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DOC/PTO RIN: 0651-AC92 Publication ID: Spring 2015 
Title: Changes to Continued Prosecution Application Practice 
Abstract: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) revised and streamlined the requirements for the inventors oath or declaration. In implementing the AIA inventors oath or declaration provisions, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) provided that an applicant may postpone the filing of the inventors oath or declaration until allowance if the applicant provides an application data sheet indicating the name, residence, and mailing address of each inventor. The rules pertaining to continued prosecution applications (which are applicable only to design applications) require that the prior application of a continued prosecution application be complete, which requires that the prior application contain the inventors oath or declaration. This interim rule revises the rules pertaining to continued prosecution applications to permit the filing of a continued prosecution application even if the prior application does not contain the inventors oath or declaration if the prior application contains an application data sheet indicating the name, residence, and mailing address of each inventor. 
Agency: Department of Commerce(DOC)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 37 CFR 1.1   
Legal Authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(bl)(2)(B)    5 U.S.C. 553   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Interim Rule  03/05/2014  79 FR 12384   
Interim Rule Effective  03/05/2014 
Final Rule  11/14/2014  79 FR 68121   
Final Rule Effective  11/14/2014 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
International Impacts: This regulatory action will be likely to have international trade and investment effects, or otherwise be of international interest.
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Raul Tamayo
Department of Commerce
Patent and Trademark Office
600 Dulany Street, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313
Phone:571 272-7728
Fax:571 273-7728
Email: raul.tamayo@uspto.gov