1.This Act may be cited as the
Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act
of 2012
.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hague Agreement concerning international
registration of industrial designs</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64fbb585-7583-434d-ac7f-85ec5123a2b3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Hague Agreement concerning
international registration of industrial designs</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5a25e96-01bb-435a-9d34-be5c841e8ddd"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 35, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae750bfd-9584-49ae-92cc-fda2d71ae315" style="USC">
<part commented="no" id="ide8b3759e-ae85-4c5a-aca8-f489482ff24e" level-type="subsequent"><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Hague Agreement concerning
international registration of industrial designs</header>
<toc>
<multi-column-toc-entry bold="off" level="chapter"><toc-enum>CHAPTER </toc-enum><level-header bold="off" level="chapter"></level-header><target>Sec.</target>
</multi-column-toc-entry>
<multi-column-toc-entry bold="off" level="chapter"><toc-enum>38.
</toc-enum><level-header bold="off" level="chapter">International design
applications</level-header><target>381.</target>
</multi-column-toc-entry>
</toc>
<chapter commented="no" id="id9c8b7bbb-c8a4-4d9f-b331-bf318422e02a" level-type="subsequent"><enum>38</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">International design applications</header>
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. </toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">381. Definitions.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">382. Filing international
design applications.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">383. International design
application.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">384. Filing date.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">385. Effect of international
design application.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">386. Right of
priority.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">387. Relief from prescribed
time limits.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">388. Withdrawn or abandoned
international design application.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">389. Examination of
international design application.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">390. Publication of
international design application.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d92f3a9-02f8-4054-ac68-3f57dda66b8a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>381.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc3dd8667-da3e-43e3-95b5-f99eab850f3d"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">When used in this part, unless the context
otherwise indicates—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37ddc51e-1618-4de9-b9d3-90241eb8d764"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>treaty</term> means the
Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of
Industrial Designs adopted at Geneva on July 2, 1999;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89bed449-9dd5-48bf-94d1-1bd82db15257"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>regulations</term>—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idadfe7225-688c-44ce-be04-4d081a088ad4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">when capitalized, means the Common
Regulations under the treaty; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1bb48a3a-8a6c-4b14-b5d4-2403030c8b28"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">when not capitalized, means the regulations
established by the Director under this title;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idecabf67f161d483f8995ab3f55c75247"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the terms <term>designation</term>,
<term>designating</term>, and <term>designate</term> refer to a request that an
international registration have effect in a Contracting Party to the
treaty;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc5933adf-174c-45a9-8a07-86e9954f3b90"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>International Bureau</term>
means the international intergovernmental organization that is recognized as
the coordinating body under the treaty and the Regulations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85160da1-3576-46bb-a944-0e65d441be55"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>effective registration
date</term> means the date of international registration determined by the
International Bureau under the treaty;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2f983169-6a58-4c04-a505-3f2ef83f633a"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>international design
application</term> means an application for international registration;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c69d903-a52e-4b09-aa2b-8605f8f173bf"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>international
registration</term> means the international registration of an industrial
design filed under the treaty.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9e1ee89a-6d8d-4706-baaa-5e51b913916b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rule of construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Terms and expressions not defined in this
part are to be taken in the sense indicated by the treaty and the
Regulations.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1e346e9-db9b-4f22-8b0e-55109f591447" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>382.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Filing international design
applications</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4d3f324-4f83-4fe2-9714-fcadf8b8233a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any person who is a national of the United
States, or has a domicile, a habitual residence, or a real and effective
industrial or commercial establishment in the United States, may file an
international design application by submitting to the Patent and Trademark
Office an application in such form, together with such fees, as may be
prescribed by the Director.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide07bf253-08c0-498d-818c-69521576025d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required action</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Patent and Trademark Office shall
perform all acts connected with the discharge of its duties under the treaty,
including the collection of international fees and transmittal thereof to the
International Bureau. Subject to chapter 17, international design applications
shall be forwarded by the Patent and Trademark Office to the International
Bureau, upon payment of a transmittal fee.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd77e10e3-dd47-41ac-919a-f9a451277fb7"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability of chapter 16</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise provided in this
chapter, the provisions of chapter 16 shall apply.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5b68f5d6-1226-4dd0-a9ef-1dab92958e3a"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application filed in another
country</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An international
design application on an industrial design made in this country shall be
considered to constitute the filing of an application in a foreign country
within the meaning of chapter 17 if the international design application is
filed—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ed25ce6-6246-42ab-8ff2-5d7179d5d13d"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a country other than the United
States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf2244226-d331-42d3-988f-44e68d68e0d2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at the International Bureau; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idea2e5f82-50df-4478-a515-42f600adfc71"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with an intergovernmental
organization.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id61c62b03-dc6a-42d3-b26a-f0c721eddade" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>383.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">International design
application</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In addition to any
requirements pursuant to chapter 16, the international design application shall
contain—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9eb1d120-7d2d-422a-b06c-4efc2c020b6a"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a request for international registration
under the treaty;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id54a08214-8f3c-4728-8459-dff0a33b3d1a"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an indication of the designated Contracting
Parties;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8fe391ab-5314-41e3-bd53-1c0b9f41a839"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">data concerning the applicant as prescribed
in the treaty and the Regulations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbddeb513-d9ec-408e-bfd7-c1d6717345c3"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">copies of a reproduction or, at the choice
of the applicant, of several different reproductions of the industrial design
that is the subject of the international design application, presented in the
number and manner prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24238eae-924e-4e7e-a7e5-0d947a9af6bf"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an indication of the product or products
that constitute the industrial design or in relation to which the industrial
design is to be used, as prescribed in the treaty and the Regulations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbffef86c-ed14-4474-8e19-0847922aca3a"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the fees prescribed in the treaty and the
Regulations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id492b91f7-af1f-439e-9f75-e1c52d01c107"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other particulars prescribed in the
Regulations.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37999a90-ee0c-4b6e-b332-f9f5f008aab5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>384.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Filing date</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a320343-621c-46d7-9a53-b943ec863155"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subsection (b), the filing date
of an international design application in the United States shall be the
effective registration date. Notwithstanding the provisions of this part, any
international design application designating the United States that otherwise
meets the requirements of chapter 16 may be treated as a design application
under chapter 16.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc5e2424e-c2ec-40bd-8d0c-c2bcd7f02f7b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An applicant may request review by the
Director of the filing date of the international design application in the
United States. The Director may determine that the filing date of the
international design application in the United States is a date other than the
effective registration date. The Director may establish procedures, including
the payment of a surcharge, to review the filing date under this section. Such
review may result in a determination that the application has a filing date in
the United States other than the effective registration date.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7b12c399-0e87-454b-839e-e521cef99f9d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>385.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effect of international design
application</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An international
design application designating the United States shall have the effect, for all
purposes, from its filing date determined in accordance with section 384, of an
application for patent filed in the Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to
chapter 16.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16ee2970-43e9-4853-ae2f-87cce7d530c6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>386.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Right of priority</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbfb8f810-6ef7-48af-964c-79ee178146aa"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In accordance with the conditions and
requirements of subsections (a) through (d) of section 119 and section 172, a
national application shall be entitled to the right of priority based on a
prior international design application that designated at least 1 country other
than the United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30ab5d1f-a2c7-46af-8d50-152a8dcad812"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prior foreign application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In accordance with the conditions and
requirements of subsections (a) through (d) of section 119 and section 172 and
the treaty and the Regulations, an international design application designating
the United States shall be entitled to the right of priority based on a prior
foreign application, a prior international application as defined in section
351(c) designating at least 1 country other than the United States, or a prior
international design application designating at least 1 country other than the
United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1c5e7514-4f23-4d71-a960-384d69197b7f"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prior national application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In accordance with the conditions and
requirements of section 120, an international design application designating
the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of a
prior national application, a prior international application as defined in
section 351(c) designating the United States, or a prior international design
application designating the United States, and a national application shall be
entitled to the benefit of the filing date of a prior international design
application designating the United States. If any claim for the benefit of an
earlier filing date is based on a prior international application as defined in
section 351(c) which designated but did not originate in the United States or a
prior international design application which designated but did not originate
in the United States, the Director may require the filing in the Patent and
Trademark Office of a certified copy of such application together with a
translation thereof into the English language, if it was filed in another
language.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58b25de7-b48e-4e34-a3ce-cc5d881dc204" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>387.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Relief from prescribed time
limits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An applicant's failure
to act within prescribed time limits in connection with requirements pertaining
to an international design application may be excused as to the United States
upon a showing satisfactory to the Director of unintentional delay and under
such conditions, including a requirement for payment of the fee specified in
section 41(a)(7), as may be prescribed by the Director.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ided51ad84-db93-487e-99eb-8e1d4becc694" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>388.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Withdrawn or abandoned international design
application</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subject to
sections 384 and 387, if an international design application designating the
United States is withdrawn, renounced or canceled or considered withdrawn or
abandoned, either generally or as to the United States, under the conditions of
the treaty and the Regulations, the designation of the United States shall have
no effect after the date of withdrawal, renunciation, cancellation, or
abandonment and shall be considered as not having been made, unless a claim for
benefit of a prior filing date under section 386(c) was made in a national
application, or an international design application designating the United
States, or a claim for benefit under section 365(c) was made in an
international application designating the United States, filed before the date
of such withdrawal, renunciation, cancellation, or abandonment. However, such
withdrawn, renounced, canceled, or abandoned international design application
may serve as the basis for a claim of priority under subsections (a) and (b) of
section 386, or under subsection (a) or (b) of section 365, if it designated a
country other than the United States.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc14304b8-6b8d-4b4e-ade1-693f6936755c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>389.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Examination of international design
application</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf8947da7-2fde-48d3-9816-d824cfba74e9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall cause an examination to
be made pursuant to this title of an international design application
designating the United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe24013b-a284-4f36-86df-7c62c844d3d9"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability of chapter 16</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All questions of substance and, unless
otherwise required by the treaty and Regulations, procedures regarding an
international design application designating the United States shall be
determined as in the case of applications filed under chapter 16.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb7cd3ef2-c3cd-4493-96f2-eecf90c8532b"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director may prescribe fees for filing
international design applications, for designating the United States, and for
any other processing, services, or materials relating to international design
applications, and may provide for later payment of such fees, including
surcharges for later submission of fees.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id833f4e95-851a-4090-8da1-0b80483a6533"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Issuance of patent</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director may issue a patent based on an
international design application designating the United States, in accordance
with the provisions of this title. Such patent shall have the force and effect
of a patent issued on an application filed under chapter 16.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2ed4637-d8ca-486a-b107-40335cccfcc3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>390.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publication of international design
application</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The publication
under the treaty of an international design application designating the United
States shall be deemed a publication under section
122(b).</text>
</section></chapter></part><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6156be70-ae90-44c2-8b9c-6e334c7df474"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of parts at the beginning of
title 35, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2b65de17-d046-437c-9aec-6be34cc51be7" style="OLC">
<toc>
<multi-column-toc-entry bold="off" level="section"><toc-enum>V.
</toc-enum><level-header bold="off" level="section">The Hague Agreement
concerning international registration of industrial
designs</level-header><target>401</target></multi-column-toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8dbf1886-0429-4a19-82bc-604e2c724321" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title 35, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2a5c618-0332-4fb8-8262-92f3132fbac8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 100(i)(1)(B) (as amended by the
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Public Law 112–29; 125 Stat. 284)), by
striking <quote>right of priority under section 119, 365(a), or 365(b) or to
the benefit of an earlier filing date under section 120, 121, or 365(c)</quote>
and inserting <quote>right of priority under section 119, 365(a), 365(b),
386(a), or 386(b) or to the benefit of an earlier filing date under section
120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfd6806d7-81d5-48f0-a992-48488568a661"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 102(d)(2) (as amended by the
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Public Law 112–29; 125 Stat. 284)), by
striking <quote>to claim a right of priority under section 119, 365(a), or
365(b), or to claim the benefit of an earlier filing date under section 120,
121, or 365(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>to claim a right of priority under
section 119, 365(a), 365(b), 386(a), or 386(b), or to claim the benefit of an
earlier filing date under section 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3bdf99cd-9b9b-49b7-8a83-561365fad1ff"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 111(b)(7)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1281c841-83d5-47c4-8ae8-2edfcbef5511"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 119 or
365(a)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 119, 365(a), or 386(a) </quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ef42c0c-da03-47be-875c-8d2e21b5c318"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 120, 121, or
365(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 120, 121, 365(c), or
386(c)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d3f10e7-322b-4856-b7a2-4cbba3cdb148"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 115(g)(1) (as amended by the
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Public Law 112–29; 125 Stat. 284)), by
striking <quote>section 120, 121, or 365(c)</quote> and inserting
<quote>section 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4eb7f39-4cde-49c0-bcf3-3f76a6218168"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 120, in the first sentence, by
striking <quote>section 363</quote> and inserting <quote>section 363 or
385</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f6772d3-5041-414c-8e82-414548404f79"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 154—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73ac7b65-971c-496b-9f79-a920c67df8b1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcde3ea1c-3af0-497e-9250-0c70ab32dedb"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking
<quote>section 120, 121, or 365(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 120,
121, 365(c), or 386(c)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0de5171c-c927-4c76-bcef-492ba16d86a5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking
<quote>section 119, 365(a), or 365(b)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 119,
365(a), 365(b), 386(a), or 386(b)</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4855c62d-37d0-4513-ad0f-d3f60ce883cf"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)(1), by inserting
<quote>or an international design application filed under the treaty defined in
section 381(a)(1) designating the United States under Article 5 of such
treaty</quote> after <quote>Article 21(2)(a) of such treaty</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idad1d3fcc-7ba5-4938-b89a-cddc3c6289e6"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 173, by striking <quote>fourteen
years</quote> and inserting <quote>15 years</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80062748-754c-4c93-a217-5b3a2a139452"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 365(c)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id992a58f8-ca50-457e-8e39-e45be8c0627c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking
<quote>or a prior international application designating the United
States</quote> and inserting <quote>, a prior international application
designating the United States, or a prior international design application as
defined in section 381(a)(6) designating the United States</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b83533d-041a-43b3-b37a-466c8b61a29b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by inserting
<quote>or a prior international design application as defined in section
381(a)(6) which designated but did not originate in the United States</quote>
after <quote>did not originate in the United States</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc7454c6e-5829-4615-83c9-11b40d6a04a2"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 366—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd16eceac-6c95-4969-9735-e6052f63e862"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking
<quote>unless a claim</quote> and all that follows through
<quote>withdrawal.</quote> and inserting <quote>unless a claim for benefit of a
prior filing date under section 365(c) of this section was made in a national
application, or an international application designating the United States, or
a claim for benefit under section 386(c) was made in an international design
application designating the United States, filed before the date of such
withdrawal.</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaaa220a8-bcd5-4dc5-aa35-ab8e1bd1a98b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the second sentence and
inserting the following: <quote>However, such withdrawn international
application may serve as the basis for a claim of priority under section 365
(a) and (b), or under section 386 (a) or (b), if it designated a country other
than the United States.</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77c2ac77-4155-4ab1-a4ff-8a128a452e92" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id01b55e7f-26cb-4155-8fa8-18fcd61919c4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this title shall
take effect on the later of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6fcd414ba01741c7bade2a41d84f9a60"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date that is 1 year after the date of
the enactment of this Act; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfc882a1b7874434c9b0e795e7764b37b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the date of entry into force of the treaty
with respect to the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbd93cf79-1df4-40f6-9c89-2d783d9631b3"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability of amendments</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8a35c4b6-b6d4-4069-9a6f-0273411f8622"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), the amendments
made by this title shall apply only to international design applications,
international applications, and national applications filed on and after the
effective date set forth in subsection (a), and patents issuing thereon.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaaac1733-3f17-426d-aaf3-856edbe21391"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sections 100(i) and 102(d) of title 35,
United States Code, as amended by this title, shall not apply to an
application, or any patent issuing thereon, unless it is described in section
3(n)(1) of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (35 U.S.C. 100 note).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida94340515e2f4266805878c94942ec50"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfadd41f3f3464f419cfd617a7696c657"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the terms <term>treaty</term> and
<term>international design application</term> have the meanings given those
terms in section 381 of title 35, United States Code, as added by this
title;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc3f8f3df578c448ab2eec6aadbe890e0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>international
application</term> has the meaning given that term in section 351(c) of title
35, United States Code; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6bcaeadb83b0479fbdf9e95499a4c687"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>national application</term>
means <quote>national application</quote> within the meaning of chapter 38 of
title 35, United States Code, as added by this title.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Patent Law Treaty implementation</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id449a35a6-f720-48a3-a3d9-23fbe49ebec4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Provisions to implement the Patent Law
Treaty</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3c41e357-7225-4fa7-900c-90c66881d15a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application filing date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 111 of title 35, United States
Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide36a00b0-a971-44bd-91ca-6bd8eab54d12"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking paragraphs
(3) and (4) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ce89a03-b289-4698-8c61-5910f262330e" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2f5a6fb-9b99-4ed5-a2f4-38982493fd7e"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fee, oath or declaration, and
claims</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The application shall
be accompanied by the fee required by law. The fee, oath or declaration, and 1
or more claims may be submitted after the filing date of the application,
within such period and under such conditions, including the payment of a
surcharge, as may be prescribed by the Director. Upon failure to submit the
fee, oath or declaration, and 1 or more claims within such prescribed period,
the application shall be regarded as abandoned.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92298f3f-c3f1-432a-8758-2e22d185fcf4"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Filing date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The filing date of an application shall be
the date on which a specification, with or without claims, is received in the
United States Patent and Trademark
Office.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b1d6125-a251-4142-8b83-234497cbe489"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b), by striking paragraphs
(3) and (4) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id32e365fa-9c0d-4ad8-bc38-3d10ccb8421a" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67256376-4088-4822-a519-7f359c7fb419"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The application shall be accompanied by the
fee required by law. The fee may be submitted after the filing date of the
application, within such period and under such conditions, including the
payment of a surcharge, as may be prescribed by the Director. Upon failure to
submit the fee within such prescribed period, the application shall be regarded
as abandoned.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5e172c95-01c5-4bf2-aecc-56ee715b3f53"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Filing date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The filing date of a provisional
application shall be the date on which a specification, with or without claims,
is received in the United States Patent and Trademark
Office.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8443f3fa-e0f4-4daf-beaf-f2a9b173f45e"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCB5A9D329274421DA565F6B7512C2E24" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0faaf5c7-2253-429b-bd19-3ac4ea73b863"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prior filed application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection (a), the Director may prescribe the conditions, including the
payment of a surcharge, under which a reference made upon the filing of an
application under subsection (a) to a previously filed application, specifying
the previously filed application by application number and the intellectual
property authority or country in which the application was filed, shall
constitute the specification and any drawings of the subsequent application for
purposes of a filing date. A copy of the specification and any drawings of the
previously filed application shall be submitted within such period and under
such conditions as may be prescribed by the Director. A failure to submit the
copy of the specification and any drawings of the previously filed application
within the prescribed period shall result in the application being regarded as
abandoned. Such application shall be treated as having never been filed,
unless—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E5AF6F1352740CCAA7EA74E10ED9337"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the application is revived under section
27; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC652FBDBCC3F453A8D4BC57460588499"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a copy of the specification and any
drawings of the previously filed application are submitted to the
Director.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab5de247-fd5f-49ff-a333-dbff80406d64"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Relief in respect of time limits and
reinstatement of rights</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0eb64fe0-155a-4dfa-bbe5-6f689d8d7eb9"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 2 of title 35, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id81432f88-26ac-4cd3-ab3d-a822b1ae1064" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf38b4194-bcdb-46c3-820f-2081439d1d7f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>27.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revival of applications; reinstatement of
reexamination proceedings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Director may establish procedures, including the requirement for payment of the
fee specified in section 41(a)(7), to revive an unintentionally abandoned
application for patent, accept an unintentionally delayed payment of the fee
for issuing each patent, or accept an unintentionally delayed response by the
patent owner in a reexamination proceeding, upon petition by the applicant for
patent or patent
owner.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb3dff9fc-f021-48d2-a01d-9dc5bc785978"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections for chapter 2 of
title 35, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfc1aaad4-f979-4fd3-b765-6634b607717e" style="USC">
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">27. Revival of applications;
reinstatement of reexamination
proceedings.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0658dd67-216c-49f5-bc97-7e4e0df0ceca"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Restoration of priority right</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 35, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfa5db63d-9a89-46fd-a9fb-219815247211"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 119—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida49a091b-e96e-4b7b-a209-8a1437c69bb0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1BFDF9C1699346FF9CA56E0AC113B2D9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>twelve</quote> and
inserting <quote>12</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBCB07A28F310441194D78B3A50F1B4D5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following: “The
Director may prescribe regulations, including the requirement for payment of
the fee specified in section 41(a)(7), pursuant to which the 12-month period
set forth in this subsection may be extended by an additional 2 months if the
delay in filing the application in this country within the 12-month period was
unintentional.”; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id200cac1b-661a-4e41-8b4b-3b98e0075b5d"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id587e8af4-cc98-4c06-ae58-3090566d7a23"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id045554f9-5368-4d4e-9093-90469ad8ffa1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after the first sentence the
following: “The Director may prescribe regulations, including the requirement
for payment of the fee specified in section 41(a)(7), pursuant to which the
12-month period set forth in this subsection may be extended by an additional 2
months if the delay in filing the application under section 111(a) or section
363 within the 12-month period was unintentional.”; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id25d69745-f6a6-4df7-8d80-a5f76907f424"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the last sentence—</text>
<item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6f7fb2be-3f9e-41e3-9551-8a2c36072fc2"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>including the payment of
a surcharge</quote> and inserting <quote>including the payment of the fee
specified in section 41(a)(7)</quote>; and</text>
</item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id542cca18-a780-426c-8482-8d88d8daad02"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>during the pendency of
the application</quote>; and</text>
</item></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6222aec3bfda46478fb345c2fbcd06d8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the
following: <quote>For an application for patent filed under section 363 in a
Receiving Office other than the Patent and Trademark Office, the 12-month and
additional 2-month period set forth in this subsection shall be extended as
provided under the treaty and Regulations as defined in section 351.</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id54ecf430-576b-480c-a890-64739a3ef924"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 365(b), by adding at the end the
following: “The Director may establish procedures, including the requirement
for payment of the fee specified in section 41(a)(7), to accept an
unintentionally delayed claim for priority under the treaty and the
Regulations, and to accept a priority claim that pertains to an application
that was not filed within the priority period specified in the treaty and
Regulations, but was filed within the additional 2-month period specified under
section 119(a) or the treaty and Regulations.”.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id457dd12e-3fa1-4004-8b5a-24d96fb47ad0"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Recordation of ownership
interests</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 261 of
title 35, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide8d1e987-15f7-4950-9d80-fb67b0a557ea"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first undesignated paragraph by
adding at the end the following: “The Patent and Trademark Office shall
maintain a register of interests in patents and applications for patents and
shall record any document related thereto upon request, and may require a fee
therefor.”; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde8c075c-82c1-4f59-b7d3-9fe7cb8cda40"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the fourth undesignated paragraph by
striking <quote>An assignment</quote> and inserting <quote>An interest that
constitutes an assignment</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id640fd0b7-0de1-42eb-8a42-0a88f00c505c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaf71adc6e66e4da7b9ca429931c22e40"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 171 of title 35, United States
Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97c09a1215524e6cb9dd3206e9628894"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Whoever</quote> and
inserting <quote>(a) <header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">In
general</header-in-text>.—Whoever</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf0159aa779c647c7ba5dbe8ef3f6b8d5"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>The provisions</quote>
and inserting <quote>(b) <header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Applicability of this title</header-in-text>.—The
provisions</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a39305c8c5a4925bed118b746bf1936"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd346712c-ebcf-40e0-974c-b1d847875d7c" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2395168B393A49A4B4F4BA352DD61EC2"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Filing date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The filing date of an application for
patent for design shall be the date on which the specification as prescribed by
section 112 and any required drawings are
filed.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8b69b754-1339-41c8-b905-fa687d797cbd"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Relief in respect of time limits and
reinstatement of right</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title
35, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f6bdc68-f9b9-4868-a962-8f4cc54ca046"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 41—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71009039-ec22-44fd-b67b-405679a86714"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking paragraph
(7) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2a66a2c3-c08d-4ebd-b33a-6dc33ab06ef6" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id253fcaac-e3d2-4254-92c1-7eb095887f0e"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revival fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On filing each petition for the revival of
an abandoned application for a patent, for the delayed payment of the fee for
issuing each patent, for the delayed response by the patent owner in any
reexamination proceeding, for the delayed payment of the fee for maintaining a
patent in force, for the delayed submission of a priority or benefit claim, or
for the extension of the 12-month period for filing a subsequent application,
$1,700.00. The Director may refund any part of the fee specified in this
paragraph, in exceptional circumstances as determined by the
Director</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ebbc80e-0553-4509-b5c1-29dab69a222f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), by striking paragraph
(1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0f6ad05e-68fe-4e70-88e2-3a4405e12e88" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id466d049e-fac1-4cd1-972c-23c3dafbcc14"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Acceptance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director may accept the payment of any
maintenance fee required by subsection (b) after the 6-month grace period if
the delay is shown to the satisfaction of the Director to have been
unintentional. The Director may require the payment of the fee specified in
subsection (a)(7) as a condition of accepting payment of any maintenance fee
after the 6-month grace period. If the Director accepts payment of a
maintenance fee after the 6-month grace period, the patent shall be considered
as not having expired at the end of the grace
period.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97e17942-b3e7-4d2c-b790-93fa543c03ba"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 119(b)(2), in the second
sentence, by striking <quote>including the payment of a surcharge</quote> and
inserting <quote>including the requirement for payment of the fee specified in
section 41(a)(7)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc0233ee7-f309-4440-b93e-fdcc81314843"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 120, in the fourth sentence, by
striking <quote>including the payment of a surcharge</quote> and inserting
<quote>including the requirement for payment of the fee specified in section
41(a)(7)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide40db17f-08a3-40eb-9469-3ab15f506996"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 122(b)(2)(B)(iii), in the second
sentence, by striking <quote>, unless it is shown</quote> and all that follows
through <quote>unintentional</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36819bb6-5ce3-49dd-9780-4a9ef5b7b24a"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 133, by striking <quote>, unless
it be shown</quote> and all that follows through
<quote>unavoidable</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id384c3a8c-a2c6-49aa-8e09-f7f0b4af060d"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking section 151 and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd73a04bb-371c-4ef3-838c-e7ad15e9c5f9" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93ec4e65-7297-407e-8107-58eb309e39bc" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>151.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Issue of patent</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6F0CBF40AF2D425D9B1481590DC76517"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If it appears that an applicant is entitled
to a patent under the law, a written notice of allowance of the application
shall be given or mailed to the applicant. The notice shall specify a sum,
constituting the issue fee and any required publication fee, which shall be
paid within 3 months thereafter.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11F6FA539D654D39BA641CA082500F91"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effect of payment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon payment of this sum the patent may
issue, but if payment is not timely made, the application shall be regarded as
abandoned.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2dac06d3-022b-474f-bd11-f5caae87621c"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 361, by striking subsection (c)
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4247bac6-e1dc-43a5-ba8e-ef3974b6e9da" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9fb73df3-5652-4ee0-8300-c96275d9118b"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">International applications filed in the
Patent and Trademark Office shall be filed in the English language, or an
English translation shall be filed within such later time as may be fixed by
the
Director.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddad4f2f6-8ac8-4b87-8e73-68529ef7c87f"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 364, by striking subsection (b)
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf13abede-72f6-4735-8cdb-c114863199c0" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6b0ca37e-7571-4fe7-b4b9-aea511f172e0"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An applicant's failure to act within
prescribed time limits in connection with requirements pertaining to an
international application may be excused as provided in the treaty and the
Regulations.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae134f4f-d9ac-4915-9f91-68c8ee6ece88"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 371(d), in the third sentence,
by striking <quote>, unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the Director
that such failure to comply was unavoidable</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida0a5ca42-67a5-4466-b9b1-c786a3724807" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8cf3ea4cfa80443db285501ad4e290e6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this title—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64b3b5a99c8543b38b90fa3e95095741"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall take effect on the date that is 1
year after the date of the enactment of this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58a31ec9d6544a37b1b38d0d9dd27f98"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall apply to—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84a7e3ed43904a519576ee937d796686"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any patent issued before, on, or after the
effective date set forth in paragraph (1); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a19ef8d34f6424cba55b744c41a2ab7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any application for patent that is pending
on or filed after the effective date set forth in paragraph (1).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcaca656953d54571a330dc0a2376c438"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exceptions</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id83295dee3cbf41699d1d4cfdbf9275c2"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
201<enum-in-header>(a)</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by section 201(a) shall
apply only to applications that are filed on or after the effective date set
forth in subsection (a)(1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6f1e0637a73f4962901f6ea02f4b1284"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Patents in litigation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this title shall
have no effect with respect to any patent that is the subject of litigation in
an action commenced before the effective date set forth in subsection
(a)(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section>
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Vice President of the United States and President of the
Senate