If I amend my claims after normal publication (18 months), I believe my application will get republished again with amended claims.
How long that process would take?
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Sign up to join this communityYour application will NOT be republished. The amended claims will be added to the applications file history (called the 'Image File Wrapper' in both Public PAIR and Private PAIR), almost always the same day as they are received. The amended claims are view-able as submitted, and are not incorporated into the body of the application in any way.
The Patent Office will also publish the application with all of the amendments in its final form once the application issues into a Granted Patent.
However, if you would really like to republish an application before Issuance, according to MPEP 1130(I) the Patent Office will republish amended applications if you request it along with:
if the invention as claimed in the published patent application is a process, uses, offers for sale, or sells in the United States or imports into the United States products made by that process as claimed in the published patent application
. So let me rephrase that question. To claim royalty from the claim published date, do I have to republish it again or sending a notice to the person who copied my work would suffice?
Dec 5, 2019 at 16:19
Non provisional patent applications are published 18 months from the effective filing date - You may request to publish earlier than that.
as claimed in the published patent application
. I'm not sure whether my amended claims need to be republished again to claim royalty. That's why I asked this question. Thanks