Request for Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)

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USPTO MPEP › Chapter 1100 - Statutory Invention Registration (SIR); Pre-Grant Publication (PGPub) and Preissuance Submissions › MPEP § 1101

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Only requests for a statutory invention registration filed

prior to March 16, 2013 are timely. Requests for a statutory invention registration filed

on or after March 16, 2013 will not be treated as the provisions of

pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 157

were repealed on March 16, 2013, effective for any request filed on or after that date. See

§3(e) of the America Invents Act. Guidance on requests filed before March 16, 2013 may be

found in the ninth revision of the Eighth Edition of the MPEP published August 2012. The

material in former MPEP §§ 1103-1109 is not repeated in this edition of the MPEP.

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