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Changes to Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of section 4402 of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide patent term adjustment to compensate patentees for...
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Changes To Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide, with certain exceptions, for the publication of pending patent...
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Rules To Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) is proposing to amend its rules of practice in patent cases to provide revised procedures for the reexamination of patents and thereby implement certain provisions of ``the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' ``The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' included an amendment to the...
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Changes to Permit Payment of Patent and Trademark Fees by Credit Card
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is amending the rules of practice to provide for the payment of any patent process or trademark process fee by credit card. The Office previously limited payment by credit card to the fees required for information products or for an electronic submission of or in a trademark application. The...
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Treatment of Unlocatable Application and Patent Files
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is proposing to amend the rules of practice to provide for the replacement of application and patent files that cannot be located after a reasonable search. This change is designed to expedite the process of application and patent file reconstruction to minimize the processing or examination delays...
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Revision of Patent Fees for Fiscal Year 2001
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is amending the rules of practice in patent cases to adjust certain patent fee amounts to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The USPTO is also amending the description of two fees to reflect current business practice.
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Request for Continued Examination Practice and Changes to Provisional Application Practice
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999. These provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999: Provide for continued examination of an application for a fee; extend the pendency of a...
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Changes To Implement the Patent Business Goals
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) has established business goals for the organizations reporting to the Commissioner for Patents (Patent Business Goals). The focus of the Patent Business Goals is to increase the level of service to the public by raising the efficiency and effectiveness of the Office's business processes. In...
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Rights to Inventions Made by Nonprofit Organizations and Small Business Firms Under Government Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements; Special Contracts To Provide Support Services for a Government-Owned and -Operated Laboratory Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) With a Collaborating Party
This proposed rule would authorize Federal agencies to use an alternate patent rights clause in certain contracts with nonprofit organizations and small business firms to provide support services at a Government-owned and -operated laboratory in connection with a CRADA between the laboratory and a collaborating party.
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Changes To Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999. These provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 provide patent term adjustment to compensate patentees for certain delays in the application...
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Changes to Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999. These provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 provide, with certain exceptions, for the publication of pending patent applications (other...
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Treatment of Unlocatable Patent Application and Patent Files
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is amending the rules of practice to provide for the replacement of patent application and patent files that cannot be located after a reasonable search. This change is designed to expedite the process of application and patent file reconstruction to minimize the processing or examination delays...
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Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Color, or National Origin in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance; Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance; Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Age in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance
The Agencies propose to amend their regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (``Title VI''), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1972 (``Section 504''), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (``Age Discrimination Act''). Together, these statutes prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin,...
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Rules to Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) is amending its rules of practice in patent cases to provide revised procedures for the reexamination of patents and thereby implement certain provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999. The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 included an amendment to the Patent Act to...
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Revision of Patent Cooperation Treaty Application Procedure
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is amending its rules of practice relating to applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). These changes conform the United States rules of practice to the Regulations under the PCT which became effective March 1, 2001. The result will be more streamlined procedures for...
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Changes to the Time Period for Making Any Necessary Deposit of Biological Material
In a rulemaking to implement the Patent Business Goals, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) proposed a change to the time period within which a deposit of biological material (if needed) must be made. The Office held this proposed change in abeyance pending consideration of a study by the Comptroller General of the potential...
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Revision of Patent and Trademark Fees for Fiscal Year 2002
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (referred to as ``we'', ``us'', or ``our'' in this document) is proposing to adjust certain patent fee amounts and a trademark fee amount to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Also, we are proposing to adjust, by a corresponding amount, a few patent fees that track the affected...
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Elimination of Continued Prosecution Application Practice as to Utility and Plant Patent Applications
The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) enacted provisions for the continued examination of a utility or plant application at the request of the applicant (request for continued examination or RCE practice). Therefore, there no longer appears to be a need for continued prosecution application (CPA) practice as to utility and plant...
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Revision of Patent Fees for Fiscal Year 2002
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (referred to as ``we'', ``us'', or ``our'' in this notice) is adjusting certain patent fee amounts to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Also, we are adjusting, by a corresponding amount, a few patent fees that track the affected fees. Our Director is authorized to adjust these...
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Timing of National Stage Commencement in the United States for Patent Cooperation Treaty Applications
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is amending the regulations to include the current statutory provisions that define when national stage commencement occurs in an application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The Office is making this change due to a possible change in the patent statute to provide that the...