United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Changes to Representation of Others Before The United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) is adopting the new USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct (USPTO Rules), which are based on the American Bar Association's (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct (ABA Model Rules), which were published in 1983, substantially revised in 2003 and updated through 2012. The Office has also revised the existing procedural rules governing disciplinary investigations and proceedings. These changes will enable the Office to better protect the public while also providing practitioners with substantially uniform disciplinary rules across multiple jurisdictions.

• Federal Register Nbr. 78 FR 20179, April 03, 2013
• Rules and Regulations
• Patent and Trademark Office

• Crafting a 21st century United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Good morning. It is a privilege to be here representing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). I want to thank the Missouri Law Review...

• Missouri Law Review
• Vol. 76 Nbr. 3, June 2011

• Changes to Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) proposes to align the USPTO's professional responsibility rules with those of most other U.S. jurisdictions by replacing the current Patent and Trademark Office Code of Professional Responsibility, adopted in 1985, based on the 1980 version of the Model Code of Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association (``ABA''), with new USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct, which are based on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct of the ABA, which were published in 1983, substantially revised in 2003 and updated through 2011. Changes approved by the ABA House of Delegates in August 2012 have not been incorporated in these proposed rules. The Office also proposes to revise the existing procedural rules governing discipli...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 64189, October 18, 2012
• Proposed rules
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Rep. Alan B. Mollohan Holds a Hearing On the United States Patent and Trademark Office Budget

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES HOLDS A HEARING ON THE UNITED STATES P...

• Political Transcript Wire
• April 05, 2010

• Electronic Delivery of Search Results From the United States Patent and Trademark Office to the European Patent Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently begun electronic delivery of search results from U.S. patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) to assist U.S. applicants who later file in the EPO to comply with amended Rule 141(1) of the EPO's implementing regulations to the European Patent Convention (EPC). As a result, U.S. applicants subject to amended Rule 141(1) EPC will not need to separately file their U.S. search results with the EPO, thereby providing time and cost savings to these applicants.

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 82279, December 30, 2011
• Notices
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Alnylam Receives Notice of Allowance From United States Patent and Trademark Office (Uspto) for New Patent Broadly Covering Second Generation Lipid Nanoparticles (Lnp) for Systemic Delivery of Rnai Therapeutics

- New Patent Allowance Covers Seminal Invention of "MC3" Lipid - Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

• Business Wire
• January 30, 2012

• 37 CFR 1.1 - Addresses for non-trademark correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 37: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

• Correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office

• FR, June 25, 2010
• Rules
• Patent and Trademark Office

• Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) proposes to set or adjust patent fees as authorized by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Act or AIA). The proposed fees will provide the Office with a sufficient amount of aggregate revenue to recover its aggregate cost of patent operations, while helping the Office implement a sustainable funding model, reduce the current patent application backlog, decrease patent pendency, improve patent quality, and upgrade the Office's patent business information technology (IT) capability and infrastructure. The Office also proposes to reduce fees for micro entities under section 10(b) of the Act (75 percent discount). The proposed fees also will further key policy considerations. For example, the proposal includes multipart and st...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 55027, September 06, 2012
• Proposed rules
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Changes to Representation of Others before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

• FR, November 17, 2008
• Rules
• Patent and Trademark Office