Proposed Changes in Procedures Relating to an Application Filing Date
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) requests written public comment on a proposed change in procedures relating to the treatment of prima facie incomplete applications. Currently, applications filed without all the pages of the specification or without all of the figures of the drawings are treated as prima facie incomplete and not accorded a filing date. The PTO is considering changing this procedure to accord a filing date to any application that contains something that can be construed as a written description, any necessary drawing, and a claim.
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- Read the news
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/1995/11/13/95-27874/proposed-changes-in-procedures-relating-to-an-application-filing-date (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- Published
- 1995-11-13
- Document type
- Notice
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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