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 applications. Thus, the Office is proposing to eliminate CPA practice as to utility and plant applications. An applicant for a utility or plant patent may also continue to effectively obtain further examination of the application by filing a continuing application under section 1.53(b). Since RCE practice does not apply to design applications, CPA practice will remain in place for design applications.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
- —
- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/07/09/01-17100/elimination-of-continued-prosecution-application-practice-as-to-utility-and-plant-patent (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
- No fee mention in title or summary )
- What you need (account or API key)
- No account or key mention in title or summary )
- Published
- 2001-07-09
- Document type
- Proposed Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
Everything in the same category
Read the news (all 1988) · both (all 2333)
Related entry points
- Elimination of Continued Prosecution Application Practice as to Utility and Plant Patent Applications
- Revision of Patent Term Extension and Adjustment Provisions Relating to Appellate Review and Information Disclosure Statements
- Pilot Program for Extended Time Period To Reply to a Notice To File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application
- Revision of Patent Term Adjustment Provisions Relating to Appellate Review
- Changes To Practice for Continuing Applications, Requests for Continued Examination Practice, and Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims
- Change in Practice Regarding Correction of Foreign Priority Claims
- 1996 Changes to Patent Practice and Procedure
- Revision of Patent Term Adjustment Provisions Relating to Information Disclosure Statements
- After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0
- Request for Continued Examination Practice and Changes to Provisional Application Practice
- Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs
- Changes to Application Examination and Provisional Application Practice
- Request for Comments on Proposed Change To Missing Parts Practice
- Requirements for Claiming the Benefit of Prior-Filed Applications Under Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
- Changes to Eliminate the Disclosure Document Program
- Request for Comments on a Proposed Track Three Pilot Program With a Pre-Examination Search Option