentablydefined.com/2010/03/31/a-discussion-about-s-signatures-with-examples/ A practical patent prosecution blog published by Michael Kondoudis Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mike Brown http://patentablydefined.com/2010/03/31/a-discussion-about-s-signatures-with-examples/comment-page-1/#comment-4869 Mike Brown Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:25:20 +0000 http://patentablydefined.com/2010/03/31/a-discussion-about-s-signatures-with-examples/#comment-4869 There's a major problem with the example sheet you link to, and, actually, with the examples you give, too. All of the "proper" signatures on the sheet are a full name (First I. Last), which has led some examiners and clerks at the PTO to decide that the rules somehow require a full name to be a proper signature. That's simply not true - as long as you follow the rules you posted - the characters listed in section 1 between slashes as in section 2 - ANYTHING can be an s-signature. In fact, it makes sense not to use your full name, since anyone could enter that, but an arbitrary character string is identifiably yours. There’s a major problem with the example sheet you link to, and, actually, with the examples you give, too. All of the “proper” signatures on the sheet are a full name (First I. Last), which has led some examiners and clerks at the PTO to decide that the rules somehow require a full name to be a proper signature.

That’s simply not true – as long as you follow the rules you posted – the characters listed in section 1 between slashes as in section 2 – ANYTHING can be an s-signature. In fact, it makes sense not to use your full name, since anyone could enter that, but an arbitrary character string is identifiably yours.

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