Eighteen-Month Publication

• Priority/continuity claims:

• 35 U.S.C. §§ 119(b) (foreign priority), 119(e) (domestic priority - provisional), and 120 (domestic continuity - nonprovisional) amended to:

  • Provide that the USPTO may set time periods within which priority/continuity claims must be filed or are waived

• Priority/continuity claims must be timely filed to permit publication as close as possible to eighteen months from earliest claimed filing date

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