[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 28 (Friday, February 10, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules][Pages 7060-7080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-2529]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
37 CFR Part 42 [Docket No. PTO-P-2011-0084] RIN 0651-AC72
Changes To Implement Post-Grant Review Proceedings
AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) proposes new rules to implement the provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act that create a new post-grant review proceeding to be conducted before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board). These provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act will take effect on September 16, 2012, one year after the date of enactment, and generally apply to patents issuing from applications subject to first-inventor to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.
For the full text of this proposed rule, access http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-02-10/html/2012-2529.htm