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Changes to Implement the Patent Business Goals

---
identifier: "/us/fr/00-32773"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Changes to Implement the Patent Business Goals"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "00-32773"
section_name: "Changes to Implement the Patent Business Goals"
positive_law: false
currency: "2000-12-22"
last_updated: "2000-12-22"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Commerce Department"
document_number: "00-32773"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2000-12-22"
agencies:
  - "Commerce Department"
  - "Patent and Trademark Office"
cfr_references:
  - "37 CFR Part 1"
rin: "0651-AA98"
fr_citation: "65 FR 80755"
fr_volume: 65
fr_action: "Final rule; correction."
---

#  [Corrected]

**AGENCY:**

United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

**ACTION:**

Final rule; correction.

**SUMMARY:**

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) published a final rule in the *Federal Register* of September 8, 2000, revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement the Patent Business Goals. The Office also published a correction notice in the *Federal Register* of December 18, 2000, correcting errors in the final rule. This document corrects an error in the correction notice and makes the correction retroactive to December 18, 2000.

**EFFECTIVE DATE:**

December 18, 2000.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Hiram H. Bernstein ((703) 305-8713), Senior Legal Advisor, or Robert J. Spar, Director ((703) 308-5107), Office of Patent Legal Administration (OPLA), directly by phone, or by facsimile to (703) 305-1013, marked to the attention of Mr. Bernstein, or by mail addressed to: Box Comments—Patents, Commissioner for Patents, Washington, D.C. 20231.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

The Office published a final rule in the *Federal Register* of September 8, 2000 (65 FR 54604), entitled “Changes to Implement Patent Business Goals,” and a correction notice in the *Federal Register* of December 18, 2000 (65 FR 78958) correcting errors in the final rule. The correction notice inadvertently indicated that the processing fee for correcting inventorship in a patent under 37 CFR 1.324 is $55.00. The processing fee for correcting inventorship in a patent under § 1.324 is actually $130.00.

In rule FR Doc. 00-31958, published on December 18, 2000 (65 FR 78958), and in 37 CFR Part 1 make the following corrections:

**37 CFR Part 1**

§ 1.20

1. On page 78960, in the first column, § 1.20, paragraph (b), line 3, correct “$55.00” to read “$130.00”.

Dated: December 19, 2000.

Albin F. Drost,

Acting General Counsel.