Federal Register Related to Accelerated Examination for Some GreenTech
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced a pilot program for green technologies, including greenhouse gas reduction, environmental quality, energy conservation, development of renewable energy resources, or greenhouse gas emission reduction.
The requirements for this program can be found on page 2 of the attached PDF.
This program will allow an applicant with an application pertaining to green technologies to petition to advance the application out of turn for examination. This program began on December 8, 2009 and will run for 12 months so petitions must be filed before December 9, 2010.
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