21st Century Patent System Improvement Act Patent And Trademark Office Surcharge Extension Act Of 1997 And Patent Term Restoration Act Of 1997

This report amends bill H.R. 400; includes patent & trademark office modernization, such as its powers & duties, organization & management, Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences, suits by & against the Office, suspension or exclusion from practice, funding, & extension of surcharges on patent fees; examining procedure improvements; publication with provisional royalties; term extensions; further examination of patents; protection for prior domestic users of patented technologies; enhanced protection of inventors' rights; improved reexamination procedures; provisional, international & divisional applications, plant patents, & electronic filing.