Additional FAQs on the USPTO Website

USPTO HyperFAQs* …

• USPTO's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Assignments
• EFS-Web (Patent Electronic Filing System)
• Fees
• PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval)
• PDX (Priority Document Exchange - Patents/PCT)
• Peer Reviewed Prior Art Pilot (Patents)
• TDR (Trademark Document Retrieval)

*topic-organized lists of questions that are linked to individual pages for each unique question and its response.

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more Questions & Answers …

• Accelerated Examination
• American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999
  • Request for Continued Examination (RCE)
  • Patent Term Adjustment (PTA)
  • Eighteen-Month Publication
  • 102(e)
  • 103(c)
• Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
  • Rules of Practice before the BPAI (effective 13SEP2004)
• Design Patents
• Fees - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, Patent Fees
• Licensing and Review
• Native American Tribal Insignia Database
• Patents
• Patent Electronic Business Center
• Patent Forms
• PBG-Final Rule Questions & Answers, effective November 7, 2000
  PBG = Patent Business Goals, the rules are changes to simplify Patent Practice
• Power of Attorney and Assignment (Patents)
• Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot Program (Patents)
• PUBS - Patent Grant Publications
• Revised Amendment Practice (Patents)
• Strategic Plan for the 21st Century
• Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP!)
• Trademarks

FAQ for Practitioners re: Ethics and Relocations /Temporary Arrangements due to Hurricane Katrina