WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Patent and Trademark Office has issued a rule called: 2025 Increase of the Annual Limit on Accepted Requests for Prioritized Examination.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on July 8 by Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Summary: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) includes provisions for prioritized examination of patent applications. Those provisions have been implemented by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in previous rulemakings. The AIA provides that the USPTO may not accept more than 10, 000 requests for prioritization in any fiscal year (October 1 to Septem...