Changes to Application Examination and 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 provisional application if the date that is twelve months after the filing date of the provisional application falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a Federal holiday within the District of Columbia, eliminate the copendency requirement for a nonprovisional application to claim the benefit of a provisional application, provide for the conversion of a provisional application to a nonprovisional application, and to provide a prior art exclusion for certain commonly assigned patents.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/03/20/00-6514/changes-to-application-examination-and-provisional-application-practice (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
- Legacy system and where it moved
- No legacy system name mention in title or summary )
- Fee
- Fee mentioned in title or summary (Confirmed in the document text)
- What you need (account or API key)
- No account or key mention in title or summary )
- Published
- 2000-03-20
- Document type
- Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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Related entry points
- Request for Continued Examination Practice and Changes to Provisional Application Practice
- Pilot Program for Extended Time Period To Reply to a Notice To File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application
- Changes to Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
- Changes To Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
- Request for Comments on Proposed Change To Missing Parts Practice
- Changes To Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
- Changes To Implement the Patent Law Treaty
- Examination Guidelines for Implementing the First-Inventor-to-File Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
- Changes to Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
- Change in Practice Regarding Correction of Foreign Priority Claims
- Changes To Implement the First Inventor To File Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
- Revision of Patent Term Adjustment Provisions Relating to Appellate Review
- Changes To Implement the First Inventor To File Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
- Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Procedures
- Request for Comments on a Proposed Track Three Pilot Program With a Pre-Examination Search Option
- Revision of Patent Term Extension and Patent Term Adjustment Provisions