# Changes To Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule. · Published 2000-09-18 · Effective 2000-10-18 · 65 FR 56366
## Document
- **Document number:** 00-23263
- **Category:** bis-export-control
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 56366
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2000-09-18
- **Effective date:** 2000-10-18
## Abstract

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 patent term adjustment to compensate patentees for certain delays in the application examination process.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/09/18/00-23263/changes-to-implement-patent-term-adjustment-under-twenty-year-patent-term)
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