Innovation & intellectual property · 05/09/2001
USPTO Proposes Changes to Patent Application Rules for Prior-Filed Applications
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is proposing revisions to its rules of practice related to claiming the benefit of prior-filed applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), as well as other technical corrections, in order to implement the provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 regarding the eighteen-month publication of patent applications.
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