Registration Examination for Patent Practitioners and the Establishment of a Continuing Education Requirement and an Annual Fee for Registered Patent Practitioners
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) will hold public hearings, and request comments, on issues relating to the administration and format of the Registration Examination for Patent Practitioners and to the establishment of a continuing education requirement and an annual fee for registered patent practitioners. Interested members of the public are invited to testify at public hearings and to submit written comments on the topics outlined in the supplementary information section of this notice.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
- —
- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/09/30/96-24865/registration-examination-for-patent-practitioners-and-the-establishment-of-a-continuing-education (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
- 1996-09-30
- 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
- Request for Comments on Interim Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications Under the 35 U.S.C. 112 para. 1 ``Written Description'' Requirement; Extension of Comment Period and Notice of Hearing
- Notice of Hearings and Request for Comments on Issues Relating to Patent Protection for Nucleic Acid Sequences
- Notice of Hearings and Request for Comments on Issues Relating to Patent Protection for Nucleic Acid Sequences
- Notice of Hearings and Request for Comments on Issues Relating to Patent Protection for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Methods
- Notice of Public Hearings and Request for Comments on Patent Protection for Biotechnological Inventions
- Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on Matters Related to the Harmonization of Substantive Patent Law
- Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on Issues Related to the Identification of Prior Art During the Examination of a Patent Application
- Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on Procedures for Recording Patent Prosecution File Histories
- Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on the Proposed New Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs
- Patent Public Advisory Committee Public Hearings on the Proposed Patent Fee Schedule
- Notice of Hearing and Request for Comments on Draft Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
- Public Hearing and Request for Comments on the Standard of Nonobviousness
- Notice of Hearing and Request for Comments on a Technical Documentation Strategy
- Trademark Public Advisory Committee Public Hearing on the Proposed Trademark Fee Schedule
- Patent Public Advisory Committee Public Hearing on the Proposed Patent Fee Schedule
- Patent Public Advisory Committee Public Hearing on the Proposed Patent Fee Schedule