Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2018-title35/html/USCODE-2018-title35-partII-chap11-sec120.htm
Timestamp: 2020-08-03 12:17:53
Document Index: 28225693

Matched Legal Cases: ['§9', '§104', '§1000', '§4503', '§3', '§102', '§202', '§202', '§20']

Sec. 120 - Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States
(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 800; Pub. L. 94–131, §9, Nov. 14, 1975, 89 Stat. 691; Pub. L. 98–622, title I, §104(b), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3385; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, §1000(a)(9) [title IV, §4503(b)(1)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–563; Pub. L. 112–29, §§3(f), 15(b), 20(j), Sept. 16, 2011, 125 Stat. 288, 328, 335; Pub. L. 112–211, title I, §102(5), title II, §202(b)(3), Dec. 18, 2012, 126 Stat. 1531, 1536.)
2012—Pub. L. 112–211, §202(b)(3), substituted "including the requirement for payment of the fee specified in section 41(a)(7)" for "including the payment of a surcharge".
2011—Pub. L. 112–29, §20(j), struck out "of this title" after "363".
1999—Pub. L. 106–113 inserted at end "No application shall be entitled to the benefit of an earlier filed application under this section unless an amendment containing the specific reference to the earlier filed application is submitted at such time during the pendency of the application as required by the Director. The Director may consider the failure to submit such an amendment within that time period as a waiver of any benefit under this section. The Director may establish procedures, including the payment of a surcharge, to accept an unintentionally delayed submission of an amendment under this section."
1984—Pub. L. 98–622 substituted "which is filed by an inventor or inventors named in the previously filed application" for "by the same inventor".
1975—Pub. L. 94–131 inserted ", or as provided by section 363 of this title," after "filed in the United States".