Certification and Petition to Make Special under the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program

• Court: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board
• Legal Form Number: SB/457
• Section: United States Patent and Trademark Office

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PTO/SB/457 (05-22)

CERTIFICATION AND PETITION TO MAKE SPECIAL

UNDER THE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION PILOT PROGRAM

First Name d

Inventor:

Nonprovisional Application

Number (if known):

Title of

Invention:

APPLICANT HEREBY CERTIFIES THE FOLLOWING AND PETITIONS FOR ADVANCEMENT OF

EXAMINATION UNDER THE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE ABOVE-

IDENTIFIED APPLICATION.

1. The claim(s) of the above-identified app lication (the application) cov er(s) a product or process that mitigates

climate change (i.e., the claim (s) correspond(s) to one or more of the technica l concepts within subclass

Y02A, Y02B, Y02C, Y02D, Y02E, Y02P, Y02T or Y02W in the Cooperative Paten t Classification (CPC)

syste m). The full schedule of the Y02 class is available at

https://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/c lassification/cpc/html/cpc-Y.h tml#Y02.

2. The product or process is designed t o reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

3. The applicant has a good faith belief that expediting patent examination will likely have a positive impact on

the climate.

4. The application is a non-continuing or iginal utility nonprovisional applicatio n or an original utility

nonprovisional application that claim s the benefit of only one prior nonprovisional application or one prior

international application designat ing the United States.

5. The application is or was filed electr onically using Patent Center.

6. The specification, claim(s) and abstract on filing or on national stage e ntry are or were submitted in DOCX

format.

7. A properly signed application data sheet m eeting the conditions specified in 37 CFR 1.53(f)(3)(i) is or was

filed in the application.

8. No nonpublication request was filed for the application or if such a request w as previously filed, the

nonpublication request is or has be en rescinded. Form PTO/SB/36 ma y be used to rescind the

nonpublication request.

9. The basic filing fee, search fee, and ex amination fee are filed with this req uest or have been already been

paid in the application. The applicant under stands that any required applicati on size fee must be paid for

the application. The fee f or a petition to make special under 37 CF R 1.102(d) has been waive d for this pilot

program.

10. The applicant agrees to the following : (a) the application may not contain, or be amended to contain, more

than three independent claims, more than t wenty total claim s, or any multiple dependent cl aims, (b) any

reply to a non-final Office action ma y not cancel all claims that meet the eligib ility requirements of this pilot

program, and (c) if a telephone restr iction requirement is made, applicant m ust make an election without

traverse to an invention that meets the eligibility requirements of this pilot program.

11. The inventor or any joint inventor has not been named as the inventor or a j oint inventor on more than four

other nonprovisional applications in which a petition to make special under th is program has been filed.

12. This petition is either (a) electronically filed using Pate nt Center with the filing of the applicat ion or entry into

the National Stage as to the United St ates, or (b) electronically filed using Patent Center within 30 da ys of

the filing date of the application or entry into the National Stage as t o the United States.

Signature

Date

Name

(Printed/Typed)

Practitioner

Registration Number

Note: This form must be signed in accordance with 37CFR 1.33. See 37 CFR 1.4(d) for signature requirements and certifications.

Submit multiple forms if more than one signature is required.*

*Total of forms are submitted.

Doc Code: PET.CLIMATE

Document Description: Petition for Climate Change Mitigation Pilot