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Proposed Two Year Provisional Patent Application Term

By nipper

The USPTO’s News and Notices page contains a link to an Official Gazette Notice dated today entitled:  Request for Comments on Proposed Change To Missing Parts Practice.  While the name may be quite innocuous, read the summary: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in response to a number of requests to reduce the costs due one year after filing a provisional application, is considering a change that would effectively provide a 12-month extension to the 12-month provisional application period (creating a net 24-month period). This change would be implemented through the missing parts practice in nonprovisional applications… IPWatchdog explains why they are going the “missing parts” route.

Full post as published by Invent Blog on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).