Below are Federal Register Notices published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the year. Selected Federal Register Notices may also appear under various topical areas on this USPTO website.
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- Legal Processes [PDF] (26Dec2000)
- Correction: Changes to Implement the Patent Business Goals [PDF] (26Dec2000)
- Standard for Declaring a Patent Interference [PDF] (20Dec2000)
- Correction: Patent Business Goals [PDF] (18Dec2000)
- Reopening of Time Period until January 12, 2001, for Comments on Hague Conference (11Dec2000)
- Final Rule to Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings [PDF] (07Dec2000)
- Request for Comments: Basic Proposals for an Instrument on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances to be Considered by the WIPO Diplomatic Conference [PDF] (29Nov2000)
- Simplification of Certain Requirements in Patent Interference Practice [PDF] (28Nov2000)
- Treatment of Unlocatable Patent Application and Patent Files [PDF] (17Nov2000)
- Correction: Changes to Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications (06Nov2000)
- Request for Comments: Preliminary Draft Convention of Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments (18Oct2000)
- Notice of Meeting of the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council [PDF] (12Oct2000)
- Study of Alternative Fee Structures (02Oct00)
- Patent Interference Practice Simplification: Interim Rule and Request for Comments (20Sep2000)
- Changes To Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications; Final Rule [PDF] (20Sep2000)
- Changes to Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term; Final Rule [PDF] (18Sep2000)
- Patent Business Goals: Final Rule [PDF] (08Sep2000)
- Public Information, Freedom of Information, and Privacy [PDF] (31Aug2000)
- Announcement of membership of the USPTO Performance Review Board (28Aug2000)
- Request for Continued Examination Practice and Changes to Provisional Application Practice [PDF] (16Aug2000)
- Revision of Patent Fees for Fiscal Year 2001 [PDF] (11Aug2000)
- Treatment of Unlocatable Application and Patent Files [PDF] (11Jul2000)
- Public Information, Freedom of Information and Privacy [PDF] (07Jul2000)
- Notice of Intellectual Property Symposium of the Americas [PDF] (06Jul2000)
- Supplemental Examination Guidelines Regarding 35 U.S.C. 112, paragraph 6 (26Jun2000)
- Reopening of the Time Period for Acceptance of Comments on Issues Related to Policies and Agenda for the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council (26Jun2000)
- Notice of Roundtable on Computer-Implemented Busines Method Patent Issues (22Jun2000)
- Changes to Permit Payment of Patent and Trademark Fees by Credit Card [PDF] (25May2000)
- Notice of reestablishment and adoption of seal of the United States Patent and Trademark Office [PDF] (06Apr2000)
- Rules To Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings [PDF] (06Apr2000)
- Changes to Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications [PDF] (05Apr2000)
- Notice and Request for Nominations to the Public Advisory Committees [PDF] (29Mar2000)
- Changes to Application Examination and Provisional Application Practice [PDF] (20Mar2000)
- Request for Comments on Patent Law Treaty [PDF] (09Mar2000)
- Notice of Conference on State Sovereign Immunity and Intellectual Property Rights [PDF] (07Mar2000)
- Revised Interim Utility Examination Guidelines; Request for Comments; Correction (21Jan2000)
- Interim final rule--Complaints Regarding Invention Promoters; Request for Comments [PDF] (20Jan2000)