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MPEP 213: Right of Priority of Foreign Application, Jan. 2018 (BitLaw)
MPEP 213
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213 Right of Priority of Foreign Application [R-08.2017]
Under certain conditions and on fulfilling certain requirements, an application for patent filed in the United States may be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of a prior application filed in a foreign country. The conditions are specified in 35 U.S.C. 119(a) -(d) and (f), 172, 365(a) and (b), and 386(a) and (b), and 37 CFR 1.55.
(1) The priority claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(a) through (d) or (f), 365(a) or 386(b), or 386(a) or (b) in an application data sheet (§ 1.76(b)(6) ), identifying the foreign application to which priority is claimed, by specifying the application number, country (or intellectual property authority), day, month, and year of its filing, unless previously submitted;
(n) Applications filed before September 16, 2012. Notwithstanding the requirement in paragraphs (d)(1), (e)(1), and (i)(2) of this section that any priority claim be presented in an application data sheet (§ 1.76 ), this requirement in paragraphs (d)(1), (e)(1), and (i)(2) of this section will be satisfied by the presentation of such priority claim in the oath or declaration under § 1.63 in a nonprovisional application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) before September 16, 2012, or resulting from an international application filed under 35 U.S.C. 363 before September 16, 2012. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to any priority claim submitted for a petition under paragraph (c) of this section to restore the right of priority to a foreign application.
(p) Time periods in this section. The time periods set forth in this section are not extendable, but are subject to 35 U.S.C. 21(b) (and § 1.7(a) ), PCT Rule 80.5, and Hague Agreement Rule 4(4).
(A) The foreign application must be one filed in "a foreign country which affords similar privileges in the case of applications filed in the United States or to citizens of the United States or in a WTO member country." See MPEP § 213.01.
(B) The foreign application must have been filed by the same applicant as the applicant in the United States, or by applicant's legal representatives or assigns. Consistent with longstanding Office policy, this is interpreted to mean that the U.S. and foreign applications must name the same inventor or have at least one joint inventor in common. See MPEP § 213.02.
(C) The application, or its earliest parent United States application under 35 U.S.C. 120, must have been filed in a "recognized" country (see MPEP § 213.01) within 12 months from the date of the earliest foreign filing unless the right of priority has been restored (see MPEP § 213.03). However, the period of 12 months specified in this section is 6 months in the case of designs pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 172. See MPEP §§ 1504.10 and 2920.05(d).
(H) In the case where the basis of the claim is an application for an inventor's certificate, the requirements of 37 CFR 1.55(l) must also be met. See MPEP § 213.05.
(I) A certified copy of the foreign application must be filed within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.55. See MPEP § 215.02 et seq. for applications filed on or after March 16, 2013, and MPEP § 215.03 for applications filed before March 16, 2013. The claim for priority and the certified copy of the foreign application must, in any event, be filed within the pendency of the application and before the patent is granted. See MPEP § 213.04.
(J) If a nonprovisional application (other than a nonprovisional international design application) filed on or after March 16, 2013, claims priority to a foreign application filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained at any time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date (as defined in 35 U.S.C. 100(i) ) on or after March 16, 2013, the applicant must provide a statement to that effect within a specified time period. See 37 CFR 1.55(k) and MPEP § 210, subsection III.
Applicant may be informed of possible priority rights under 35 U.S.C. 119(a) -(d) and (f) by using the wording of form paragraph 2.18.
Applicant is advised of possible benefits under 35 U.S.C. 119(a) -(d) and (f), wherein an application for patent filed in the United States may be entitled to claim priority to an application filed in a foreign country.