federal_register: 00-6514
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| 00-6514 | Changes to Application Examination and Provisional Application Practice | Rule | The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide for continued examination of an application for a fee, extend the pendency of a provisional application if the date that is twelve months after the filing date of the provisional application falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a Federal holiday within the District of Columbia, eliminate the copendency requirement for a nonprovisional application to claim the benefit of a provisional application, provide for the conversion of a provisional application to a nonprovisional application, and to provide a prior art exclusion for certain commonly assigned patents. | 2000-03-20 | 2000 | 3 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/03/20/00-6514/changes-to-application-examination-and-provisional-application-practice | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-03-20/pdf/00-6514.pdf | Commerce Department; Patent and Trademark Office | 54,402 | The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act... |