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). Since continued prosecution application (CPA) practice is largely redundant in view of RCE practice, the Office is eliminating 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. 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
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/05/30/03-13534/elimination-of-continued-prosecution-application-practice-as-to-utility-and-plant-patent (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- What you need (account or API key)
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- Published
- 2003-05-30
- Document type
- Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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