uspto-patent · US Patent and Trademark Office · Published 2012-09-11 · Effective 2013-03-16 · 77 FR 56068
Document
Document number
2012-22204
Federal Register citation
77 FR 56068
CFR reference
37 CFR 42
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
uspto-patent
Sub-agency
US Patent and Trademark Office
Publication date
2012-09-11
Effective date
2013-03-16
Commerce docket
Docket No. PTO-P-2011-0086
Abstract
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) is revising the rules of practice to implement the provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) that create a new derivation proceeding to be conducted before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board). These provisions of the AIA will take effect on March 16, 2013, eighteen months after the date of enactment, and apply to applications for patent, and any patent issuing thereon, that are subject to first-inventor-to-file provisions of the AIA.