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 than design applications) at eighteen months from the earliest claimed priority date.
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- Read the news
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/09/20/00-23822/changes-to-implement-eighteen-month-publication-of-patent-applications (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- Published
- 2000-09-20
- Document type
- Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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