美国专利商标局即将以电子方式签发专利更正证书
2024-01-30 / 来源:https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-soon-issuing-certificates-correction-patents-electronically/ 阅读量: 小 中 大美国专利商标局即将以电子方式签发专利更正证书
2024年1月4日
2023年4月18日,美国专利商标局 (USPTO) 开始发放电子专利授权(eGrants),使专利所有者和公众能够在专利中心发布后立即查看和打印已发布的专利。自过渡以来,我们已发放了超过200,000份电子授权。作为USPTO持续努力简化流程的一部分,从2024年1月30日开始,我们将开始以电子方式颁发专利更正证书。这将允许专利所有者和公众通过专利中心立即查看和打印已签发的更正证书, 类似于电子授权书。
目前,更正证书以纸质形式发出并邮寄至记录的通讯地址。在颁发纸质更正证书后,更正证书的图片将被录入专利申请记录文件夹,并添加到专利数据库中的专利图像中。此外,需要更正的专利将发布在官方公报上。
需要注意的是,无论专利是以纸质还是电子方式颁发,所有在2024年1月30日或之后颁发的专利更正证书都将以电子方式颁发。但是请求更正证书的程序和批准请求的标准不会改变。
USPTO soon issuing certificates of correction for patents electronically
January 4, 2024
On April 18, 2023, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began issuing electronic patent grants (eGrants), enabling both patent owners and the public to view and print issued patents immediately upon issuance via Patent Center. Since the transition, we have issued over 200,000 eGrants.
As part of the USPTO’s continued efforts to streamline our processes, beginning on January 30, 2024, we will start issuing certificates of correction for patents electronically. This will permit issued certificates of correction to be viewable and printable by both patent owners and the public immediately upon issuance via Patent Center, similar to eGrants.
Currently, a certificate of correction is issued in paper and mailed to the correspondence address of record. Upon issuance of a paper certificate of a correction, an image of the certificate of correction is entered into the file wrapper and added to the image of the patent in the patent database. Additionally, patents subject to a certificate of correction are posted in the Official Gazette.
All certificates of correction for patents issued on or after January 30, 2024, will be issued electronically, regardless of whether the patent was issued on paper or electronically. Procedural aspects of requesting certificates of correction and the standards for granting the requests will not change.