Changes to Patent Practice and Procedure
The Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is amending the rules of practice to simplify the requirements of the rules, rearrange portions of the rules for better context, and eliminate unnecessary rules or portions thereof as part of a government-wide effort to reduce the regulatory burden on the American public. Exemplary changes include: simplification of the procedure for filing continuation and divisional applications; amendment of a number of rules to permit the filing of a statement that errors were made without deceptive intent, without a requirement for a further showing of facts and circumstances; and elimination of the requirement that the inventorship be named in an application on the day of its filing, which eliminates the need for certain petitions to correct inventorship.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/10/97-26339/changes-to-patent-practice-and-procedure (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
- 1997-10-10
- Document type
- 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
- 1996 Changes to Patent Practice and Procedure
- Changes To Practice for Continuing Applications, Requests for Continued Examination Practice, and Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims
- Changes To Information Disclosure Statement Requirements and Other Related Matters
- Acquisition and Protection of Foreign Rights in Inventions; Licensing of Foreign Patents Acquired by the Government; Uniform Patent Policy for Rights in Inventions Made by Government Employees
- Revisions and Technical Corrections Affecting Requirements for Ex Parte and Inter Partes Reexamination
- Changes To Eliminate Unnecessary Regulations
- Changes To Permit Delayed Submission of Certain Requirements for Prioritized Examination
- Requirements for Patent Applications Containing Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino Acid Disclosures
- Rules of Practice To Allocate the Burden of Persuasion on Motions To Amend in Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
- Changes Implementing Nucleotide and/or Amino Acid Sequence Listings
- Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in Ex Parte Appeals
- Changes To Facilitate Applicant's Authorization of Access to Unpublished U.S. Patent Applications by Foreign Intellectual Property Offices
- Changes To Facilitate Applicant's Authorization of Access to Unpublished U.S. Patent Applications by Foreign Intellectual Property Offices
- Electronic Submission of a Sequence Listing, a Large Table, or a Computer Program Listing Appendix in Patent Applications
- Changes To Implement the Inventor's Oath or Declaration Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
- Changes To Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims, and Examination of Claims in Patent Applications