# Changes to Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule. · Published 2000-09-20 · Effective 2000-11-29 · 65 FR 57024
## Document
- **Document number:** 00-23822
- **Category:** uspto-patent
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 57024
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2000-09-20
- **Effective date:** 2000-11-29
## 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, with certain exceptions, for the publication of pending patent applications (other than design applications) at eighteen months from the earliest claimed priority date.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/09/20/00-23822/changes-to-implement-eighteen-month-publication-of-patent-applications)
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