Articles and Commentary regarding AIPA Patent Term Adjustment

Patent Term Duration and Its Calculation by Professor Irving Kayton (2008)

Open Letter to Patent Practitioners of May 7, 2004 by Patent Resources Group, Inc.

Assessing the PTO System for Calculating AIPA Patent Term Adjustment, James P. Longfellow and Irving Kayton, Intellectual Property Today (April 2004)

American Inventors Protection Act of 1999

AIPA Legislation

Changes To Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term, Final Rule, published Sep 18, 2000, effective Oct 18, 2000

Revision of Patent Term Extension and Patent Term Adjustment Provisions, Final Rule, published Apr 22, 2004, effective May 24, 2004

Explanation of 37 CFR 1.703(f) and of the USPTO Interpretation of 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(2)(A), Interpretation, published June 21, 2004

PTO AIPA Home Page

PTO AIPA Patent Term Adjustment Q&A's

PTO Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) System

PTO Patent Electronic Business Center

PTO PAIR Search Page (Public Access)

Other Links

PTO Web Patent Database

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