Regulations last checked for updates: May 06, 2024

Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights last revised: Mar 29, 2024
§ 4.5 - Notice by publication.

If the copy of the complaint that is mailed to the invention promoter is returned undelivered, then the USPTO will primarily publish a Notice of Complaint Received on the USPTO's Internet home page at http://www.uspto.gov. Only where the USPTO's Web site is unavailable for publication will the USPTO publish the Notice of Complaint in the Official Gazette and/or the Federal Register. The invention promoter will be given 30 days from such notice to submit a reply to the Notice of Complaint. If the USPTO does not receive a reply from the invention promoter within 30 days, the complaint alone will become publicly available.

[68 FR 9553, Feb. 28, 2003]
authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2) and 297
source: 65 FR 3129, Jan. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 37 CFR 4.5