FAQs Patent Questions

Question:Applicants may be required to provide speciments of the composition of their invention if necessary.

Answer:
The applicant may be required to furnish specimens of the composition, or of its ingredients or intermediates, for inspection or experiment. If the invention is a microbiological invention, a deposit of the micro-organism involved is required.

Question:How many weeks of the Electronic Official Gazette - Patents will be available on the USPTO web site?

Answer:
Current plans are to maintain one year on the web site. To locate patents announced in earlier OGs, search the USPTO Patent Full Text Database by patentee name, keyword, current classification, or patent number.

Question:What is a regulatory review period determination?

Answer:
The regulatory review period is the basis for patent extension. Basically, a regulatory review period is composed of two parts: a testing phase, and an approval phase. The testing phase for a human drug product is the period between the effective date of an investigational product exemption (Investigational New Drug Application) and the initial submission of the marketing application (New Drug Application).

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