Form PTO/SB/420 Request For Green Technology Pilot Program

Doc Code: PET.GREEN
Document Description: Petition for Green Tech Pilot

PTO/SB/420 (05-10)
Approved for use through 05/31/2010. OMB 0651-0062
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PETITION TO MAKE SPECIAL UNDER THE GREEN TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM
Attorney Docket
Number:

Application Number
(if known):

Filing date:

First Named
Inventor:
Title:

APPLICANT HEREBY REQUESTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GREEN TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM FOR
THE ABOVE-IDENTIFIED APPLICATION. See Instruction Sheet on page 2.
This petition must be timely filed electronically using the USPTO electronic filing system, EFS-Web.
1.

By filing this petition:
Applicant is requesting early publication: Applicant hereby requests early publication under
37 CFR 1.219 and the publication fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.18(d) accompanies this request.

2.

By filing this petition: applicant is agreeing to make an election without traverse in a telephonic interview and
elect an invention that meets the eligibility requirements set forth in the notice titled “Pilot Program for Green
Technologies Including Greenhouse Gas Reduction,” as modified by the notice titled “Elimination of
Classification Requirement in the Green Technology Pilot Program,” each of which was published in the
Federal Register, if the Office determines that the claims are not obviously directed to a single invention.

3.

This request is accompanied by statements of special status for the eligibility requirement.

4.

The application contains no more than three (3) independent claims and twenty (20) total claims.

5.

The application does not contain any multiple dependent claims.

6.

Other attachments: ________________________________________________________

Signature

Date

Name
(Print/Typed)

Registration Number

Note: Signatures of all the inventors or assignees of record of the entire interest or their representative(s) are required in accordance with
37 CFR 1.33 and 11.18. Please see 37 CFR 1.4(d) for the form of the signature. If necessary, submit multiple forms for more than one
signature, see below*.
*Total of

forms are submitted.

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Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.

If you need assistance in completing the form, call 1-800-PTO-9199 and select option 2.

PTO/SB/420 (05-10)
Approved for use through 05/31/2010. OMB 0651-0062
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number.

Instruction Sheet for

Petition to Make Special Under the Green Technology Pilot Program

(Not to be Submitted to the USPTO)

The following is a summary of the requirements (for more information see the notices (i) “Pilot
Program for Green Technologies Including Greenhouse Gas Reduction” and (ii) “Elimination of
Classification Requirement in the Green Technology Pilot Program,” available on the USPTO web site
at http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/green_tech.jsp):
(1) The application must be a non-reissue, non-provisional utility application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a), or
an international application that has entered the national stage in compliance with 35 U.S.C. 371. The
application must be previously filed before the publication date of the notice cited above. Reexamination
proceedings are excluded from this pilot program.
(2) The application must contain three or fewer independent claims and twenty or fewer total claims. The
application must not contain any multiple dependent claims. For an application that contains more than
three independent claims or twenty total claims, or multiple dependent claims, applicant must file a
preliminary amendment in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121 to cancel the excess claims and/or the multiple
dependent claims at the time the petition to make special is filed.
(3) The claims must be directed to a single invention that materially enhances the quality of the environment,
or that materially contributes to: (1) the discovery or development of renewable energy resources; (2) the
more efficient utilization and conservation of energy resources; or (3) green house gas emission reduction
(see the eligibility requirements of sections II and III of the notice (i) cited above). The petition must
include a statement that, if the USPTO determines that the claims are directed to multiple inventions (e.g.,
in a restriction requirement), applicant will agree to make an election without traverse in a telephonic
interview, and elect an invention that meets the eligibility requirements in section II or III of the notice (i)
cited above.
(4) The petition to make special must be timely filed electronically using the USPTO electronic filing system,
EFS-Web, and selecting the document description of “Petition for Green Tech Pilot” on the EFS-Web
screen. Applicant should use form PTO/SB/420, which is available as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
fillable form in EFS-Web and on the USPTO Web site.
(5) The petition to make special must be filed at least one day prior to the date that a first Office action (which
may be an Office action containing only a restriction requirement) appears in the Patent Application
Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. Applicant may check the status of the application using PAIR.
(6) The petition to make special must be accompanied by a request for early publication in compliance with
37 CFR 1.219 and the publication fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.18(d).

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