Toyotaka Abe Foreign Legal Consultant Patent Group, IP& Licensing Microsoft Corporation.

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Toyotaka Abe Foreign Legal Consultant Patent Group, IP& Licensing Microsoft Corporation

Facilitate Portfolio Development Cost Neutral Support the Work Sharing of Patent Offices Expedite strategically- selected cases 2

PPH cases (132 PPHs since 2006) non-PPH cases Request for PPH or Examination to 1 st OA 1.9 months2 years and 8 months Request for PPH or Examination to Allowance 8.5 months3 years and 5 months Number of office actions before an allowance Allowance rate73% 48% (excluding voluntarily abandoned cases) 3

4 12/20/2004 US filing (11/018916) 2/26/2008 Patent issued 12/13/2005 JP filing ( ) 10/2/2008 Request for Exam & PPH 11/7/ st OA 2/9/2009 Response to 1 st OA 3/17/2009 Allowance ? Allowance Hypothesis (What if PPH was not requested?) 10/2/2008 Request for Exam

Reasons for rejection 29-1 main body (patentable subject matter) 29-1 (novelty) 29-2 (inventive step) 36 (indefinite description or lack of claim support) Straight- allowance (no rejection) Number of cases Percentage18%5%58%74%8% Reasons for rejections in the first office action in the selected 38 PPH cases 5

PPH cases (63PPHs since 2006) non-PPH cases Request for PPH or Examination to 1 st OA 1.7 months1 year and a half Request for PPH or Examination to Allowance 6 months2 years Number of office actions before an allowance11.25 Allowance rate83% 6