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

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

Doc Code: PET.CLIMATE

Document Description: Petition for Climate Change Mitigation Pilot

PTO/SB/457 (05-23)

CERTIFICATION AND PETITION TO MAKE SPECIAL

UNDER THE CLIM ATE CHANGE MITIGATION PILOT PROGRAM

First Named

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 application (the application) cover(s) a product or process that mitigates climate

change (i.e., the claim(s) correspond(s) to one or more of the technical concepts within subclass Y02A, Y02B, Y02C,

Y02D, Y02E, Y02P, Y02T or Y02W in the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system). The full schedule of the

Y02 class is available at https://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/cpc/html/cpc-Y.html#Y02.

2.

The product or process is designed to: (a) remove greenhouse gases already present in the atmosphere; (b) reduce

and/or prevent additional greenhouse gas emissions; and/or (c) monitor, track, and/or verify greenhouse gas emission

reductions.

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 original utility nonprovisional application or an original utility nonprovisional

application that claims the benefit of only one prior nonprovisional application or one prior international application

designating the United States.

5.

The application is or was filed electronically using Patent Center.

6.

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

7.

A properly signed application data sheet meeting 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 was previously filed, the

nonpublication request is or has been rescinded. Form PTO/SB/36 may be used to rescind the

nonpublication request.

9.

The basic filing fee, search fee, and examination fee are filed with this request or have already been paid in the

application. The applicant understands that any required application size fee must be paid for the application. The fee

for a petition to make special under 37 CFR 1.102(d) has been waived 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 twenty total claims, or any multiple dependent claims, (b) any reply to a non-final

Office action may not cancel all claims that meet the eligib ility requirements of this pilot program, and (c) if a telephone

restriction requirement is made, applicant must 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 joint inventor on more than twelve other

nonprovisional applications in which a petition to make special under this program has been filed.

12.

This petition is either (a) electronically filed using Patent Center with the filing of the application or entry into the

National Stage as to the United States, or (b) electronically filed using Patent Center within 30 days of the filing date of

the application or entry into the National Stage as to the United States.

Signature Date

Name

(Printed/Typed)

Practitioner

Registration Number

Note: This form must be signed in accordance with 37 CFR 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.

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