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A4 size paper (See also Paper size) 608.01; 608.02; 1825; 1826 - A.I. series of patents (See also Patent) 901.04
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Abandoned application (See also Abandonment)
- Accessibility to public 103; 711.04
- Counting, when processed 711.04(a)
- Definition 203.05
- Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing when nonpublication requested 1124
- Fee on petition to revive 711.03(c)
- Issue fee, failure to pay 711.03(c)
- Ordering 711.04(b); 905.03
- Papers received, handling 508.02
- Provisional application 201.04; 211.01(a)
- Reference use 901.02; 2127
- Referred to in issued patent 103
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Revival 711.03(c); 1893.02
- Provisional application 711.03(c)
- Storage 711.04(b)
- When open to the public 103
- Abandoned file (See Abandoned application and Abandonment)
- Abandoned files repository 711.04(b); 905.03
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Abandonment (See also Abandoned application) 711
- After allowance 711.05
- After payment of issue fee 711.01
- Amendment late 711.02; 714.17
- Appeal dismissal 1215.04
- Appeal withdrawal 1215.01 - 1215.03
- Assignee must consent 711
- Change of address 711.03(c)
- Counted as a disposal 1705
- Date of 711.04(a)
- Destroys continuity 211.01; 211.01(b)
- Express 711; 711.01
- Failure to file property rights statement 150
- Failure to pay issue fee 711.03(c)
- Failure to prosecute 711.02
- Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing after non-publication request 1124
- Formal 711; 711.01
- Forwarding 711.04(a)
- Incomplete reply 711.03(a)
- Invention abandoned 706.02(d); 2134; 2138.03
- No reply 711; 711.02
- Notification of 711.02; 711.04(c)
- Of appeal 1210
- Of invention 706.02(d); 2134; 2138.03
- Papers received after 508.02
- Petition to revive 711.03(c); 711.04(c); 1002.02(c); 1002.02(q); 1002.02(r)
- Petition to withdraw holding of examiner’s statement 711.03(c); 711.03(d)
- Prior application 201.06(c)
- Provisional application 201.04; 211.01(a)
- Pulling 711.04(a)
- Reconsideration 711.03; 711.03(c)
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Reissue
- Return of surrendered patent 1416
- Revival 711.03; 711.03(c)
- Shortened statutory period expired 710.02(d); 711.04(a)
- Special situations 711.02(b)
- Termination of proceedings 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 711.02(c)
- Undelivered action 707.13
- Unintentional (See also Petition) 711.03(c); 1124
- Withdrawal of holding 711.03(c)
- Abbreviation, periodical citation 707.05(e)
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Abbreviature and abstract publication 711.06
- Citation 711.06(a)
- Abstract for defensive publication 711.06
- Abstract of international application 1826
- Abstract of the disclosure 608.01(b); 1302.01; 1302.04
- Abstract publication 711.06
- Accelerated examination 708.02
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Access (See also Inspection and Power of attorney)
- Attorney not of record 402; 405
- Authoritiy to grant access to an application 104
- Authorized by Director 104
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 103
- Ex parte reexamination file 2232
- Excluded attorney or agent 105
- Inter partesreexamination file 2609; 2632.01
- Image file wrapper application 103
- International application 110
- Pending application 101; 103; 104; 106; 724.04; 724.04(a); 1128; 1132
- Petition 103
- Protested application 1901.05; 1901.07
- Provisional application 103; 104
- Published application 103; 1128; 1130
- Reissue application 103; 724.04(b)
- Supplemental examination 2803.02
- Suspended attorney or agent 103
- Unpublished, Abandoned, and pending applications 105
- Accounts, Deposit (See Deposit account)
- Acknowledgment of protest 1901.05
- Act (See Statutes)
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Action (See also Letter, Examiner’s)
- Advisory action 706.07(f); 714.13
- After another examiner’s action 706.04
- After Board decision 1214.01; 1214.03 - 1214.07
- After Board decision reversing examiner 1214.04
- After Board decision sustaining examiner 1214.06
- After interference 2308
- Amendment after final rejection 706.07(f); 714.12; 714.13
- Citation of references 707.05; 710.06
- Claim summary 707.07(i)
- Claims in excess of number of claims previously paid for 714.10
- Closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Action closing prosecution)
- Completeness 707.07; 707.07(a)
- Copy to applicant 707.12
- Copies of references 707.05(a)
- Correctness, Period for reply 710.06
- Counted 1705
- Crosses amendment 714.05
- Date 707.11
- Entry 707.01
- Examiner’s 707
- Final rejection 706.07 - 706.07(f); 713.09
- Foreign priority determination 210 - 217
- Formal matter 707.07(a); 707.07(e); 707.07(j); 714.02
- Forms used 707
- Incorrect citation of references 710.06
- Informal application 702.01
- Mailing 707.12
- Original in image file wrapper 707.12
- Patentability report 705; 705.01(c)
- Piecemeal examination 707.07(g)
- Primary examiner’s personal attention 707.01; 1004
- Priority determination, foreign 210 - 217
- Reissue application file 1430
- Reply time computation 710.01(a); 710.05
- Restriction requirement 800
- Returned 707.13
- Shortened statutory period 710.02; 710.02(b)
- SPE’s personal attention 707.02
- Supplemental 710.06; 714.05
- Suspension (See also Suspension) 709
- Suspension, primary examiner’s attention 1004
- Suspension, TC Director’s attention 1003
- Third, SPE reviews 707.02
- Time limit 710.02; 710.02(c)
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Address, Change of correspondence 601.03(a); 601.03(b); 711.03(c)
- After Allowance 2501
- Address, Correspondence (See also Mail Stop) 403; 403.01(a); 403.01(b); 2540; 2542
- Address, Fee 2540
- Address of applicant 605.03
- Address of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 501; 502
- Address of patent owner 2222; 2622; 2805
- Administration, Letters of 409.01(b)
- Administrative instructions, PCT AI
- Administrative Patent Judges (See Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB))
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Administrator or executor 409.01
- Allowance and issue 409.01(b)
- Application by, After discharge 409.01(b)
- Assigned application, Inventor dies 409.01(b)
- Authority 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate 409.01(b)
- Foreign country 409.01(b)
- Heir 409.01; 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
- Intervention not required 409.01(b)
- Refuses to sign 409.03; 409.03(b); 409.03(c)
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Admissions by applicant 706.02(c); 2129; 2133.03(c)
- Jepson claim 2129
- Admissions in reexamination
- Advantages over prior art 707.07(f)
- Adverse recommendation under 37 CFR 1.312 714.16(d); 714.16(e); 714.19
- Advisory action 706.07(f); 714.13
- Affidavit (See Oath and Declaration)
- Affidavit, disqualifying commonly owned patent or patent application publication as prior art to overcome a pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 or 103 rejection (37 CFR 1.131) 718
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Affidavit of attribution or prior disclosure to overcome a 35 U.S.C. 102 or 103 rejection (37 CFR 1.130 717.01 - 717.01(f); 2155
- Enablement 2155.04
- Evaluation of 717.01(a)(1); 717.01(b)(1); 717.01(e)
- Formal requirements 717.01(c)
- Showing Disclosure was made by inventor 717.01(a); 2155.01
- Showing Prior disclosure was subject matter by inventor 717.01(b); 2155.02
- Showing disclosure was subject matter obtained from inventor 717.01(b)(2); 2155.03
- Timely presentation 717.01(f)
- When available 717.01; 2155.06
- When not required 717.01
- Who may file 717.01(c); 2155.05
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Affidavit of prior invention to overcome a pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 or 103 rejection (37 CFR 1.131(a)) 715; 2132.01; 2136.05
- Acts relied upon, NAFTA/WTO/U.S. 706.02(c)(2); 715.07(c)
- Best mode, failure to disclose 715.10
- Co-authorship 715.01(c)
- Common assignee, reference and application 715.01(b); 718
- Compared to Rule 1.132 affidavit 715.01
- Completion of invention 715
- Conception (See Conception)
- Continuing application 201.06(c); 201.06(d)
- Copies from prior applications 201.06(c)
- Dedication to public 715
- Derivation 715.07(c)
- Diligence (See Diligence)
- Effective filing date 715
- Exhibit, Disposition 715.07(d)
- Formal requirements 715.04
- Genus-species 715.03
- Generic claim 715.02
- Interference testimony used 715.07(b)
- Overcome patent or publication 715
- Petition regarding sufficiency 1002.02(c)
- Prior public use/sale 715.10
- Priority time charts 2138.01
- Proper use of 715
- Reduction to practice (See Reduction to practice)
- Reexamination,, ex parte 2258
- Reexamination, inter partes 2658
- Reference date to be overcome 715
- Reference is
- Sufficiency of 715.08; 2136.05
- When used 706.02(b)(2); 706.02(l)(3); 715; 2132.01
- Who may make affidavit 706.02(b); 715.04
- Withdrawn rejection 715
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Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132) 716
- Attorney arguments 716.01(c)
- Attribution, of reference to applicant 716.10
- Commercial success, evidence 716.03
- Commonly owned patent 718
- Commonly owned patent application publication 718
- Comparison with closest prior art 716.02(e)
- Computer programming cases 2164.06(c)
- Continuing application 201.06(c); 201.06(d)
- Copying, evidence 716.06; 1504.03
- Disclosure, sufficiency 716.09
- Disclosure, utility and operability 716.08
- Evidence
- Long-felt need 716.04
- Petition regarding sufficiency 1002.02(c)
- Reexamination, ex parte 2258
- Reexamination, inter partes 2658
- Reference attributed to applicant 716.10
- Sufficiency of 716.09
- Synergism 716.02(a)
- Skepticism of experts 716.05
- Timeliness 716.01
- Unexpected results, allegations 716.02
- Unexpected results, evidence 716.02(a)
- Affidavits submitted with prior art under 35 U.S.C. 301 in patented files 2205
- Affirmation (See Oath and Declaration)
- After final practice 706.07(f)
- Agent (See Attorney or agent and Power of attorney)
- Agent for international application 1807; 1864.04
- Aggregation 2173.05(k)
- Agriculture, Department of, Plant patents 1608; 1609
- Agricultural Research Service 1608; 1609
- Algorithms 2106; 2164.06(c); 2181
- Alien Property Custodian (A.P.C.) publications (See also Citation of prior art) 901.06(c)
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Allowance and issue (See also Allowed application) 1300
- Abandonment after 711.05
- All claims allowed, shortened statutory period 710.02(b)
- Amendment, Examiner’s 1302.04
- Amendment, Examiner’s, Rule 1.312 1305
- Amendment after (See Amendment: After allowance)
- Amendment after allowance of all claims 714.14; 1303.01
- Amendment after D-10 notice 130
- Amendment at time of 714.15
- Amendment crossing in mail 714.15
- Assignment Division 409.01(b); 1302.11
- Cancellation of claims after appeal 1214.05; 1214.06; 1215.03
- Cancellation of nonelected claim by examiner’s amendment 821.01; 821.02
- Cancellation of nonstatutory claim 1302.04(b)
- Citation of prior art 1302.12
- Claim for Official Gazette 1302.09
- Claim renumbering 608.01(j); 1302.01; 1302.04(g)
- Claim renumbering, dependent claim 608.01(n); 1302.01
- Classification 903.07; 903.07(b)
- Classification change after allowance 903.07
- Classification in another Technology Center 903.07(b)
- Copending application
- Correction of error after allowance 714.16
- Cross-reference 903.07(a)
- D-10 notice 130
- Deceased inventor, notice of allowance 1303.03
- Drawing correction 608.02(z); 1302.04; 1303.01
- Drawing in patented file 905.03
- Erasure of markings 1302.01
- Examiner’s amendment (See Examiner’s amendment)
- File wrapper notation 1302.09
- Final review 1302
- Formal matters 714.16; 1302.01
- Formal matters, examiner’s amendment and changes 714.16; 1302.04
- Formal matters, specification rewritten 1302.02
- General review 1302.01
- Interference 2303.01
- Interference search 1302.08; 2304.01(a)
- International classification 903.09
- Intervention by executor 409.01(b)
- Issue classification notations 1302.10
- Issue in another TC without transfer 903.07(b)
- Issue to applicant 308
- Issue to a non-applicant assignee 307
- Jurisdiction of application 1305
- Listing of references 1302.12
- Locarno classification designations 903.09(a)
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714; 1302.04
- Nonelected claims canceled by examiner’s amendment 821.01; 821.02
- Nonelected claims eligible for rejoinder 821 - 821.02
- Notice of Allowability 1302.03
- Notice of allowance (See Form letters and forms: Notice of allowance)
- Ordering allowed application 1306.03
- Patentability report, print disposal 608.02(n)
- Plant application 1611
- Printer waiting 1309.02
- Pro se 707.07(j)
- Protest against issue 1901
- Reasons for allowance (See Reasons for allowance)
- Record room 905.03
- Reference listing 1302.12
- Reissue application 1455
- Rejection after allowance 706.04; 706.05; 1308.01
- Rejoinder of claims 821.04; 1302.04(h)
- Reopening prosecution 1308.01
- Review by examiner 1302.01
- Review by primary examiner 903.07
- Rewritten specification requirement 1302.02
- Secret application 130; 1304.01
- Signing file wrapper 1302.13
- Special 708.01; 710.02(b); 1301
- Specification, clean copy required 1302.02
- Statement of invention 1302.01
- Supplemental oath after 603.01
- Terminology correspondence of specification and claims 1302.01
- Title of invention 1302.01
- Title change by examiner 606.01
- Title search, continuing application 306
- Transfer 903.08
- Undelivered notice of allowance 1303.02
- Withdrawal from issue (See Withdrawal from issue)
- Withholding from issue, secrecy order application 130; 1304.01
- Allowance, Reasons for (See Reasons for allowance)
- Allowed application (See also Allowance and issue)
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Allowed claim, rejection 706.04
- By Patent Trial and Appeal Board 1213.02
- Alpha subclass 903.07
- Alteration of application 506
- Alternative phrase in claim (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.05(h)
- Amended application 203.03
- Amended application, inspection for transfer 903.08(c)
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Amendment (See also Reply) 714
- Accidental entry 714.21
- Adding excess claims 714.10
- After abandonment 711.02; 714.17
- After all claims allowed 714.14
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After allowance
- Approval 714.16; 1002.02(d)
- Canceling claim 714.16
- Entry in part 714.16(e)
- Examiner’s action 714.16; 714.16(d); 714.16(e)
- Excess claims 714.16(c)
- Formal matters 714.16; 714.16(d)
- Handling 714.16(d)
- Mailed before allowance 714.15
- Motion under Rule 41.208(c)(2) (formerly under Rule 1.633(c)(2)) 714.16(b)
- Patentability pointed out 714.16
- Reason for adverse action 714.16; 714.16(d)
- Renumbering claims 714.16(e)
- Secrecy order application 130; 1304.01
- After examiner’s answer 1210
- After appeal, before examiner’s answer 714; 1206
- After Board decision 1002.02(d); 1214.01; 1214.06; 1214.07
- After death of attorney or agent 406
- After final rejection 706.07(f); 714.12; 714.13
- After final rejection, entered in part 714.20
- Applicants must sign 714.01(a)
- At allowance 714.15
- Attorney not of record 402; 405; 408; 714.01(c)
- Basis in disclosure 608; 706.03(c); 2163.03; 2163.07
- Before first action 608.04(b); 714.01(e)
- Board rejection avoided 1214.01
- By replacement paragraph or section 714
- By substitute specification 714
- Canceled matter restored 608.01(s); 714
- Canceling all claims 706.07(h); 711.01; 714.19
- Canceling appealed claims 1215.01 - 1215.03
- Claim added, terminology basis 608.01(o); 2163.03; 2163.07
- Claim numbering 608.01(j); 1302.01; 1302.04(g)
- Claims
- Complete reply required 714.02; 714.04
- Consolidating pending claims 714; 714.13; 714.16
- Copier copies 714.07
- Copying patent claim (See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Crossing mailing of allowance 714.15
- D-10 notice preceding 130
- Date of receipt 505; 710.01(a); 714.18
- Date of receipt stamp
- Declaration 602
- Defective, directions for entry 714.20
- Discharged attorney or agent 714.19
- Disapproval of preliminary amendment 714.01(e); 1002.02(d)
- Disapproval of second or subsequent reply 714.03(a)
- Discourteous 714.19; 714.25
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Drawing 608.02(p); 1302.05; 1303.01
- In reissue application 1413
- Drawing, disposition 608.02(x)
- Drawing, new matter 608.04(a); 714.19
- Easily erasable paper forbidden 714.07
- Entered in part 714.20
- Entered in part, after allowance, 37 CFR 1.312 714.16(e)
- Entry 714.18; 719.01(a)
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Entry denied 714.17; 714.19; 714.21
- Appeal case 1206; 1214.07
- Drawing correction 608.02(x)
- Drawing new matter 608.04
- List 714.19
- Paper number 714.21
- Period for reply expired 714.17
- Preliminary amendment 714.01(e)
- Second (or subsequent) supplemental reply 714.03(a)
- Substitute specification unnecessary 714.19; 714.20
- Unduly interferes with preparation of Office action 714.03(a)
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Entry directions 714
- Defective 714
- Entry inadvertent 714.21
- Entry in ex parte reexamination 2234
- Entry in inter partes reexamination 2670
- Examiner’s (See Examiner’s amendment)
- Excess claims added 714.10; 714.16(c)
- Facsimile 502.01
- Fees, additional 710.02(c)
- File wrapper endorsement 714.21
- Filed with application 601.01(a)
- Formal matters, compliance with 714.02
- Fully responsive 714.02
- Heading 502
- Immediate inspection 714.05
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Improper signature 714.01(a); 714.01(c); 714.01(d)
- Ratification 714.01(a)
- Inaccurate 707.07(h)
- Incomplete reply 711.02(a); 711.03(a); 714.02 - 714.04; 2266.01; 2666.30; 2671
- Increasing claims in excess of number of claims previously paid for 714.10; 714.16(c)
- Ink, not permanent 714.07
- Inspection by examiner 714.05
- Inventorship (See Correction of inventorship)
- Jurisdiction of application not with examiner 714.16; 714.19; 1305
- Late 710.02(d); 711; 714.17
- Literature citation in specification 608.01(p)
- Manner of making 714
- Motion under 37 CFR 41.208(c)(2), Application in issue 714.16(b)
- Name change on file wrapper 605.01
- New matter 608.04; 706.03(o); 2163.06
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714; 1302.04
- Nonentry (See also Amendment: Entry denied) 714.19
- Not entered 714.19; 714.21
- Not fully responsive 714.02 - 714.04; 2266.01; 2666.30; 2671
- Not fully responsive, time to perfect reply 710.02(c); 714.03; 2266.01; 2666.30
- Oath, Original 602
- Objectionable remarks 714.19; 714.25
- Of claims 714
- Of specification 714
- Office date stamp 505; 710.01(a); 714.18
- Paper number 714.18
- Patentability pointed out 714.02; 714.04
- Period for reply ends Sunday or holiday 505; 513; 710.01(a); 710.05
- Permanent ink required 714.07
- Petition non-entry 1002.02(c)
- Plant application 1610
- Post Office address, Applicant 602.08(a)
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Preliminary 506; 714.01(e)
- Canceling all claims 601.01(e); 711.01
- Denial of entry 714.01(e)
- Excess claims 506; 714.10
- Filed with application 714.01(e)
- Manner of making 714.01(e)
- New matter added 601.01(a); 608.04(b); 702.01
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714
- PG-Pub application 1121
- Referred to in oath/declaration 602.01(a)
- To lessen filing fee 607
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Ratification
- Signature defective 714.01(a)
- Receipt 501 - 505; 511; 512
- Received after allowance 714.15; 1303.01
- Reexamination 2250; 2666.01; 2672
- Reissue 714; 1453
- Requirements of 714.02
- Residence change 719
- Responsive 714.02; 714.04
- Return, after entry in file wrapper 719.01
- Rule 1.312 (See Amendment: After allowance)
- Second (or subsequent) supplemental reply 714.03(a)
- Several filed on same day 714.18
- Signature improper 714.01(a); 714.01(c); 714.01(d)
- Signature missing 714.01(a)
- Signature required 714.01(a)
- Signed by applicant, not by attorney or agent of record 714.01(d)
- Signed by attorney or agent not of record 402; 402.03; 714.01(c)
- Statement of allowability by Board 1213.01
- Supervisory primary examiner 714.13; 714.16; 714.16(e)
- Supplemental 714.03(a)
- Support by original claim 608.01(l)
- Telephone number 714.01
- Unduly interferes with preparation of Office action 714.03(a)
- Unsigned 714.01(a)
- America Invents Act (AIP) (See Statutes: Public Law 112-129)
- American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) (See Statutes: Public Law 106-113)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 608.02
- Amino acid sequence (See Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences)
- Analogous Art 904.01(c); 1302.14; 1504.02; 1504.03; 2131.05; 2141.01(a)
- Analysis of claims 904.01
- Answer, Examiner’s (See Examiner’s answer)
- Answer all matters traversed 707.07(f)
- Antecedent lacking (See also Indefinite claim) 706.03(d); 1302.01; 2173.05(e)
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Anticipation rejection 706.02(a); 1504.02; 2131; 2132; 2133; 2136; 2152; 2154
- Affidavit to overcome a pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a) or (e) rejection 715; 2132.01; 2136.05
- Analogous art 1504.03; 2131.05
- Definition of 2131; 2152
- Exceptions to 2153; 2154.02
- Genus-species 2131.02
- Generic chemical formula 2131.02
- Grace Period 2133; 2153; 2153.01
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Meaning of
- “By others” 2132; 2154.02
- “In this country” 2132
- “Known or used” 2132; 2133.03(a)
- “Patented in this or a foreign country” 2132; 2152.02(a)
- Multiple references, when permitted 2131.01
- On sale (See On sale)
- Ranges claimed 2131.03
- Rejections based on publications and patents 2133.02; 2152.02(a); 2152.02(b)
- Prima facie case 2132.01; 2152
- Public use (See Public use)
- Secondary considerations, evidence of 2131.04
- A.P.C. publications (See Alien Property Custodian (A.P.C.) publications)
- Apostille (See also Oath and Declaration) 301; 409.01(b); 409.03(a); 409.03(d); 602.04
- Apparatus, Process or product and 806.05(e) - 806.05(g)
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Appeal 1200
- Abandonment 1210
- Actions subsequent to examiner’s answer 1210
- Administrative handling 1203
- Affidavit after appeal 1206; 1208; 1211.03
- Amendment after examiner’s answer 1210; 1211.01
- Amendment before examiner’s answer 1206
- Amendment for purpose of 714.12; 714.13
- Amendment makes application allowable 1206
- Answer, Examiner’s (See Examiner’s answer)
- Brief 1206
- By patent owner 1204
- Cancellation of withdrawn claims 1214.05
- Civil litigation 1216.02
- Claims copied from patent, time limit 710.02(c)
- Claims included 1204; 1205; 1205.02
- Claims not appealled 711.02(b); 1215.01; 1215.02
- Composition of the Board 1202
- Concurrently with interference 1210
- Concurrently with prosecution before examiner 1210
- Conference 1207.01; 1302.14
- Correspondence address for litigation 501; 1216.01
- Court 1216
- Court, Federal Circuit 1216.01
- Decision by Board 1213
- Dismissal 1215.04
- Examiner reversed 1214.04
- Examiner sustained 1214.06
- Examiner’s answer 1207
- Failure to prosecute appeal 1215.04
- Fee (See also Fee) 1204; 1204.01; 1205; 1208.01
- Fowarding fee 1208.01
- From Board decision 1216 - 1216.02
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Inter partes Reexamination 2674 - 2680
- Flowcharts 2601.01
- Interview after appeal 1204.03
- Introduction 1201
- Jurisdiction 1205.03; 1210
- Matter subject to ; 706.01; 1201
- Multiplicity rejection 2173.05(n)
- New ground of rejection by Board 1214.01
- New ground of rejection by examiner in examiner’s answer 1207.01; 1207.02; 1207.03; 1207.03(a); 1207.03(b); 1207.03(c); 1208
- New matter affecting claim 608.04(c)
- Notice of 1204
- Oral hearing 1209
- Order for compliance 1205.03; 1210
- Patentability report case 705.01(a)
- Pre-appeal brief conference pilot program 1204.02
- Primary examiner’s attention 1004
- Procedure after Board decision 1214; 1214.01; 1214.03 - 1214.07
- Protestor participation 1901.07
- Publication of Board decision 1213.03
- Real party in interest 1205.02; 1207.02
- Record on appeal 1204.04
- Rehearing by Board 1214.01; 1214.03
- Reexamination, ex parte 2273
- Reexamination, inter partes 2674 - 2680
- Remand by Board 1208; 1210; 1211; 1211.01; 1211.02; 1211.03; 1212; 1213; 1213.02; 1214.01; 1302.14; 2143.03; 2274; 2275; 2681; 2682
- Remand by Federal Circuit 1216.01
- Remanded application made special 708.01
- Reopening of prosecution 1207.05; 1208; 1214.07; 1211.01; 1213; 1213.02; 1214.01; 1214.04; 1214.07
- Reply brief to examiner’s answer 1208
- Requirement by board to address matter 1212
- Secrecy order application 130; 1304.01
- Statement of allowability by Board 1213.01
- Substitute appeal brief 1207.02
- Substitute examiner’s answer 1207.05; 1211; 1211.01
- Time for filing brief 1205.01
- Withdrawal of final rejection 1207
- Withdrawal, partial 1214.05; 1215.03
- Appealable matter not petitionable 1002; 1201
- Appendix, computer program listing 608.05; 1121
- Appendix, multiple claim sets 1121
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Applicant (See also Inventor and Pro se applicant) 605
- Abandonment notification 711.04(c)
- Administrator or executor 409.01(b)
- Age, special status 708.02
- Citizenship 605.01
- Common, at least one 211.01; 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k) - 706.02(l)(3)
- Comments on statement of reasons for allowance 1302.14
- Discourtesy 714.19; 714.25
- Health, special status 708.02
- Heir 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
- International application 1805; 1810; 1817.01; 1820; 1821
- Joint 201.02; 2137.01; 2151
- Mailing address 605.03
- Micro Entity Status 509.04
- Name change 605.04(c)
- Other than inventor 409.01(b); 409.03(b)
- Post Office address 602.08(a)
- Power to inspect 104; 106
- Reply (See Amendment and Reply)
- Requirements 2137.01; 2151
- Self prosecuted application 707.07(j); 713.01
- Signature 602.08(b)
- Small entity status 509.02
- Sole 201.02
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Application
- Abandoned (See Abandoned application)
- Abstract of the disclosure 608.01(b)
- Acceptance of 37 CFR 1.47 409.03(h); 409.03(j)
- Acknowledgment 502.05; 503
- Address missing 403
- Allowable except as to form 706; 710.02(b)
- Allowed
- Amended definition 203.03
- Arrangement 601; 608.01(a)
- Assigned (See also Assignee and Assignment)
-
Assignment for examination
- Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing) 504
- Assignment to examiner for examination 903.08(b)
- Assignment to Technology Center for examination 504; 903.08; 903.08(e)
- Background of the invention 608.01(c)
- Best mode 608.01(h); 706.03(c)
- Brief description of the drawings 608.01(f)
- Brief summary of the invention 608.01(d)
- British English spellings 608.01
- Certified copy 608.01
- Claim omitted 601.01(e)
- Claim terminology 608.01(o)
- Claims 608.01(i) - 608.01(n); 706.03(k)
- Clarity and completeness, examiner’s action 707.07
- Classification in Technology Center 903.08(b)
- Common ownership 324; 325; 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 822
- Completeness 201.06(c); 506; 601.01; 601.01(g); 608.01(p)
- Conflicting, same applicant 709.01; 804; 822; 822.01
- Content 600
- Continuation (See also Continuation) 201.07
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Continuation-in-part (See also Continuation-in-part) 201.08
- Design 1504.20
- Continued prosecution (CPA) (See also Continued prosecution application (CPA))
- Continuity between applications 211.01(b)
- Control of access 101; 103; 106
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Copending, Design 1504.20
- Correction of inventorship 602.01(c)
- Cross-noting
- Design (See Design application)
- Detailed description 608.01(g)
- Distribution 508
-
Divisional (See also Divisional application) 201.06
- Design 1504.20
-
Drawings, necessary 601.01(f)
- Missing figures 601.01(g)
- Effective filing date 706.02; 706.02(a); 2152.01
- Electronic submission of (EFS-Web) 502.05
- English language 608.01
- Examination 700
- Examples 707.07(l)
- Facsimile transmission 608.01
- Fee, filing (See also Fee) 607
- Field of the invention 608.01(c)
- File wrapper continuing (FWC) 201.06(b)
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Filing date 211.02; 503; 505; 511
- EFS-Web 502.05
- Filing receipt (See also Postcard, self-addressed) 503
- Filing requirement 601.01(a)
- Five year pendency 707.02; 708.01
- Font 608.01
- Foreign (See also Foreign application) 210 - 217
- Form 600
-
Government-owned
- Special 708.01
- Incomplete 203.06; 506; 601.01(d); 601.01(e); 601.01(f)
- Informal 506; 702.01
- Inspection 103
- International (See International application)
- International Convention (35 U.S.C. 119) 213
- Invalid oath 604.06
- Issue fee not paid (abandoned) 711.03(c)
- Issue simultaneously with another application 1306.02
- Jurisdiction 1305
- Mode of operation 608.01(h)
- National application 201
- National stage application 201
- New, definition 203.01
- Nonprovisional 506; 601; 601.01; 601.01(a); 601.01(c)
- Number 502; 503; 506
- Omitted items 217; 601.01(d); 601.01(f); 601.01(g)
- Ordered examination 708; 708.01
- Overlapping
- Pages missing 601.01(d)
- Parent 904
- Parts 600
- Pending five years 707.02
- Plant (See also Plant patent) 1600
- Prior art 2121 - 2129; 2152; 2154; 2158
- Prior art effect of international publication 706.02(a)(1); 706.02(a)(2); 1857.01; 1896; 2136.03; 2154.01(a)
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Priority
- Foreign application 213; 706.02; 706.02(b)(1); 706.02(b)(2); 1402; 1504.02; 1504.10
- Protest 1901
- Provisional (See also Provisional application) 201.04; 601; 601.01; 601.01(b); 601.01(c); 602; 706.02
- Public inspection 103
- Publication (See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
- Publication of abstract 711.06; 711.06(a)
- Receipt and handling 500
- Reconstruction 508.04
- Recording and tracking in Technology Center 1704
- Referred to in patent, status information 102
- Reissue (See also Reissue application) 1401 - 1470
- Rejected definition 203.02
- Relating to atomic energy 115; 150; 151
- Review 506
- Right to inspect 103
- Right of priority, foreign application 213
- Rule 1.60 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62 201.06(b)
- Secrecy order 120; 121; 130
- Serial number 502; 503
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Size fee 506; 607; 1415; 1893.01(c)
- calculations for EFS-Web submissions 502.05
- Special (See also Special application) 707.02; 708 - 708.03
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Status 102; 203; 1730
- Inquiries 203.08
- Substitute
- Table submitted on compact disc 608.05(b)
- Terminology, Claim 608.01(o)
- Title of invention 606
- Title of invention, change 606.01; 1302.01; 1302.04
- Transfer procedure 903.08(d)
- Types (See also Patent) 201
- Utility (See also Patent) 201
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Application Data Sheet (ADS) 211.02; 601; 601.01(b); 601.05; 602.01; 605.04(b); 605.04(c); 605.04(f); 706.02(b)(1); 706.02(b)(2); 1130; 2214; 2266; 2666
- Supplemental ADS 601.05
- Application Division (See Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing))
- Application publication 901.03
- Arbitration awards notice 311
- Argument for allowability lacking in amendment 714.04
- Arrangement of application 601; 608.01(a)
- Arrangement of art in Technology Centers 901.07
- Art unit number on papers 502
- Artifacts in IFW application 608.02
- Asexual plants (See also Plant patent) 1600
- Assigned application
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Assignee (See also Assigned application and Assignment)
- Access to an application 104; 106; 301.01
- Address 302.05
- Affidavits under 37 CFR 1.130 717.01 - 717.01(f); 2155
- Affidavits under 37 CFR 1.131 715.04
- Can appoint new power of attorney 402.07
- Certificate of correction 307; 1480 - 1485
- Change of inventorship, consent 602.01(c); 1412.04
- Common 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 822
- Consent in reissue 1410.01; 1410.02; 1412.04; 1443; 1451
- Double patenting, same assignee 706.02(k); 804; 822
- Duty of disclosure 2001.01
- Employees, property interest in patent 309
- Entire interest, control 106; 301; 324; 325; 402; 402.02; 402.05; 402.07
- Establishing right to take action in applications 324; 325
- Foreign 302.04
- Interfering applications, same assignee 709.01
- Intervention 106; 324; 325; 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
- Micro entity status 509.04
- Multiple Assignees 324; 325
- o Obligated assignee or person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest 409.05
- Part interest 106.01
- Patent issues to
- Permitted to take action under 37 CFR 3.73(b) 324; 325
- Power to inspect 104
- Printed on PG-Pub 1121
- Revocation of power of attorney 324; 325; 402.05; 402.07
- Showing sufficient propietary interest 409.05
- Small entity 509.02
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Assignment 300
- Access 301.01; 1730
- Allowance of application 307; 308
- Assignment identification requirements 302.03
- Automated Patent and Trademark Assignment System 502.01
- Change of name 314
- Conflicting statements of ownership under 37 CFR 3.73(b) 324; 325
- Continuing application 306; 324; 325
- Copy 301.01; 302.01
- Corrections in recorded assignment 307; 323; 323.01; 323.01(b); 323.01(c); 323.01(d)
- Cover sheet 302.07
- Date of recording 317.01
- Effect of recording 317.03
- Electronic submission of (EPAS) 302.10; 502.01; 502.05; 1730
- Employees, property interest in patent 309
- Expungement of assignment records 323; 323.01(d)
- Facsimile submission 302.09; 502.01; 1730
- Foreign language translation 302.02
- Indexing 315
- International application 301
- Licenses 301; 313
- Mailing address 302.05; 302.08; 501
- Mergers 302.07; 314
- Multiple assignees 324; 325
- Nonprovisional claiming benefit of provisional 306.01
- Not endorsed on pending applications 303
- One of several overlapping applications 709.01; 715.01(b)
- Parent application 306
- Part interest 106.01; 301.01; 706.02(l)(2)
- Patent 301; 301.01; 302.03
- Patent and trademark assignment system 302.09; 302.10
- Pending applications 301.01; 302.07; 303; 706.02(l)(2); 706.02(l)(3)
- Plural items 301.01
- Printing on patent 307; 1309
- Proof of 706.02(l)(2)
- Provisional application 302.03; 306.01
- Recording 301; 302; 313; 314; 315; 706.02(l)(2); 706.02(l)(3)
- Recording fee 302.06
- Records not kept in application file 303; 320
- Search facilities 1730
- Security interests 302.07; 313
- Title reports 303; 320
- Transfer of rights from/to small entity 509.02
- Translation 302.02
- Assignment Division 320; 605.04(c); 1121; 1730
- Assignment of application for examination 504
- Assignment of reexamination to examiner
- Assignment to examiner for examination 903.08(b)
- Assistant Commissioner for Patents (See Commissioner for Patents)
- Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks (See Commissioner for Trademarks)
- Assistant examiner (See Examiner)
- Associate attorney 402.02
- Atomic Energy Act of 1954 120; 706.03(a); 706.03(b)
- Atomic energy application 150
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Attorney or agent
- Appointment by assignee of entire interest 106
- Associate 402.02
- Compliance with duty of disclosure 2004
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Change of correspondence address 601.03
- Correspondence with 403; 403.01(a); 403.01(b)
- Death 406
- Discourtesy 714.25
- Duty of disclosure 2001.01; 2002.01
- Duty to inform patent owner of inter partes reexamination 2622
- Excluded from practice 105
- Inspection 104
- Interfering applications 402.08
- International application 402.09; 1807; 1808; 1820
- Interview 405; 408; 713 - 713.10; 1302.14
- Limited recognition 402.01; 402.09
- More than one for same applicant 403.02
- Name on patent 1309
- Name on reexamination certificate 2287
- Not of record 402; 405
- Notarizing oath 602
- Office cannot aid in selection of 401
- Petition to reinstate 1002.02(m)
- Post Office address 601.02
- Power of (See also Power of attorney) 402; 406; 407; 2501
- Proof of authority in inter partes reexamination 2613
- Reexamination, ex parte 2210; 2222
- Reexamination, inter partes 2622; 2623
- Registered 401; 402
- Request for limited recognition 1002.02(m)
- Roster of attorneys and agents 601.03; 1730
- Selection 401
- Signature of 402
- Substitute 406
- Suspended or excluded 105; 407; 714.01(a); 714.19
- Telephone number on letters 714.01
- Telephoned by examiner 408; 713.01; 1302.14
- Unregistered 402
- Washington, D.C. area representative 408
- Withdrawal 402.06; 1002.02(s); 1808; 2804.01
- Withdrawal after patent granted 2223; 2501; 2560; 2623
- Authentication of oath 602.04
- Authentication of e-mail sender 502.03
- AuthorIn program (See also Sequence rules) 2430
- Authority of administrator or executor 409.01(b)
- Authority of Director, Delegation of 1001.01
- Authority of Director, Statutory 1001
- Authority to inspect pending application 103
- Authorization
- Authorship 715.01(c); 716.10
- Automated Patent and Trademark Assignment System 502.01
- Avoiding double patenting rejection 706.02(k); 804.02; 1490; 2129
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B
- Background of the invention (See also Specification) 608.01(c)
- Bacteria 1601
- Bar, Statutory (See Statutory bar)
- Base claim canceled 608.01(n)
- Base claim rejected 608.01(n)
- Benefit of domestic priority (See also Cross-noting) 211.01(a); 211.01(b)
- Benefit of foreign priority (See also Foreign application) 213.01
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Treaties) 213.01; 1504.10
- Best mode 608.01(h); 2165 - 2165.04
- Bibliographic Information 601.05
- Biological material 2164.06(a); 2402; 2403
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Biotechnology (See also Nucleotide sequences) 2400
- Deposit of biological material 2403
- Deposit rules 2402
- Deposit term 2408
- Enablement 2164.06(a)
- Examination of applications 2411
- Form paragraphs 2427.01
- Patent In computer program 2430
- Process claims under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 103(b) 706.02(n)
- Samples 2410
- Sequence rules (See also Sequence rules) 2420; 2421
- Blue slip (See Form letters and forms: Issue Classification (Blue slip) PTO-270)
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (See Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB))
- Books in library 901.06(a)
- Borrowed publications 901.06(a); 901.06(b)
- Borrowing references from examiner’s search files 901.08
- Box, Mail (See Correspondence and Mail Stop)
- Breadth, Undue (See Undue breadth rejection)
- Brief, filed on appeal 1205
- Brief description of the drawings (See also Specification) 608.01(f)
- Brief summary of invention 608.01(d); 1302.01
- British English spelling 608.01
- British specification, provisional 214.03
- Broadening claims in reissue 1412.03
- Browser executable code in specification 608.01; 608.01(p)
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Budapest Treaty (See also Microorganisms and Treaties) 901.05(b); 2402; 2404.01; 2405; 2408; 2409; 2410.01; 2410.02; 2411.01
- Depositories 2405
- Bulletin, Classification (See Classification and Orders)
- Burden of proof 2107.02; 2112; 2112.01; 2113; 2163.04; 2164.04
- Business hours of USPTO 510
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C
- CAFC (See Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC))
- Canceled matter, before papers executed 602.08(b)
- Canceled matter, cannot be recaptured in reissue 1412.02
- Canceled matter, Restoring 608.01(s)
- Canceled matter in patented file 901.01
- Canceling claim after issue 714.16; 1302.04(b)
- Canceling claims not appealed 1214.05
- Canceling drawing 608.02(t)
- Cancellation of drawing figures 608.02(t)
- Candor, Duty of (See also Duty of candor and good faith) 2001; 2001.03
- Carbon copy, application papers 608.01
- Carbon copy of amendment 714.07
- Card catalog in library 901.06(a)
- Caricatures, Offensive 608; 1504.01(e)
- Case action record worksheets (PTO-1472) 1705
- Cassis DVD-ROM (See also Electronic databases) 902.03(d)
- Catalog and circulars 901.06(a)
- Central Facsimile Number 502; 502.01
- Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) (See also Office of Patent Legal Administration (OPLA)) 103; 2212.01; 2224; 2226; 2227; 2229; 2231; 2233; 2235 - 2237; 2239; 2240; 2242; 2245 - 2249;2258.01; 2262; 2263; 2265; 2267; 2270; 2271.01; 2274; 2281; 2283 - 2287; 2289; 2294; 2295; 2624; 2627; 2631; 2634 - 2636; 2641; 2646; 2647; 2647.01; 2648; 2660; 2662; 2664; 2666.06;2667; 2670; 2671; 2671.01; 2671.02; 2671.03; 2674 - 2679; 2682; 2686.01; 2686.03; 2686.04; 2687; 2687.01; 2689; 2694; 2812
- Certificate effect of signature 402.03; 410
-
Certificate, Ex parte Reexamination 2288
- Format 2290
- Certificate, Inter partes Reexamination 2688; 2690; 2694
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Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
- Applicant’s mistake 1481
- Assignee’s name 307; 1481.01
- Branch 1002.02(l)
-
Copy required in reexamination
- Ex parte 2214
- Date of issuance 1485
- Domestic priority 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 1003; 1481
- Electronic publication 1485
- Expedited issuance 1480.01
- Foreign priority 216.01; 1481
- Form PTO-1050 1480; 1480.01; 1485
- Form PTO/SB/44 1480; 1480.01; 1485
- Handling of request for 1485
- International application priority 1481.03
- Inventorship 1412.04; 1481
- Matters requiring TC Director’s attention 1003
- Office’s mistake 1480; 1480.01
- Official Gazette listing 1480; 1485
- Patent in litigation 1003
- Patent involved in interference 1002.02(g)
- Petition of refusal to issue 1002.02(c)
- Reissue application 1411.01; 1443
- Report by examiner 1485
- Third party standing 1480
- Certificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8) 502.01; 511; 512; 513
- Certificate of service
- Certification Division 103
-
Certified copies
- Abstract of Title 320
- Appeal to federal circuit 1216.01
- Application as filed 608.01; 1730
- Civil litigation 1216
- Facsimile submission not permitted 502.02
- Facsimile requests for 1730
- Foreign application 213.04; 215; 502.02; 1417; 1504.10; 1893.03(c); 2138.06
- MPEP ; 1730
- Orders for 1730
- Patent copies 1730
- PCT application 1801; 1828; 1893.03(c); 1895.01; 1896
- Philippines search exchange 1711
- Photocopies not permitted 502.02
- Provisional application 103; 104
- Reexamination file
- Change from small entity status (See also Small entity status) 509.03
- Change of correspondence address 601.03; 711.03(c)
- Characteristic feature in design applications 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
- Chemical compound 608.01(b)
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Chemical practice
- Enablement 2164.06(b)
- Generic chemical formula 2131.02; 2144.08
- Markush 2173.05(h); 2173.05(o)
- Chief Administrative Patent Judge 1002.02(f)
- Circulars (See also Publication)
-
Citation of prior art
- A.P.C. publications 901.06(c)
- Abbreviatures 711.06; 711.06(a)
- Abstract 706.02; 711.06; 711.06(a)
- Allowance, Listing at 1302.12
- Applicant’s 707.05(b); 707.05(d); 1302.12
- Complete data 707.05(e)
- Copies furnished 707.05(a)
- Correction 707.05(g)
- Correction, period for reply 710.06
- Cross references 707.05(e)
- Data used 707.05(e)
- Decisions, orders, notices, memoranda 707.06
- Defensive publications 711.06; 711.06(a)
- Electronic Resources 707.05(e)
- Examiner’s answer 1207
- Foreign language documents 706.02
- Foreign patent data 707.05(e); 901.05(a)
- Foreign printed applications 901.05(b)
- Form PTO-892 reproduced 707.05(a)
- Incorrect 707.05(g); 710.06
- Literature, in specification 608.01(p)
- Mailing copy to patent owner 2206; 2208
- Memorandum 707.06
- Notices 707.06
- Order of listing 707.05(c)
- Orders 707.06
- Patents series, U.S. (See also Patent) 901.04
- Periodical 707.05(e); 901.06
- Prior art effect of international application 706.02(a)(1); 706.02(a)(2); 1857.01; 1896; 2136.03; 2154.01(a)
- Prior art in application 707.05(b); 1302.12
- Prior art in patent 1920; 2200
- Publications 707.05(e)
- References 707.05
- Citizenship of applicant 601.05
- Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 145 1214.07; 1216; 1216.02
- Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 146 1216
-
Claim 608.01(i); 608.01(k)
- “Adapted for” clauses in 2106; 2111.04
- “Adapted to” clauses in 2106; 2111.04
-
Added by amendment 608.01(o)
- Results in change of inventorship 602.09
- Added in excess of number of claims previously paid for 714.10
- After prosecution closed 714.16; 714.19
- After prosecution closed, near end of time period 714.20
- Aggregation 2173.05(k)
- All allowed 710.02(b)
- All canceled 711.01
- Allowable except as to form 706; 707.07(a); 707.07(j)
- Allowed, Rejection of 706.04; 706.05
- Allowed, Withdrawn appeal 1215.02
- Alternative phrase (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.01; 2173.05(h)
- Amendment of (See also Amendment) 714
- Analysis 904.01
- Antecedent basis (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.05(e)
- Basis in description 608.01(o); 2171
- Basis in disclosure 608; 2163.03
- Breadth 2163.05; 2164.08; 2173.04
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Broadening in reissue application 1412.02; 1412.03
- Dependent claim 1412.03
- Cancellation by examiner after appeal 1214.05
- Cancellation results in change of inventorship 602.01(c)
- Change after Board statement of allowability 1213.01
- Combination, old 2173.05(j)
- Combination and subcombination 806.05(a)
- Comprising 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Considered in deciding reexamination request 2243; 2643
- Consisting essentially of 2111.03
- Consisting of 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Construed in light of specification 608.01(o); 804; 2106; 2111.01; 2111.03; 2129; 2145; 2164.08; 2173.05(a); 2181; 2184
- Copied from patent (See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Correspondence with disclosure 1302.01; 2173.03
- Defined by specification, term 2111.01
- Dependent 608.01(n)
- Dependent, objected to when improper 608.01(n); 706.01
- Dependent on canceled or rejected claim 608.01(n); 706.01; 707.07(j); 1214.06
- Design application 1503; 1503.01
- Differing only by functional statement 2114; 2173.05(g)
- Diminishing scope 2173.05(h)
- Disclaimer 706.03(u); 710.02(d)
- Double inclusion 2173.05(o)
- Duplicate 706.03(k); 2173.05(o)
- Each mentioned in letter 707.07(i)
- Equivalence 2183
- Excess added by preliminary amendment over number of claims previously paid for 714.10
- Excess over fee after notice of allowance 714.16(c)
- Fees, dependent 608.01(n)
- File wrapper notation 1302.09
- Foreign priority (See also Foreign application) 210 - 217
- Form 608.01(m)
- Function of machine 2173.05(v)
- Functional 2114; 2173.05(g)
- Generic (See also Generic claim) 806.04(d); 2173.05(h)
- Illustrated by drawing 608.02(d); 2173.05(s)
- Improvement (i.e., Jepson claim) 2129
- Inaccurate 2173.03
- Incomplete 2172.01
- Indefinite 706.03(d); 2173
- Independent 608.01(n)
- Index 719.04
- Informal 702.01
- International application 1824
- Interpretation 2111; 2111.01; 2111.02; 2111.03
- Jepson 2129
- Linking 806.04; 806.05(c); 809; 809.03; 821.04(a)
- Linking, Generic 806.04; 821.04(a)
- Linking, Traverse of rejection 818.03(d)
-
Markush 2173.05(h); 2173.05(o)
- Generic 803.02
- Subgenus 2173.05(h)
- Support 608.01(p)
- Means (See also Means) 2181
- Missing 601.01(e)
- Multiple dependent 608.01(n)
- Multiplicity 2173.05(h); 2173.05(n)
- Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
-
New matter 608.04; 706.03(o); 2163.06
- Reissue application 1411.02
- Nonelected invention 706.03(m); 821.01; 821.02; 821.04(a)
- Nonelected invention, Added 821.03
- Nonstatutory 706.03(a); 2105 - 2107
- Nonstatutory, Cancellation 1302.04(b)
- Numbering 608.01(j)
- Objection contrasted with rejection 706.01
- Official Gazette(O.G.) 1302.09
- Omnibus claim 2173.05(r)
- Ordinary and customary meaning 2106; 2111.01
- Original 608.01(l)
- Patentably distinct 706.03(k)
- Plain meaning of claim term 2111.01
- Plant application 1605; 1610
- Priority (See also Foreign application) 210 - 217
- Product, Functional 2114
- Product by process 2113; 2173.05(p)
- Prolix (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.05(m)
- Ranges 2131.03; 2144.05
- Reference numerals included 608.01(m); 2173.05(s)
- Reissue application
- Rejection 706; 2121 - 2186
- Relative terminology 2173.05(b)
- Renumbering at issue 608.01(j); 1302.01
- Renumbering dependent 608.01(n); 1302.01
- Single means 2164.08(a); 2181
- Single sentence 608.01(m)
- Species, how recognized 806.04(e); 806.04(f)
- Species (plural) added 818.02(b)
- Statutory requirement 608.01(k)
- Subgenus (Markush type) 2173.05(h)
- Subject matter eligibility 706.03(a); 2106; 2106.01
- Suggested for interference 2304.03 - 2304.04(b)
- Summary of invention, consistent 608.01(d)
- Terminology basis in description 608.01(o); 2173.01; 2173.05(a)
- Unsupported 2163.01; 2173.03
- Use claims 2173.05(q)
- Vague (See also Indefinite claim) 706.03; 2171 - 2173
- Varying scope 608.01(m)
- “Whereby” clauses in 2106; 2111.04
- “Wherein” clauses in 2106; 2111.04
- With motion granted in part 714.20
- Withdrawal of appealed claim by cancellation 1214.05; 1215.03
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Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent (See also Interference) 710.04(a); 2304.4(a)
- Appeal of rejection 1200
- Disclaimer rejection 706.03(u)
- Late amendment 714.19
- Not a reply to Office action 711.02(b)
- Patent in different Technology Center 2304.01(b)
- Period for reply 710.02(c); 710.04(a)
- Prosecution closed 714.19
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Rejection 2303
- TC Director’s attention 1003
- Rejection, Failure to reply to 706.03(u)
- Special 708.01
- TC Director’s attention required 1003
- Time limit for reply 710.02(c)
- Claiming same invention 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 715; 715.05
- Class, scope 903.02(b)
- Class, transfer 903.05
- Class definitions 902.02
-
Classification (See also Patent classification) 900
- Application (See Classification of application)
- Basis 903.02
- Bulletin 902.04
- Definitions 902.02; 902.02(a)
- Design 903.09(a); 1503.01
- Examiner (See Classification examiner)
- Foreign patents 903.03
- Harmonized subclasses 903.06
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Index to U.S. Patent Classification 902.01(a)
- Classification, International 903.09
- Indices 902.03
- Information 902.03(a)
- Insight on USPTO Local Area Network 902.03(c)
- International 903.09
- Issue classification form/sheet/slip 903.07; 903.07(b); 903.09; 903.09(a); 1302.09; 1302.10; 1302.13
- Locarno International 903.09(a)
- Mandatory 903.07
- Manual 902.01
- Patent classification Home Page on the Internet 902.03(a)
- Nonpatent literature 901.06
- Numerical index 902.03(c)
- Orders 902.04
- Patent, Change of 903.05
- Patent Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet 902.03(b)
- Principles 903.02
- Revision 903.02(a); 903.02(b)
- Rules governing applications 903.08(e)
- Statutory authority 903.01
- Subclass lists 902.03(c)
- Classification examiner
-
Classification of application 900
- Allowed application 903.07 - 903.07(b); 1004; 1302.10
- Amendment affecting 903.08(c)
- Borderline 903.08(a)
- By applicant 601
- Cross-referencing 903.07(a)
- Disputed 903.08(a); 903.08(d)
- File wrapper data 719.03
- Improperly classified 903.08(a)
- New application, by SPE 903.08(b)
- Post classifier 903.08(e); 903.10
- Preliminary 601
- Rules governing 903.08(e)
- Transfer to another Technology Center 903.08(a); 903.08(d)
- Classifier, Post 903.08(e); 903.10
- Clean copy of specification 608.01(q); 1302.02
- Clearance for new law interpretation 1003; 1207.02
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Closed prosecution except for formal matters 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
- Prosecution not closed 707.07(j)
- Closing of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 213.03; 510
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations))
- Coinventor, Power of attorney 402.10
- Collateral estoppel (See also Estoppel) 2012.01
- Combination and aggregation 2173.05(j); 2173.05(k)
- Combination and subcombination 806.05(a); 806.05(c); 903.02(b)
- Comments on tests or examples 707.07(l)
- Commercial activity as on sale (See also On sale) 706.02(c); 2133.03 - 2133.03(e); 2152.02(d)
- Commercial exploitation as on sale (See also On sale) 706.02(c); 2133.03(e)(1); 2152.02(d)
- Commercial success of invention, affidavit alleging (See also Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.03; 1504.03
- Commissioner for Patents (See also Office of the Commissioner for Patents) 409.03; 708.01
- Commissioner initiated reexamination (See Director initiated Reexamination)
-
Commissioner for Trademarks
- Petitions decided by 1002.02(i)
- Commodity Control List (CCL) 120
- Common applicants 715.01(a); 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 2137
- Common knowledge, use in rejections 2144.03
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Common ownership 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 717.02; 2137; 2146; 2154.01(c); 2156
- Conflicting claims 303; 706.02(f)(2); 706.03(k); 709.01; 804; 822; 2304.05
- Evidence required for establishing 706.02(l)(2); 717.02(a); 717.02(b)
- Common representative for international application 402.09; 1807
- Communication with suspended or excluded attorney or agent 105
- Communications, official mailing address for 501
- Communication via Internet e-mail 502.03
- Comparative tests (See also Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.02(b)
- Complete application 506; 601.01 - 601.01(g)
- Complete British specification 214.03
- “Comprising” as transitional phrase 2111.03
- “Comprising” in Markush claim 2173.05(h)
- Compact disc submissions 608.05; 2421.04; 2425
- Computer generated icons 1504.01(a)
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Computer programs or software
- Adequate disclosure 2164.06(c)
- Affidavit practice 2164.06(c)
- Best mode 2161.01
- Deposit of listings 608.05; 608.05(a)
- Enablement 2161.01; 2164.06(c)
- Patentable subject matter 2106
- Printed in PG-Pub 1121
- Undue experimentation 2164.06(c)
- Written description 2161.01
- Concealment 608.01(h); 2138.03
- Conception 715.07; 2138; 2138.01; 2138.04
- Concordance, International and United States classification 903.09
- Concurrent Office proceedings 2282; 2286.01; 2820
- Conduct in public information facilities 510
- Conduct of ex parte reexamination proceedings 2254
- Conduct of inter partes reexamination proceedings 2654
- Confidential citation of prior art 2202; 2203
- Confidential material 121; 724 - 724.05
- Confidential material submission 121; 724.02
- Confidential party of interest 2202; 2203
- Confidential status of application 101; 706.02(f)(2)
- Confidentiality, pending applications 100
- Confidentiality of international applications 110
- Confirmation number 503
- Conflicting applications, same assignee 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 709.01; 715.01(b); 804.03; 822
- Conflicting oaths or declarations 602.01(c)
- Congress, Inquiry on status of application by member of 203.08(a)
- “Consisting essentially of” as transitional phrase 2111.03
- “Consisting of” as transitional phrase 2111.03
- “Consisting of” in Markush claim 2173.05(h)
- Constitutional basis for patents
- Constructive election (See also Election of species) 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
- Constructive notice to patent owner of request for reexamination 2230; 2630; 2654
- Constructive reduction to practice 715.07
- Consular certificate 604.04
- Consular certificate, Foreign executor or administrator 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate, Omission of 604.04(a)
- Consular officer 602.04
- Content of ex-parte reexamination request 2214
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Continuation 201.06(c); 201.07; 601.01(a)
- Abandonment of prior nonprovisional application 201.06(c)
- Affidavits, copies of 201.06(c)
- Assignment carried from parent 306
- Change of attorney/correspondence address 201.06(c)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Cross-reference to prior application 202; 211
- Definition 201.07
- Design 1504.20
- Effective filing date 211.02
- Examination 201.06(c)
- Extension of time 201.06(c)
- File wrapper continuing (FWC) 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202
- Final rejection on first action 706.07(b)
- Incorporation by reference 201.06(c)
- Identification on letter of transmittal 506
- Inspection of parent 103
- International application 1817.02
- International application as parent 211.01(c); 1895
- Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
- Inventorship 201.06(c)
- New matter 201.07; 608.04(b)
- Oath 201.06(c); 602.05(a)
- Parent application data noted in file history/wrapper 202; 1302.04
- Reference to parent application 202; 211
- Reference to parent application inadvertently omitted 1302.04
- Reissue 1414; 1441; 1451
- Restriction 819
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
- Rule 1.60 application, Former 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62 application, Former 201.06(b)
- Small or micro entity status 201.06(c)
- Specification and drawings 201.06(c)
- Substitute statement under 37 CFR 1.64 201.06(c)
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
- Time for filing 211.03
- When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
- Written description requirement 211.05
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Continuation-in-part 201.08; 601.01(a)
- Assignment from parent does not apply 306
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Cross reference to parent application 202; 211
- Definition 201.08
- Design application 1504.20
- Effective date 211.02; 706.02; 2133.01; 2151; 2152.01
- File wrapper continuing procedure 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202
- Filed by assignee 324
- Identification on letter of transmittal 506
- Inspection of parent 103
- International application 1817.02
- International application as parent 211.01(c)
- Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
- Ownership 306
- Reference to parent application 211.02
- Rejection over published priority document 2133.01; 2154.01(b)
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
- Time for filing 211.03
- When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
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Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 201.01; 201.06; 201.06(d)
- Amendments before first Office action 714.01(e)
- Application number 503
- Assignee right to take action 324; 325
- Certificate of mailing or transmission 512
- Complete non-provisional application 601.01; 601.01(a)
- Continuation-in-part not permitted 201.08
- Continuity with parent 211.01(b)
- Correspondence 502; 502.01
- Cross reference to previous application 202
- Design application 201.06(d); 1502.01
- Eliminated for utility and plant applications 201.06(d)
- Express abandonment of prior application 711.01; 711.02(b)
- Extension of time 201.06(d)
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Fees
- Reissue application 1415
- Filing date 201.06(d)
- Improper CPA treated as RCE 201.6(d); 706.07(h)
- Information disclosure statement in parent 609.02; 707.05
- Inventorship 201.06(d)
- Patent term 1303; 2701
- Plant application, no longer available 201.06(d)
- Priority 1302.04
- Public access to 201.06(d)
- Published as PG-Pub 1120
- Reissue 1430
- Restriction requirement in prior application 819
- Signature Requirements 201.06(d)
- Small or micro entity status 201.06(d)
- Suspension of action 709
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
- Utility application, no longer available 201.06(d)
- Continuing application 210; 211; 1302.12; 1302.04
- Continuing data (See also Cross-noting) 202
- Continuity between applications 211.01(b)
- Control of inspection by assignee 104; 106
- Convention, International (See also Treaties) 213.03
- Converting nonprovisional and provisional applications 201.04; 601.01(c)
- Copendency 211.01(b)
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Copending U.S. application
- Common ownership 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(2)
- Design application 1504.20
- Different inventive entities 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(3)
- Duty of disclosure in 2001.06(b)
- Terminal disclaimer practice 1490
- Copied patent claim (See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Copier copies 714.07
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Copies of prior art with reexamination request
- Ex parte 2218
- Copies of published applications 1128
- Copy of foreign application, certified 215
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Copy of printed patent in reexamination
- Ex parte 2219
- Copying ex-parte reexamination file by public 2232
- Copying inter partes reexamination file by public 2632
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Copyrights 608.01(v)
- Relationship to design patents 1512
- Correction of drawing 608.02(p); 1302.05
- Deferrable 608.02(b); 608.02(p)
- Marked-up copy 608.02(v)
- New matter 608.04
- Not approved 608.02(x)
- Order for 608.02(x)
- Replacement sheets 1302.05; 1303.01
- Correction of inventorship
- Correction of name 602.01(c); 605.04(b); 605.04(c)
-
Correction of patent 1400
- By reexamination (See Reexamination, Ex parte and Reexamination, Inter partes )
- By reissue (See also Reissue application) 1401 - 1470
- By supplemental examination (See also Supplemental examination) 2809.01
- Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
- Statutory disclaimer (See also Disclaimer and Terminal disclaimer) 1490
- Correction of PG-Pub 1130
- Correction of reference citation 707.05(g); 710.06
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Correspondence (See also Mail stop)
- Address of PTO 501; 502
- Address in secrecy order applications 120
- Address of patent owner 2622; 2805
- Address, official mailing 501
- Address of an attorney 403; 403.01(a); 403.01(b)
- Boxes (See Mail stop)
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Crossing in mail 714.05
- Duplicate filings 402.10; 403; 502.04; 714.01(a)
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04
- Facsimile transmission 502.01; 2515
- Identifying with issue batch number (no longer required) 1303.01
- Maintenance fee 2515; 2542
- Plural attorneys 402.10; 403.02
- Post Allowance 502; 1306
- Published application 1134
- Receipt and handling 500
- Reexamination, ex parte 2224
- Reexamination, inter partes 2624
- Signature requirements 502.02
- Third party, application published 1134
- With whom held 403
- Counter-terrorism inventions, special status 708.02
- Counting actions 1705
- Countries for foreign priority 213.01
- Country codes 1851
- Coupons
- Court decision
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 711.02(b); 1002.02(k)(1); 1002.02(k)(3); 1214.06; 1216; 1216.01
- Court ordered inter partes reexamination 2686.04
- Court papers, service on Director 1216
- Cover sheet — provisional application 201.04
- CREATE Act (See Joint Research Agreement)
- Credit Card Payment Form PTO-2038 reproduced 509
- Criteria for deciding ex parte reexamination request 2242
- Criteria for deciding inter partes reexamination request 2642
- Cross appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in inter partes reexamination 2674
- Cross appeal to the Federal Circuit in inter partes reexamination 2683
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Cross-noting
- Data of parent application on file wrapper/history 202; 1302.09
- Data of provisional application in specification 1302.04
- Data of provisional application on file wrapper/history 202
- Foreign application cited in an application oath 202; 214.03
- Foreign application, file wrapper/history 202
- In original patent file of reissue application 202
- Reissue applications 1451; 1455
- Specific reference 202; 211
- Cross-reference
- Crossed mailings 714.05
- Customary meaning of claim term 2106; 2111.01
- Customer Numbers 402; 403; 711.04(c); 1807; 2515; 2540
- Customer Service Center 104; 508.04; 608.02(z); 714.13; 1730
- Customer Service Window 103; 501; 502; 505; 710.02(e); 714.13; 2422.09
TOP
D
- D-10 notice 130; 1304.01
- Damage, Proof of irreparable 409.03(g)
- Databases (See Electronic databases)
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Date
- Amendment 505; 511; 512; 710.01(a); 710.05; 714.18
- Citation of foreign patent 901.05(a); 901.05(b)
- Convention 213.01
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Filing 211.02; 502; 503; 505; 506; 506.02; 1002.02(b)
- of EFS-Web transmissions 502.05
- Filing, Refusal to accord 506.02; 2133
- Foreign application (priority) 210 - 217
- Invention 2137; 2138
- Maintenance fees due 2506
- Office action 707.11
- Office stamp 502; 505; 506; 512; 714.18
- Reference 706.02; 707.05(e); 715; 715.01; 715.01(c)
- Date no longer entered on drawing 608.02(o)
- Date of execution of oath 602.03
- Death of attorney 406
- Death of inventor (See also Administrator or executor) 409; 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
- Deceased inventor
- Deceptive intent (See also Fraud and Inequitable conduct)
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Decision
- By Patent Trial and Appeal Board 1213; 1302.14
- Citation 707.06
- Denying ex parte reexamination request 2247
- Ex-parte reexamination review petition 2240
- Governs examiner’s action
- Listed II
- Ordering ex-parte reexamination 2246
- Ordering inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Decision on the request for reexamination)
- Public availability 103
- Publication of 707.06
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Declaration (See also Oath) 602
- Amendment 602.01
- Attached to specification 605.04(a)
- Change of inventorship 602.01(c)
- Copies, filing of 602
- Copies from prior application 201.06(c)
- Date of execution 602.03
- Defective 602.03
- Delayed filing 506
- Executed before alterations made 602.08(b)
- Facsimile transmission 502.01; 602
- Foreign priority applications listed 202; 214
- International application 1820; 1893.01; 1893.01(a); 1893.01(a)(1); 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.01(a)(3); 1893.01(e); 1893.03(a); 1893.03(b); 1893.03(g); 1895; 1896
- Inventor refuses to sign or cannot be found 603
- Minor, by 409
- Non-English 602.06
- Plant patent application 1604
- Refers to preliminary amendment 601.01(a); 602
- Reissue application 706.03(x); 1414; 1414.01; 1444; 1455
- Signed before alteration 605.04(a)
- Substitute 602.02
- Declarations, conflicting 602.01(c)
- Dedication to the public 715; 1490
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Defective oath 602.03
- In reissue application 1414
- Defects, correction of, in request for ex parte reexamination 2231
- Defects, correction of in request for inter-partes reexamination 2631
- Defense, applications affecting 115; 120; 130; 140
- Defensive publication citation 711.06(a)
- Defensive publication program 711.06
- Deferral of examination 709
- Definition of class 902.02
- Delegation of Director’s authority 1001.01; 1002; 1002.02
- Demonstration at interview 713.08
- Denial of request for reexamination 2247; 2247.01; 2647; 2647.01
- Department of Energy (DOE) 115; 140; 150; 151; 706.03(b)
- Dependent claim 608.01(n)
- Dependent claim, objected to when improper 608.01(n); 706.01
- Deposit account 509.01
- Deposit Account Division 509.01
- Deposit of microorganisms (See also Biotechnology) 1605; 1823.01; 2402 - 2411.05
- Deposit of correspondence 502
- Depositions
-
Deposit rules (See also Biotechnology) 2400
- Acceptable depository 2405
- Background information 2401
- Biological material, definition 2403
- Biological material, made or isolated without undue experimentation 2404.02
- Budapest Treaty (See also Treaties) 2402
- Budapest Treaty depositories 2405
- Depositories, Current list of Budapest Treaty 2405
- Effective date 2401; 2402
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Examination procedures 2411
- After grant 2411.04
- Application in condition for allowance except for deposit 2411.03
- Certificate of correction 2411.04
- Content of application regarding deposited material 2411.05
- Need for 37 CFR 1.312 amendment 2411.03
- Reissue 2411.04
- Rejections based on deposit issue 2411.01
- Responses from applicant 2411.02
- Furnishing of samples 2410
- Known and readily available biological material 2404.01
- Material capable of self-replication 2403.01
- Need for a deposit 2402; 2404
- Plant material 2403.02
- Plant Patent Act, Relation to 2403.02
- Reference to deposit in application 2404; 2404.03
- Replacement or supplement of deposit 2407
- Seeds 2403.02
- Term of deposit 2408
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Time for making original deposit 2406
- Assurance regarding deposit before payment of issue fee 2406; 2411.03
- Corroboration 2406.02
- Description in application specification 2406.01
- During application pendency 2406
- Loss of U.S. filing date in other countries 2406.03
- New matter 2406.01
- Patent Cooperation Treaty applications 1823.01; 2406
- Post-issuance deposits 2406
- Viability of deposit 2409
- Viability statement 2409
- 35 U.S.C. 112 requirements 2402; 2403; 2404
- Deputy Director of Patents and Trademarks 1002.02(o); 1202
- Derogatory remark regarding prior art 608.01(r)
- Description
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Design application 1500
- Analogous art 1504.02; 1504.03
- Anticipation 1504.02
- Application, elements of 1503
- Articles, design comprising multiple 1504.01(b)
- “Average observer” test 1504.02
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Treaties) 213.01; 1504.10
- Characteristic feature 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
- Claim 1503; 1503.01
- Combining references 1504.03
- Commercial success 1504.03
- Computer generated icons 1504.01(a)
- Continuation application 1504.20
- Continuation-in-part (CIP) application 1504.20
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 1502.01
- Convention, International 213.01; 1504.10
- Copending applications 1504.06; 1504.20
- Copying, evidence of, to rebut obviousness 1504.03
- Copyright, Relationship to 1512
- Definition 1502
- Description 1503; 1503.01
- Disclaimer 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Disclosure 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Divisional application 201.06; 1504.20
- Double patenting 804; 1504.06
- Drawing 1503; 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- EFS-Web 502.05
- Embodiments, alternate or multiple 1503.01; 1504.01(b); 1504.05
- Enablement 1503.02; 1504.04
- European Community Design treaty 1504.10
- Examination 1504; 1504.01; 1504.02; 1504.03; 1504.04
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Expedited Examination 501; 1002.02(c)(3); 1504.30
- Reissue 1457
- Expert testimony 1504.03
- Feature emphasized 1503.01
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Fee, filing 607
- Reissue 1457
- Fee, issue 1306
- Font, type 1504.01(a)
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Foreign priority 211 - 213; 215; 1504.02; 1504.10
- More than six months before U.S. filing 1504.02
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Functionality 1504.01(c)
- Obviousness and 1504.03
- Hague Agreement (See also Treaties) 213.01; 1504.10
- Icon, computer generated 1504.01(a)
- Indefiniteness 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Library collections relating to 901.06(a)
- Modification, description 1503.01
- Multiple embodiments 1504.05
- Multiple parts of article 1504.01(b)
- New matter 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.01(a); 1504.04
- Object, Design for 1502
- Obviousness 1504.03
- Obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) 1504.06
- Offensive subject matter 1504.01(e)
- Ornamentality lacking 1504.01(c)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty 1501; 1502.01
- Patentability 1504.01; 1504.01(a) - 1504.01(e); 1504.02; 1504.03; 1504.04
- Petition, Special Status 708.02; 1504.30
- Petition to accept color drawings or photographs 608.02; 1503.02
- Photographs 1503.02; 1504.04
- Preamble 1503.01
- Priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 210; 215; 1504.02; 1504.10
- Priority under 35 U.S.C. 120 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 1504.20
- References supplied 707.05(a); 1513
- Quayle action 1504
- Registration abroad 1504.02; 1504.10
- Reissue 1457; 1509
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1502.01
- Request for Expedited Examination 1504.30
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Restriction 1504.05
- Reissue 1457
- Rules applicable 1501
- Scope of claim 1503.01; 1504.04; 1504.05; 1504.06
- Search 1504; 1504.02; 1504.03
- Secondary considerations 1504.03
- Simulation 1504.01(d)
- Specification 1503.01
- Statutory subject matter 1502; 1504.01
- Surface ornamentation 1502; 1502.01; 1503.02; 1504.01; 1504.01(a); 1504.01(c); 1504.03
- Surface treatment or indicia 1503.02
- Term of 1457; 1502.01; 1505
- Title 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
- Trademark, relationship to 1512
- Type fonts 1504.01(a)
- Utility patent, relationship to 1502.01
- Visual characteristics 1502
- Written description lacking 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.01(a); 1504.04
- Design patent series (See also Patent) 901.04
- Designated office 1801; 1893.01(a)
- Designation fee - PCT 1817.01(a)
- Designation of states 1817.01; 1817.01(a)
- Detailed description (See Specification)
- Determination of public use or on sale 706.02(c); 2133.03; 2152.02(c); 2152.02(d)
- Determining if a Reexamination Was Filed for a Patent 2632.01
- Determining whether an application is subject to first to invent provisions of AIA 2159
- Digest (See Cross-reference: Art collection)
- Dictionary as a source for the ordinary and customary meaning of a claim term 2111.01; 2173.05(a)
- Diligence
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Director of Technology Center 714.13; 714.14; 714.16; 714.25; 715.08; 804.04; 1002.02; 1002.02(c); 1207.01; 1207.02; 1207.03; 1207.05; 1208; 1214.04; 1308; 1308.01; 1901.06; 2236; 2242;2246; 2249; 2258.01; 2263; 2265; 2267; 2274; 2283 - 2286; 2648; 2667; 2682; 2686.01
- Functions 1002.02(c); 1003
- TC 1600 1002.02(c)(2)
- TC 2900 1002.02(c)(3)
- TC 3640 710; 1002.02(c)(1)
- Director of the USPTO
- Director initiated reexamination 2212; 2239
- Disbarred attorney (See Attorney or agent: Suspended or excluded)
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Disciplinary proceedings 402; 410
- Mailing address 501
- Disclaimer (See also Terminal disclaimer)
-
Disclosure (See also Duty of disclosure and Specification)
- Abstract 608.01(b)
- Amendment 608.04; 1302.02
- Amendment, Preliminary 608.04(b)
- Best Mode (See also Best Mode) 608.01(h); 2165
- Chemical compound 608.01(p)
- Claimed 901.03
- Common, parent and continuing applications 211.05
- Completeness 608.01(p); 2164
- Computer programming cases 2164.06(c); 2161.01
- Correspondence with claims 2163.05; 2173.03
- Design application 1503; 1503.01
- Detailed description 608.01(g)
- Duty of 2000
- Enablement (See also Enablement) 2164
- Foreign application 211.05
- Implicit 2144.01
- Incomplete 608.01(p); 706.03(d); 2161 - 2165
- Incomprehensible 702.01
- Incorporation by reference (See also Incorporation by reference) 217; 608.01(p)
- Insufficient 608.01(p); 702.01; 706.03(d)
- Later filed application 608.01(p)
- Operability 716.07; 2164.08(b)
- Original claim 608.01(l); 2163.01
- Preliminary amendment 608.04(b)
- Requirements for 2161
- Reservation clause 608.01(e)
- Restricted to claimed subject matter 1302.01
- Secrecy order, Material subject to 120
- Specification (See also Specification) 608.01
- Sufficiency for continuity 211.05
- Sufficiency of 716; 716.09
- Support for claims 2163.01
- Trade name 608.01(v)
- Trademark 608.01(v)
- Utility 608.01(p); 706.03(a)
- Written (See also Written description) 2163
- Discourtesy 714.19; 714.25
- Dismissal of appeal 1215.04
- Disposals counted 1705
- Distinct, definition 802.01
- Distinct inventions 802; 802.01; 803; 806.05
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Divisional application 201.06; 601.01(a)
- Abandonment of prior nonprovisional application 201.06(c)
- Assignment carried from parent application 306
- Change of attorney/correspondence address 201.06(c)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Design application 201.06; 1504.20
- Drawing, Transfer of 608.02(i)
- Effective date 211
- Examination 201.06(c)
- Extensions of time 201.06(c)
- Filed by assignee 324; 325
- File wrapper continuation (FWC) 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202; 1302.04
- Incorporation by reference 201.06(c)
- Inspection of parent application 103
- Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
- Inventorship 201.06(c)
- New matter 201.06
- Oath 201.06(c); 602.05
- Patented, Opens parent application to inspection 103
- Reference to parent application 211.02; 1302.04
- Reissue 1414; 1440; 1450; 1451
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
- Rule 1.60, Former 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
- Signature 201.06(d)
- Small or micro entity status 201.06(c)
- Specification and drawings 201.06(c)
- Substitute statement under 37 CFR 1.64 201.06(c)
- Time for filing 211.03
- Written description requirement 211.05
- DNA (See also Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences) 2400
- Docket report 1704
- Doctrine of collateral estoppel (See Estoppel)
- Doctrine of dedication to the public 715
- Doctrine of equivalents 2138.05; 2173.05(b); 2186
- Doctrine of segregable parts 1504.05
- Doctrine of unclean hands 2010
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Document, Disclosure 1706
- Electronic (See also Electronic publications) 707.05(e)
- DoD Directive 5230.25 120
- DoD Security Agreement 120
- Domestic representative 302.04
- Double correspondence 403
- Double inclusion in claim 2173.05(o)
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Double patenting 800
- Avoiding rejection 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(3); 804.02
- Basis 804
- Between one or more applications and a published application that has not been abandoned 804
- Claimed subject matter 806.01
- Commonly owned cases, treatment 717.02(c); 804.03
- Copending applications 706.02(k); 804
- Definition 804
- Design applications/patents 804; 1504.06
- Different inventive entities 706.02(k); 804.03
- Distinct and independent inventions 804.01
- Domination 804
- International applications 804
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Obviousness type (ODP) 804
- Design application 1504.06
- Plant applications 1601
- Reexamination 804; 2217; 2258
- Rejection 804
- Rejection nullification 804.01
- Restriction previously required 804.04; 1003
- Same assignee 706.02(k); 804.03; 822
- Same inventor 806.04(h); 806.04(i); 806.05; 822; 822.01
- Species and genus 806.04(h); 806.04(i)
- Subject matter not patentably distinct 804
- Subject to joint research agreement 804; 804.02; 804.03
- Submissions to TC director 804.04
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Terminal disclaimer effect 706.02(k); 804; 804.02; 1451; 1490
- In a reissue application 1451
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Drawings 507; 608.02
- Amendment 608.02(p); 714; 1302.04
- Amendment, Disposition of orders for 608.02(x)
- Amendment support by original claim 608.04(a)
- Annotated sheets 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
- Brief description 608.01(f)
- Canceled figure 608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet 608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet, patent 608.02(i)
- Canceled sheet, transfer 608.02(i)
- Color 608.01(f); 608.02; 1503.02
- Colored plant 1606
- Complete illustration 608.02(d)
- Completeness 608.02(e)
- Computer lists 608.05
- Consistency 608.02(e)
- Content of 608.02(d)
- Correction (See also Correction of drawing) 608.02(p); 1302.05
- Design application 1503; 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Disclosure 608
- Divisional application 608.02; 608.02(i)
- EFS-Web 502.05
- Examiner determines completeness 608.02(e)
- Illustrates claim 608.02(e)
- Informal 507; 608.02; 608.02(b)
- International application 1825
- Kept in application 608.02(c)
- Lost 1302.05(a)
- Location 608.02(c)
- Modification illustrated 608.02(f)
- Marked-up copy 608.02(b); 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
- Necessary for filing date 506; 608.02
- New drawings required 608.02(a)
- New, handling 608.02(a)
- New matter 608.04; 706.03(o)
- New, when required 608.02(a)
- Not received 608.02(h); 1825
- Not required 608.02
- Not returned 608.02(y)
- Objection 608.02; 608.02(a); 608.02(b); 608.02(d) - 608.02(f); 706.03(o); 1503.02; 1504.04
- Official Gazette figure 1302.09
- Omitted drawings 601.01(g)
- Patented file 905.03
- Petition to transfer from another application 608.02(i)
- Photographs 502.05; 608.01(f); 608.02; 1503.02
- Plant application 1603; 1606
- Prior art 608.02(g); 2125
- Provisional application 601
- Reference characters 608.02; 608.02(e)
- Reference characters, change 608.02(w)
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Reissue application 1411; 1413
- No longer transferred from original patent 1413
- Replacement drawings for publication in PG-Pub 1121
- Replacement 608.02(h); 1302.05
- Reversed figure numbers 1302.04
- Review by Office of Initial Patent Examination (OIPE) (Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP)) 507
- Required by examiner 608.02
- Requirements 608.02
- Return 608.02(y)
- Section lines 608.01; 608.02(w)
- Security markings 121
- Substitute 502; 608.02; 608.02(h)
- Sufficiency, determined by examiner 608.02(e)
- Symbols 608.02
- Trademarks 1512
- Unacceptable 608.02; 608.02(b)
- Drawing correction 507; 608.02(p)
- Dual correspondence 402.10; 403
- Due Care Showing 2734
- Duplicate claims 706.03(k)
- Duplicate foreign patents 903.03
- Duplicate papers for plant applications 1603; 1605; 1606; 1609
- Duty of candor and good faith 2001; 2001.03; 2733; 2762
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Duty of disclosure 2000
- After patent grant 2003.01
- Aids to compliance 2004
- Checklist 2004
- Compared to requirement for information 704.12(a); 2005
- Compliance with 2004
- Continuing applications 2001.04; 2004
- Copending applications 2001.06(b); 2004
- Copied claims 2001.06(d)
- Duration of 2001.04; 2003.01
- Foreign applications 2001.06(a)
- Information material to patentability 2001.04; 2001.05
- Litigation information 2001.06(c)
- Questionnaire 2004
- Reexamination
- Reissue application 1406; 1418; 1448; 2001.06(c); 2003
- Sources of information 2001.06
- To whom owed 2001.03
- Violation of 2010
- Who has 2001.01
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- Easily erasable paper 608.01; 714.07
- Effective date of reference patent 706.02; 706.02(a); 707.05(e); 715; 901.05(b)
- Effective filing date
- Eighteen-month publication (See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
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Election (See also Restriction and Election of species) 800
- Action on nonelected claims 819
- After multiplicity rejection 2173.05(n)
- After restriction 818
- Applicant must make 818.03
- Between applications, Conflicting claims 804; 822; 822.01
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Constructive 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
- In reissue application 1450
- Fixed by action on merits 818.01; 818.02(a)
- Implied 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
- Interference 819
- Optional cancellation 818.02(c)
- Original presentation 818.02(a)
- Shift 819
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Treatment of nonelected claims 706.03(m); 821 - 821.03
- In reissue application 1450
- With traverse 818; 818.03; 818.03(b); 818.03(c); 821.01
- Without traverse 821.02
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Election of species
- Allowable generic claim lacking 809.02(a)
- Basis 806.04; 808.01(a)
- Canceling species claims 818.02(c); 821.01; 821.02
- Design application 1504.05
- Implied 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
- Reissue application 1450
- Requirement 806.01; 809.02(a)
- Requirement, prior to search 808.01(a)
- Species claims lacking 806.01; 818.02(b)
- Electronic access to published applications 1128
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Electronic databases (See also PALM and PAIR) 707.05(e); 719.05; 901.06(a); 902.03(e); 1730
- Cassis DVD-ROM 902.03(d)
- Chemical abstracts services 905.06
- Derwent’s World Patents Index (WPI) 905.06
- Dialog 719.05; 905.06
- e-Official Gazette – Patents (eOG:P) 1703
- EAST 719.05; 902.03(e)
- INPADOC 905.06
- Lexis-Nexis 719.05
- Official Gazette Notices 1703
- Patent Grants Database 1703; 1730
- Questel-Orbit 719.05; 905.06
- TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) 1703; 1730
- WEST 719.05; 902.03(e)
- Electronic Business Center (EBC) 1730
- Electronic document 707.05(e)
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Electronic filing system-Web (EFS-Web) 502.05; 503
- Actions permitted by registered users 502.05
- Actions permitted by unregistered users 502.05
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Alternatives to using EFS-Web 502.05
- During unscheduled outages (EFS-Web Contingency Option) 502.05
- Certificate of Transmission 512
- Document description codes 502.05
- Document formats 502.05
- Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt 502.05
- Ex parte reexamination request and follow-on papers 502.05; 2224
- Inter partesreexamination request and follow-on papers 502.05; 2624
- Petition to accept unintentionally delayed payment of maintenance fee 502.05; 2590
- Pre-grant (eighteen month) publication submissions via 502.05; 1121; 1129; 1130; 1132; 1133
- Reissue application and follow-on papers 502.05; 1410
- Electronic funds transfer to replenish deposit account 509.01
- Electronic Information Disclosure Statement (e-IDS) 609.07
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04; 713.05
- Electronic patent assignment system (EPAS) 302.10; 502.05
- Electronic Processing of Information Disclosure Statement 609.08
- Electronic publications
- Employee number 711.04(b); 905.03
- Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, property interest in patent 309
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Enablement 706.03(c); 2164
- Burden on the examiner 2164.04
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Commensurate in scope with claims 2164.08
- Critical feature not claimed 2164.08(c)
- Inoperative subject matter 2164.08(b)
- Single means claim 2164.08(a)
- Compared to utility 2164.07
- Design patent application 1503.02; 1504.04
- Duty or disclosure of information relevant to 2001.04
- Evidence of 2164.05
- Examples of enablement issues 2164.06
- Form paragraphs used to reject 706.03(c)
- Reduction to practice 2164.02
- Relationship of predictability 2164.03
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Specification must be enabling
- As of the filing date 2164.05(a)
- To persons of ordinary skill 2164.05(b)
- Test of enablement 2164.01
- 35 U.S.C. 112(f) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph limitations 2181; 2185
- Energy, Department of 115; 706.03(b)
- English language faulty, new specification 608.01(q)
- English language required 302.02; 608.01
- Enrollment and Discipline, Office of (See Office of Enrollment and Discipline)
- Entity, micro, claiming status as (See Micro entity status)
- Entity, small, claiming status as (See Small entity status)
- Entry of amendment (See also Amendment) 714.18
- Environmental Quality Program 708.02
- Equity (civil action)
- Equivalents in art 904.01(b); 2144.06
- Erasable (specially coated) paper 608.01
- Erasure in specification, before allowance 1302.01
- Erasure in specification, before execution 608.01
- Errors (See also Correction of patent)
- Essential material 608.01(p)
- Establishing right of assignee to take action in application 324; 325
- Establishing subclasses 903.02(c)
- Estoppel
- European Community Design treaty (See Treaties)
- European Patent Convention (See Treaties)
- European Patent Office (EPO) 120; 609; 901.05; 905.06; 1801; 1823.02; 1827.01; 1840; 1840.01; 1843.02; 1850; 1851; 1857; 1860; 1865; 1865.01; 1893.03(g); 2422.04
- Evidence, of public use or on sale 2133.03 - 2133.03(b); 2152.02(c); 2152.02(d)
- Evidence submitted with protest 1901.02
- Examination guidelines for AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 2150
- Examination guidelines for applying reference under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(e) 706.02(f)(1)
- Examination of application 700
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Examiner
- Action 707
- Action counted 1705
- Affidavit 2144.03
- Assignment of application for examination 903.08(b)
- Assignment of ex-parte reexamination 2236
- Assignment of inter partes reexamination 2636
- Assistant 707.01; 707.02
- Citing prior art in an issued patent inappropriate 2203
- Classification (See also Classification examiner) 903
- Consultation with Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA) 2671; 2676; 2679; 2686.01
- Disposals 1705
- Duty of candor and good faith to 2001.03
- Employee number 711.04(b); 905.03; 905.05
- Expressing opinion of validity 1701
- Name 502; 707.09; 1302.13
- New action indicated by primary 707.01
- Previous action by another examiner
- Primary
- Pursuit of bounties prohibited 1701
- Reasons for allowance 1302.14
- Resigns, old cases special 708.03
- Suggestion of allowable claims 707.07(j)
- Supervisory (See Supervisory patent examiner)
- Telephoning attorney 408; 1302.14
- Testimony as patent expert 1701.01
- Time and Activity Report 1704; 1705
- Time reporting for ex parte reexamination 2238
- Time reporting for inter partes reexamination 2638
- Treatment of protest 1901.06
- Examiner docket, time, and activity recording 1704; 1705
- Examiner Reissue Guide and Checklist 1443
- Examiner’s action (See also Action and Letter, Examiner’s) 707
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Examiner’s amendment 1302.04
- Abstract changed by 608.01(b); 1302.01; 1302.04
- By initialing 1302.04
- Claim, antecedent basis in description 608.01(o)
- Claim lost in interference 2308
- Claim, nonstatutory, canceled 1302.04(b)
- Claim, numbers identifying 1302.01; 1302.04(g)
- Claims, nonelected invention, canceled 821.01; 821.02
- Defensive publication 711.06
- Deposit account charge 1302.04
- Drawing correction 608.02(w); 1302.04
- Extension of time required for 706.07(f)
- Formal matters 1302.01; 1302.04
- IFW applications 1302.04
- Informalities corrected 1302.04
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714; 1302.04
- No new matter 608.01(o)
- Plant patent application practice 1610
- Reexamination
- Reference citation corrected 707.05(g)
- Title of application 606.01
- Examiner’s Answer
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Examiner’s letter (See also Action) 707
- Abandonment 711.02
- Advisory action 706.07(f); 714.13
- Amendment after final rejection 714.13
- Arguments answered 707.07(f)
- Cancellation of nonelected claim 821.01; 821.02
- Claim allowable except as to form 707.07(a); 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.15
- Claim summary 707.07(i)
- Complete and clear 707.07
- Copies of references 707.05(a)
- Copy to applicant 707.12
- Correction, period for reply 707.05(g); 710.06
- Correction of citation 707.05(g)
- Date stamped 707.11
- Decisions, cited 707.06
- Election of species required, concluding paragraph 809.02(a)
- Examiner signature at end of letter 707.09
- Examiner’s amendments 706.07(f); 1302.04
- File wrapper entry 707.10; 719.01
- Final rejection, clearly stated 706.07
- Final rejection, concluding statement 706.07
- Final rejection, patentability report 705.01(a)
- Formal matters 707.07(a); 707.07(e); 707.07(j); 714.02
- Informal application 702.01
- Initialed by examiner 707.08
- Language in rejecting 707.07(d)
- Mailing 707.12
- Memorandum cited 707.06
- New drawing required 608.02(b)
- New examiner, primary examiner indicates 707.01
- Notices cited 707.06
- Numbering of paragraphs 707.07(k)
- Omnibus rejection 706.03(e)
- Orders cited 707.06
- Outstanding requirements 707.07(e)
- Personal matter excluded 707.07(d)
- Piecemeal prosecution 707.07(g)
- Power of attorney invalid or lacking 402
- Preliminary amendment in new case 709; 714.01(e)
- Primary examiner’s attention required, list 1004
- References, citation 707.05 - 707.05(g); 901.04; 901.05(a)
- Refusing entry of amendment after Board decision 1214.07
- Rejection of claim corresponding to claim of patent 2302
- Remailing 707.13; 710.06
- Requirement for information 704.10; 706.02(c)
- Restriction requirement 803; 817
- Returned 707.13
- Reviewed by examiner 707.08
- Shortened time for reply 710.02
- Signature 707.09; 707.10; 1302.13
- Statement of rejection 707.07(d)
- Status letter reply 203.08
- Statutory basis 707.07(d)
- Summary 707.07(i)
- Supplemental 710.06
- Undelivered 707.13
- Examiner’s search facilities, use regulations 510
- Example, Comments on 707.07(l)
- Example, Operative 608.01(p); 2164.02
- Example, Prophetic, simulated or predicted 608.01(p)
- Excess number of claims for fee, after notice of allowance 714.16(c)
- Excess number of claims over number of claims previously paid for 714.01(e); 714.10
- Excluded attorney or agent 105; 407; 713.05; 714.19
- Execution of oath 602.08(b)
- Executive Order
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Executor or administrator 409.01(b)
- Allowance and issue 409.01(b)
- Application by, after discharge 409.01(b)
- Assigned application, inventor dies 409.01(b)
- Authority 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate 409.01(b); 410
- Foreign country 409.01(b)
- Heir 409.01; 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
- Intervention not required 409.01(b)
- Joint inventors, inventor dies 409.01(b)
- Exhibit 608.03
- Exhibit, Affidavit under 37 CFR 1.131 715.07; 715.07(d)
- Exhibit at interview 713.08
- Exhibit, handling 608.03(a)
- Ex parte questions 713.06
- Expedited Right of Appeal Notice 2671; 2673.02
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Experimental use (See also Public use) 2133.03; 2133.03(e); 2152.02(c); 2152.02(d)
- Commercial exploitation 2133.03(e)(1); 2152.02(c); 2152.02(d)
- Completeness of the invention 2133.03(e)(3)
- Factors indicative of 2133.03(e)(4); 2133.03(e)(5)
- Intent to experiment 2133.03(e)(2)
- Reduction to practice 2133.03(e)(3)
- Testing by third party 2133.03(e)(5); 2133.03(e)(7)
- Testing, developmental 2133.03(e)(6)
- When experimental use ends 2133.03(e)(3)
- Expert testimony 1504.03
- Expiration date of patent (See also Term, Patent)
- Export control of patent applications 120
- Exposure of papers during interviews 101; 713.07
- Expounding patent law 713.02
- Express abandonment 711; 711.01
- Express Mail service (See Priority Express Mail service)
- Expunge information in application file 724.05; 724.06; 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c)
- Extension of shortened reply period 710.02(e)
- Extension of time 706.07(f); 710.02(e); 1002.02(c)
- Extension, patent term (See Term, Patent)
- Extraordinary situations
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Facsimile transmission
- Assignment documents 302.09; 502.01
- Central Number 502; 502.01
- Correspondence 502.01
- Declaration or oath 502.01
- PCT international application 1805; 1834.01; 1865; 1893.01(a)(1)
- Maintenance fees 2510
- Permitted types of correspondence 502.01
- Prohibited types of correspondence 502.01
- Reexamination
- Secrecy order application, not permitted 120; 502.01
- Federal Circuit (See Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC))
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Federal holiday
- Abandonment date 711.03(c)
- Appeal brief 1205.01; 2274
- Civil action 1216
- Continuity between applications 211.01(b)
- Effect on Priority Express Mail Service 513
- Effect on reference 706.02(a)
- Filing date 502; 502.01; 502.05; 505; 512; 513
- Foreign application copendency 213
- Foreign patent 2135; 2135.01
- Maintenance fees 2504; 2506
- Papers not received 502
- Period for reply ending on 505; 710.05
- Prior art effective date 706.02(a)
- Provisional application copendency 201.04
- PTO business hours 510
- Reply period 710.05
- Statutory bar 2133; 2152.02 ; 2153.01 - 2153.02
- Statutory period 710.01(a)
- Unscheduled closings 213.03
- Federal license rights 310
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
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Fee (See also Refunds)
- Address 2540
- Appeal 1204
- Appeal forwarding fee 1208.01
- Assignment recording 302.06
- Credit card payment of 509; 706.07(f)
- Current amounts available on USPTO Web site 509; 1730
- Document size 2810.01
- Examiner’s amendment 706.07(f)
- Extensions of time 706.07(f)
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Filing 509; 607
- Claims in excess of 607
- Dependent claims 608.01(n)
- Deposit account 509.01
- Inadequate 509
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International application 1810; 1827
- Basic national fee for national stage entry 502.01; 502.05; 509.03; 512; 1805; 1828.01; 1834.01; 1893.01(a); 1893.01(a)(1); 1893.01(c); 1893.02
- Micro entity status 509.04
- Non-electronic 607
- Nonprovisional application 601.01(a)
- Provisional application 601.01(b)
- Reduction for micro entities 509.04
- Reduction for small entities 509.02
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Reexamination