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The USPTO offers Track One for prioritized examination of your utility and plant patent applications. Track One gives your application special status with fewer requirements than the current accelerated examination program and without having to perform a pre-examination search.

Unlike Track One, where the examiner has an incentive to either allow ridiculously narrow claims or kick you out of the program, PPH means you can leverage the examiner's knowledge and experience to help you.

The USPTO issued a revision to the Ninth Edition of the MPEP, published in February 2023, which provides USPTO patent examiners, applicants, attorneys, agents, representatives of applicants, and other members of the public with a reference work on the practices and procedures relative to the prosecution of patent ...

If you wish to have your application considered for Track One after the filing date, you may be able to do so by filing a continuation patent application, or a continuation-in-part patent application, with the petition – for all the filing fees again, plus the fees for Track One examination.

Track I may be requested upon filing a utility or plant patent application, including a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part application. Track 1 is not available for reissue or reexamination applications.

Publication number: the number assigned when the patent application is published at 18 months after filing; and. Patent number: the number assigned when the application becomes a patent.

Citation to a section in the current revision of the MPEP should be to “e9 r10. 2019,” e.g., MPEP 2163 (e9 r10. 2019).

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Search Facility located in Alexandria, VA provides the public access to patent and trademark information in a variety of formats including on-line, microfilm, and print. Trained staff are available to assist public users.