Commerce Department, Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is correcting several minor typographical and other nonsubstantive inadvertent errors in the preamble and amendatory instructions to a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on November 20, 2024. That final rule set or adjusted patent fees as authorized by the Leahy- Smith America Invents Act (AIA), as amended by the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success Act of 2018 (SUCCESS Act). These corrections do not result in any substantive changes to the final rule.
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office 37 CFR Parts 1, 41, and 42 [Docket No. PTO-P-2022-0033] RIN 0651-AD64 AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Final rule; correction. SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is correcting several minor typographical and other nonsubstantive inadvertent errors in the preamble and amendatory instructions to a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on November 20, 2024. That final rule set or adjusted patent fees as authorized by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), as amended by the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success Act of 2018 (SUCCESS Act). These corrections do not result in any substantive changes to the final rule. DATES: The final rule correction is effective January 19, 2025. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: C. Brett Lockard, Director, Forecasting and Analysis Division, at 571-272-0928 or Christopher.Lockard@uspto.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 20, 2024, the USPTO published a final rule setting or adjusting patent fees as authorized by the AIA, as amended by the SUCCESS Act. See 89 FR 91898 . Subsequent to the publication of that final rule, it was discovered that the preamble discussion and several amendatory instructions contained inadvertent errors requiring correction. For example, in the preamble, example 10, which provides guidance for “Adding timely benefit claims under 35 U.…
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Citation: 90 FR 3036
