Changes To Implement the Patent Business Goals
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has established business goals for the organizations reporting to the Assistant Commissioner for Patents (Patent Business Goals). The Patent Business Goals have been established in response to the Vice-President's designation of the PTO as an agency that has a high impact on the public, and they are designed to make the PTO a more business-like agency. The focus of the Patent Business Goals is to increase the level of service to the public by raising the efficiency and effectiveness of the PTO's business processes. The PTO is considering a number of changes to the rules of practice and procedure to support the Patent Business Goals. The PTO is publishing this Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to allow for public input at an early stage in the rule making process. The PTO is soliciting comments on these specific changes to the rules of practice or procedures.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/10/05/98-26429/changes-to-implement-the-patent-business-goals (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- No legacy system name mention in title or summary )
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- What you need (account or API key)
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- Published
- 1998-10-05
- Document type
- Proposed Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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Related entry points
- Changes To Implement the Patent Business Goals
- Changes To Implement the Patent Business Goals
- Changes To Practice for Continuing Applications, Requests for Continued Examination Practice, and Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims
- Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Procedures
- Patent Quality Metrics for Fiscal Year 2017 and Request for Comments on Improving Patent Quality Measurement
- Notice of Public Hearings and Extension of Comment Period on the Proposed Changes To Require Identification of Attributable Owner
- Post-Prosecution Pilot Program
- Request for Comments and Notice of Roundtable Event on Leveraging Electronic Resources To Retrieve Information From Applicant's Other Applications and Streamline Patent Issuance
- Extension of Deadline for Requesting To Testify at the Public Hearings on the Proposed Changes To Require Identification of Attributable Owner
- Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in Ex Parte Appeals; Request for Comments on Potential Modifications to Final Rule and Notice of Roundtable During Comment Period
- Revision of Patent and Trademark Fees for Fiscal Year 1998
- Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Procedures
- Trademark Fee Adjustment
- Changes to Practice for the Examination of Claims in Patent Applications
- Pilot Program for Waiver of Patent Owner's Statement in Ex Parte Reexamination Proceedings
- Streamlined Patent Reexamination Proceedings; Notice of Public Meeting