By Donald Zuhn --
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today that the latest version of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (M.P.E.P.) -- 8th Edition, Revision 7 -- is now available. The new version replaces Revision 6, which was released in October, 2007. The parts of the latest version of the M.P.E.P. that have been updated are the Blue Pages (a complete list of changes to the latest version of the M.P.E.P.); the Title Page; Chapter 600 (Parts, Form, and Content of Application), Chapter 1400 (Correction of Patents), Chapter 1800 (Patent Cooperation Treaty), Chapter 2200 (Citation of Prior Art and Ex Parte Reexamination of Patents), Chapter 2500 (Maintenance Fees), and Chapter 2600 (Optional Inter Partes Reexamination); Appendix II (List of Decisions Cited), Appendix R (Patent Rules; 37 C.F.R.), Appendix T (Patent Cooperation Treaty), and Appendix AI (Administrative Instructions Under the PCT); and the Index. Adobe Acrobat versions of the changed sections can be obtained by clicking on the title of the desired sections listed above. Other formats of the above sections (as well as Acrobat versions of unchanged sections) can be obtained here.
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