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By Compiled by Kathlyn Card-Beckles
May 01, 2003

PTO New Electronic Proposals

On April 3, 2003, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed its new plan to further implement electronic processing. The PTO stated that its workload could not be managed efficiently in the current paper based environment. The ultimate goal is to have an end-to-end electronic patent process. The first step will be to employ the European Patent Office's (EPO) ePHOENIX system to create image file wrappers for all new applications. The PTO is also collaborating with the EPO to allow users of the epoline” system to file electronic applications in the U.S. The entire plan for the PTO's Patent E-Government can be found at www.uspto.gov under the link for the 21st Century Strategic plan.

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