Innovation & intellectual property · 28/12/2001

USPTO Revises Rules for Claiming Benefit of Prior-Filed Patent Applications

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is updating its rules to clarify requirements for claiming the benefit of previously filed patent applications, particularly those filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and involving translations of provisional applications, as part of its implementation of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999's eighteen-month publication provisions.