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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
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)
- Matter reproduced in substitute 201.09
- Ordering 711.04(b); 905.03
- Papers received, handling 508.02
- Provisional application 201.04(b); 201.11
- Reference use 901.02; 2127
- Referred to in issued patent 103
- Retention fee 601.01(a)
- 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 608.02(c); 707.13; 711.01; 711.04(a); 711.04(b); 905.03
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 201.11
- Express 711; 711.01
  - Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
  - Issue fee not paid 711.03(c)
  - Issue fee paid 711.01; 711.05
- 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(b); 201.11
- Pulling 711.04(a)
- Reconsideration 711.03; 711.03(c)
  - Failure to respond 711.03(b)
  - Insufficiency of response 711.03(a)
- 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 201.11; 711.02(c)
- Unavoidable (See also Petition) 711.03(c); 711.04(c)
- Undelivered action 707.13
- Unintentional (See also Petition) 711.03(c); 711.04(c); 1124
- Withdrawal of holding 711.03(c); 711.04(c)
Abbreviation, periodical citation 707.05(e)
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
Access (See also Inspection and Power of attorney)
- Attorney not of record 402; 405
- 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
- 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 1128; 1130
- Reissue application 724.04(b)
- Suspended attorney or agent 105
Accounts, Deposit (See Deposit account)
Acknowledgment of protest 1901.05
Act (See Statutes)
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
- Examiner’s 707
- File wrapper endorsement 707.10; 719.01
- File wrapper entry 707.10
- Final rejection 706.07 - 706.07(f); 713.09
  - In reissue applications 1443
- Foreign priority determination 201.13 - 201.16
- 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 file wrapper 707.10; 707.12
- Patentability report 705; 705.01(c)
- Piecemeal examination 707.07(a); 707.07(g)
- Primary examiner’s personal attention 707.01; 1004
- Priority determination, foreign 201.13 - 201.16
- Reissue application file 1430
- Reply time computation 710.01(a); 710.05
- Restriction requirement 800
- Returned 707.13
- Review
- 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)
Address, Change of correspondence 601.03; 711.03(c)
- After Allowance 2501
Address, Correspondence (See also Mail Stop) 403; 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
Address of unavailable inventor 409.03(e)
Administration, Letters of 409.01(b); 409.01(c); 409.01(e)
Administration of oath 604
Administrative instructions, PCT AI
Administrative Patent Judges (See Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI))
Administrator or executor 409.01
- Allowance and issue 409.01(f)
- Application by, After discharge 409.01(c)
- Assigned application, Inventor dies 409.01(e)
- Authority 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate 409.01(d)
- Foreign country 409.01(d)
- Heir 409.01; 409.01(a); 409.01(d)
  - Prosecution by 409.01(a)
- Intervention not required 409.01(f)
- Refuses to sign 409.03(c)
- Specification form 605.05
Admissions by applicant 706.02(c); 2129; 2133.03(c)
- Jepson claim 2129
Admissions in reexamination
- Ex Parte 2217; 2258
- Inter partes 2617
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 718
Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131) 706.02(l)(3); 715; 2133.01; 2133.02; 2133.03(c)
- Acts relied upon, NAFTA/WTO/U.S. 706.02(c); 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; 2133.03(c)
- 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
  - Facts and documentary evidence 715.07
  - Timely presented 715.09
- 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
  - Common assignee 715.01(b); 718
  - Joint patent or published application to applicant and another 715.01(a)
  - Patent or application publication claiming same invention 715.05; 2138.01
  - Publication of applicant’s own invention 715.01(c)
- Sufficiency of 715.08
- When used 706.02(b); 706.02(l)(3); 715; 2132.01
- Who may make affidavit 706.02(b); 706.02(l)(3); 715.04
- Withdrawn rejection 715
Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132) 716
- Attorney arguments 716.01(c)
  - Inoperability of references 716.07; 2145
  - Reference attributed to applicant 716.10
- Attribution, of reference to applicant 716.10
- Commercial success, evidence 716.03
  - Commensurate in scope with claimed invention 716.03(a)
  - Derived from claimed invention 716.03(b)
  - Design applications 716.03(b); 1504.03
  - Sales figures 716.03(b)
- 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
  - Consideration of 716.01
    - Publications 716.02(g)
  - Objective 716.01(a)
    - Compared to opinion evidence 716.01(c)
    - Probative value 716.01(c)
    - Weighing against prima facie case 716.01(d); 716.05
  - Secondary 716.01(b)
  - Timeliness 716.01
- 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)
  - Advantages not disclosed or inherent 716.02(f)
  - Burden on applicant 716.02(b)
  - Commensurate in scope with claimed invention 716.02(d)
  - Genus or species 716.02(d)
  - Range, claimed 716.02(d)
  - Weighing evidence of 716.02(c)
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)
- In transitional application 706.07(g)
- In ex parte reexamination 2272
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
AIDS/HIV, petition to make special 708.02
Algorithms 706.03(a); 2106; 2106.02; 2164.06(c)
Alien Property Custodian (A.P.C.) publications (See also Citation of prior art) 901.06(c)
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
- Assigned application 307
- 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
  - File wrapper/history notations 202.02; 1302.09
  - Parent application data 1302.04
- Correction of error after allowance 714.16
- Cross-reference 903.07(a)
- D-10 notice 130
- Deceased inventor, notice of allowance 1303.03
- Drawing, drafting stamp no longer required 608.02(o)
- Drawing correction 608.02(z); 1302.04; 1303.01
- Drawing in patented file 608.02(i); 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(f)
- Issue classification notations 1302.10
- Issue in another TC without transfer 903.07(b)
- 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); 705.01(d)
- 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)
- Related applications, file wrapper/history notations 202.02; 1302.09
- 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)
- Definition 203.04
- Express abandonment of 711.01
- File wrapper data 1302.09
- Ordering 1306.03
- Rejection 1308.01
- Suggesting claim for interference 1003
Allowed claim, rejection 706.04
- By Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1213.02
Alpha subclass 903.07
Alteration of application 506
- After execution prohibited 605.04(a); 608.01
- Before execution of oath or declaration 601.01(a); 602; 714.21
Alternative phrase in claim (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.05(h)
Amended application 203.03
Amended application, inspection for transfer 903.08(c)
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
- 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
  - Examiner determines compliance with 1.121; 714.18
  - Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714
- After final rejection, entered in part 714.20
- Applicants must sign 714.01(a)
- At allowance 714.15
- Attorney not of record 405; 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
  - Added in excess of number of claims previously paid for 607; 714.10; 714.16(c)
  - Clean version 714; 714.13; 714.16
  - Marked-up version 714
  - Status Identifiers 714
- 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 stamp
  - Office date 505; 710.01(a); 714.18
  - TC receipt date 714.18
- Declaration 602.01
- Defective, directions for entry 714.20
- Delivered to wrong Technology Center 508.01
- 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
- Drawing 608.02(p); 608.02(q); 1302.05; 1303.01
  - In reissue application 1413
- Drawing, disposition 608.02(x)
- Drawing, new matter 608.04; 714.19
- Duplicate 719.01(a)
- Easily erasable paper forbidden 714.07; 714.19
- Entered in part 714.20
- Entered in part, after allowance, 37 CFR 1.312 714.16(e)
- Entry 714.18; 719.01(a)
- 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)
- 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 714.18; 719.01
- Filed with application 601.01(a)
- Formal matters, compliance with 714.02
- Fully responsive 714.02
- Heading 502
- Immediate inspection 714.05
- 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
  - Time for completing 710.02(c); 714.03; 2266.01; 2666.30
- 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 605.04(c); 719.02(b)
- 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 602.01
- 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; 714.19
- Petition non-entry 1002.02(c)
- Plant application 1610
- Post Office address, Applicant 605.03
- 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 601.01(a); 602
  - To lessen filing fee 607
- 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 719.02(b)
- Responsive 714.02; 714.04
- Return, after entry on file wrapper 719.01
- Ribbon copy 719.01(a)
- 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 405; 714.01(c)
- Statement of allowability by Board 1213.01
- Supervisory primary examiner 714.13; 714.16; 714.18
- Supplemental 714.03(a)
- Support by original claim 608.01(l)
- Telephone number 713.01; 714.01
- Unduly interferes with preparation of Office action 714.03(a)
- Unmatched with application file 508.03
- Unsigned 714.01(a)
  - Ratification of 710.02(c); 714.01(a)
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; 1302.01; 2173.05(e)
Anticipation rejection 706.02(a); 707.07(d); 1504.02; 2131; 2132; 2133; 2136
- Affidavit to overcome 2132.01
- Analogous art 1504.02; 2131.05
- Definition of 2131
- Genus-species 2131.02
- Generic chemical formula 2131.02
- Meaning of
  - "By others" 2132
  - "In this country" 2132
  - "Known or used" 2132; 2133.03(a)
  - "Patented in this or a foreign country" 2132
- Multiple references, when permitted 2131.01
- One year grace period 2133
- On sale (See On sale)
- Ranges claimed 2131.03
- Rejections based on publications and patents 2133.02
- Prima facie case 2132.01
- 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); 602; 602.04; 602.04(a); 604; 604.04(a)
Apparatus, Process or product and 806.05(e) - 806.05(g)
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
  - In ex parte reexamination 2274
  - In inter partes reexamination 2675; 2675.01
  - In reissue 1454
- 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 1205; 1205.02
- Composition of the Board 1202
- Concurrently with interference 1210
- Concurrently with prosecution before examiner 1210
- Conference 1207.01; 1302.14
  - In inter partes reexamination 2676; 2677
- Correspondence address for litigation 501; 1216.01
- Court 1216
- Court, Federal Circuit 1216.01
  - Of an inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
- Decision by Board 1213
  - Of an inter partes reexamination 2681; 2682
- 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
- From Board decision 1216 - 1216.02
- Inter partesReexamination 2674 - 2680
  - Flowcharts 2601.01
- Introduction 1201
- Jurisdiction 1205.03; 1210
- Matter subject to ; 706.01
- Multiplicity rejection 2173.05(n)
- New ground of rejection by Board 1214.01
- New ground of rejection by examiner in examiner’s answer 1207.02; 1207.03; 1208
- New matter affecting claim 608.04(c)
- Notice of 1204
- Oral hearing 1209
  - Reexamination, ex parte 2276
  - Reexamination, inter partes 2680
- Order for compliance 1210
- Patentability report case 705.01(a)
- 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
- 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
- SIR application 1105
- Statement of allowability by Board 1213.01
- Supplemental appeal brief 1207.02
- Supplemental examiner’s answer 1207.05; 1211
- Suspension pending civil action or federal circuit appeal in related case 1213
- Time for filing brief 1205.01
- Withdrawal 711.02(b); 1215.01; 1215.02
- 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
Applicant (See also Inventor and Pro se applicant) 605
- Abandonment notification 711.04(c)
- Administrator or executor 409 - 409.01(f); 605.05
- Age, special status 708.02
- Citizenship 605.01
- Common, at least one 201.03; 201.11; 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(d)
- International application 1805; 1810; 1817.01; 1820; 1821
- Joint 201.02; 201.03; 2137.01
- Mailing address 605.03
- Name change 605.04(c); 719.02(b)
- Other than inventor 409 - 409.01(f); 409.03(b)
- Post Office address 605.03
- Power to inspect 104; 106
- Reply (See Amendment and Reply)
- Requirements 2137.01
- Residence 605.02
- Self prosecuted application 707.07(j); 713.01
- Signature 605.04(a); 605.04(e); 605.04(f)
- Small entity status 509.02
- Sole 201.01
Application
- Abandoned (See Abandoned application)
- Abstract of the disclosure 608.01(b)
- Acceptance of 37 CFR 1.47 409.03(h)
- Acknowledgment 502.05; 503
- Address missing 403
- Allowable except as to form 706; 710.02(b)
- Allowed
  - Definition 203.04
  - File wrapper data 1302.09
  - Ordering 1306.03
  - Rejection 706.05; 1308.01
- Amended definition 203.03
- Arrangement 601; 608.01(a)
  - Design application 1503; 1503.01; 1503.02
- Assigned (See also Assignee and Assignment)
  - Access 106
  - Allowance 307
  - Conflicting subject matter 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 706.03(k); 822; 2304.05
  - Inventor deceased 409.01(e)
- 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; 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 822
- Completeness 201.03; 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
- Continuation-in-part (See also Continuation-in-part) 201.08
  - Design 1504.20
- Continued prosecution (CPA) (See also Continued prosecution application (CPA))
  - Design 201.06(d); 1502.01
- Continuity between applications 201.11
- Control of access 101; 103; 106
- Copendency 201.11
- Copending, Design 1504.20
- Correction of inventorship 201.03
- Cross-noting
  - Data of parent application in file wrapper or PALM bib-data sheet or PALM database 202.02; 719.02; 719.07; 1302.09
  - Data of related application, updating 201.11
  - Foreign application, file wrapper/history notation 202.03
  - Foreign application, oath 201.14; 202.04
- Description of the related art 608.01(c)
- 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)
- 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)
- Filing date 201.11; 503; 505; 511
  - EFS-Web 502.05
- Filing receipt (See also Postcard, self-addressed) 503
- Five year pendency 707.02; 708.01
- Font 608.01
- Foreign (See also Foreign application) 201.13 - 201.16
- Form 600
- Government-owned
  - Special 708.01
- Incomplete 203.06; 506; 601.01(d); 601.01(e); 601.01(f); 608.01(u)
  - Definition 203.06; 506
- Informal 506; 702.01
  - Definition 506
  - Primary examiner’s attention required 1004
  - Search 702.01; 704.01
  - Special 708.01
- Inspection 103
- International (See International application)
- International Convention (35 U.S.C. 119) 201.13
- 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 201.04(a); 506; 601
- Number 502; 503; 506
  - Status of application using 101; 102
- Omitted items 201.17; 601.01(d); 601.01(f); 601.01(g)
- Ordered examination 707.02; 708; 708.01
- Overlapping
  - Common ownership 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 715.01(b); 804.03; 822
  - Same applicant 709.01; 804; 822; 822.01
  - Subject to joint research agreement 706.02(l)(1) - 706.02(l)(3); 804; 804.02; 804.03; 2136.01; 2141.01
- Pages missing 601.01(d)
- Papers, arrangement 719.01(a)
- Parent 904
- Parts 600
- Pending five years 707.02
- Plant (See also Plant patent) 1600
- Prior art 2121 - 2129
- Prior art effect of international publication 706.02(a); 1857.01; 1896; 2136.03
- Priority
  - Foreign application 201.13; 706.02; 1402; 1504.02; 1504.10
  - U.S. application 201.11; 706.02
- Protest 1901
- Provisional (See also Provisional application) 201.04(b); 601; 601.01; 601.01(b); 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
- Refile 201.10
- Reissue (See also Reissue application) 1401 - 1470
- Rejected definition 203.02
- Relating to atomic energy 115; 150; 151
- Requisites 702
- Review 506
- Right to inspect 103
- Right of priority, foreign application 201.13
- Rule 1.60 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62 201.06(b)
- Secrecy order 120; 121; 130
- Serial number 502; 503
- 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
  - List 708.01
  - Priority in patent printing 1308
- Status 102; 203; 1730
  - Inquiries 203.08
- Substitute 201.09; 201.10
  - Definition 201.09
  - Does not carry ownership from parent 306
  - File wrapper/history notation 202.02
  - Reference to parent application 201.09
- 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)
- Transitional (See also Transitional application) 706.07(g); 803.03
- Types (See also Patent) 201
- Utility (See also Patent) 201
Application Data Sheet (ADS) 201.11; 601; 601.01(b); 601.05; 602.01; 605.04(b); 605.04(c); 605.04(f); 706.02(b); 1130; 2214; 2266; 2614; 2666
- Supplemental ADS 601.05
Application Division (See Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing))
Application publication 901.03
- Citation of 707.05(e)
- Disqualifying as prior art, commonly owned 718
- Prior art effect 706.02(a); 901.03; 2163; 2136.03
Arbitration awards notice 311
Argument for allowability lacking in amendment 714.04
Arrangement of application 608.01(a)
Arrangement of art in Technology Centers 901.07
Arrangement, papers in file wrapper 719.01(a)
Art unit number on papers 502
Artifacts in IFW application 608.02
Asexual plants (See also Plant patent) 1600
Assigned application
- Allowance 307
- Conflicting subject matter 706.03(k); 822
- Inventor deceased 409.01(e)
- Nonprovisional application claiming benefit of provisional application 306.01
- Provisional application 302.03
- Title report 320
Assignee (See also Assigned application and Assignment)
- Access to an application 104; 106
- Address 302.05
- 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 201.03; 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; 1443; 1451
- Double patenting, same assignee 706.03(k); 804; 822
- Duty of disclosure 2001.01
- Entire interest, control 106; 301; 324; 402.07
- Foreign 302.04
- Interfering applications, same assignee 709.01
- Intervention 106; 324; 402.07
- Multiple Assignees 324
- Part interest 106.01
- Patent issues to 307
- Permitted to take action under 37 CFR 3.73(b) 324
- Power to inspect 104
- Printed on PG-Pub 1121
- Revocation of power of attorney 324; 402.07
- Small entity 509.02
Assignment 300
- Access 301.01; 1730
- Allowance of application 307
- 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
- Continuing application 201.12; 306
- Copy 301.01; 302.01
- Corrections in recorded assignment 323; 323.01(b); 323.01(c); 323.01(d)
- Cover sheet 302.07
  - Corrections 317.02; 323.01; 323.01(a); 323.01(c)
- Date of recording 317.01
- Effect of recording 317.03
- Electronic submission of (EPAS) 302.10; 502.01; 502.05; 1730
- 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 302.08; 501
- Mergers 314
- Multiple assignees 324
- 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 201.12; 306
- Part interest 106.01; 301; 706.02(l)(2)
- Patent 301; 302.03
- Patent and trademark assignment system 302.09
- Pending applications 301; 302.03; 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 301; 302.03
- Recording 301; 302; 313; 314; 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); 719.02; 1121; 1730
- Administrator and executor authority checked 409.01(b)
- Allowance and issue 1302.11
- Certified Abstract of Title 320
- Contact information 1730
- Information available from PALM 320
- Mailing address 501
- Title report 320
Assignment of application for examination 504
Assignment of reexamination to examiner
- Ex parte 2236; 2285; 2648
- Inter partes 2636; 2648; 2655
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; 406
Associate attorney, correspondence with 403.01
Atomic Energy Act of 1954 120; 706.03(a); 706.03(b)
Atomic energy application 150
Attorney or agent
- Appointment by assignee of entire interest 106
- Associate 402.02; 406
- Compliance with duty of disclosure 2004
- Conflicting parties having same 404
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Change of correspondence address 601.03
- Correspondence with 402; 403
- Correspondence with associate 403.01
- 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 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 604.06
- 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; 2501
  - In ex parte reexamination 2213; 2222
  - In inter partes reexamination 2613; 2622
- 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; 2205; 2220
- Selection 401
- Signature of 402
- Suggested 401
- Suspended or excluded 105; 407; 714.01(a); 714.19
  - Communication with 105
  - Inspection by 105
  - Interview 105; 713.05
- Telephone number on letters 713.01; 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
- Withdrawal after patent granted 2223; 2623; 2501; 2560; 2623
Authentication of oath 604.04(a)
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
- Credit card payments 509
- Deposit accounts 509.01
- Internet electronic mail (e-mail) 502.03
- Power of attorney 402
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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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) 201.11
- Adding benefit claim after filing 201.11
- Correcting benefit claim after filing 201.11
- Correcting benefit claim after patenting 1405
- Deleting benefit claim after filing 201.11
Benefit of foreign priority (See also Foreign application) 201.13
- Correcting benefit claim after patenting 1402; 1417
Benelux Designs Convention (See also Treaties) 201.13; 1504.10
Best mode 608.01(h); 2165 - 2165.04
- Affidavit or declaration 715.10
- Compared to enablement 2165.02
- Computer cases 2161.01
- Considerations relevant to 2165.01
- Evidence of concealment 2165; 2165.04
- Form paragraphs used to reject 706.03(c)
- Requirements for rejection for lack of 2165.03
Bibliographic Information 601.05
Biological material 2164.06(a); 2402; 2403
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 706.02(n)
- Samples 2410
- Sequence rules (See also Sequence rules) 2420; 2421
- Special status for small entity applications 708.02
Blue slip (See Form letters and forms: Issue Classification (Blue slip) PTO-270)
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) (See also Appeal and Interference) 706.03(v); 706.03(w); 707.06; 707.07(f); 708.01; 711.02(b); 2284; 2301
- Appeal from 1216 - 1216.02
  - In inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
- Constitution and duties 1202
- Decision
  - Dissemination of 1720
  - Generally 1213
  - Publication of 1213.03; 2681
  - Treatment of 1721
- Duty of disclosure to 2001.03
- Hearing 1209
- Interference
  - Declaration of 2301
  - Return of Jurisdiction to Examiner 2308
- Jurisdiction 706.01; 706.07(c); 1210; 2301; 2308
- May require appellant to address matter 1212
- New ground of rejection by 1214.01
  - In inter partes reexamination 2681; 2682
- Non-final decision in inter partes reexamination 2681
- Petitions 1002.02(g); 1002.02(j)
- Rehearing by 1002.02(f); 1214.01; 1214.03
  - Inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
- Service Branch 104
- Statement of allowability by 1213.01
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
- Ex parte reexamination 2274
- Inter partesreexamination 2662; 2665; 2675
  - Defective 2675; 2675.02
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 201.15
Broadening claims in reissue 1412.03
Browser executable code in specification 608.01; 608.01(p)
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 2112; 2112.01; 2113
Business hours of USPTO 510

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

CAFC (See Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC))
Canadian patent agent 402
Canceled matter, before papers executed 608.01
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 claim withdrawn after appeal 1214.05
Canceling drawing 608.02(t)
Cancellation of drawing figures 608.02(t)
Cancer, petition to make special 708.02
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; 2224; 2226; 2229; 2232; 2285; 2624; 2626; 2627; 2631 - 2638; 2641; 2647; 2647.02; 2660; 2664; 2666.06; 2667; 2670; 2671; 2675 - 2678; 2682; 2686.01 - 2687; 2689; 2694
Certificate effect of signature 401; 402; 410
Certificate, Ex parte Reexamination 2288
- Format 2290
Certificate, Inter partes Reexamination 2688; 2690; 2694
- Distribution 2692
- Format 2690
- Reissue patent as 2688; 2694
Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
- Applicant’s mistake 1481
- Assignee’s name 307; 1481
- Branch 1002.02(l)
- Copy required in reexamination
  - Ex parte 2214
  - Inter partes 2614
- Date of issuance 1485
- Domestic priority 201.11; 1003; 1481
- Electronic publication 1485
- Expedited issuance 1480.01
- Foreign priority 201.16; 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
- 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
- Ex parte reexamination 2224; 2265; 2266
- Information disclosure statement 609
- Inter partesreexamination 2624; 2666; 2666.05
- International application 1805; 1834; 1865; 1893.01(a)(1)
- Maintenance fee 2510
- Overcoming abandonment 711.03(c); 711.04(c)
- Period for reply 714.17
Certificate of service
- Ex parte reexamination 2220
- Inter partesreexamination 2620; 2666.06
Certification as to statutory estoppel in inter partes reexamination 2612; 2614
Certification Division 103
Certified copies
- Abstract of Title 320
- Administrator or executor 409.01(b)
- 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 201.13; 201.13(b); 201.14; 201.14(a); 201.14(b); 201.14(c); 502.02; 1417; 1504.10; 1893.03(c); 2138.06
- MPEP ; 1730
- Orders for 1730
- Patent copies 1730
- Patent related file wrappers 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
  - Ex parte 2232
  - Inter partes 2632
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 abstracts 708.02
Chemical compound 608.01(p)
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 706.02(a); 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
- 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); 1857.01; 1896; 2136.03
- Prior art in application 707.05(b); 1302.12
- Prior art in patent 1920; 2200
  - Confidentiality 2202; 2203
  - Content 2205
  - Court decision 2207
  - Handling 2206
  - Parties who may cite 2203
  - Service on patent owner 2208
  - Time for filing 2204
- Publications 707.05(e)
- References 707.05
  - Allowance in first action 1302.12
  - From applicant 707.05(b); 1302.12
Citizenship of applicant 605.01
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 201.03
- 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
- 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 201.03
- 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); 707.07; 804; 2106; 2111.01; 2111.03; 2129; 2145; 2164.08; 2173.05(a); 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 2173.05
- 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) 201.13; 201.14
- 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 707.07(j); 2172.01
- Indefinite 706.03(d); 2173
- Independent 608.01(n)
- Index 719.04
- Indirect limitation 706.03(d); 2173.05(f)
- 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
- Plural 706.03(k)
- Priority (See also Foreign application) 201.13; 201.14
- Product, Functional 2114
- Product by process 2113; 2173.05(p)
- Prolix (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.05(m)
- Ranges 2131.03; 2145.05
- Reference numerals included 608.01(m); 2173.05(s)
- Reissue application
  - Numbering 1453; 1455
  - Original claim subject to reexamination 1440
  - Printed in Official Gazette 1455
  - Same invention as original patent 1412.01
  - Underlining and bracketing 1453; 1455
- 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)
- Suggested for interference 2304.03 - 2304.04(b)
  - Failure to make 706.03(u)
  - Time limit 710.02(c)
- 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 1214.05; 1215.03
Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent (See also Interference) 710.04(a); 2304.4(a)
- Appeal of rejection 1210
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- Decision on classification 903.08(d) - 903.08(e)
- Patentability report 705.01(a)
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)
  - In another Technology Center at allowance 903.07(b); 903.08(a)
  - New application, by Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing) 903.08(a); 903.08(e)
- 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
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 201.13; 510
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations))
Coinventor, Power of attorney 402.01
Collateral estoppel (See also Estoppel) 2012.01
- Ex-parte reexamination 2259
- Inter partes reexamination 2659
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)
Commercial exploitation as on sale (See also On sale) 706.02(c); 2133.03(e)(1)
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; 720.01; 720.02; 720.03
- Duty of Disclosure to 2001.03
- Mailing address 501
- Statutory basis 1001
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
Common ownership 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 2137
- Conflicting claims 303; 706.02(f)(2); 706.03(k); 709.01; 804; 822; 2304.05
- Evidence required for establishing 706.02(l)(2)
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 201.03; 506; 601.01 - 601.01(g)
Complete British specification 201.15
"Comprising" as transitional phrase 2111.03
"Comprising" in Markush claim 2173.05(h)
Compact disc submissions 608.05; 2421.04; 2425
- Amendments to 608.05; 2426
- Computer programs 608.05(a); 2425
- Requirements 608.05
- Sequence Listings 1823.02; 2420; 2422.03; 2424.01
- Tables 608.05(b); 1823.02; 2424.01
Computer generated icons 1504.01(a)
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
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)
- Same applicant 706.02; 706.02(c); 706.03(k); 709.01; 804; 822; 822.01
- Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
Confidentiality, pending applications 100
Confidentiality of international applications 110
Confirmation number 503
Conflicting applications, same assignee 303; 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 709.01; 715.01(b); 804.03; 822
Conflicting oaths or declarations 201.03
Congress, Inquiry on status of application by member of 203.08(a)
Conservator, Authority recorded 409.02
Conservator, Legally incapacitated inventor 409.02
"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); 409.01(d)
Consular certificate, Omission of 604.04(a)
Consular officer 604.04
Content of ex-parte reexamination request 2214
Content of inter partes reexamination request 2614
Continuation 201.06(c); 201.07; 601.01(a)
- Assignment carried from parent 201.12; 306
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Copendency 201.11
- Cross-reference to prior application 201.11
- Definition 201.07
- Design 1504.20
- Effective filing date 201.11
- File wrapper continuing (FWC) 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202.02
- Final rejection on first action 706.07(b)
- Identification on letter of transmittal 506
- Inspection of parent 103
- Inter partesreexamination of 2611
- International application 1817.02
- International application as parent 201.11(a); 1895
- Inventor, at least one in common 201.11
- New matter 201.07; 608.04(b)
- Oath 602.05(a)
- Ownership 201.12
- Parent application data in specification 201.11
- Parent application data noted in file history/wrapper 202.02; 1302.04
- Reference to parent application 201.11
- 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)
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
- Time for filing 201.11
- When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
- Written description requirement 201.11
Continuation-in-part 201.08; 601.01(a)
- Assignment from parent does not apply 306
- Copendency 201.11
- Cross reference to parent application 201.11
- Definition 201.08
- Design application 1504.20
- Effective date 201.11; 706.02; 2133.01
- File wrapper continuing procedure 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202.02
- Filed by assignee 324
- Identification on letter of transmittal 506
- Inspection of parent 103
- Inter partesreexamination of 2611
- International application 1817.02
- International application as parent 201.11(a)
- Inventor, at least one in common 201.11
- Ownership 306
- Reference to parent application 201.11
- Rejection over published priority document 2133.01
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
- Time for filing 201.11
- When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 201; 201.06; 201.06(d)
- Amendments before first Office action 714.01(e)
- Application number 503
- Assignee right to take action 324
- 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 201.11
- Correspondence 502; 502.01
- Cross reference to previous application 202.02
- 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)
- Fees
  - As of the filing date 2164.05(a)
  - Reissue application 1415
- Foreign priority 201.14
- Improper CPA treated as RCE 201.6(d); 706.07(h)
- Information disclosure statement in parent 609.02; 707.05
- Inter partesreexamination of 2611
- Patent term 1303; 2701
- Plant application, no longer available 201.06(d)
- Priority 1302.04
- Published as PG-Pub 1120
- Reissue 1430
- Restriction requirement in prior application 819
- Suspension of action 709
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
- Utility application, no longer available 201.06(d)
Continuing application 201.11; 1302.12; 1302.04
- Specific reference 201.11
Continuing data (See also Cross-noting) 202.02
Continuity between applications 201.11
Control of inspection by assignee 106
Convention, International (See also Treaties) 201.13
Converting nonprovisional and provisional applications 201.04(b); 601.01(c)
Copendency 201.11
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
Copies of prior art with reexamination request
- Ex parte 2218
- Inter partes 2618
Copies of published applications 1128
Copy of foreign application, certified 201.14
Copy of printed patent in reexamination
- Ex parte 2219
- Inter partes 2619
Copying ex-parte reexamination file by public 2232
Copying inter partes reexamination file by public 2632
Copyrights 608.01(v)
- Relationship to design patents 1512
Correction of drawing 608.02(p); 1302.05
- Annotated sheets 608.02(v)
- Approval by examiner 608.02(x)
- Corrected stamp no longer required 608.02(o)
- 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
- Required by drafting 707.07(c)
Correction of inventorship
- Application 201.03; 605.04(g)
- Consent of assignee 201.03
- Continuing application 201.03
- During ex parte reexamination 2250.02
- During inter partes reexamination 2658; 2666.03
- In a patent
  - By a certificate of correction 1412.04; 1481
  - By filing a reissue application 1402; 1412.04
- Misjoinder 1412.04
- PTO procedure 605.04(g)
Correction of name 201.03; 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
- 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
Correspondence (See also Mail stop)
- Address of PTO 501; 502
- Address in secrecy order applications 120
- Address of patent owner 2622
- Address, official mailing 501
- Address of a law firm 403
- Associate attorney 403.01
- Boxes (See Mail stop)
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Crossing in mail 714.05
- Duplicate filings 403; 502.04; 714.01(a)
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04; 713.05
- Facsimile transmission 502.01; 2515
- Identifying with issue batch number (no longer required) 1303.01
- Maintenance fee 2515; 2542
- Plural attorneys 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 201.13
Country codes 1851
Coupons
Court decision
- Citation of 707.06
- Dissemination of 1720
- Entry in patent file 2207
- Treatment of 1721
- Unpublished decisions 2677
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 711.02(b); 1002.02(k)(1); 1002.02(k)(3); 1214.06; 1216; 1216.01
- Appeal to, from an ex parte reexamination 2279
- Appeal to, in an inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
Court ordered inter partes reexamination 2686.04
Court papers, service on Director 1216
Cover sheet — provisional application 201.04(b)
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 Board of Patent Appeals in inter partes reexamination 2674
Cross appeal to the Federal Circuit in inter partes reexamination 2683
Cross-noting
- Data of parent application on file wrapper/history 202.02; 1302.09
- Data of provisional application in specification 1302.04
- Data of provisional application on file wrapper/history 202.02
- Data of related application in specification 201.11; 1302.04
- Foreign application cited in an application oath 201.14; 202.04
- Foreign application, file wrapper/history 202.03
- In original patent file of reissue application 202.05
- Reissue applications 1451; 1455
- Specific reference 201.11
Cross-reference
- Another application (See also Cross-noting) 608.01(p); 1302.04
- Art collection 903.02(c)
- At allowance 903.07; 1302.04
- Citing 707.05(e)
- Noted during examination 903.07(a)
- Required for all claimed disclosure 903.07(a)
Crossed mailings 714.05
Customary meaning of claim term 2106; 2111.01
Customer Numbers 402; 403; 711.04(c); 1807; 2515; 2540
- Change of address 601.03
- Correspondence relating to 403
Customer Service Center 104; 508.04; 608.02(z); 714.13; 1430; 1470; 1730
Customer Service Window 103; 501; 502; 505; 710.02(e); 714.13; 1430; 1470; 2422.09

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D-10 notice 130; 1304.01
D-11 notice 1103
Damage, Proof of irreparable 409.03(g)
Databases (See Electronic databases)
Date
- Amendment 505; 511; 512; 710.01(a); 710.05; 714.18
- Citation of foreign patent 901.05(a); 901.05(b)
- Convention 201.13
- Filing 201.11; 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) 201.13; 201.14; 201.15
- 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); 707.05(f); 715; 715.01; 715.01(c)
- Technology Center stamp 714.18
Date no longer entered on drawing 608.02(o)
Date of execution of oath 602.05
Date stamp, Technology Center 714.18
Death of attorney 406
Death of inventor (See also Administrator or executor) 409 - 409.01(f)
Deceased inventor
- Allowance not withdrawn 1303.03
- Legal representative as applicant 409.01(a); 1820
  - Proof of authority of 409.01(b)
- Legal representative refuses to sign 409.03(c)
Deceptive intent (See also Fraud and Inequitable conduct)
- Biotechnology process 706.02(n)
- Foreign filing licenses 140; 706.03(s)
- Inventorship 201.03
- Reissue 1402; 1414; 2012
Decision
- By Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1213; 1302.14
  - Dissemination of 1720
  - Ex-parte reexamination 2277
  - Inter partesreexamination 2681; 2682
  - Reconsideration of 1214.03
  - Treatment of 1721
- Citation 707.06
- Ex-parte reexamination rehearing request 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
Declaration (See also Oath) 602
- Amendment 602.01
- Attached to specification 605.04(a)
- Change of inventorship 201.03
- Copies, filing of 602
- Copies from prior application 201.06(c)
- Date of execution 602.05
- Defective 602.03
- Delayed filing 506
- Executed before alterations made 605.04(a)
- Facsimile transmission 502.01; 602
- Foreign priority applications listed 201.14; 201.14(c); 202.04
- 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 201.03
Declassified matter 707.05(f)
Dedication to the public 715; 1490
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 2231
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)
Department of Commerce, Organization Orders
- 30-3A cited 510
- 30-3B cited 510
Dependent claim 608.01(n)
- Objected to when base claim is canceled 608.01(n); 707.07(j)
- Reissue 1455
- Treatment in inter partes reexamination 2660.03
Dependent claim, objected to when improper 608.01(n); 706.01
Deposit account 509.01
- Authorizations 509.01; 1302.04
- Extensions of time 706.07(f)
- International applications 1827.01; 1850; 1875.01
- Issue fee 1303; 1306; 1308.01
- Maintenance fee 2510; 2515; 2522
- Overdrawn 509.01
- Petition fee 711.03(c)
- Refunds 509; 607.02
- Replenishment 509.01
  - Mailing address 501
Deposit Account Division 509.01
Deposit of microorganisms (See also Biotechnology) 1605; 1823.01; 2402 - 2411.05
Deposit of correspondence 502
Depositions
- Evidence 1901.02; 2013
- Of examiner 1701.01
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
- 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
  - Access to deposits 2410.01
  - Certification of accessibility of deposit 2410.02
  - Conditions of deposit 2410.01
  - Exception to removal of restrictions 2410.01
  - Restrictions removed upon grant 2410.01
- Known and readily available biological material 2404.01
  - Budapest Treaty deposit 2404.01
  - Continuity of access 2404.01
  - Deposits certified as available 2404.01
  - Health, safety restrictions 2404.01
  - Indicia of "known and readily available" 2404.01
- Material capable of self-replication 2403.01
  - Direct self-replication 2403.01
  - Indirect 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
  - Implication, presumption 2404; 2404.03
  - Requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112 2164.06; 2404; 2404.03
- Replacement or supplement of deposit 2407
  - After a patent has issued 2407.02
  - Exemption from replacement 2407.05
  - Failure to replace 2407.03
  - In a pending application/reexamination proceeding 2407.01
  - Reason for replacement 2407.04
  - Replacement not recognized 2407.06
  - Treatment of replacement, presumption of identity 2407.04
- Seeds 2403.02
- Term of deposit 2408
  - Budapest Treaty term 2408
  - Enforceable life of patent 2408
- Time for making original deposit 2406
  - Assurance regarding deposit before paymentof 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
- Basis for claim 608.01(o); 706.03(c); 2161; 2163
- Computer programming 2161.01
- Detailed 608.01(g)
- International application 1823
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) 201.13; 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 201.13; 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
  - Broken lines 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
  - Color 1503.02
  - Trademarks 1512
- 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
- Expedited Examination 501; 1002.02(c)(3); 1504.30
  - Reissue 1457
- Expert testimony 1504.03
- Feature emphasized 1503.01
- Fee, filing 607
  - Reissue 1457
- Fee, issue 1306
- Font, type 1504.01(a)
- Foreign priority 201.13; 1504.02; 1504.10
  - German application 201.14(b)
  - More than six months before U.S. filing 1504.02
- Functionality 1504.01(c)
  - Obviousness and 1504.03
- Hague Agreement (See also Treaties) 201.13; 1504.10
- Hidden end use 1504.01(c)
- Hidden feature 1504.02; 1504.03; 1504.04
- 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. 119 201.13; 201.14(b); 1504.02; 1504.10
- Priority under 35 U.S.C. 120 201.11; 1504.20
- References supplied 707.05(a); 1513
- Quayle action 1504
- Registration abroad 1504.02; 1504.10
- Reexamination, inter partes 2611
- Reissue 1457; 1512
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1502.01
- Request for Expedited Examination 1504.30
- 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
  - Use of Copyrights in 1512
  - Use of Trademarks in 1512
- Statutory bar, foreign application 201.13; 1504.02
- 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)
  - Amendment of 1503.01
  - Use of Trademarks in 1512
- 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
Determining if a Reexamination Was Filed for a Patent 2632.01
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
- Charts for priority 2138.01
- Filing application 2138.06
- Filing reissue 1403
- Interference practice 2138.01
- Of actions during regulatory review 2757.01
- Reasonable 2138.06
- Shown in 37 CFR 1.131 affidavit 715.07; 715.07(a)
- To overcome a rejection 2136.05
Director of Technology Center 402.06; 708.02; 714.13; 714.25; 715.08; 720.01; 804.04; 1002.02; 1002.02(c); 1207.01; 1207.02; 1207.03; 1207.05; 1208; 1214.04; 1308; 1308.01; 1901.06; 2248; 2249; 2265; 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
- Authority and functions 706.03(b); 708.01; 709; 711.02; 714; 719.01; 1001; 1002; 2203; 2242; 2284
  - Publication of confidential decisions 103
  - Withdrawal from issue 1308
- Decisions
- Mailing address 501
- Notices (See also Publication) ; 707.06
- Orders (See also Publication) ; 707.06
Director initiated reexamination 2212; 2239
Disbarred attorney (See Attorney or agent: Suspended or excluded)
Disciplinary proceedings 402
- Mailing address 501
Disclaimer (See also Terminal disclaimer)
- Co-author of publication 715.01(c)
- Copy required in reexamination
  - Ex parte 2214
  - Inter partes 2614
- Defensive publication 711.06
- Design application 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Forms 1490
- Processing 1490
- Rejection 706.02(k); 710.02(d)
- Statutory 1490
- Terminal 706.02(k); 804; 804.02; 1490
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 201.11
- Completeness 608.01(p); 2164
- Computer programming cases 2164.06(c); 2106.01
- 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 201.15
- Implicit 2144.01
- Incomplete 608.01(p); 706.03(c); 2161 - 2165
- Incomprehensible 702.01
- Incorporation by reference (See also Incorporation by reference) 201.17; 608.01(p)
- Insufficient 608.01(p); 702.01; 706.03(c)
- Later filed application 608.01(p)
- Operability 716.07; 2164.08(b)
- Original claim 608.01(l); 2163.06
- Preliminary amendment 608.04(b)
- Related applications 608.01(p); 1302.04
- 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 201.11
- Sufficiency of 716
- 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
- Apparatus and product made 806.05(g)
- Distinct processes 806.05(j)
- Distinct products 806.05(j)
- Process and apparatus for its practice 806.05(e)
- Process and product made 806.05(f)
Divisional application 201.06; 601.01(a)
- Assignment carried from parent application 201.12; 306
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Copendency 201.11
- Design application 201.06; 1504.20
- Drawing, Transfer of 608.02(i)
- Effective date 201.11
- Filed by assignee 324
- File wrapper continuation (FWC) 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202.02; 1302.04
- Inspection of parent application 103
- Inter partesreexamination of 2611
- Inventor, at least one in common 201.11
- New matter 201.06
- Oath 201.06(c); 602.05(a)
- Ownership carried from parent application 201.12
- Patented, Opens parent application to inspection 103
- Reference to parent application 201.11; 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)
- Time for filing 201.11
- Written description requirement 201.11
DNA (See also Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences) 2400
- Enablement 2164.08
- Searching 901.06(a)
- Sequence listing 2422; 2424; 2431
- Special status for recombinant 708.02
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
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; 714.01(a)
Double inclusion in claim 2173.05(o)
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 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
- Obviousness type (ODP) 804
  - Design application 1504.06
- Plant applications 1601
- Reexamination 804; 2217; 2258
- Rejection 804
  - Nonstatutory 804
  - Obvious 804
  - Prohibition, 35 U.S.C. 121 804.01; 821.04(b)
  - Provisional 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(3); 804
  - Specification, use of 804
  - Statutory 804; 804.03
- 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
- Terminal disclaimer effect 706.02(k); 804; 804.02; 1451; 1490
  - In a reissue application 1451
Drafting notation 608.02; 707.07(a); 707.07(c)
Drafting stamp (no longer required) 608.02(o)
Drawings 507; 608.02
- Amendment 608.02(p); 714; 1302.04
  - In ex parte reexamination 2250.01
  - In inter partes reexamination 2666.02
  - In reissue application 1413
  - Prior to publication of PG-Pub 1121
- Amendment, Direction for 608.02(q)
- 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 608.02; 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
  - Incorporated into PG-Pub 1120; 1121
  - Reversed figure numbers 1302.04
- Date no longer entered on back 608.02(o)
- Delivered to wrong Technology Center 508.01
- Design application 1503; 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Disclosure 608
- Divisional application 608.02; 608.02(i)
- Drafting criticism included in first Office action 707.07(a); 707.07(c)
- Drafting notation 608.02
- Drafting stamp no longer required 608.02(o)
- EFS-Web 502.05
- Examiner determines completeness 608.02(e)
- Illustrates claim 608.02(e)
- Informal 507; 608.02(b)
- Interference prints 608.02(m)
- International application 1825
- Kept in application 608.02(c)
- Lost 1302.05(a)
- Mail section stamp no longer used 608.02(o)
- Modification illustrated 608.02(f)
- Marked-up copy 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; 608.01; 608.02; 608.02(b); 706.03(o); 1503.02; 1504.04
- Official Gazette figure 1302.09
- Omitted drawings 201.17; 601.01(g)
- Patented file 905.03
- Petition to transfer from another application 608.02(i)
- Photographs 502.05; 608.02; 1503.02
- Placement in file wrapper 719.01(b)
- Plant application 1603; 1606
- Print (See also Print of drawing) 608.02(m); 608.02(n)
- Prior art 608.02(g); 2125
- Provisional application 608.02
- Reference characters 608.02(e)
- Reference characters, change 608.02(w)
- Reissue application 1411; 1413
  - No longer transferred from original patent 1413
- Removal from Technology Center 608.02(c)
- 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 608.02(f)
- Security markings 121
- Substitute 502; 608.02(h)
- Sufficiency, determined by examiner 608.02(e)
- Symbols 608.02
- Trademarks 1512
- Unacceptable 608.02(b)
Drawing correction 507; 608.02(p)
- Annotated sheets 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
- Approval by examiner 608.02(x)
- Marked-up copy 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
- New matter 608.04
- Order for 608.02(x)
- PG-Pub 1120; 1121
- Replacement sheets 502; 608.02(h); 1302.05
- Required 507; 707.07(a); 707.07(c)
Dual correspondence 403; 714.01(d)
Due Care Showing 2734
Duplicate amendments (See also Amendment) 719.01(a)
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
- Compared to duty to disclose material information 2001.04
- Information disclosure 609
- Reexamination 2280
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
  - Ex parte 2014; 2280
  - Inter partes 2003.01; 2684
- Reissue application 1406; 1414; 1418; 1448; 2001.06(c); 2003
- Sources of information 2001.06
- To whom owed 2001.03
- Violation of 2010
  - Claims invalidated 2016
  - Protest 2013
  - Reexamination 2014
  - Reissue 2012
  - Rejection of claims in reissue application 1448
- Who has 2001.01

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Easily erasable paper 608.01; 714.05; 714.07; 714.19
Effective date
- Declassified matter 707.05(f)
- Reference patent 706.02; 706.02(a); 707.05(e); 707.05(f); 715; 901.05(b)
Effective filing date
- Continuing application 201.11; 706.02; 708
- Continuation-in-part 2133.01
- Foreign priority effect 201.15; 706.02
- International convention (See also Foreign application and Treaties) 201.13
- Provisional application 706.02
- Publication 715.01(c)
Eighteen-month publication (See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
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
- 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
- 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
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
Electronic databases (See also PALM and PAIR) 706.02(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 905.06
- e-Official Gazette – Patents (eOG:P) 1703
- EAST 719.05; 902.03(e)
- Full-text and full-page images of U.S. patent related databases 1730
- 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)
Electronic filing system-Web (EFS-Web) 502.05; 503
- Actions permitted by registered users 502.05
- Actions permitted by unregistered users 502.05
- 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
- Availability as prior art 2128
- Citation of 608.01; 707.05(e)
- Hyperlinks to 608.01; 608.01(p)
- Search for 904.02(c)
Employee number 711.04(b); 905.03
Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, property interest in patent 309
- Unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventor 409
Enablement 706.03(c); 2164
- Burden on the examiner 2164.04
- 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
- 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, sixth paragraph limitations 2181; 2185
Energy, Department of 115; 706.03(b)
Energy, related applications, special status 708.02
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, small, claiming status as (See Small entity status)
Entry of amendment (See also Amendment) 714.18
Entry of "Contents" of file wrapper 719.01
Entry on face of file wrapper 719.02; 719.02(b)
Environmental Quality Program 708.02
Equity (civil action)
- Under 35 U.S.C. 145 1216; 1216.02
- Under 35 U.S.C. 146 1216
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)
- Correction of patents 1400
- Deceptive intent 140; 2022.05
- Reissue 1401 - 1470
- Title documents 323
- Withdrawal from issue 1308
Essential material 608.01(p)
Establishing subclasses 903.02(c)
Estoppel
- Abandonment 711.03(c)
- Collateral 2012.01
  - In ex parte reexamination 2259
  - In inter partes reexamination 2659
- Defensive publications 711.06
- Different inventive entities and commonly owned applications 804.03
- Interference 715; 2138.01
- Reasons for allowance 1302.14
- Reissue proceedings 2012.01
- Statutory, inter partes reexamination 2601; 2612; 2614
- Terminal disclaimer 804; 804.02
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
- Address 1865
- As a PCT Chapter I international searching authority 1840.01
- As a PCT Chapter II International Preliminary Examining Authority 1865.01
Evidence, of public use or on sale 2133.03 - 2133.03(b)
Evidence submitted with protest 1901.02
Examination guidelines for applying reference under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) 706.02(f)(1)
Examination of application 700
- Accelerated Examination 708.02(a)
- Confidentiality during 101
- Deferral of 709; 1002.02(d)
- Order of 707.02; 708 - 708.03
- Piecemeal 707.07(a); 707.07(g)
- Purpose 701
- Reissue 1440; 1443; 1445
- Request for SIR 1103
- Secrecy order application 130
- Statutory authority 701
- Suspension of 709
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) 2633; 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
  - Allowed claims 706.04
  - Interview 713.01
  - Search 704.10
- Primary
  - Actions requiring personal attention 707.01; 714.16; 715.08; 1004
  - Name on file wrapper 1302.13
- 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
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
- Copending application data brought up to date 201.11
- 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
  - Ex parte 2287
  - Inter-partes
    - Canceling rejected claims 2671; 2687
    - Correcting formal matters 2687; 2687.01
    - In merged reissue/reexamination 2686.03
    - Not permitted if approval required 2687.01
    - To the Title 2660.02; 2686.03; 2687
- Reference citation corrected 707.05(g)
- Title of application 606.01
Examiner’s Answer
- Appeal conference not held 1003; 1207.01
- Counted as a disposal 1705
- New ground of rejection 1207.03
- New interpretation of law 1207.02
  - TC Director’s attention required 1003
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2275
  - Inter-partes 2677
- Reply brief 1208
- Special status 708.01
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
- Drafting criticism in first Office action 608.02(a); 707.07(c)
- 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)
- First action, includes drafting comments 608.02(a); 707.07(c)
- Formal matters 707.07(a); 707.07(e); 707.07(j); 714.02
- Full anticipation, expressions used 706.02(c); 706.07(d)
- 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 707.07(d)
- 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 signs 706.07; 707.01; 707.09
- 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 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 604; 605.04(a)
Executive Order
- No. 5464 1608
- No. 9424 302; 302.06; 302.08
- No 10,096 509.02
- No. 10,358 710.05
- No. 12,598 115; 120; 121
- No. 13,292 115; 121
Executor or administrator 409.01; 605.05
- Allowance and issue 409.01(f)
- Application by, after discharge 409.01(c)
- Assigned application, inventor dies 409.01(e)
- Authority 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate 409.01(b)
- Foreign country 409.01(b); 409.01(d)
- Heir 409.01; 409.01(a); 409.01(b); 409.01(d)
- Intervention not required 409.01(f)
- Joint inventors, inventor dies 409.01(f)
- Specification form 605.05
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
Experimental use (See also Public use) 2133.03; 2133.03(e)
- Commercial exploitation 2133.03(e)(1)
- 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)
- Adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 2710; 2720; 2730
- Design 1502.01; 1505
- Extension under 35 U.S.C. 156 2750 - 2764
- Plant 2701
- Utility 2701
Export control of patent applications 120
Exposure of papers during interviews 101; 713.07
Expounding patent law 713.02
Express abandonment 711; 711.01
- To avoid publication of application 711.01; 1125
Express Mail deposit 513
Express Mail Procedure in ex parte reexamination 2224
Express Mail Procedure in inter partes reexamination 2624; 2665; 2666; 2666.05
Express Mail service 502; 506.02; 511; 513; 711.03(c); 1216.01; 2510
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)
- For filing brief 1203; 1205.01; 1206; 1208; 1215.04
- For filing continuing application 201.06(c)
- General fee authorization 710.02(e)
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 1002.02(c); 2265
  - Inter partes 2648; 2665; 2672; 2682
- Request 710.02(e); 1002.02(c)
Extension, patent term (See Term, Patent)
Extraordinary situations
- Abandonment, revival 711.03(c)
- Deferring issue 1306.01
- Interview after issue 713.10
- Reexamination, ex parte 2274
- Reply period reset 710.06
- Suspension of rules 1002
- Time to file 1205.01
- Withdrawal from issue 711.01

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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
  - Ex parte 2224
  - Inter partes 2624
- Secrecy order application, not permitted 120; 502.01
Federal Circuit (See Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC))
Federal holiday
- Abandonment date 711.03(c)
- Appeal brief 1205.01; 2274
- Civil action 1216
- Continuity between applications 201.11
- Effect on reference 706.02(a)
- Effect on Express Mail service 513
- Filing date 502; 502.01; 502.05; 505; 512; 513
- Foreign application copendency 201.13
- 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(b)
- PTO business hours 510
- Reply period 710.05
- Statutory bar 2133
- Statutory period 710.01(a)
- Unscheduled closings 201.13
Federal license rights 310
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Rule 8(b) cited 410
- Rule 11(b)
  - Cited 402
  - Reproduced 410
Federal Telecommunications System 408; 713.01
Fee (See also Refunds)
- Address 2540
- Appeal 1204
- Assignment recording 302.06
- Credit card payment of 509; 706.07(f)
- Current amounts available on USPTO Web site 509; 1730
- Examiner’s amendment 706.07(f)
- Extensions of time 706.07(f)
- Filing 509; 607
  - Claims in excess of 607
  - Dependent claims 608.01(n)
  - Deposit account 509.01
  - Inadequate 509
  - 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
  - Nonprovisional application 601.01(a)
  - Provisional application 601.01(b)
  - Reduction for small entities 509.02
  - Reexamination
    - Ex parte 2215
    - Inter partes 2615
  - Reissue 1415
  - Return 503; 607.02
  - Small entity 509.03
- Issue (See Issue fee)
- Maintenance (See Maintenance fees)
- Payment 509
  - by EFS-Web 502.05
- Petition to revive 711.03(c)
- Publication fee 1126; 1133; 1303; 1306; 1306.03
- Reduction of basic fee for international applications containing large sequence listings and/or tables 1823.02
- Reduction for small entities 509.02
Field of search 708.03; 904; 904.02; 904.02(a); 1701
- Notation in file 719.05; 904
Field of search, notation by examiner 705.01(a); 719.05; 904; 904.02(a)
Figures (See Drawings)
File Information Unit (Record Room) 102; 103; 508.03; 711.04; 711.06; 1730
File wrapper/history (See also Image File Wrapper (IFW)) 719
- Action entered 707.10
- Allowed case data entered 1302.09
- Amendment endorsed 710.05; 714.18
- Arrangement of papers 719.01(a)
- Assignment endorsement 303
- Civil action disposition 1216.02
- Classification data 719.03
- Classification history 719.03
- Completeness 724.01
- "Contents", Entry in 719.01
- Continuation, Former Rule 1.62 (FWC)
  - Public access 103
  - Restriction 819
- Correction of error 719.02
- Data entered on 710.05; 719.02; 1302.09
- Field of search 719.05
- Field of search, patentability report 705.01(a)
- Foreign application cross-noting 202.03; 1893.03(c); 1895.01
- Foreign filing date entered on 719.06; 1302.06
- Index of claims 719.04
- Licensing and Review stamp 140
- Name of applicant changed 719.02(b)
- Notes to application of another party 101
- Papers in 719.01
- Parent application notation on 202.02; 1302.09
- Print of drawing 719.01(b)
- Printout of search history 719.05
- Relation of application noted on 202.02; 719.07
- Residence changed 719.02(b)
- Return of paper entered on 719.01
- "Searched" box entries 719.05
- "Searched notes" box entries 719.05
- Signing by primary examiner 1302.13
- Statutory period ends on nonworking day 710.05
Files Repository 711.04(b)
Filing date 201.06(c); 502; 503; 505; 506; 506.02
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Effective, prior application 201.11; 706.02; 2133.01
- EFS-Web 502.05
- Express Mailing date 506.02; 513
- Foreign application, Convention date (See also Foreign application) 201.13; 201.15
- International application 1810
- Later filed application as disclosure 608.01(p)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) 1810
- Petition 506.02; 513; 601.01(b); 601.01(c); 601.01(f); 601.01(g)
- Refusal to accord 506.02
- Review of refusal to accord 506.02
- Subsequent publication as disclosure 608.01(p)
Filing date of reexamination request
- Ex parte 2215
- Inter partes 2627
Filing fee (See also Fee and Refunds) 607
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
  - Of a reissue application 1415
- Deposit account 509.01
- Inadequate 509
- Reduction for small entities 509.02
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2215
  - Inter partes 2615
- Reissue application 1415
- Return 503; 607.02
Filing receipt (See also Postcard, self-addressed) 201.03; 503
Final action (See Final rejection)
Final Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2681; 2682
Final data capture 1309
Final rejection 706.07
- Amendment after 714.12; 714.13
- Amendment after, entered in part 714.20
- First action 706.07(b)
- Interview 713.09
- Letter 706.07
- Patentability report 705.01(a)
- Petition to vacate 1002.02(c)
- Premature 706.07(c)
- Premature, Withdrawal of 706.07(d)
- Primary examiner’s attention required 1004
- Request for continued examination (RCE) 706.07(h)
- Reexamination, ex parte 2271
- Reexamination, inter partes (See Action: Closing Prosecution in inter partes reexamination)
- Secrecy order application 130
- Special 708.01
- Time for reply 706.07(f)
- Transitional procedure 706.07(g)
- When proper 706.07; 706.07(a); 706.07(b)
- Withdrawal 706.07(e)
- Withdrawal, Primary examiner’s attention 1004; 1005
- Withdrawal of premature 706.07(d)
Final restriction requirement 818.03
First action final rejection 706.07(b)
- In an RCE 706.07(b); 706.07(h)
First Office action form 707
First action on the merits (FAOM) (See Letter, Examiner’s)
Fissionable material 706.03(b)
Five year pendency 707.02; 708.01
Flowchart for
- Effective date under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) 706.02(f)(1)
- Examination of computer-related inventions 2106
- Genus-Species guidelines 2144.08
- Prior art citation in a patent 2206
- Reexamination provisions, ex parte 2201
- Reexamination provisions, inter partes 2601.01
- Reformed PCT System 1842
- Transitional after-final procedures (37 CFR 1.129(a) 706.07(g)
- Treatment of applications having conflicting claims 804
Flow sheet 608.02
FOIA (See Freedom of Information Act (FOIA))
Font, type 608.01; 1504.01(a)
Foreclosure (See Assignment: Security interests)
Foreign application (See also International application)
- As prior art 706.02; 2127
- Certificate of correction to perfect priority 201.16; 1481; 1481.03
- Certified copy to avoid reference 201.14; 706.02
- Certified copy not filed 201.14(c)
- Cross-noting on file wrapper/history 202.03
- Date entitled to 201.13 - 201.15
- Design patents 1504.02; 1504.10
- Determination of priority 201.14; 201.15
- Disclosure 201.15
- Duty of disclosure of information cited 2001.06(a)
- English language translation for benefit of date 201.15; 706.02
- Ex parte reexamination to perfect priority 2258
- Filed more than a year before U.S. application 201.14(c)
- Filing in foreign country 140
- First 201.13
- German design applications 201.14(b)
- Great Britain 201.15
- Identification 201.14(d)
- Incorporation by reference in U.S. application 201.13; 201.17
- Inter partes reexamination to perfect priority 2658
- License to file 140; 706.03(s)
- Listed on oath/declaration 201.14; 602
- No claim for priority 201.14(c)
- No reference made in declaration 201.14(c)
- Notice to Office after nonpublication request 1124
- Noting earliest date in file history/wrapper 202.03
- Ordering copies 901.05(c)
- Overcoming reference which is 201.15; 715
- Prior art cited in related 2001.06(a)
- Priority 102; 201.13; 706.02
- Papers not filed 201.14(c)
- Petition for unintentionally delayed claim for priority 201.14; 201.14(a); 201.16; 1002.02(b); 1402; 2258; 2658
- Priority document in parent application 201.14(b)
- Reissue application claiming foreign priority 1402; 1417
- Ribboned 602.04(a)
- Same invention 201.15
- Seal 602.04(a)
- Statutory bar 201.13; 706.02(e); 2135.01
- Time limits to submission 201.14; 201.14(a)
  - Certificate of correction 201.16
  - Reissue 201.14; 201.14(b); 201.16
- Translation required 706.02; 201.15
Foreign countries recognized for priority 201.13
Foreign executed oath 602.04
Foreign filing, Proving priority 201.14; 706.02
Foreign filing date
- Entitled to 201.13; 719.06
- On file wrapper/history 202.03
Foreign filing license 115; 140
- For PCT 115; 1832
Foreign language
- Application 608.01
- Names for months 901.05(a)
- Names for United States 901.05(a)
- Oath or declaration 602.06
Foreign patent
- Art collection 901.07
- Citation 707.05(e); 901.05(a)
- Citation dates and information 901.05(a); 901.05(b); 1851
- Classification 903; 903.03
- Country codes 1851
- Database search 706.02(e)
- Document citation, in PCT 1851
- Duplicates 903.03
- Effective date 901.05(b)
- Family of (INPADOC) 901.06(a)
- In prior art statement 609; 609.01
- Individual country overview 901.05
- Journals 901.06(a)
- Law overview 901.05
- Library 901.06(a)
- Listing at allowance 1302.12
- Oppositions 901.05
- Ordering copies 901.05(c)
- Print of, where obtained 901.05(c)
- Reference 706.02; 901.05
- Statutory bar 201.13; 706.03(s)
- Transfer 903.05
- Translation of 706.02; 901.05(d)
- Unlicensed, same applicant 706.03(s)
Foreign priority (See also Foreign application) 201.13 - 201.16
- Design patent applications 201.14(b); 1504.02; 1504.10
- U.S. filing date computed 201.13; 706.02; 2136.03
Formal matter
- Allowance and issue 1302.01; 1302.02; 1302.04
- Amendment of application in issue 714.16
- Claim allowable except for 706; 707.07(j)
- Review of action involving
- Right of priority
  - Prior foreign application 201.13 - 201.16; 1402; 1417
  - Prior U.S. application 201.11; 1405
- Specification format 608.01
- When taken up 707.07(a); 707.07(e); 707.07(j); 714.02
Former employee restrictions 1702
Form letters and forms
- Abandonment 711.04(c)
- Action Closing Prosecution PTOL-2065 2671.02; 2696
- Advisory Action 706.07(f); 714.13
- Advisory Action – Ex-parte Reexamination PTOL-467 2265; 2296
- Allowability 1302.03
- Amendment received after allowance 608.02(z); 714.16(d); 714.16(e)
- Amendment after Board decision, refused entry 1214.07
- Amendment not fully responsive 714.03
- Amendment unsigned 714.01(a)
- Certificate of Correction form PTO/SB/44 or PTO 1050 1480; 1485
- Certificate under 37 CFR 3.73(b) PTO/SB/96 324
- Change of Correspondence Address, Application PTO/SB/122 403; 2542
- Change of Correspondence Address, Patent PTO/SB/123 403; 2542
- Compact disc transmittal sheet for submission of sequence listing and/or tables to the United States Receiving Office under PCT Administrative Instructions-Part 8 1823.02
- Cover sheet, assignment document 302.07
- Cover sheet, provisional application
  - Cited 201.04(b); 601
  - Reproduced 201.04(b)
- Credit Card Payment Form PTO-2038
  - Cited 509; 1302.04; 1306; 2510
  - Reproduced 509
- D-10 130; 1304.01
- D-11 1103
- DD Form 441 120
- Death of Attorney, Application ready for allowance 406
- Declaration for Plant Patent Application PTO/SB/03 1604
- Declaration for Utility or Design Patent Application PTO/SB/01 602
- Disclaimer in Patent PTO/SB/43 1490
- EFS-Web 502.05
- Election of species 809.02(a)
- Examiner Checklist – Reexamination PTOL-1516 2296; 2687; 2696
- Examiner’s action PTOL-326 707
- Examiner’s answer 1207
- Examiner’s Biweekly Time Worksheet PTO-690E 2238; 2638
- Examiner’s Case Action Worksheet PTO-1472 1705
- Fee Address Indication PTO/SB/47
  - Cited 2540; 2595
  - Reproduced 2595
- Final rejection 706.07
- For Design Applications Only: Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) Request Transmittal PTO/SB/29 201.06(d)
- For Design Applications Only: Receipt For Facsimile Transmitted CPA PTO/SB/29A 201.06(d)
- 45-day Letter 150
- General Office Action, Ex Parte Reexamination PTOL-466 2262; 2296
- General (Ex-Parte) Reexam Communication PTOL-473 (with SSP) 2250; 2266.03; 2296
- Incorrect citation of references, Correction 707.05(g)
- Information disclosure statement (IDS) PTO/SB/08
  - Cited 609.02; 609.03; 609.04(a); 609.05(a); 609.05(b); 609.05(c); 609.06; 609.07; 1893.03(g); 1901.03; 2001.04; 2003; 2004; 2214; 2258.01; 2280; 2287
  - Reproduced 609
- Interference Initial Memorandum 2302; 2304.02; 2304.04(a)
- Interfering Subject Matter, Secrecy order applications 2306
- International application transmittal (PTO-1382) 1830; 1832
- Inter PartesReexamination Communication (With SSP) PTOL-2071 2696
- Inter PartesReexamination Communication (Without SSP) PTOL-2072 2696
- Inter PartesReexamination Notification Re Appeal PTOL-2067 2662; 2674; 2696
- Inter PartesReexamination Transmittal PTOL-2070 2664; 2670; 2677; 2686.01; 2696
- Interview Request, Applicant Initiated PTOL-413A 713.01
- Interview Summary, Examiner Initiated PTOL-413B 713.04; 714.13
- Interview Summary PTOL-474, Reexamination 2281; 2296
- Issue Classification Slip (Blue slip) PTO-328, PTO-270
  - Cited 1107; 1455; 1611
- Issue Classification, Designs PTO-328 903.07; 903.09(a); 1107; 2287
- Issue Classification Form/Sheet/Slip 903.07; 903.07(b); 903.09; 903.09(a); 1302.09; 1302.10; 1302.13
  - Digests 903.07
  - Initialing 903.07(b)
- Issue Fee Transmittal PTOL-85B 307; 324; 512; 1306.01; 1306.02; 1309; 1481.01
- Maintenance Fee Transmittal PTO/SB/45
  - Cited 2515; 2595
  - Reproduced 2595
- Nonpublication Request Under 35 USC 122(b)(2)(B)(i) PTO/SB/35
  - Cited 1121; 1122; 1135
  - Reproduced 1135
- Note to SPRE/Examiner/TC Personnel of Inter-Partes Reexamination Deadlines PTOL-2061 2696
- Notice of Abandonment PTOL-1432 711.04(c)
- Notice of Abandonment under 37 CFR 1.53(f) (CPA) For Design Applications PTO-2019 201.06(d)
- Notice of Allowability PTOL-37 602.03; 608.02(b); 608.02(z); 609.05(b); 710.02(e); 714.13; 812.01; 1302.03; 1302.04; 1455
- Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due PTOL-85 115; 203.08; 406; 509.03; 602.03; 708.02; 710.02(e); 711.02; 711.03(c); 711.06; 714.15; 714.16; 714.16(a); 714.16(d); 1126; 1303; 1303.03; 1304.01; 1305; 1306; 1306.02; 1306.03; 1308.01; 1308.03; 1309; 1512; 2001.04; 2406; 2411; 2411.03; 2575
  - Undelivered 1303.02
- Notice of allowance, Secrecy order applications D-10 130; 1304; 1304.01
- Notice of Appeal from the Examiner to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences PTO/SB/31 1204
- Notice of Assignment of Inter Partes Reexamination PTOL-2060 2696
- Notice of Concurrent Proceedings – Inter Partes Reexamination PTOL-2062 2696
- Notice of Defective Paper – Ex Parte Reexamination PTOL-475 2250; 2266.02; 2266.03; 2272; 2273; 2295; 2296
- Notice of Defective Paper – Inter Partes Reexamination PTOL-2069 2666; 2666.01; 2666.04; 2666.06; 2666.50; 2666.60; 2696
- Notice of Draftsperson’s Patent Drawing Review PTO-948 608.02(b); 608.02(h); 707; 707.07(a)
- Notice of Failure to Comply with Ex Partes Reexamination Request Requirements PTOL-2077 2218
- Notice of Failure to Comply with Inter Partes Reexamination Request Requirements PTOL-2076 2618
- Notice of Failure to Comply with Inter Partes Reexamination Request Fee Requirements PTOL-2057 2696
- Notice of Improper CPA (or FWC) Filing For Utility or Plant Applications Filed Before June 8, 1995 PTO-2011 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- Notice of Improper CPA For Design Applications PTO-2012 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- Notice of Improper Request for Continued Examination (RCE) PTO-2051 706.07(h)
- Notice of Incomplete Nonprovisional Application PTO-1123 506; 601.01(d); 601.01(e); 601.01(f); 601.01(g); 2731; 2732
- Notice of Incomplete Reply (CPA) for Design Applications PTO-2018 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- Notice of Incomplete Request for Inter Partes Reexamination PTO-2059 2696
- Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469 2235; 2250; 2250.01; 2271; 2271.01; 2273; 2287; 2288; 2296
- Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-2068 2687; 2696
- Notice of Intent to Publish Statutory Invention Registration SIR-L 1107
- Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Request Filing Date PTOL-2058 2696
- Notice of Non-Acceptance of Patent Maintenance Fee, PTO-2142 2531
- Notice of Non-Acceptance of Small Entity Patent Maintenance Fee, PTO-2140 2531; 2550
- Notice of Non-Compliant Amendment 714.01(e); 714.03
- Notice of Non-Recordation 302.09
- Notice of Omitted Items in a Nonprovisional Application PTO-1669 201.06(c); 601.01(d); 601.01(g); 2731; 2732
- Notice of Overpayment of Patent Maintenance Fee, PTO-211 2550
- Notice of Recordation 302.09
- Notice of References Cited PTO-892 707; 707.05(a); 707.05(c); 707.05(d); 707.05(e); 2687; 2690
- Notice of Special Acceptance of Patent Maintenance Fee, PTO-2143 2530
- Notice of Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) Acceptance, SIR-N (Form D-11) 1103
- Notice of Withdrawal from Issue under 37 CFR 1.313(b) 1308
- Notice re Appeal and re Defective Brief – Ex Parte Reexamination PTOL-468 2273; 2274; 2296
- Notice to Comply With Requirements
  - Applications For Patent Containing Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino Acid Sequence Disclosures PTO-1661 2427.01; 2427.02; 2731; 2732
- Notice To File Missing Parts of Application 201.03; 601.01(a); 607; 710.02(d); 2731; 2732
  - CPA for Design Applications PTO-2021 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- Notification of Non-Compliant Appeal Brief (use of PTOL-462 discontinued) 1205.03
- Office Action – Ex Parte Reexamination PTOL-466 2262; 2296
- Office Action - Inter Partes Reexamination PTOL-2064
  - Cited 2647.02; 2660; 2671.01; 2696
  - Reproduced 2660
- Office Action Summary PTOL-326 608.02(h)
- Order Granting/Denying Request for Ex-parte Reexamination PTOL-471 2296
- Order Granting/Denying Request for Inter Partes Reexamination PTOL 2063
  - Cited 2646; 2647.02; 2696
  - Reproduced 2647.01
- PCT forms (See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT))
- Petition for express abandonment to Avoid Publication under 37 CFR 1.138(c) Reproduced 1135
- Petition for Revival of an Application
  - For Application Abandoned for Failure to Notify the Office of a Foreign or International Filing PTO/SB/64a
    - Cited 711.03(c); 1124; 1135
    - Reproduced 711.03(c); 1135
  - For Application Abandoned Unavoidably PTO/SB/61 711.03(c)
  - For Application Abandoned Unintentionally PTO/SB/64 711.03(c)
- Plant Patent Application (35 U.S.C. 161) Declaration (37 CFR 1.63) PTO/SB/03 1604
- Power of Attorney to Prosecute Applications before the USPTO PTO/SB/80 402.07
- Provisional application for patent Cover sheet PTO/SB/16 201.04(b)
- PTO-211 2550
- PTO-270 (Blue Slip) 903.07; 903.09; 1107; 1455
- PTO-328 903.07; 1107
- PTO-447A 903.08(a); 903.08(d); 903.08(e)
- PTO-690E 903.03; 2238; 2638
- PTO-850
  - Cited 1002.02(d); 2302; 2304.02; 2304.04(a)
  - Reproduced 2302
- PTO-892
  - Cited 201.15; 608.01; 609.02; 609.05(a); 609.05(c); 707; 707.05; 707.05(a); 707.05(c); 707.05(d); 707.05(e); 707.05(g); 901.06; 1302.04; 1302.12; 1406; 1901.06; 2246; 2257; 2290; 2646; 2657; 2687; 2690
  - Reproduced 707.05(a)
- PTO-948 608.02(b); 608.02(h); 707; 707.07(a)
- PTO-1050 1480; 1480.01; 1485
- PTO-1123 601.01(d); 601.01(e); 601.01(f); 601.01(g); 2731; 2732
- PTO-1382 1830; 1832
- PTO-1472 1705
- PTO-1516 2287; 2295
- PTO-1517 2287; 2295
- PTO-1590 719.05
- PTO-1595 302.07
- PTO-1661 2427.02
- PTO-1669 201.06(c); 601.01(d); 601.01(g); 2731; 2732
- PTO-2011 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO-2012 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO-2018 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO-2019 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO-2021 Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO-2038
  - Cited 509; 1302.04; 1306; 2510
  - Reproduced 509
- PTO-2051 706.07(h)
- PTO-2140 2531; 2550
- PTO-2142 2531
- PTO-2143 2530
- PTO/SB/08A and 08B 609; 609.03; 609.04(a); 609.05(a); 609.05(b); 609.05(c); 609.06; 609.07; 707.05(d); 1406; 1901.03; 1901.06; 2214; 2246; 2257; 2258.01; 2287; 2290; 2614; 2646; 2657; 2687; 2690
- PTOL-37
  - Cited 203.08; 602.03; 608.02(b); 608.02(z); 609.05(b); 707.05(g); 710.02(e); 714.13; 812.01; 1302.03; 1302.04; 1302.12; 1302.14
  - Reproduced 1302.03
- PTOL-85
  - Cited 203.08; 714.16(d); 1303; 1306; 1306.02; 1308; 1308.03
  - Reproduced 1303
- PTOL-85B
  - Cited 307; 324; 509.03; 512; 1303; 1306; 1306.01; 1306.02; 1309; 1481.01
  - Reproduced 1303
- PTOL-85C Reproduced 1303
- PTOL-90 608.02; 707; 714.16; 1207.05; 1208; 1209; 1210; 2427.01
- PTOL-271 714.16(d); 714.16(e)
- PTOL-303 706.07(f); 708.02; 711.03(c); 714.13
- PTOL-319 714.03
- PTOL-324 714
- PTOL-326
  - Cited 201.14(b); 201.14(c); 608.02(h); 706.07; 707; 710.02(b); 812.01
  - Reproduced 707
- PTOL-404 1485
- PTOL-413 713.04; 714.13
- PTOL-461 1215.04
- PTOL-462 (discontinued) 1205.03
- PTOL-462R (discontinued) 2274; 2296
- PTOL-465 2262; 2264; 2283; 2296
- PTOL-466 2262; 2296
- PTOL-467 2250; 2265; 2262.01; 2266.02; 2272; 2296
- PTOL-468 2273; 2274; 2296
- PTOL-469 2287; 2296
- PTOL-471 2296
- PTOL-473 2250; 2266.03; 2296
- PTOL-474 2281; 2296
- PTOL-475 2250; 2266.02; 2266.03; 2272; 2273; 2295; 2296
- PTOL-476 2687
- PTOL-501 2633; 2647.02
- PTOL-1432 711.01; 711.02; 711.04(c)
- PTOL-1516 2296; 2687; 2696
- PTOL-1517 2296; 2687; 2696
- PTOL-2057 2696
- PTOL-2058 2696
- PTOL-2059 2696
- PTOL-2060 2696
- PTOL-2061 2696
- PTOL-2062 2696
- PTOL-2063
  - Cited 2646; 2647.01; 2647.02; 2696
  - Reproduced 2647.01
- PTOL-2064
  - Cited 2647.02; 2660; 2671.01
  - Reproduced 2660
- PTOL-2065 2671.02; 2696
- PTOL-2066 2673.02; 2696
- PTOL-2067 2662; 2674; 2675.02; 2696
- PTOL-2068 2687; 2696
- PTOL-2069
  - Cited 2666; 2666.01; 2666.04; 2666.06; 2666.50; 2666.60; 2696
  - Reproduced 2666.50
- PTOL 2070 2664; 2670; 2677; 2686.01; 2696
- PTOL-2071 2666.06; 2696
- PTOL-2072 2696
- PTO/SB/01 Reproduced 602
- PTO/SB/03 1604
- PTO/SB/06 608.01(n)
- PTO/SB/07 608.01(n)
- PTO/SB/08 608.01; 609.02; 609.03; 609.04(a); 609.05(a); 609.05(b); 609.06; 609.07; 707.05(d); 1302.12
- PTO/SB/08A
  - Cited 609; 609.03; 609.04(a); 609.05(a); 609.05(b); 609.05(c); 609.06; 609.07; 2214; 2246; 2256; 2257; 2258.01; 2290; 2614; 2646; 2657; 2687
  - Reproduced 609
- PTO/SB/08B
  - Cited 609; 609.03; 609.04(a); 609.05(a); 609.05(b); 609.05(c); 609.06; 609.07; 2214; 2246; 2256; 2257; 2258.01; 2290; 2614; 2646; 2657; 2687; 2690
  - Reproduced 609
- PTO/SB/16 201.04(b)
- PTO/SB/24 711.01
- PTO/SB/24A
  - Cited 711.01; 1125; 1135
  - Reproduced 711.01; 1135
- PTO/SB/25 1490
- PTO/SB/26 1490
- PTO/SB/27 1504.30
- PTO/SB/29
  - Cited 201.06(d); 709
  - Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO/SB/29A Reproduced 201.06(d)
- PTO/SB/30 Reproduced 706.07(h)
- PTO/SB/31 1204
- PTO/SB/35
  - Cited 1121; 1122; 1135
  - Reproduced 1135
- PTO/SB/36
  - Cited 1123; 1124; 1135
  - Reproduced 1135
- PTO/SB/37 709
- PTO/SB/42 2246; 2256; 2257; 2258.01; 2262; 2614; 2646; 2657; 2687
- PTO/SB/43 Reproduced 1490
- PTO/SB/44
  - Cited 201.03; 1480; 1480.01; 1485
  - Reproduced 1485
- PTO/SB/45
  - Cited 2515; 2595
  - Reproduced 2595
- PTO/SB/47
  - Cited 2540; 2595
  - Reproduced 2595
- PTO/SB/50 Reproduced 1410
- PTO/SB/51
  - Cited 1410.01; 1414
  - Reproduced 1414
- PTO/SB/51S Reproduced 1414.01
- PTO/SB/52
  - Cited 1410.01; 1414
  - Reproduced 1414
- PTO/SB/56 Reproduced 1415
- PTO/SB/57
  - Cited 2214; 2296
  - Reproduced 2214
- PTO/SB/58
  - Cited 2614; 2696
  - Reproduced 2614
- PTO/SB/61 711.03(c)
- PTO/SB/62 711.03(c)
- PTO/SB/63 711.03(c)
- PTO/SB/64 711.03(c)
- PTO/SB/64a Reproduced 711.03(c); 1135
- PTO/SB/64 PCT 711.03(c)
- PTO/SB/66 2595
- PTO/SB/67 Cited 104
- PTO/SB/68
  - Cited 103; 711.04
  - Reproduced 103
- PTO/SB/80 Reproduced 402.07
- PTO/SB/81
  - Cited 402; 601.02; 1604
  - Reproduced 402; 601.02; 2222; 2622
- PTO/SB/82 Reproduced 402.05
- PTO/SB/83 Reproduced 402.06; 2223; 2623
- PTO/SB/84 405
- PTO/SB/94 1101
- PTO/SB/96 324
- PTO/SB/122 403; 2542
- PTO/SB/123 403; 2542
- PTO/SB/124 403
- PTO/SB/125
  - Cited 403; 2540; 2595
  - Reproduced 403
- Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation PTOL 476 2687
- Recordation Form Cover Sheet PTO-1595 302.07
- Reexamination and processing forms listed 2296; 2696
- Reexamination Clerk Checklist PTOL-1517 2296; 2687; 2696
- Reissue Application
  - Declaration by the Assignee (See also Form letters and forms: PTO/SB/52) 1410.01
  - Declaration by the Inventor (See also Form letters and forms: PTO/SB/51) 1410.01
  - Fee Transmittal Form 1415 (See Form letters and forms: PTO/SB/56)
  - Supplemental Declaration for Reissue Patent Application PTO/SB/51S 1414.01
  - Transmittal (See also Form letters and forms: PTO/SB/50) 1410
- Request for Customer Number PTO/SB/125 403; 2540
- Request for Customer Number Data Change PTO/SB/124 403
- Request for Deferral of Examination 37 CFR 1.103(d) PTO/SB/37 709
- Request for Ex Parte Reexamination Transmittal PTO/SB/57 2214; 2296
- Request for Inter-partes Reexamination Transmittal PTO/SB/58
  - Cited 2614; 2696
  - Reproduced 2614
- Request for Statutory Invention Registration PTO/SB/94 1101
- Request for Withdrawal as Attorney or Agent PTO/SB/83 402.06; 2623
- Rescission of Previous Nonpublication Request (35 U.S.C. 122(b)(2)(B)(ii)) and if Applicable, Notice of Foreign Filing (35 U.S.C. (b)(B)(iii)) PTO/SB/36
  - Cited 1123; 1124; 1135
  - Reproduced 1135
- Response to Rule 1.312 Communication PTOL-271 714.16(d); 714.16(e)
- Restriction requirement 817
- Revocation/Appointment of Power of Attorney or Authorization of Agent PTO/SB/82 2222; 2622
- Right of Appeal Notice PTOL-2066 2673.02; 2696
- SIR-C 1103
- SIR-E 1103
- SIR-F 1103
- SIR-G 1103
- SIR-H 1109
- SIR-I 1103
- SIR J. 1103
- SIR-K 1109
- SIR-L 1107
- SIR-M 1107
- SIR-N (Form D-11) 1103
- Statements to DOE or NASA 151
- Subject matter admits of illustration 608.02(a)
- Terminal Disclaimer to Accompany Petition PTO/SB/63 711.03(c)
- Terminal Disclaimer to Obviate a Double Patenting Rejection over a Prior Patent, PTO/SB/25 1490
- Terminal Disclaimer to Obviate a Provisional Double Patenting Rejection over a Pending Second Application, PTO/SB/25 1490
- Transmittal of Communication to Third Party Requester – Ex Parte Reexamination – PTOL – 465 2262; 2264; 2283; 2296
Form paragraphs (Reproduced)
- 2.01 201.06
- 2.03 201.06(c)
- 2.05 201.07
- 2.06 201.08
- 2.07 201.09
- 2.08 201.10
- 2.09 201.11
- 2.10 201.11
- 2.10.01 201.11
- 2.11 201.11
- 2.11.01 201.11
- 2.13 201.03
- 2.13a 201.03
- 2.13b 201.03
- 2.13c 201.03
- 2.13d 201.03
- 2.13e 201.03
- 2.13f 201.03
- 2.13g 201.03
- 2.13h 201.03
- 2.13.01 201.03
- 2.13.02 201.03
- 2.14 201.03
- 2.14.01 201.03
- 2.15 201.11
- 2.16 201.11
- 2.17 201.11
- 2.18 201.13
- 2.19 201.15
- 2.20 201.14(b)
- 2.21 201.14(c)
- 2.21.01 201.14(a)
- 2.22 201.14(c)
- 2.23 201.14(c)
- 2.24 201.14(c)
- 2.25 201.14(c)
- 2.26 201.14(c)
- 2.27 201.14(c)
- 2.28 201.11
- 2.29 201.11
- 2.30 201.06(d)
- 2.31 201.06(d)
- 2.32 201.06(d)
- 2.33 201.06(d)
- 2.34 201.06(d)
- 2.35 201.06(d)
- 2.38 201.11
- 2.39 201.11
- 2.40 201.11
- 4.01 403
- 4.02 406
- 4.03 406
- 4.04 406
- 4.06 407
- 4.07 407
- 4.08 407
- 4.09 402
- 4.10 401
- 5.01 502
- 5.01.01 501
- 5.02 512
- 5.03 903.08
- 5.04 512
- 5.05 509.03
- 6.01 608.01(a)
- 6.02 608.01(a)
- 6.02.01 605.04(a)
- 6.03 602.01
- 6.05 602; 602.03; 605.01
- 6.05.01 602
- 6.05.02 605.02
- 6.05.03 605.01
- 6.05.05 602.03
- 6.05.06 602.03
- 6.05.07 602.03
- 6.05.08 602
- 6.05.11 604.01
- 6.05.12 604.01
- 6.05.13 602.04
- 6.05.14 602.04(a)
- 6.05.15 602.03
- 6.05.16 602.01
- 6.05.17 602
- 6.05.18 605.04(b)
- 6.05.19 605.03
- 6.05.20 602
- 6.06 603; 604.01
- 6.07 604.02
- 6.08 604.04(a)
- 6.09.01 605.03
- 6.11 606.01
- 6.11.01 606.01
- 6.12 608.01(b)
- 6.13 608.01(b)
- 6.14 608.01(b)
- 6.15 608.01(b)
- 6.16 608.01(b)
- 6.16.01 608.01(b)
- 6.17 608.01(j)
- 6.18 608.01(n)
- 6.18.01 608.01(m)
- 6.19 608.01(p)
- 6.19.01 608.01(p)
- 6.19.02 201.17
- 6.19.03 608.01(p)
- 6.20 608.01(v)
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- 6.22.01 608.02(d)
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- 6.23 608.02
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- 6.26 608.02(b)
- 6.27 608.02(b)
- 6.28 608.01(q)
- 6.28.01 608.01(q)
- 6.28.02 608.01(q)
- 6.29 608.01
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- 6.31 608.01
- 6.32 608.01
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- 6.36 608.02(d)
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- 6.37 608.02(h)
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- 6.40 608.02(p)
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- 6.43 608.02(p)
- 6.46 602.03
- 6.47 608.02(p)
- 6.48 608.03(a); 714.16(d)
- 6.49 609.05(a)
- 6.49.01 609.05(a)
- 6.49.02 609.05(a)
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- 6.49.05 609.05(a)
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- 6.51 609.05(a)
- 6.52 609.04(b)
- 6.53 609.03
- 6.54 609.03
- 6.55 609.03
- 6.56 1134.01
- 6.57 1134
- 6.60.01 608.05
- 6.60.02 608.05
- 6.61.01 608.05
- 6.61.02 608.05
- 6.62 608.05
- 6.63.01 608.05(b)
- 6.63.02 608.05(b)
- 6.64.01 608.05(a)
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- 6.70.01 608.05
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- 7.01 702.01
- 7.02 702.01
- 7.04 706.03(a)
- 7.05 706.03(a)
- 7.05.01 706.03(a)
- 7.05.02 706.03(a)
- 7.05.03 706.03(a)
- 7.05.04 706.03(a)
- 7.05.05 706.03(k)
- 7.05.06 706.03(k)
- 7.07 706.02(i)
- 7.08 706.02(i)
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- 7.10 706.02(i)
- 7.11 706.02(i)
- 7.12 706.02(i)
- 7.12.01 706.02(i)
- 7.13 706.02(i)
- 7.14 706.02(i)
- 7.15 706.02(i); 804.03
- 7.15.01 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(i); 804.03
- 7.15.02 706.02(i); 804.03
- 7.15.03 706.02(i)
- 7.16 706.02(i)
- 7.17 706.02(i)
- 7.18 706.02(i)
- 7.19 706.02(i); 804.03
- 7.20 706.02(m)
- 7.20.01 706.02(m)
- 7.20.02 706.02(m)
- 7.20.04 706.02(m)
- 7.20.05 706.02(m)
- 7.21 706.02(m); 804.03
- 7.21.01 706.02(m); 804.03
- 7.21.02 706.02(m); 804.03
- 7.22 706.02(m)
- 7.23 706.02(m)
- 7.27 706.02(m)
- 7.28 706.03(o)
- 7.29 608.01
- 7.29.01 608.01(m)
- 7.29.02 608.01(m)
- 7.29.03 608.01(m)
- 7.29.04 608.01
- 7.30.01 706.03(c)
- 7.30.02 706.03(d)
- 7.31.01 706.03(c)
- 7.31.02 706.03(c)
- 7.31.03 706.03(c)
- 7.31.04 706.03(c)
- 7.33.01 706.03(c)
- 7.34 706.03(d)
- 7.34.01 706.03(d)
- 7.34.02 706.03(d)
- 7.34.03 706.03(d)
- 7.34.04 706.03(d)
- 7.34.05 706.03(d)
- 7.34.06 706.03(d)
- 7.34.07 706.03(d)
- 7.34.08 706.03(d)
- 7.34.09 706.03(d)
- 7.34.10 706.03(d)
- 7.34.11 706.03(d)
- 7.34.12 706.03(d)
- 7.34.13 706.03(d)
- 7.34.14 706.03(d)
- 7.34.15 706.03(d)
- 7.35 706.03(d)
- 7.35.01 706.03(d)
- 7.36 608.01(n)
- 7.37 707.07(f)
- 7.37.01 707.07(f)
- 7.37.02 707.07(f)
- 7.37.03 707.07(f)
- 7.37.04 707.07(f)
- 7.37.05 707.07(f)
- 7.37.06 707.07(f)
- 7.37.07 707.07(f)
- 7.37.08 707.07(f)
- 7.37.09 707.07(f)
- 7.37.10 707.07(f)
- 7.37.11 707.07(f)
- 7.37.12 707.07(f)
- 7.37.13 707.07(f)
- 7.38 707.07(f)
- 7.38.01 707.07(f)
- 7.38.02 707.07(f)
- 7.39 706.07
- 7.39.01 706.07
- 7.40 706.07(a)
- 7.40.01 706.07(a)
- 7.40.02 706.07(a)
- 7.41 706.07(b)
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- 7.41.02 706.07(g)
- 7.41.03 706.07(b)
- 7.42 706.07(d)
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- 7.42.02 706.07(g)
- 7.42.03 706.07(g)
- 7.42.031 706.07(g)
- 7.42.04 706.07(h)
- 7.42.05 706.07(h)
- 7.42.06 706.07(h)
- 7.42.07 706.07(h)
- 7.42.08 706.07(h)
- 7.42.08.AE 708.02(a)
- 7.42.09 706.07(b); 706.07(h)
- 7.42.10 706.07(h)
- 7.42.11 706.07(h)
- 7.42.12 706.07(h)
- 7.42.13 706.07(h)
- 7.42.14 706.07(h)
- 7.42.15 706.07(h)
- 7.42.16 706.07(h)
- 7.43 608.01(n); 707.07(j)
- 7.43.01 707.07(j)
- 7.43.02 707.07(j)
- 7.43.03 707.07(a)
- 7.43.04 707.07(j)
- 7.44 608.01(o)
- 7.45 608.01(n)
- 7.46 714.01(e)
- 7.48 706.03(u)
- 7.49 706.03(u)
- 7.50 706.04
- 7.51 714.14
- 7.51.AE 708.02(a)
- 7.52 709
- 7.53 709
- 7.54 709
- 7.54.01 709
- 7.54.02 709
- 7.56 709
- 7.56.01 709
- 7.56.02 709
- 7.57 715
- 7.58 715
- 7.59 715
- 7.60 715
- 7.61 715
- 7.62 715
- 7.63 715
- 7.64 715
- 7.65 716
- 7.66 716
- 7.66.01 716
- 7.66.02 716
- 7.66.03 716
- 7.66.04 716
- 7.66.05 716
- 7.81 707.05(g)
- 7.82 707.05(g)
- 7.82.01 707.05(g)
- 7.82.03 707.05(a)
- 7.83 707.05(g)
- 7.84 713.04
- 7.84.AE 708.02(a)
- 7.84.01 714.01(a)
- 7.84.01.AE 708.02(a)
- 7.85 714.16(d)
- 7.86 714.16(e)
- 7.87 714.16(d)
- 7.90 711.02
- 7.91 711.02(a)
- 7.95 704.12(c); 714.03
- 7.95.AE 708.02(a)
- 7.95.01 714.03
- 7.96 707.05
- 7.97 707.07(j)
- 7.98 710.02(e)
- 7.98.01 710.02(e)
- 7.98.02 711.02
- 7.100 707; 707.08
- 7.101 707; 707.08
- 7.102 707; 707.08
- 7.103 707
- 7.104 706.02(c)
- 7.105 704.14(a)
- 7.105.01 704.14(a)
- 7.105.02 704.14(a)
- 7.106 704.14(a)
- 7.107 704.14(a)
- 7.108 704.14(a)
- 7.109 704.14(a)
- 7.110 704.14(a)
- 7.111 704.14(a)
- 7.112 704.14(a)
- 7.113 704.14(a)
- 7.114 704.14(a)
- 7.115 704.14(a)
- 7.116 704.14(a)
- 7.117 704.14(a)
- 7.118 704.14(a)
- 7.119 704.14(a)
- 7.120 704.14(a)
- 7.121 704.14(a)
- 7.122 704.14(a)
- 7.123 704.14(a)
- 7.124 704.14(a)
- 7.125 704.14(a)
- 7.126 704.14(a)
- 7.126.AE 708.02(a)
- 7.127 704.14(a)
- 7.147 714.03(a)
- 7.169 714.13
- 7.204 724.06
- 7.205 724.06
- 7.206 724.06
- 7.207 724.06
- 7.208 724.06
- 7.209 724.06
- 7.210 724.06
- 7.211 724.06
- 7.212 724.06
- 7.213 724.06
- 7.214 719.01
- 8.01 809.02(a)
- 8.02 809.02(a)
- 8.03 821.01; 821.04(a)
- 8.04 821.03
- 8.05 821.01
- 8.06 821.02
- 8.07 821.02
- 8.08 817
- 8.09 817
- 8.10 817
- 8.11 817
- 8.12 809.03
- 8.13 817
- 8.14 806.05(j)
- 8.14.01 806.05(j)
- 8.15 806.05(c)
- 8.16 806.05(d); 806.05(j)
- 8.17 806.05(e)
- 8.18 806.05(f)
- 8.19 806.05(g)
- 8.20 806.05(h)
- 8.20.02 806.06
- 8.20.03 806.06
- 8.21.01 817
- 8.21.02 817
- 8.21.03 817
- 8.21.04 806.05(f); 806.05(h); 817; 1893.03(d)
- 8.22 818.03(b)
- 8.23 812.01
- 8.23.01 812.01
- 8.23.02 817
- 8.24 821.01
- 8.25 821.01
- 8.25.01 821.02
- 8.25.02 818.03(c); 821.02
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- 8.27 804.03
- 8.28 804.03
- 8.28.01 804.03
- 8.29 822
- 8.30 804
- 8.31 804
- 8.32 804
- 8.33 804
- 8.34 804
- 8.35 804
- 8.36 804
- 8.37 804
- 8.38 804
- 8.39 804
- 8.41 803.03
- 8.42 821.04(b)
- 8.43 821.04(b)
- 8.45 821.04(b)
- 8.46 821.04(a)
- 8.47 821.04(a)
- 8.47.01 821.04(a)
- 8.49 821.04(a)
- 8.50 821.04(a)
- 10.01 1308
- 10.13 1481.02
- 10.14 1481.02
- 10.15 1481.02
- 10.16 1481.02
- 10.17 1481.02
- 10.18 1481.02
- 10.19 1451
- 10.20 1002
- 12.109.01 1205.01; 1215.04
- 12.110 1205.01
- 12.111 1205.01
- 12.119 1214.07
- 12.119.01 1214.06
- 12.119.02 1214.06
- 12.120 1214.06
- 12.121 1215.03
- 12.149 1207.02
- 12.150.01 1207.02
- 12.150.04 1207.02
- 12.150.05 1207.02
- 12.150.06 1207.02
- 12.151 1207.02
- 12.151.01 1207.02
- 12.152 1207.02
- 12.152.01 1207.02
- 12.153 1207.02
- 12.153.01 1207.02
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- 12.154.04 1207.02
- 12.154.05 1207.02
- 12.156 1207.02
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- 12.157.01 1207.02
- 12.157.02 1207.02
- 12.159 1207.02
- 12.161 1207.02
- 12.162 1207.02
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- 12.162.02 1207.02
- 12.163 1209
- 12.179 1207.02
- 12.179.01 1207.02
- 12.179.02 1207.03
- 12.181 1208
- 12.182 1208
- 12.184 1207.05
- 12.185 1207.05
- 12.186 1207.05; 1215.03
- 12.187 1207.04
- 13.01 1302.02
- 13.02 1302.04
- 13.02.01 1302.04
- 13.02.02 706.07(f); 1302.04
- 13.03 1302.14
- 13.03.01 1302.14
- 13.04 1308.03
- 13.05 1308.03
- 13.06 1302.04
- 13.07 1302.01
- 13.08 1302.01
- 13.09 609.04(b)
- 13.10 714.16
- 14.01 1414
- 14.01.01 1414
- 14.01.02 1414
- 14.01.03 1414
- 14.01.04 1414
- 14.01.05 1414
- 14.05.02 1444
- 14.06 1442.01
- 14.07 1442.03
- 14.08 1442.02
- 14.09 1442.02
- 14.10 1442.02
- 14.11 1442.02
- 14.11.01 1418
- 14.12 1412.03
- 14.13 1412.03
- 14.14 1444
- 14.15 1410.01
- 14.16 1410.01
- 14.16.01 1410.01
- 14.16.02 1410.01
- 14.16.03 1410.01
- 14.16.04 1410.01
- 14.16.06 1410.01
- 14.17 1412.02
- 14.20.01 1453
- 14.21.01 1453
- 14.21.09 1448
- 14.22 1448
- 14.22.01 1411.02
- 14.23 1490
- 14.23.01 1490
- 14.24 1490
- 14.25 1490
- 14.26 1490
- 14.26.01 1490
- 14.26.02 1490
- 14.26.03 1490
- 14.26.04 1490
- 14.26.05 1490
- 14.26.06 1490
- 14.26.07 1490
- 14.27.01 1490
- 14.27.011 1490
- 14.27.02 1490
- 14.27.03 1490
- 14.27.04 1490
- 14.27.06 1490
- 14.27.07 1490
- 14.27.08 1490
- 14.28 1490
- 14.29 1490
- 14.29.01 1490
- 14.29.02 1490
- 14.30 1490
- 14.30.01 1490
- 14.30.02 1490
- 14.32 1490
- 14.33 1490
- 14.34 1490
- 14.35 1490
- 14.35.01 1490
- 14.36 1490
- 14.36.01 1490
- 14.37 1490
- 14.38 1490
- 14.39 1490
- 15.01 1504.10
- 15.01.01 1504.10
- 15.02 1504.10
- 15.03 1504.10
- 15.03.01 1504.02
- 15.04 1504.10
- 15.05 1503.01
- 15.05.01 1503.01
- 15.05.03 1503.02
- 15.05.04 1503.02
- 15.05.041 1503.02
- 15.05.05 1503.02
- 15.07 1503.02
- 15.07.01 1504.01
- 15.08 1504.01(c)
- 15.08.01 1504.01(c)
- 15.08.02 1504.01(d)
- 15.08.03 1504.01(d)
- 15.09 1504.01
- 15.10 1504.01(e)
- 15.11 1504.02
- 15.12 1504.02
- 15.13 1504.02
- 15.14 1504.02
- 15.15 1504.02
- 15.15.01 1504.02
- 15.15.02 1504.02
- 15.15.03 1504.02
- 15.15.04 1504.02
- 15.16 1504.02
- 15.17 1504.02
- 15.18 1504.03
- 15.19 1504.03
- 15.19.01 1504
- 15.19.02 1504.03
- 15.19.03 1504.03
- 15.19.04 1504.03
- 15.19.05 1504.03
- 15.19.06 1504.03
- 15.19.07 1504.03
- 15.20.02 1504.04
- 15.21 1504.04
- 15.21.01 1504.04
- 15.22 1504.04
- 15.22.02 1504.04
- 15.22.03 1504.04
- 15.23 1504.06
- 15.23.01 1504.06
- 15.23.02 1504.06
- 15.24 1504.06
- 15.24.03 1504.06
- 15.24.04 1504.06
- 15.24.05 1504.02
- 15.24.06 1504.06
- 15.24.07 1504.06
- 15.24.08 1504.06
- 15.25 1504.06
- 15.26 1504.20
- 15.27 1504.05
- 15.27.01 1504.05
- 15.27.02 1504.05
- 15.27.03 1504.05
- 15.27.04 1504.05
- 15.27.05 1504.05
- 15.27.06 1504.05
- 15.27.07 1504.05
- 15.27.08 1504.05
- 15.28 1504.05
- 15.28.01 1504.05
- 15.28.02 1504.05
- 15.29 1504.05
- 15.30 1504.05
- 15.31 1504.05
- 15.33 1504.05
- 15.34 1504.05
- 15.35 1504.05
- 15.36 1504.05
- 15.37 1504.05
- 15.38 1504.02; 1504.03
- 15.39 1504.03
- 15.39.01 1504.03
- 15.39.02 1504.03
- 15.40 1504.03
- 15.40.01 1504.02; 1504.03
- 15.41 1503.01
- 15.42 1502
- 15.43 1502
- 15.44 1502; 1504.01
- 15.45 1503.02
- 15.46.01 1503.01
- 15.47 1503.01
- 15.47.01 1503.01
- 15.48 1503.02
- 15.49 1503.02
- 15.50 1503.02
- 15.50.01 1503.02
- 15.50.02 1503.02
- 15.50.03 1503.02
- 15.50.04 1503.02
- 15.50.05 1503.02
- 15.51 1504.04
- 15.51.01 1504.04
- 15.55 1512
- 15.55.01 1512
- 15.58 1504
- 15.58.01 1504.04
- 15.59 1503.01
- 15.60 1503.01
- 15.61 1503.01
- 15.62 1503.01
- 15.63 1503.01
- 15.64 1503.01
- 15.65 1504.04
- 15.66 1504
- 15.66.01 1504
- 15.67 1504.03; 1504.06
- 15.68 1504.03; 1504.06
- 15.69.01 1504.04
- 15.70 1504.03
- 15.72 1504
- 15.73 1504.04
- 15.74 1504.20
- 15.75 1504.20
- 15.75.01 1504.20
- 15.76 1512
- 15.85 1504.04
- 15.90 1504
- 16.01 1605
- 16.02 1605
- 16.03 1605
- 16.04 1610
- 16.05 1612
- 16.05.01 1612
- 16.06 1606
- 16.07 1606
- 16.08 1610
- 16.09 1605
- 16.10 1605
- 16.11 1606
- 16.12 1610
- 16.13 1607
- 18.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.02 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.02.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.02.02 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.03 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.04 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.04.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.05 1850
- 18.06 1850
- 18.06.01 1850
- 18.06.02 1850
- 18.07 1850
- 18.07.01 1850
- 18.07.02 1850
- 18.07.03 1850
- 18.07.03a 1850
- 18.07.03b 1850
- 18.07.03c 1850
- 18.08 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.08.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.09 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.10 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.11 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.12.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.13.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.14.01 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.15 1845.01; 1878.01
- 18.18 1850; 1893.03(d)
- 18.19 1893.03(d)
- 18.20 1893.03(d)
- 18.21 1893.03(d)
- 18.22 1893.03(d)
- 19.01 1901.06
- 19.02 1901.06
- 19.02.AE 708.02(a)
- 22.01 2246
- 22.01.01 2242; 2642; 2258.01
- 22.02 2247
- 22.03 2258
- 22.04 2260
- 22.04.01 2265
- 22.05 2285; 2686.03
- 22.06 2287
- 22.07 2282
- 22.08 2282
- 22.09 2271
- 22.10 2271
- 22.11 2258
- 22.12 2250; 2666.01
- 22.13 2250
- 22.14 2266.01
- 22.15 2266.03
- 22.16 2287
- 22.20 2286
- 22.73 2246
- 23.01 2302
- 23.02 2308
- 23.04 2304.04(b)
- 23.06 2304.02
- 23.06.01 2304.02
- 23.06.02 2304.02
- 23.06.03 2304.02
- 23.06.04 2304.02
- 23.06.05 2304.02
- 23.06.06 2304.02
- 23.14 715.05; 2304.02(c)
- 23.14.01 715.05; 2304.02(c)
- 23.19 2304.01(c)
- 24.01 2427.01
- 24.01.AE 708.02(a)
- 24.02 2427.01
- 24.02.AE 708.02(a)
- 24.03 2427.01
- 24.03.AE 708.02(a)
- 24.04 2427.01
- 24.05 2427.01
- 24.05.01 2427.01
- 26.01 2646
- 26.02 2647
- 26.03 2658; 2671.01
- 26.03.01 2658
- 26.04 2660
- 26.05 2660; 2671.01
- 26.05.01 2666.01
- 26.06 2666.30
- 26.07 2671.02
- 26.08 2673.02
- 26.09 2675.02
- 26.10 2675.02
- 26.11 2675.02
- 26.50 2677
- 26.50.01 2677
- 26.50.02 2677
- 26.50.03 2677
- 26.50.04 2677
- 26.50.05 2677
- 26.50.06 2677
- 26.51 2677
- 26.51.01 2677
- 26.51.02 2677
- 26.52 2677
- 26.52.01 2677
- 26.52.02 2677
- 26.52.03 2677
- 26.52.04 2677
- 26.52.05 2677
- 26.53 2677
- 26.53.01 2677
- 26.53.02 2677
- 26.54 2677
- 26.54.01 2677
- 26.54.011 2677
- 26.54.012 2677
- 26.54.02 2677
- 26.55 2677
- 26.55.01 2677
- 26.55.011 2677
- 26.55.02 2677
- 26.56 2677
- 26.56.01 2677
- 26.56.02 2677
- 26.56.03 2677
- 26.57 2677
- 26.57.01 2677
- 26.57.02 2677
- 26.57.03 2677
- 26.59 2677
- 26.59.01 2677
- 26.60 2677
- 26.61 2677
- 26.61.01 2677
- 26.61.02 2677
- 26.61.03 2677
- 26.62 2677
- 26.63 2677
- 26.64 2677
- 26.65 2679
- 26.65.01 2679
- 26.66 2679
- 26.66.01 2679
- 26.66.02 2679
- 26.67 2678
- 26.67.01 2682
- 26.68 2666.06
- 26.69 2687
- 26.70 2687
- 26.73 2646; 2660; 2671.01
- 26.80 2686.04
Fraud (See also Duty of disclosure, Inequitable conduct, and Deceptive intent)
- Avoiding charge of 2004
- Civil litigation 1216.02; 2001.06(c)
- Claims invalidated 2016
- Inventorship 201.03
- On the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 509.03; 1448
- Protest 1901; 1901.02; 1901.06; 2013
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2014; 2216; 2217; 2258; 2280
  - Inter partes 2014; 2658; 2684
- Reissue 1448; 2012
- Small entity status 509.03
Fraudulent 706.03(a)
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 103; 1002.02(k)(2)
Frivolous invention 706.03(a)
Full faith and credit in prior Examiner’s action
- Allowed claims 706.04
- Interview 713.01
- Search 704.10
Full name of applicant 605.04(b)
Full signatory authority 1004
Function of machine rejection 2173.05(v)
Functional claim, rejection 2114; 2173.05(g)
Functional equivalents 2144.06
Functionality in design patent applications 1504.01(c)

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G

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Gazette, Official (See Official Gazette (O.G. ))
Gazette, PCT 1801; 1823.01; 1857
Gebrauchsmuster 201.13; 201.14(d); 901.05(b)
General Counsel
- Hand-delivery of papers to 502
- Mailing address 501
- Petitions and matters decided by 1002.02(k)(1)
General information 1730
"General Information Concerning Patents" booklet ; 703
General power of attorney for international application 1807
Generic claim
- Allowable 808.01(a); 821.04(a)
  - Transitional application 803.03(b)
- Definition 806.04(d)
- Markush group 803.02; 2173.05(h)
- Patentably distinct over other species 806.04(h)
- Presented after issue of patent 806.04(i)
- Rejection 809.02(a)
- Species claims lacking 806.01; 818.02(b)
- Support for scope of 706.03(c); 2164.08
- Traverse of rejection in lieu of election 818.03(b); 818.03(d)
Genetic sequence (See Biotechnology, Nucleotide sequences, and and Sequence rules)
Genus and species 806.01; 806.04; 806.04(b); 806.04(d); 806.04(e); 806.04(f); 806.04(h); 806.04(i); 808.01(a); 809.02(a)
- Anticipation of 2131.02
- Obviousness of 2144.08
German priority document 901.05
Geschmacksmuster 201.14(b)
Good faith (See Duty of candor and good faith)
Government registers 302; 302.07
Government license clause 310
Government-owned application, special 708.01
Graphic symbols 608.02
Great Britain, complete specification 201.15
Great Britain, provisional specification 201.15
Greek letter Phi usage 608.01(g)
Group director (See Director of Technology Center)
Group, International classification 903.09
Guardian, Authority recorded 409.02
Guardian of legally incapacitated inventor 409.02
Guidelines
- Drafting an application 601
- Drug disclosures 2107.01; 2107.03
- Effective date under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) 706.02(f)(1)
- Electronic mail 502.03
- Examination of computer-related inventions 2106
- Inventorship 605.07
- Genus-species 2144.08
- Grant of reexamination request 2242
- Handling of citation in patent 1920
- Internet Usage 502.03; 904.02(c)
- Means/step plus function 2181
- Utility 2107
  - Legal precedent 2107 - 2107.03
- Written Description 2163

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

H

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Hague Agreement (See also Treaties) 201.13; 1504.10
Hand delivery of papers 501; 502; 710.02(e); 714.13
Handling of citation of prior art 2206
Handling of mail and papers 500
- In ex-parte reexamination 2270
- In inter-partes reexamination 2670
Handling of protest 1901.05
Hatch-Waxman Act 2750
Hearing on appeal 1209
Heir as applicant (See also Administrator or executor) 409.01; 409.01(a); 409.01(d); 1303.03
Help line (telephone number) 1730
Hidden end use in design applications 1504.01(c)
Hidden feature in design applications
- Anticipation 1504.02
- Enablement 1504.04
- Obviousness 1504.03
HIV/AIDS, Petitions 708.02
Hours of operation 510
Holiday, federal (See Federal Holiday)
Hyperlinks in specification 608.01; 608.01(p)

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

I

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

ICIREPAT country codes 201.14(d)
ICIREPAT identification numbers 201.14(d)
Icon, computer generated 1504.01(a)
Identification of papers 502; 503
Identification of priority application 201.14(d)
Identity of inventors under 35 U.S.C. 119 201.13
Idiomatic English 608.01(q)
Illustration (See Drawings)
Image File Wrapper (IFW)
- Artifact 608.02
- Paper scanning 508; 1410.01
- Power to inspect not accepted 104
- Public access 103; 1730
Image File Wrapper (IFW) forms
- Issue Classification Form/Sheet/Slip, reproduced 1302.09
- Cited 903.07; 903.07(b); 903.09; 903.09(a); 1302.10; 1302.13
Implied election 818.02; 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
Improper comments, inter partes reexamination 2667
Improper joinder, effect on patent 805
Improper multiple dependent claim 608.01(n)
Improvement (Jepson claim) 2129
Inaccurate claim 2173.03
Inappropriate papers in inter partes reexamination 2667
Incoming-Mail Section (See also Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing)) 501
Incomplete amendments, time for completing 710.02(c); 714.03
Incomplete application 506; 601.01(d); 601.01(e)
- Claims omitted 601.01(e)
- Definition 203.06
- Drawing 506; 601.01(f)
- Invalid oath 604.06
- Return of filing fee 506
- Using again 608.01(u)
Incomplete claim, rejection 706.03(c); 706.03(d); 2172.01
Incomplete protest 1901.03
Incomplete requests for ex parte reexamination 2227
Incomplete requests for inter-partes reexamination 2627
Incomplete response 711.03(a); 714.03
- Time for completing 710.02(c); 711; 714.03
Incorporation by reference 103; 201.06(c); 201.11; 201.17; 608.01(p); 2163.07; 2163.07(b); 2173.05(s)
- Foreign priority application 201.13; 2163.07
- In an Examiner’s Answer during inter partes reexamination 2677
- Public access to incorporated application 103
Incorrect citation of reference 707.05(g); 710.06
Indefinite claim 706.03(d); 2171 - 2174
- Alternative phrase 2173.01; 2173.05(h)
- Antecedent basis 2173.05(e)
- Breadth compared 2173.04
- Design applications 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- International application 1845; 1874
- Multiplicity 2173.05(n)
- Must be considered 2143.03
- Nonelected claims 821
- Numerical ranges 2173.05(c)
- Prolix 2173.05(m)
- Rejections 706.03(d)
- 35 U.S.C. 112, first and second paragraph compared 2174; 2185
- 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph limitations 2181; 2185
Independent claim 608.01(n)
Independent, definition 802.01
Independent inventions 802; 802.01; 803; 803.02; 806; 806.04(b); 806.06; 808.01(a)
Independent inventor (See also Applicant, Inventor, and Pro Se applicant)
- Small entity status 509.02
Index of claims 707.07(i); 719.04
Index of patents, Classification, Numerical 902.03(a)
Index to the U.S. Patent Classification 902.01(a)
Industrial Security Manual (ISM) 120
Inequitable conduct (See also Duty of disclosure, Fraud) 2001.06(c); 2010
- Best mode 2165
- Claims invalidated 2016
- Finding affects all claims 2016
- Protest 1901; 1901.06; 2013
- Reexamination 2014
- Reissue 1448; 2012
Informal application 506; 702.01
- Primary examiner’s attention required 1004
- Search 702.01; 704.01
Informal drawing (no longer applies) 507; 608.02(b)
Informality, Action calling attention to 707.07(a); 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
Information Center (See Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC))
Information Disclosure Statements (See also Prior art) 201.06(d); 609; 1406
- Electronic Processing of 609.08
- Relationship to requirement for information 704.14(d)
Information material to patentability ) (See also Duty of disclosure) 2001.04; 2001.05
- Copending application 2001.06(b)
- Copied claims 2001.06(d)
- Foreign application 2001.06(a)
- Litigation 2001.06(c)
Information on status of application referred to in patent 102
Information reasonably necessary for finding prior art 704.11
Information sent to applicant for guidance 703
Information submitted with protest 1901.02
Infringement action
- Statute of limitations 2204
INID codes or numbers 901.04; 901.05(b); 2290
Initial data capture for printing 1309
Initial examiner review of reissue 1443
Ink color
- Black 707.10; 719.02; 719.05
- Red 714.18; 719.02
- Permanent 608.01; 714.07; 714.19
Inoperativeness 2164.07; 2164.08(b)
- Affidavit 716.07
INPADOC 901.06(a); 905.06
Inquiries, Official and Congressional 203.08(a)
Inquiries regarding patent search, examination, or validity 1701
Inquiry as to status of application 102; 203.08
- Application published 1128; 1134
Insanity 409; 409.02
Inspection
- Amendment 714.05
- Application 103; 104
- Approval of power 104
- Assignment 301.01
- Authorization 402
- By assignee 104; 106; 106.01
- By excluded or suspended attorney or agent 105
- By inventor 106
- By licensee 106.01
- Control of, By assignee 106
- File Information Unit (Record room) 103
- International application 110
- Patent file 103
- Petition 103
- Record room 103
- Reissue application 103
- Right of 103; 104; 106
Insufficient disclosure 608.01(p); 706.03(c); 2161
Insufficient reply 710.02(c); 711.02(a); 711.03(a); 714.03; 2266.01; 2666.30; 2671
Int Cl (International Patent Classification) 903.09
Intellectual property compared 1512
Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-273) 706.02(a)
Intent to claim 706
Inter-American Convention (See also Treaties) 201.13
Interference 2300
- Abandonment, suppression or concealment, notice 2138
- Access to files 2306; 2307.02
- Action after 2308
- Action after ex-parte reexamination 2284
- Action after inter partes reexamination 2686.02
- Action suggesting claims 2304.04
- Administrative patent judge handles 2301
- Allowance of losing party’s application (Estoppel) 2308.03
- Applicant suggests interference with patent 2304.02
- Applications in different Technology Centers 2304.01(b)
- Basis of practice 2138.01; 2301.03
- Between application and patent 2301.03
- Between applications 2301.03
- Cancellation of losing party’s claims 2308.03(a)
- Claim of foreign priority 2304.01(c)
- Claim interpretation 2301.03
- Claim presented corresponding to patent claim 2301.03 - 2304.05
- Claims, overlapping in two applications of same party 2304.05
- Claims, suggesting 1003; 2304.04(b)
- Claims corresponding to count support in specification 2163.03
- Common ownership 2304.05
- Conception 2138.01; 2138.04
- Concurrent with appeal 2307.05
- Copending ex parte reexamination 2284
- Copending inter partes reexamination 2686; 2686.02
- Count, defined 2301.02
- Counts, formulation of 2301.01
- Dates, difference in effective filing 2303
  - TC Director’s attention required 1003
- Declaration 2301
- Definitions 2301.02
- Determining priority 2138.01
- Diligence, reasonable 2138.01; 2138.06
- Disclaimer, statutory 706.03(u); 710.02(d)
- Disposal count 1705
- Drawing prints 608.02(m)
- Election of invention not affected 819
- Entry of amendment filed in connection with motion 2308.02
- Estoppel 715; 2138.01; 2308.03
- Evidence 2138.04
- Examination, Completion of 2303
- Examiner suggestion 2304.04
- Final disposal of claims 2308.01
- Fraud 2010
- Generic claims 2304.04(b)
- Identification of patent, corresponding claims presented 2304.02(a)
- Inequitable conduct 2010
- Inter partes questions not to be discussed ex parte 2307.01
- Interference Practice Specialist 2301; 2302; 2303; 2304.04(a); 2304.04(b); 2307.04; 2308.03
- Interference-in fact, no 2308.03(b)
- Interfering Subject Matter 2301.03
- Judicial review 1216; 1216.01
- Jurisdiction over interference 2307; 2308
- Losing party, may obtain copy of opponent’s application 2308.03(a)
- Losing party, treatment of 2308.03(a)
- Lost counts 715
- Motions
  - Decision 2308.02
  - Stay 2686.02
  - Suspend 2686.02
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration or Department of Energy Ownership 2309
- Order to show cause 2305
- Patent in different Technology Center 2304.01(b)
- Patentee suggestion 2304.03
- Petition refusal to initiate 1002.02(c)
- Power of attorney filed 402.08
- Preparation of papers by examiner 2302
- Priority time charts 2138.01
- Provoking
  - In ex parte reexamination 2284
  - In inter partes reexamination 2686.02
- Public use proceeding 706.03(v)
- Reduction to practice 2138.01; 2138.05
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte, copending with interference 2284
  - Inter partes, copending with interference 2686; 2686.02
- References pertinent to motions, made of record 1302.12
- Referring an Interference to the Board, Preliminaries to 2304.01
- Reissue application 1449.02; 2303.02
- Reissue application copending with interference on original patent 1449.01
- Reply to suggestion for claims 710.02(c); 2304.04(b)
- Requirements for interference 2302
- Requiring a claim 2304.04(b)
- Requiring a priority showing 2305
- Revocation of power of attorney 402.08
- Search 1302.08; 2304.01(a)
- Second Interference, no 2308.03(c)
- Secrecy order application 130; 2306
- Special dispatch 708.01; 2301
- Statutory basis 708.01; 2301.01
- Suggestion of claims 2304.03 - 2304.04(b)
- Suggestion of claims, time limit 710.02(c)
- Suspension of action pending outcome of reexamination 2284; 2686.02
- Suspension of ex parte prosecution 709; 709.01
- Suspension of related applications 2307.03
- Terminated open to public 103
- Testimony 715.07(b)
- Transfer of application 2304.01(b)
- Winning party 710.02(b); 2308
- Written Description, Adequate 2304.02(d)
Interference practice specialist(s) 2301; 2302; 2304; 2304.04(a); 2304.04(b); 2307.04; 2308.03
Interlibrary loans 901.06(a)
Interlineation in specification before execution 608.01
Intermediate-final product 806.04(b); 806.05(j)
International application (See also Foreign application and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT))
- Abstract 1826
- Access 101; 110
- Agent 1807; 1864.04
- Amendment before the designated office 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.01(a)(3)
- Amendment of claims before International Bureau 1853
- Amino acid sequence 1823.02
- Applicant 1810
- Applicants different for different designated states 1817.01; 1817.01(a)
- Assignment document 301
- Attorney 1807
- Attorney file reference number 1821
- Claims 1824
- Common representative 402.09; 1807
- Confidential status 101; 110
- Content 1812
- Continuation 1817.02
- Continuation of 201.11(a); 1895
- Continuation-in-part 1817.02
- Correspondence 1834
- Definition 201
- Deposit accounts 509.01
- Description 1823
- Designation fee 1817.01(a)
- Designation of states 1817.01; 1817.01(a)
- Drawings 1825; 1893.03(f)
- Drawings missing 1825
- Early national stage entry under 35 U.S.C. 371(f) 1893.01; 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.03(b)
- EFS-Web filing 502.05
- Elements 1812
- Errors, rectification of 1836
- Fees 1827; 1893.01(c); 1896
- Filing date 1810
- Foreign filing license 1832
- Formal requirements 1810
- Forms (See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): Forms)
- Home copy 1801; 1848; 1879.04; 1895.01
- International preliminary examination 1860
- International search 1843
- International searching authority 1840
- Inventor 1817.01; 1817.01(a); 1820; 1893.01(e)
- Kinds of protection 1817.02
- Mail service 1834; 1834.02
- Member states 1817
- Microorganism deposit 1823.01
- National stage 1893 - 1896
  - Submission via EFS-Web 502.05
- Numbering of sheets 1812
- Oath 1893.01(e)
- Parent to national application 201.11(a); 1817.02
- Power of attorney 1807
- Precautionary designations 1817.01(a)
- Prior art effect 1857.01; 1896; 2127; 2136.03
- Priority 201.13(b); 1828
  - Restoration of 1828.01
- Priority document 201.13(b); 1828
- Publication 1857
- Record copy 1801; 1828; 1832; 1848
- Rectification of obvious errors 1836
- Refund of fees 1827.01; 1850; 1852; 1865.01; 1875.02
- Representation 402.09
- Request 1821
- Search copy 1801; 1827.01; 1840; 1840.01
- Search fee 1827
- Search report 707.05; 1844
- Secrecy order 115; 120; 1832
- Signature of applicant 1820
- Time limits 1836; 1842; 1843.05; 1879.01; 1879.01(a)
- Title 1821
- Translation for U.S. national stage 1893.01(d)
- Transmittal fee 1827
- Transmittal letter 1830
- Unity of invention 823; 1850; 1875; 1893.03(d)
- Withdrawal 1859; 1880
International classification 903.09
International patent classification 719.05
International searching authority 1840
International Trade Commission 724
International-type search 707; 1852
Internet 502.03; 1730
- Address 1730; 2515
- Database collections 1730
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04; 713.05
- General Information Concerning Patents 703
- Kids Pages 1730
- "PatentIn" computer software (See also Sequence rules) 2430
- Payment of maintenance fees by 2510; 2522
- PCT Legal Office 1730
- Publication of Board Decisions 1213.03
- Publication of the Official Gazette 1703
- Searching 904.02(c)
- Usage Policy 502.03; 904.02(c)
- World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) ; 1801; 1851
Inter partes questions 713.06
Interpretation of law, new 1207.02
Intervening rights
- In reexamination
  - Ex parte 2293
  - Inter partes 2693
- In reinstated patents 2591
- In reissue 1460
Intervention by assignee 106
Interviews 713
- Advance indication of issues to be discussed 713.01
- Allowed application 713.05; 713.10
- Appointment in advance 713.01
- Attorney not of record 101; 402
- Authority to conduct 713.05
- Before filing 713.02
- Before filing amendment under 37 CFR 1.312 713.10
- Before first action 706.07(b); 713.01; 713.02
- Demonstration 713.08
- During working days only 713.01
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04; 713.05
- Excluded or suspended attorney or agent 105; 713.05
- Exhibit 713.08
- Exposure of other cases during 101; 713.07
- Field of search 713.02
- Finally rejected application 706.07(f); 713.09
- How conducted 713.01
- Inter partes questions 713.06
- Interview summary form 713.04; 2281
- Local attorney 713.03; 713.05
- Made of record 713.01; 713.04
- Merged reissue/inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Model 713.08
- Oral agreement not binding 713.04
- Patentability report cases 713.01
- Prior to first Office action 706.07(b); 713.02
- Prohibited 713.05
- Protestor participation 1901.07
- Question of patent validity 1701
- Record of substance required 713.01; 713.04
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2281
  - Inter partes 2666.30; 2685; 2686.03; 2687
- Refused 713.01; 713.02; 713.05; 713.10
- Requested in continuing application 706.07(b)
- Requested in Office action 707
- Sounding out 713.03
- Special situations 713.05
- Substance made of record 713.04; 714.13
- Telephone 101; 408; 713.01; 713.05; 812.01
- Time allowed 713.01
- Video conference 713.01; 713.04
- Videotape showing 713.01
- Where held 713.01
Invention (See also Patent and Rejection)
- Brief summary 608.01(d)
- Detailed description 608.01(g)
- Made in this country 2138.02
- Mode of operation 608.01(h)
Inventive entity, Different 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3)
Inventive entity, Same(overlapping subject matter) 804; 804.03; 822; 822.01
Inventor (See also Applicant and Pro se applicant) 605
- Common, at least one 201.03; 201.11; 706.02(k); 2137.01
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Correction (See Correction of inventorship)
- Deceased 409 - 409.01(f); 1820
  - Execution of oath/declaration by legal representative 605.04(a)
  - Government property rights statement 151
- Duty of disclosure by 2001.01; 2002.01
- Foreign priority 201.13; 2133.01
- Full first or middle name required 605.04(b)
- Heirs 409.01(a); 409.01(d)
- Initials as a given name 605.04(b)
- Insane 409; 409.02
- International application 1812; 1817.01; 1817.01(a)
- Legally incapacitated 409; 409.02
- Minor 409
- Name change 605.04(c); 719.02(b)
  - Correction 201.03; 201.05
  - Order 605.04(f)
  - Petition 605.04(c)
  - Typographical, translation error 201.03; 601.05
- None available 409; 409.03(b); 603
  - Proof 409.03(d)
  - Proof of irreparable damage 409.03(g)
  - Proof of proprietary interest 409.03(f)
- Order of 605.04(f)
- Pro se 707.07(j); 713.01
- Refuses to sign 409; 409.03(d); 603
  - Execution of oath 605.04(b)
- Representative of 400
- Requirements 2137.01
- Residence 605.02
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
- Self-prosecuted case 707.07(j); 713.01
- Small entity status 509.02
- Unavailable 409; 409.03; 603
  - At least one joint inventor available 409.03(a)
  - Last known address 409.03(e)
  - Proof 409.03(d)
  - Proof of irreparable damage 409.03(g)
  - Proof of proprietary interest 409.03(f)
Inventor’s certificate
- Priority benefit 201.13(a); 202.04
- Rejection based on 706.02(e)
Inventors Assistance Center 1730
IPC (International Patent Classification) 903.09
IPS (Interference Practice Specialist) 2302
Irreparable damage, Proof of 409.03(g)
Issue (See Allowance and issue)
Issue batch number (no longer used) 1303.01
Issue Classification Form/Sheet/Slip (See also Form letters and forms) 903.07; 903.07(b); 903.09; 903.09(a); 1302.09; 1302.10; 1302.13
Issue fee 1306
- After payment 1306.03
- Credit card payment 1306
- Deposit account 1303; 1306
- Failure to pay 711.03(c); 1306
- Late payment 711.03(c)
- Petition to accept late fee 711.03(c)
- Reissue application 1415
- Who may file 1306
Issue of patent 1309
- Deferred 1306.01
- Request for simultaneous issuance 1306.02
Issue of patent to assignee 307
Issuing in another TC without transfer 903.07(b)

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J

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Jacket (See File wrapper/history)
Japanese year system 901.05(a)
Jepson claim 2129
Joinder, Improper 805
Joinder, generic or linking claim allowable 821.04(a)
Joinder, product claim allowable 821.04(b)
Joinder of inventors 409.03(j)
Joint application, definition 201.02
Joint application, original oath 602
Joint inventor
- Oath 602
- Power of attorney to 402.01
- Refuses to sign application 409.03; 409.03(a)
- Rights of nonsigning 409.03(i)
Joint inventors 201.02; 201.03; 605; 605.07; 2137.01
- Change in order of names 605.04(f)
- Correction 201.03
- Provisional application 605.07
Joint owners 301
Joint research agreement 302
- Common ownership 706.02(k)
- Double patenting rejection based on disqualified prior art 706.02(l)(3); 804; 804.02; 804.03
- Evidence required for establishing 706.02(l)(2)
- Prior art disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) 706.02(l)(1); 706.02(l)(2); 706.02(l)(3); 2136.01; 2141.01
- Statutory basis under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) 706.02
Joint venture 706.02(l)(2)
Journal, Patent Office Society 707.06
Judicial notice 2144.03
Judicial review
- Ex parte reexamination proceedings 1216
- Patent applications 1216
- Standards of review by the Federal Circuit 1216.01
Jurisdiction
- Allowed application 714.16; 1305
- Appealed application 1210
- Application before court 1216
- Interference 2307.02; 2308

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Kind Codes 901.04(a)
Kinds of patent documents 1851
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) 1827.01; 1840.02; 1850; 1860

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L

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Laches 2190
Lack of unity of invention 823; 1844.01; 1845.01; 1850
Lack of utility 608.01(p); 706.03(a)
Language, Offensive 608; 1504.01(e)
Language of papers 608.01
Late payment of issue fee 711.03(c)
Law, new interpretation of 1207
Laws, Patent (See Statutes)
Legal representative refuses to sign 409.03(c)
Letter (See also Action, Form letters and forms, and Letter, Examiner’s)
- Abandoned after allowance 711.05
- Congressional inquiry 203.08(a)
- Drawing transfer 608.02(i)
- Official inquiry 203.08(a)
- Status 203.08
Letter, Examiner’s (See Examiner’s Letter)
Letters, receipt and handling 500
Letters of administration 409.01(b); 409.01(c); 409.01(e)
Letters testamentary 409.01(b)
Library, Scientific (See Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC))
Library services 901.06(a)
Libreville Agreement (See also Treaties) 201.13
License agreements under patent 301
- Recording of 310; 313
License rights clause 310
License to file foreign application 115; 140; 706.03(s)
License to file international application 140; 1832
Licensee, access 106.01
Licensing and Review section 115; 120; 140; 150; 502; 502.01; 706.03(b); 706.03(s)
Linking claim 806.04; 806.05(c); 809; 809.03; 821.04(a)
- Transitional application 803.03(a)
- Traverse of rejection 818.03(d)
List of countries giving right of priority 201.13
List of decisions II
List of prior art in reexamination 2257; 2657
Literature citation in specification 608.01(p)
Litigation information, Duty to disclose 2001.06(c)
Litigation not stayed in reissue 1442.02
Litigation, reexamination copending
- Ex parte 2286
- Inter partes 2640; 2681; 2686; 2686.04
Litigation related reissue 1404; 1442.01 - 1442.05
Litigation, stays 1442.03; 1442.05; 2686.04
Living matter (See also Biotechnology) 2105
Local representative of attorneys 408
Locarno international classification designation 903.09(a)

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M

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Machine, process or product 806.05(e); 806.05(f); 806.05(g)
Mail (See also Mail Stop and Correspondence)
- Address 501
- Depositing correspondence 502
- Distribution 501
- Express 502; 513; 711.03(c)
- Identification 502; 503
- Receipt and handling 500
- Undelivered 707.13; 1303.02
- Zip code 502
Mail date as filing date 513
Mail room date stamp 608.02(o)
Mail stop 501
- Mail Stop 8 (Solicitor) 501; 1216; 1216.01
- Mail Stop 10 1232
- Mail Stop 16 (Refunds) 509.03
- Mail Stop AF 714.13
- Mail Stop Assignment Recordation 501; 302.08
- Mail Stop Conversion 601.01(c)
- Mail Stop Document Services 103; 501; 1430; 1470; 2222; 2232; 2501; 2622; 2632
- Mail Stop EBC 403
- Mail Stop Ex Parte Reexam 501; 2222; 2224; 2226; 2231
- Mail Stop Expedited Design 1504.30
- Mail Stop Express Abandonment 1002.02(r); 1125
- Mail Stop Inter partes Reexam 501; 2622; 2624; 2631
- Mail Stop Issue Fee 502; 1306; 1306.02
- Mail Stop L&R 120
- Mail Stop M Correspondence 501; 2510
- Mail Stop MPEP
- Mail Stop OED 402; 407
- Mail Stop Patent Ext 501; 1002.02(b); 2754; 2754
- Mail Stop PCT 501; 1805; 1808; 1821; 1823.02; 1865
- Mail Stop Petitions 720; 1002.02(b); 1308; 1901.03; 2580; 2590; 2720
- Mail Stop PGPUB 1126
- Mail Stop Reissue 1410
- Mail Stop Sequence 2422.09; 2429
Mailing action 707.12
- In ex parte reexamination 2264
- In inter parte reexamination 2664
Mailing, Certificate of (See Certificate of mailing or transmission)
Maintenance Fee Branch 1501
- Contact information 1730
Maintenance fees (See also Fee and Refunds) 1730; 2500
- Attorney or agent
  - Handling of requests to withdraw 2560
  - Revocation of power of attorney 2501; 2560
- Change of correspondence address 2501; 2542
- Credit card used for payment of 2510; 2522
- Due dates for payment 2506
- Duplicate Payment 2532
- Facsimile submission 2510
- Fee address 2540
- Fee amounts 2501; 2520
- Forms 2595
- Information available from Maintenance Fee Branch 1730
- Information required with payment 2515; 2530
- Insufficient 2531
- Internet submission 2510
- Intervening rights in reinstated patents 2591
- Late 2531
- Mailing address for maintenance fee documents 501; 2510
- Mailing address for payments 501
- Maintenance Fee Branch 2501
- Method of payment 2522
- Notices – Expiration, Receipt, Reminder 2575
- Obligation to pay while reissue is pending 1415.01
- Overpayment 2550
- Patents subject to payment of 2504
- Payment informalities 2530
- Petition to accept 2515; 2531; 2590
- Reexamination 2506
- Refusal to accept and record payments, Review of 2580
- Reinstatement, delayed payment 2590
  - Unavoidable delay basis 2590
  - Unintentional delay basis 2590
- Reissue patents 1415.01; 1443; 2504; 2506; 2520
- Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, due on 2504; 2506
- Small entity status requirements 2550
- Special Acceptance 2530
- Status requests 1730; 2570
Mandatory Classification 903.07
Manual, authority of
Manual, subscription address
Manual of Classification ; 902.01
Manuscript decision 707.06
Margin, application papers 608.01
Mark of applicant 605.04(d)
Marking in application, erasing at allowance 1302.01
Marking, Security 121
Markush claim 803.02; 2173.05(h); 2173.05(o)
- Antedating reference for 715.03
- Supporting disclosure 608.01(p); 2163.05; 2164.03
Master classification file (MCF) 902.03(a)
Material mistake by Office in published PG-Pub 1130
Materiality of information regarding patentability (See Duty of disclosure)
Mathematical algorithms 706.03(a); 2106; 2106.02
Matter not in original disclosure 608.04(a)
Means 2181
- Broadest reasonable interpretation 2181
- Equivalent compared to Doctrine of Equivalents 2186
- Obviousness 2183
- Prima facie case of equivalence 2183; 2184
- Related issues under 35 U.S.C. 112, first or second paragraphs 2181; 2185
- Scope of the identification of prior art 2182
- Single means claim 2164.08(a); 2181
Means plus function limitations 706.02(m); 2106; 2111.01; 2114; 2181 - 2186
Mechanical search 719.05
Memorandum, citation 707.06
Merger of ex parte reexamination and reissue 2285
Merger of inter partes reexamination and reissue 2686.03
Merits, Appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
Method of making and apparatus or product 806.05(e); 806.05(f)
Metric (S.I.) system usage 608.01
Microorganisms (See Biotechnology)
Microorganisms, deposit of 1823.01; 2402 - 2411.05
Microorganisms, patentability of 706.03(a); 2105; 2164.06
Militarily Critical Technology List (MCTL) 120
Military officer notary 604.03(a)
Minor, inventor 409
Misjoinder, Effect on patent 805
Misjoinder of inventors 201.03; 1402; 1412.04; 1481
Mistake (See Correction of patent and Errors)
Mistake by Office in Pre-Grant Publication 1130
Mode, Best (See Best Mode)
Mode of operation 608.01(h)
Model 608.03
Model, return 608.03(a)
Model at interview 713.08
Model filed in priority country 201.14(b)
Months, foreign language names 901.05(a)
Motions in interferences (See Interference: Motions)
Multiple dependent claims
- Fee calculation 607; 608.01(n)
- Handling 608.01(n)
- Restriction practice 608.01(n)
Multiple papers on same issue in protest 1901.07(a)
Multiplicity of claims 408; 707.07(g); 714.16; 2173.05(h); 2173.05(n)
Multiplicity of species 806.01; 808.01(a)
Munitions Lists of the International Traffic Arms Regulation (ITAR) 120

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N

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NAFTA 715.07(c)
Name (See also Applicant and Inventor)
- Change 605.04(c); 719.02(b)
  - Correction 201.03
  - Order 605.04(f)
  - Petition 605.04(c)
  - Translation, typographical error 201.03
- Change, file sent to Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP)) 605.04(c)
- Full first or middle required 605.04(b)
- Order 605.04(f)
- Signature (See Signature)
- Uniformity with signature 605.04(b)
Names used in trade 608.01(v)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 115; 150; 151
National application 201
National security, application affecting 115; 120; 121; 130; 140
National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371) 201; 1893.03 - 1896
- Compared with national application 1896
- Continuation or continuation-in-part 1895; 1895.01; 1896
- Drawings 1893.03(f)
- Filing date 1893.03(b)
- Information disclosure statement 609.03; 1893.03(g)
- Inter partes reexamination of 2611
- Order of examination 708; 1893.03
- Petitions related to 1002.02(p)
- Priority 1893.03(c)
- Unity of invention 1893.03(d)
Naturally occurring article 706.03(a)
Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
Negotiation authority 713.05
New application (definition) 203.01
- Assignment to examiner for examination 903.08(b)
- Assignment to examiner in TC for examination 903.08; 903.08(a); 903.08(e)
- Classification by primary examiner 903.08(b)
- Examiner review for completeness 702
- Inspection 903.08(a)
- Transfer 903.08(a)
- Transfer refused 903.08(d)
New examiner, action by 707.01
New ground of rejection by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1214.01
- In inter partes reexamination 2681; 2682
New ground of rejection in inter partes reexamination 2671.01
New ground of rejection on appeal 1207.03
New matter 706.03(o); 2163.06
- Amendment of disclosure 608.04; 2163.03; 2163.04
- Claim 608.04; 706.03(o); 2163.03
  - Appealable 608.04(c)
- Claim terminology 608.01(o)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Continuing application 201.07; 2163.03
- Design application 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.01(a); 1504.04
- Disclosure 608.04; 2163.06
- Divisional application 201.06
- Drawing 608.04; 706.03(o)
- Inherent characteristics 608.04(a); 2163.07(a)
- Objection 706.03(o); 2163.07
- Petitionable 608.04(c); 2163.06
- Preliminary amendment 608.04(b); 714.01(e)
- Priority 2163.03; 2163.05
- Reexamination, inter partes 2671.01; 2671.02
- Reissue application 1411.02
- Rejection 608.04; 706.03(o); 2163.06
- Specification, petitionable 608.04(c)
- Substitute specification 608.01(q)
- Trademark definition 608.01(v)
- When entered 714.19; 714.20
NIRC (See Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate and Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate)
Nonanalogous art 904.01(c); 1302.14; 2131.05
- Design applications 1504.02; 1504.03
Nonelected invention
- Claims to
  - Added 821.03
  - Canceled 821.01; 821.02
  - Eligible for rejoinder 821
  - Withdrawn 821.01; 821.02
Nonelected species
- Claims to
  - Canceled 821.01; 821.02
  - Eligible for rejoinder 821
  - Withdrawn 821.01; 821.02
Non-English oath or declaration 602.06
Nonnaturally occurring manufacture or composition of matter 2105
Nonpatent literature 901.06
Nonprofit organization, claiming status as 509.03
Nonprofit organizations 509.02
Nonprovisional application (See also Application) 201.04(a); 506; 601
Nonpublication request, Application 1122
Nonpublication Request Under 35 USC 122(b)(2)(B)(i), form PTO/SB/35
- Cited 1121; 1122
- Reproduced 1135
Nonreceipt of Office letter 711.03(c)
Nonsigning inventor’s rights 409.03(i)
Nonstatutory claim 706.03(a); 2107.01
Nonstatutory claim, canceled 1302.04(b)
Nonstatutory subject matter 706.03(a); 2105 - 2107.01
Not fully responsive amendment 714.02; 2266.01; 2666.30; 2671
Notary jurisdiction 604.02
Notary jurisdiction, military officer 604.03(a)
Notary jurisdiction, venue agreement 604.02
Notary seal 604.01
Notation on file wrapper/history
- Foreign application 202.03
- Parent application 201.11; 202.02
Notice, citation 707.06
Notice of allowability 1302.03
Notice of allowance (See also Allowance and issue and Form letters and forms: Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due PTOL-85) 1303
- Assigned application 308
- Deceased inventor 1303.03
- Reissue application 1444
- Secrecy order application 115; 130
- Undelivered 1303.02
Notice of appeal 1204
- Ex parte reexamination 2273
- Inter partes reexamination 2662; 2667; 2674
Notice of cross appeal 2662; 2674; 2674.01
Notice of Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2291
Notice of Ex Parte Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette 2227
Notice of foreign filing after nonpublication request 1124
Notice of informal patent application form 707.07(a)
Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469 2235; 2250; 2250.01; 2271; 2271.01; 2273; 2287; 2288; 2296
Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-2068 2666.10; 2666.20; 2671; 2671.01; 2673.01; 2674; 2675; 2682; 2686.01; 2687; 2696
Notice of Intent to Publish Statutory Invention Registration, SIR-L 1107
Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2688; 2691
Notice of Inter Partes Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette 2627; 2629
Notice of New or Revised Pre-Grant Publication 1127
Notice of Non-Compliant amendment 714; 714.01(e); 714.03
Notice of Pre-Grant Publication 1127
Notice of references cited form (PTO-892) 609.02; 609.03; 609.04(a); 609.05(a); 609.05(c); 609.06; 707.05; 707.05(a) - 707.05(e); 2687
Notices (See also Publication) ; 707.06
Notices, maintenance fees 2575
Nuclear material application 706.03(b)
Nucleotide sequences (See also Biotechnology and Sequence rules) 803.04; 1823.02; 1848; 1850; 1877; 2400
- Publication on web for PG-Pubs 1121
- Restriction practice 803.04; 1850; 2434
Nullification of double patenting rejection 804.01
Number, Application 503; 506
Number, Drawing reference character 608.01(g)
Number, Serial 503; 506
Numbering of papers in file wrapper 719.01(a)
Numbering paragraphs of letter 707.07(k)

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O

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Oath (See also Declaration)
- After appeal 1212.02
- Antedating reference (See Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131))
- Minor, by 409
- Non-English 602.06
- Original (See also Oath, Original, Rule 1.63) 602
- Plant application (Rule 1.162) 1604
- Reissue (Rule 1.175) 706.03(x); 1414; 1444
  - Supplemental 1414.01
- Supplemental 602.02; 603
- Supplemental and allowance 603.01
- Traversing rejection (Rule 1.132) 716
Oath, Antedating reference (See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131)) 715
Oath, International application 1893.01(e)
Oath, Original, Rule 1.63 602
- Administering 604
- Amendment 602.01
- Attorney administers 604.06
- Consular certificate 604.04
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Copies, filing of 602
- Date of execution 602.05
- Declaration in lieu of, Rule 1.68 602
- Defective 602.01; 602.02; 602.03
- Delayed filing 506
- Divisional application 602.05(a)
- Executed before alteration of specification 605.04(a)
- Execution 604
- Facsimile 602
- Foreign execution 602.04
- Foreign-filed applications listed 201.14; 201.14(c); 202.04
- Invalid, By attorney in case 604.06
- Jurisdiction of notary 604.02; 604.03(a)
- New required 602.01; 602.02
- Notary 602; 602.01; 602.04(a); 604.01; 604.02; 604.03(a); 604.06
- Notary certificate 602.01
- Notary jurisdiction 604.02; 604.03(a)
- Refers to preliminary amendment 601.01(a); 602
- Seal 604.01
- Seal, Foreign application 602.04(a)
- Seal, Not required 604.01; 604.03(a)
- Signed before alteration of specification 605.04(a)
- Substitute 602.02
- Venue 604.02
Oath, Supplemental, Rule 1.67 603
- After allowance 603.01; 714.16
- Change of inventorship 201.03
Oaths, Conflicting 201.03
Object of invention 608.01(d)
Objection contrasted with rejection 706.01
Objection, Dependent claims 608.01(n)
Objection to formal matters, When made 707.07(a); 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
Obvious error, correction 1302.04; 1305
Obviously informal application 702.01
Obviousness 706.02; 706.02(j); 2141 - 2146
- Age of reference 2145
- Analogous prior art 1504.03; 2141.01(a); 2145
- Design applications 1504.03
- Form paragraphs used for rejection 706.02(m)
- Number of references 2145
- Ordinary skill, level of 2141.03
- Prima facie case 2142 - 2143.03; 2144.02
  - Predictability 2143.02
  - Rebuttal against 2145
- Process claims, nonobvious product 2116.01
- Provisional rejection 706.02(k)
- Ranges 2144.05
- Rationale for 2144 - 2144.09
  - Adjustable, making 2144.04
  - Aesthetic design changes 2144.04
  - Automating manual activity 2144.04
  - Duplication of parts 2144.04
  - Elimination of element or step 2144.04
  - Equivalence, art-recognized 2144.06
  - Genus-species 2144.08
  - Integral, making 2144.04
  - Omission of element or step 2144.04
  - Portable, making 2144.04
  - Proportion changes 2144.04
  - Purifying old product 2144.04
  - Ranges 2144.05
  - Rearrangement of parts 2144.04
  - Reversal of parts 2144.04
  - Separable, making 2144.04
  - Sequence, change in 2144.04
  - Shape changes 2144.04
  - Size changes 2144.04
  - Species-genus 2144.08
- Rebuttal arguments by applicant 2145
- Teaching away in prior art 2141.02; 2145
Offenlegungsshriften 901.05(b)
Offensive language 608; 1504.01(e)
- Redacted in Pre-Grant Publication 1120
Offensive subject matter 1003; 1504.01(e)
Offer to sell 706.02(c); 2133.03(b)
Offer to surrender original patent (not required) 1416
Office action (See Action)
Office action in ex parte reexamination 2260; 2262
Office action in inter partes reexamination 2660; 2671
- Not closing prosecution 2671.01
- Reopening prosecution after ACP 2673; 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after Examiner’s Answer 2679
- Reopening prosecution after RAN 2676; 2677
Office date stamp 505; 506; 710.01(a); 714.18
Office hours 510
Office of Congressional Relations 203.08(a)
Office of Electronic Information Products ; 1730
Office of Enrollment and Discipline 406; 407; 410; 502; 510; 601.03; 604.06; 714.01(a); 714.13; 1002.02(k)(1); 1002.02(m); 2205; 2220; 2620
- Mailing address 501
Office of General Law 1002.02(k)(2)
Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing) (See also Incoming-Mail Section) 201.03; 201.06(c); 201.06(d); 202.02; 202.03; 203.08; 501; 502; 503; 506; 508.03; 601; 601.01(d); 601.01(f); 601.01(g); 601.01(h); 602.05(a); 605.04(c); 605.04(f); 605.04(g); 607; 608.01; 608.02(a); 608.02(z); 609.07; 707.07(a); 714.16(d); 719.01(b); 719.02; 719.02(b); 903.08(a); 1306; 1414; 2501; 2560
- Application Assistance Unit 1730
- Contact information 1730
- Petitions handled 1002.02(q)
Office of International Relations 201.13; 203.08(a)
Office of Patent Classification 903; 903.05; 903.09
Office of Patent Legal Administration (OPLA) (See also Central Reexamination Unit (CRU)) 103; 409.03; 409.03(h); 409.03(j); 506.02; 706.02(l)(2); 720; 720.01; 720.03; 720.04; 1002.02(b); 1430; 1449; 1449.01; 1451; 1456; 1457; 2227; 2236; 2237; 2239; 2285; 2289; 2294; 2626; 2642; 2666.50; 2667; 2668; 2686.01 - 2687; 2694
Office of Patent Publications (Office of Data Management) 104; 201.14(c); 203.04; 502; 502.01; 508.03; 603.01; 608.01(m); 608.02(z); 711.01; 711.05; 714.16(d); 724.05; 903.07; 1302.05; 1302.05(a); 1302.12; 1303.01; 1308; 1309; 1309.02; 1611; 2229; 2235; 2283; 2287; 2289; 2635; 2686.01; 2687
- Hand-delivery of papers to 502
- Petitions decided 1002.02(r)
- Pre-Grant Publications Division 502; 502.01; 1120; 1122; 1125; 1126; 1730
  - Telephone number 1730
Office of Patent Quality Review 1302.04; 1308.03
Office of Patent Training ; 713.01
Office of PCT Legal Administration 103; 1730
Office of Petitions 106; 201.03; 502; 605.04(c); 605.04(f); 605.04(g); 609.04(b); 1002.02(b); 1308
- Location and phone number 1730
Office of Public Records 103; 104; 711.04; 1128; 1309; 1730
- Hand-delivery of papers to 502
Office of Solicitor 302.04; 311; 1002.02(k)(3); 1216.01; 1216.02; 1701.01; 1720; 1721; 2207; 2240; 2681
- Mailing address 501
Office of the Commissioner for Patents 409.03; 1721; 1901.03; 1902.01
- Duty of disclosure to 2001.03
Office of the Deputy Commissioner (Associate Commissioner) for Patent Examination Policy 502.03; 720; 720.01; 720.03; 1002.02(b); 1721; 2677
- Petitions decided by 1002.02(b)
Official action 707
Official Gazette(O.G.) ; 409.03; 1703
- Claim published 1302.09
  - Reissue application 1455
  - From ex parte reexamination certificate 2287
  - From inter partes reexamination certificate 2691
- Copies and Subscriptions 1703
- Defensive publications 711.06(a)
- Designating classification 1302.09
- Drawing figure 1302.09
- eOG:P 1703
- Issuing as U.S. patent 901.05
- Notice of ex parte reexamination certificate 2288; 2291
- Notice of inter partes reexamination certificate 2688; 2691
- Notice of Certificate of Correction 1480; 1485
- Notices 1703
- Notices of maintenance fees due 2501; 2575
- Notice of ex parte reexamination request 2229
- Notice of inter partes reexamination request 2627; 2629 - 2631
- Online 1703
- Patents 1703
- Published electronically 1703
- Publishing disclaimers 1490
- Reissue application filing notice 1430; 1441; 1441.01; 1443; 1453; 1457; 1470; 1703
- Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) 1111
- Trademarks 1703
Official inquiries 203.08(a)
Official Notice 2144.03
OIPE (See Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing))
"Old art" use in deciding request for reexamination 2242; 2642
Old combination 2173.05(j)
Omission in reply, inadvertent 710.02(c); 2266.01; 2666.30
Omnibus claim 706.03(d); 2173.05(r)
- Cancellation 1302.04(b)
On-line search (See also Electronic databases) 706.02(e); 901.06(a); 902.03(e)
On sale (See also Public Use) 706.02(c); 2133.03; 2133.03(b)
- Affidavit or declaration 715.10
- Anticipation rejection 2133.03(b)
- Buyer 2133.03(b)
- Commercial activities 2133.03; 2133.03(c); 2133.03(e); 2133.03(e)(1)
- Completion of the invention 2133.03; 2133.03(b); 2133.03(c); 2133.03(e)(1); 2133.03(e)(3)
  - Admission of completion by 37 CFR 1.131 affidavit 2133.03(c)
- Definition of 2133.03(b)
  - Conditional sale 2133.03(b)
  - Nonprofit sale 2133.03(b)
  - Sale of rights 2133.03(b)
  - Single sale 2133.03(b)
- Delivery of offered goods 2133.03(b)
- Device embodying process 2111.03(c)
- Evidence of (prior art publications) 2133.03(b)
- Experimental use (See also Experimental use) 2133.03; 2133.03(e)
- Goods "on hand" 2133.03(b)
- "In this country" 2133.03(d)
- Invention 2133.03(c)
- Intent to sell 2133.03(b); 2133.03(e)(2)
- Offer for sale 2133.03(b)
- Policy considerations 2133.03
- "Ready for patenting" 2111.03(c)
- Reduction to practice 2133.03(c); 2133.03(e)
- Sale by inventor or associate 2133.03(b)
- Sale by third party 2133.03(b)
  - Testing by third party 2133.03(e)(5); 2133.03(e)(7)
- Sale of a process 2133.03(c)
- Sale of "rights" 2133.03(b)
- Secrecy 2133.03; 2133.03(b)
- Supervision and control over invention 2133.03(e)(5); 2133.03(e)(7)
- Test for determining if impermissible sale occurred 2133.03(b)
Operating hours (See Hours of operation)
Operative 2164.07; 2164.08(b)
Operative example 608.01(p)
Operative, Showing 608.03; 716
Opposition to issue of patent (See Protest)
Oral hearing in reexamination
- Ex parte 2276
- Inter partes 2662; 2675; 2677; 2680
  - Open to public 2680
Oral hearing on appeal 1209
Order, citation of 707.06
Order, Classification 902.04
Order granting ex parte reexamination 2246
Order granting inter partes reexamination 2646; 2660
- Returned as undelivered 2654
Order of examination 707.02; 708 - 708.03
- Patentability report 705.01(b)
Order of papers in file wrapper 719.01(a)
Order for compliance 1210.01
Ordering
- Abandoned file 711.04(b); 905.03
- Allowed applications 1306.03
- Foreign patent 901.05(c)
- Patented file 711.04(b); 905.03
- Publication 901.06(b)
- Reexamination, decision
  - Ex parte 2246; 2247; 2247.01
  - Inter partes 2646
- Subclass list 902.03(c)
Orders (See also Publication) ; 707.06
Ordinary and customary meaning of claim term 2106; 2111.01
- Evidence of 2111.01
Original application (See Nonprovisional application)
Original carries title to some continuing applications 201.12
Original disclosure, inherent characteristics 608.04(a); 714.01(e)
Ornamentality lacking in design applications 1504.01(c)
Outstanding requirements 707.07(e)
Overcoming a reference, Right of priority 201.15; 706.02(b)
Overlapping applications
- Same applicant 709.01; 715.01(a); 804; 804.02; 822; 822.01
- Same assignee 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 715.01(b); 822
- Subject to joint research agreement 706.02(l)(1) - 706.02(l)(3); 804; 804.02; 804.03; 2136.01; 2141.01
Overlapping claims 804.02
Oversight of inter partes reexamination 2689
Owner’s representative 400
Ownership and assignment 300; 706.02(l)(2); 706.02(l)(3)
Ownership at time invention made 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3)
Ownership of applications filed subsequent to recording of assignment 201.12; 306

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

P

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

PAIR 102; 104; 203.08; 1121; 1128; 1730; 2232; 2632
PALM 101; 102; 508.01; 508.03; 711.04(b); 1845.02; 1893; 1893.03(a); 1893.03(b); 1895.01; 2232; 2233; 2235; 2237; 2289; 2629; 2632; 2633; 2635; 2647.02; 2648; 2660; 2664; 2670; 2687; 2689
- Application location 2635
- Application records and reports 1704
- Application status 102
- Examiner Docket, Time, and Activity Reports 1705
- "Flag" in reissue application 1456
Panel Review in ex parte Reexamination 2271; 2271.01; 2287
Paper Correlating Office 508.03
Paper, easily erasable 608.01; 714.05; 714.07; 714.19
Paper number 714.18; 714.21
Paper number of print 719.01(b)
Paper size (See also A4 size paper)
- Application papers 608.01
- Drawings 608.02
- Photographs 608.02
- Substitute drawings 608.02(h)
Papers (See also Return of Papers)
- Delivered to wrong Technology Center 508.01
- Depositing 502
- Distribution 508
- File wrapper 719.01; 719.01(a)
- Identification 502; 503
- Receipt and handling 500
- Received after patenting or abandonment 508.02
- Signature required 402
- Submitted in reissue litigation 1404
- Unmatched 508.03
Parent application 201.04
Parent application data, Cross-noting 201.11; 202.02
Parent application carries assignment to some continuing applications 201.12
Parent application review 707.05; 719.05; 904; 2001.06(b)
Paris Convention (See also Treaties) 201.13; P
- Article 4 Cited 201.13; 201.14(b)
Partial signatory authority 1005
Patent
- 1836 (present) series 901.04
- A.I. series 901.04
- Allowance and issue 1300
- Application publication 1120 - 1135
- Arrangement in Examiner’s Search Files 901.07
- Assignment 301
- Borrowing from Examiner’s Search Files 901.08
- Citation handling 1920
- Citation of prior art in 1920; 2202
- Claim copied (See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Classification change 903.05
- Classification indices 902.03; 902.03(a)
- Classification Home Page on the Internet 902.03(a)
- Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet 902.03(b)
- Classification Insight on USPTO LAN 902.03(c)
- Copy in ex parte reexamination request 2219
  - Double column format 2214; 2219
- Copy in inter partes reexamination request 2619
  - Double column format 2614
- Copy Orders 1730
- Correction of 1400
- Definition ; 2135.01
- Design 1500
- Design series 901.04
- Design vs Utility 1502.01
- Effective date 706.02(a); 715; 715.01; 2133.01
- Extension (See Term, Patent)
- File reconstruction 508.04
- Files 905.03
- Foreign (See Foreign patent)
- General Information About, booklet 703
- Issue 1300
- Issue Notification form 1306.03
- Index 902.03(b)
- Interference 2304 - 2304.05
- Inventorship 2137.01
- Jurisdiction 1305
- Law, opinions not given 713.02
- Laws (See Statutes)
- Licensing 301
- Litigation relating to reissue 1442.04
- Ordering soft copy 905.02
- Owner, appeal by 1204
- Owner, service of citation on 2208
- Owner’s address in reexamination 2222; 2622
- Ownership 301
- Plant series 901.04; 1600
- Post-issuance information updating 2501
- Prior art citation in 2003.01
- Printing priority 1309
- Publication of application 1120 - 1135
- Reconstruction of file 508.04
- Reference (See Reference)
- Reissue series 901.04
- Reissued, effect of 1460
- Right to exclude others 509.02; 1111; 1601; 2162
- Rules (See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations))
- Simultaneous issue 1306.02
- Statutory subject matter 706.03(a); 2107
- Surrender of original in reissue (not required) 1416
- Statutes (See Statutes)
- System, Constitutional basis for
- Term adjustment 2710 - 2736
- Terms (See Term, Patent)
- Transfer 903.05
- Transfer of rights in 509.02
- Type, Design vs utility 1502.01
- Utility series 901.04; 1502.01
- Utility vs design 1502.01
- X series 901.04
Patent and Trademark Assignment System 302.09
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO)
- Address 501; 502
- Business hours 510
- Employees, property interest in patent 309
- Employees, unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventors 409
- Matters decided by various officials 1000
- Publications
  - Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office 401; 902.03(d)
  - Development and Use of Patent Classification Systems 903.02
  - Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (See Official Gazette (O.G. ))
- Receipt and handling of mail 500
- Telephone numbers 1730
- Web site 1730
Patent Assistance Center (See Inventors Assistance Center)
Patent attorney or agent (See Attorney or agent)
Patent classification (See also Classification and Prior Art) 900
- Classes 707.05(e); 902.01; 902.02; 903.02(a); 903.02(b)
- Cross references 903.07; 903.07(a)
- Digests 903.07
- Issue slip 903.07
- Manual of Classification ; 902.01
- Master classification file (MCF) 902.03(a)
- Orders 902.04
- Post classifier (See Post classifier)
- Shoes 901.05(c); 901.07; 905.04
- Statutory authority 903.01
- Subclasses 707.05(e); 902.01; 902.02; 903.02(a); 903.02(c)
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) (See also International application and Treaties) 1800; T
- Administrative Instructions AI
- Agent 1807
- Amendment before the designated office 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.01(a)(3)
- Amendment of claims before the International Bureau 1853
- Applicant 1810; 1817.01; 1817.01(a)
- Applicant for United States Receiving Office 1805; 1810; 1820
- Basic flow timeline 1842
- Classification of application 903.08(b)
- Classification of subject matter 1844.01; 1879
- Common representative 1807
- Concepts, major 1801
- Country codes 1851
- Definitions 1802
- Design patents 1501.01; 1503.01
- Designated office 1893.01(a)
- Designation of states 1817.01; 1817.01(a)
- Fees 1827; 1893.01(c)
  - Reduced basic fee by filing sequence listing and/or tables on compact disc 1823.02
- Filing date requirements 502.05; 1810
- Foreign filing license 1832
- Foreign patent citation codes 1851
- Forms
  - Compact Disc Transmittal Sheet For Submission of Sequence Listing and/or Tables To The United States Receiving Office Under Pct Administrative Instructions-Part 8 1823.02
  - IB/307 1893.03(e)
  - IB/308 1893.01(a)(1)
  - PCT/DO/EO/903 1893.01(a)(3); 1893.03(a); 1893.03(b); 1893.03(e); 1893.03(g); 1895.01
  - PCT/DO/EO/905 905; 1893.01(a)(1); 1893.01(d); 1893.01(e); 1893.03(b)
  - PCT/ISA/201 1852
  - PCT/ISA/203 1843.04
  - PCT/ISA/206 1850
  - PCT/ISA/210 1843.04; 1844; 1844.01; 1845.02; 1893.03(e)
  - PCT/ISA/217 1836
  - PCT/ISA/220 1844; 1845.02
  - PCT/ISA/237 1845.01
  - PCT/IPEA/401 1864; 1865; 1866
  - PCT/IPEA/405 1875; 1875.01
  - PCT/IPEA/408 1860; 1860.01; 1874; 1876; 1878; 1878.01; 1879
  - PCT/IPEA/409 1871; 1871.01; 1874; 1878; 1878.01; 1878.01(a); 1879; 1893.03(e)
  - PCT/IPEA/410 1864.04
  - PCT/IPEA/411 1876
  - PCT/IPEA/412 1836; 1876.01
  - PCT/IPEA/416 1879; 1879.02
  - PCT/IPEA/420 1875.02
  - PCT/IPEA/428 1878.02
  - PCT/RO/101 1801; 1812; 1817.01(a); 1821; 1844; 1844.01
  - PCT/RO/117 1893.03(e)
  - PCT/RO/136 1893.03(e)
  - PTO-1382 1830; 1832
  - PTO-1390 1893.03(a)
  - USPTO/299 1850
  - USPTO/499 1850; 1875; 1875.01
- Gazette 1801; 1823.01; 1857
- Guidelines on qualifying for reduced basic fee by filing sequence listing on compact disc 1823.02
- Help Desk 1730
- Information sources 1730
- International Bureau 1801
- International preliminary examination 1860; 1860.01
- International preliminary examination report 1879
- International preliminary report on patentability 1801; 1845; 1879.03; 1893.03(e)
- International publication 1857
  - Prior art effect 1857.01; 1896; 2136.03
- International search report 1844
- International searching authority 1840
- Member countries 1817
- National procedure 1893
- National stage (See National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371))
- Numbering of sheets 1812
- Office of PCT Legal Administration 103; 1730
- Priority 201.13(b); 1828; 1893.03(c); 1895
  - Restoration of 1828.01
- Priority document 201.13(b); 1828
- Publication 1857
- Receiving office 1801
- Receiving office procedure 1801
- Record copy transmittal 1801
- Reply to invitation concerning lack of unity of invention 1850; 1875.02; 1893.03(d)
- Reply to written opinion 1878.02
- Representation before the designated office 402
- Revocation of agent 1808
- Schedule of fees 1827
- Search report 707.05; 1302.14; 1844
- Secrecy order 120
- Sequence listings 1823.02; 1848
  - On electronic media 1823.02
  - Transmitted via EFS-Web 502.05
- Signature missing 1820
- Unity of invention 823; 1850; 1875; 1893.03(d)
- Written opinion, preparation 1845; 1878; 1878.01
- Written opinion, time to reply to 1845.01; 1878; 1878.01
Patent Cooperation Treaty Administrative Instructions AI
- 105 Reproduced 1834
- 204 Reproduced 1823
- 205 Reproduced 1824
- 208 Reproduced 1823.02
- 209 Reproduced 1823
- 404 Reproduced 1857
- 502 Reproduced 1850
- 513 Reproduced 1848
- 603 Reproduced 1875.02
- 604 Reproduced 1879
- 605 Reproduced 1872
- 606 Reproduced 1880
- 607 Reproduced 1876
- 801 Reproduced 1823.02
- 803 Reproduced 1823.02
Patent Cooperation Treaty Articles T
- 3 Reproduced 1812
- 5 Reproduced 1823
- 6 Reproduced 1824
- 7 Reproduced 1825
- 11 Reproduced 1810; 1896
- 17 Reproduced 1843
- 18 Reproduced 1844
- 19 Reproduced 1853
- 21 Reproduced 1857
- 29 Reproduced 1857
- 30 Reproduced 110
- 31 Reproduced 1864.02; 1864.03; 1865; 1869
- 32 Reproduced 1862
- 33 Reproduced 1878.01(a); 1878.01(a)(1); 1878.01(a)(3)
- 34 Reproduced 1862; 1864.01; 1874; 1875; 1878; 1878.01; 1878.02
- 35 Reproduced 1879
- 36 Reproduced 1879.02; 1879.03
- 37 Reproduced 1880
- 38 Reproduced 1879.04
Patent Cooperation Treaty Rules
- 4.3 Reproduced 1844.01
- 4.9 Reproduced 1817.01
- 4.11 Reproduced 1817.02; 1819
- 4.12 Reproduced 1819
- 4.15 Reproduced 1820
- 5.1 Reproduced 1823
- 5.2 Reproduced 1823.02
- 6 Reproduced 1824
- 6.1 Reproduced 1824
- 6.2 Reproduced 1824
- 6.3 Reproduced 1824
- 6.4 Reproduced 1824
- 6.5 Reproduced 1824
- 7 Reproduced 1825
- 7.1 Reproduced 1825
- 7.2 Reproduced 1825
- 8 Reproduced 1826
- 8.1 Reproduced 1826; 1844.01
- 8.2 Reproduced 1826; 1844.01
- 8.3 Reproduced 1826
- 11 Reproduced 1825
- 11.5 Reproduced 1825
- 11.6 Reproduced 1825
- 11.11 Reproduced 1825
- 11.13 Reproduced 1825
- 12bis Reproduced 1819
- 13 Reproduced 1850
- 13.1 Reproduced 1850
- 13.2 Reproduced 1850
- 13.3 Reproduced 1850
- 13.4 Reproduced 1850
- 13.5 Reproduced 1850
- 13bis Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.1 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.2 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.3 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.4 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.5 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.6 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13bis.7 Reproduced 1823.01
- 13terReproduced 1823.02
- 13ter.1 Reproduced 1823.02; 1848
- 13ter.2 Reproduced 1823.02
- 17 Reproduced 201.13(b)
- 17.1 Reproduced 201.13(b)
- 17.2 Reproduced 201.13(b)
- 33 Reproduced 1843
- 33.1 Reproduced 1843
- 33.2 Reproduced 1843
- 33.3 Reproduced 1843
- 37.1 Reproduced 1844.01
- 37.2 Reproduced 1844.01
- 38 Reproduced 110; 1844.01
- 38.1 Reproduced 1844.01
- 38.2 Reproduced 1844.01
- 38.3 Reproduced 1844.01
- 39 Reproduced 1843.02
- 39.1 Reproduced 1843.02
- 40 Reproduced 1850
- 40.1 Reproduced 1850
- 40.2 Reproduced 1850
- 41 Reproduced 1852
- 41.1 Reproduced 1852
- 43bis Reproduced 1845
- 43bis.1 Reproduced 1843; 1845
- 44ter Reproduced 1879.04
- 46 Reproduced 1853
- 46.1 Reproduced 1853
- 46.2 Reproduced 1853
- 46.3 Reproduced 1853
- 46.4 Reproduced 1853
- 46.5 Reproduced 1853
- 54 Reproduced 1864.02
- 54.1 Reproduced 1864.02
- 54.2 Reproduced 1864.02
- 54.3 Reproduced 1864.02
- 54.4 Reproduced 1864.02
- 60 Reproduced 1868
- 60.1 Reproduced 1868
- 61 Reproduced 1881
- 61.2 Reproduced 1881
- 61.3 Reproduced 1881
- 62 Reproduced 1871
- 62, former Reproduced 1871.01
- 62.1 Reproduced 1871
- 62.1 former Reproduced 1871.01
- 62.2 Reproduced 1871
- 62.2 former Reproduced 1871.01
- 62bis Reproduced 1871
- 62bis.1 Reproduced 1871
- 64 Reproduced 1878.01(a)
- 64.1 Reproduced 1878.01(a)
- 64.2 Reproduced 1878.01(a)
- 64.3 Reproduced 1878.01(a)
- 65 Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
- 65.1 Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
- 65.2 Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
- 66 Reproduced 1843.02; 1864.01; 1870; 1878; 1878.02
- 66.1 Reproduced 1843.02
- 66.1bis Reproduced 1878
- 66.3 Reproduced 1878.02
- 66.4 Reproduced 1878
- 66.4bis Reproduced 1878.02
- 66.5 Reproduced 1878.02
- 66.6 Reproduced 1878.02
- 66.7 Reproduced 1870
- 66.8 Reproduced 1864.01; 1878.02
- 66.9 Reproduced 1878.02
- 69 Reproduced 1879.01
- 69.1 Reproduced 1879.01; 1879.01(a)
- 69.2 Reproduced 1879.01; 1879.01(a)
- 70 Reproduced 1879.03
- 70.17 Reproduced 1879.03
- 71 Reproduced 1879.02
- 71.1 Reproduced 1879.02
- 71.2 Reproduced 1879.02
- 72 Reproduced 1879.03
- 72.1 Reproduced 1879.03
- 72.2 Reproduced 1879.03
- 72.2bis Reproduced 1879.03
- 72.3 Reproduced 1879.03
- 82 Reproduced 1834.02
- 82.1 Reproduced 1834.02
- 82.2 Reproduced 1834.02
- 90.4 Reproduced 1807
- 90.5 Reproduced 1807
- 90.6 Reproduced 1808
- 90bisReproduced 1859; 1880
- 90bis.1 Reproduced 1859
- 90bis.2 Reproduced 1859
- 90bis.3 Reproduced 1859
- 90bis.4 Reproduced 1880
- 90bis.5 Reproduced 1859
- 90bis.6 Reproduced 1859
- 90bis.7 Reproduced 1859
- 91 Reproduced 1836
- 91.1 Reproduced 1836
- 92 Reproduced 1834
- 92.1 Reproduced 1834
- 92.2 Reproduced 1834
Patent application publication (See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
Patent pending (See Statutes: 35 U.S.C. 292)
Patent search facility 103; 2232; 2629; 2632
- Hours 510; 1730
- Regulations for public use 510
Patent term extension/adjustments 1303; 2211; 2250; 2611; 2666.01
Patentability (See also Reasons for Allowance and Rejection) 2100
Patentability report 705
- Appeal 705.01(a); 1207
- Count 705.01(c)
- Date status 705.01(c)
- Dispute between examiners 705.01(a)
- Drawing 608.02(n); 705.01(d)
- Final action 705.01(a)
- Improper 705.01(e)
- Initiate 705.01
- Interviews 705.01(f); 713.01
- Limitation as to use 705.01(e)
- Practice used only in extraordinary situations 705
- Primary decides propriety 1004
- Print of drawing 608.02(n); 705.01(d)
- Purpose 705.01(e)
- Request for 1003
- Recording 705.01(c)
- Restriction, Effect on 807
- Search 705.01(a); 705.01(b)
- Sequence of examination 705.01(b)
- Transfer of appeal 705.01(a)
Panel review in inter partes reexamination 2671.03
Patentability statement 1302.14
Patentable novelty, pointed out 714.04
Patentable subject matter
- Computer programs 2106
- Disclosed but not claimed 706
- Living subject matter 1601; 2105
- Mathematical algorithms 2106; 2106.02
- Plants 1601; 2105
Patented file 905.03
Patented file, ordering 711.04(b)
"Patent In" computer program (See also Sequence rules) 1730; 2430
Patents of addition, foreign 901.05(b)
Payment of fees 509
Payor number (See Customer numbers)
PCT (See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT))
Pencil notations, erased at allowance 1302.01
Pending application as prior art (See also Application publication) 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 901.03
Pending application preserved in confidence 101
Pending applications as references (See also Application Publication) 706.02(f)(1); 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 901.03
Period for reply 710
- After Board decision 1214.01
- After final 706.07(f)
  - In transitional application 706.07(g)
- After interference 710.02(b)
- Amendment after 714.17
- Claim copied from patent 710.04(a)
- Claims all allowed 707.07(a); 710.02(b); 714.14
- Computed 710.01(a); 710.05
- Copying claim from patent does not extend statutory period 710.04(a)
- Correction of citation 707.05(g); 710.06
- Date of receipt of amendment 710.01(a); 710.05
- Defective Office action 707.05(g); 710.06
- Difference between shortened statutory period and time limit 710.02(d)
- Extension 710.02(d); 710.02(e)
- Extension of time to commence civil action 1002.02(k)(1)
- Extension of time to file notice of appeal at CAFC 1002.02(k)(1)
- Full statutory period for reply 130
- Holiday, Saturday, or Sunday expiration of time 505; 513; 710.05; 710.01(a)
- Incomplete reply 710.02(c); 711.02(a); 714.03; 2266.01; 2666.30
- Less than six months 710.02; 710.02(b); 710.02(c); 710.02(d); 710.02(e)
- Miscellaneous factors 710.06
- Petition 1002
- Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts 150
- Remailing 707.13; 710.06
- Restarting 710.06
- Saturday, Expiration of time 505; 710.01(a); 710.05
- Secrecy order application 130
- Shortened, Extension 710.02(d); 710.02(e)
- Shortened statutory period 710.02; 710.02(b); 710.02(e)
- Shortened statutory period, Distinguished from time limit 710.02(d)
- Shortened statutory period, When used 710.02(b)
- Statutory period 710.01
  - How computed 710.01(a)
- Suggesting claims 710.02(c)
- Sunday, Expiration of time 505; 710.01(a); 710.05
- Supplemental action 710.06
- Time computation 710.01(a); 710.05
- Time limit action 710.02
- Time limit action, When used 710.02(c)
- Two periods running 710.04; 710.04(a)
- Withdrawal of attorney or agent during 402.06
Periodicals 901.06; 901.06(a)
Period of enforceability 2204; 2211; 2610; 2611; 2686.02
Permanent ink 608.01; 714.07; 714.19
Perpetual motion 506; 608.03; 706.03(a); 707.07(g); 2107.01
Persons who may cite prior art relating to an issued patent 2203
Pertinent prior art 904.02
Petition
- Abandonment holding 711.02; 711.03(c); 711.03(d); 1002.02(c); 1002.02(p); 1002.02(q); 1002.02(r)
- Abandonment holding, examiner’s statement 711.03(d)
- Abandonment holding for failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing 1124
- Accept color drawings or photographs 507; 1002.02(d); 1503.02
- Accepting late issue fee 711.03(c)
- Accept omitted pages 1002.02(p)
- Access to application 103; 1002.02(b); 1002.02(p)
- Access to interference agreement 1002.02(f)
- Access to interference application 1002.02(f)
- Access to unopened preliminary statements 1002.02(g)
- Add inventor in provisional application 1002.02(q)
- Admit model 1002.02(c)
- Attorney withdrawal 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c); 1002.02(p)
- Biotechnology processes under 35 U.S.C. 103(b) 706.02(n)
- Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2681
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences involved 1002.02(f); 1002.02(g); 1002.02(j)
- Certificate of Correction 1002.02(d); 1002.02(g); 1002.02(l)
- Change in inventorship 1002.02(d); 1002.02(e); 1002.02(l); 1002.02(p); 1002.02(q); 1481
- Change inventor’s name 605.04(c)
- Change in order of inventors names 605.04(f)
- Color drawings or photographs 507; 1002.02(d); 1503.02
- Common ownership situation 706.02(k)
- Concurrent ex parte and inter partes prosecution 1002.02(g)
- Consideration of submission after NIRC in inter partes reexamination 2687.01
- Converting a 111(a) application to a 371 application 1002.02(p)
- Converting a 371 application to 111(a) application 1002.02(p)
- Converting a nonprovisional to provisional 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c); 1002.02(p); 1002.02(q)
- Correct filing date 506.02; 513; 601.01(b); 1002.02(b)
- Correction of inventorship 201.03; 1002.02(d); 1002.02(e); 1002.02(l); 1002.02(p); 1002.02(q)
  - In ex parte reexamination 2250.02
  - In inter partes reexamination 2658; 2666.03
- Counter-terrorism inventions 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- Defer issuance 1002.02(b); 1306.01
- Delegation of Director’s authority 1001.01
- Denial 1002.02
- Denial of request for reexamination 1002.02(c)
  - Ex parte 2246; 2248; 2265
  - Inter partes 2647; 2648
- Director’s duties ; 1002
- Dismissed 1002.02
- Dismissed without prejudice 1002.02
- Divisional reissue 1002.02(b)
- Entry of amendment 1002.02(d)
- Entry of amendment after RAN in inter partes reexamination 2672; 2673.02; 2675
- Entry of late paper for revival of ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b); 2268
- Entry of late papers for revival of inter partes reexamination proceeding 1002.02(b); 2668
- Expedited examination of design applications 502; 1002.02(c)(3)
- Express abandonment after payment of issue fee 1002.02(b)
- Express abandonment to avoid pre-grant publication 502; 1125; 1135
  - Facsimile submission 502.01
- Expunge papers from file 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c)
- Expunge information 724.05; 1002.02(c)
- Extension of time 710.02(e); 714.17; 1002.02(q)
  - Application before Office of Patent Legal Administration 1002.02(b)
  - Application before Office of Petition 1002.02(b)
- Filing date 506.02; 513; 601.01(b); 601.01(c); 601.01(f); 601.01(g); 1002.02(b)
- Final rejection 1002.02(c)
  - SIR application 1105
- Foreign filing license 140; 1002.02(c)(1)
  - Facsimile submission 502.01
- Inspection 103
- Interference 1002.02(c); 1002.02(f); 1002.02(g)
- Interview in merged reissue/inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Late foreign priority claim 1002.02(b)
- Maintenance fees, accept and record 1002.02(b); 2580
- Maintenance fees, delayed payment/reinstatement 1002.02(b); 2515; 2531; 2590
- Make special (See also Special application) 708.02; 1002.02(s); 1504.30
- Matter subject to ; 706.01; 1002
- Merge reexaminations 1002.02(b); 2283
- Merge reissue and ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b); 2285
- Merge reissue and inter partes reexamination 1002.02(b); 2667; 2686.03
- Modification of secrecy order 120
- New matter 608.04(c); 1002.02(c)
- Nonsigning inventor 409.03; 1002.02(b); 1002.02(p)
- Objection by examiner 1002.02(c)
- Patent term extension 1002.02(b)
- Period for filing 1002
- Premature Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) in inter partes reexamination 2672
- Premature final rejection 706.07(c); 1002.02(c)
- Preliminary amendment as part of original disclosure 608.04(b)
- Procedure 1002.01
- Public use proceedings 1002.02(b)
- Publication Division 1002.02(r)
- Reconsideration of denied petition (ex parte reexamination) 2268
- Rescission of secrecy order 120, 1002.02(c)(1)
- Refused assignment 313; 317
- Refusal to enter amendment 1002.02(c)
- Refusal to initiate interference 1002.02(c)
- Refusal to issue Certificate of Correction 1002.02(c)
- Registration to practice 1002.02(m)
- Reinstate rejection after Board decision 1002.02(c)
- Reinstatement 1002.02(m)
- Relating to PCT international application and/or national stage application 1002.02(p)
- Relating to reexamination or reissue 1002.02(b)
- Reopen prosecution after Board decision 1002.02(c)
- Reopen prosecution after Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2682
- Requirement for information 1002.02(c)
- Resetting period for reply 1002.02(c)
- Restriction requirement holding 821.01; 1002.02(c)
- Retroactive foreign filing license 140
- Return model 1002.02(c)
- Return original oath 1002.02(c)
- Revival 711.03(c); 1002.02(b); 1124
- Revive PCT application 1002.02(p)
- Rule 1.48 (inventorship) 201.03
- Secrecy order 1002.02(c)(1)
- Sequence rules 1002.02(c)(2)
- Special status 708.02; 1002.02(s); 1504.30
- Stay ex parte reexamination proceedings 2284; 2285
- Stay inter partes reexamination proceedings 2667; 2686.02; 2686.03
- Sufficiency of an affidavit 1002.02(c)
- Supervisory authority of Director of the USPTO 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c)
- Suspend action – public safety or defense 1002.02(c)(1)
- Suspend rules 1002.02(b)
- Suspension of second or subsequent inter partes reexamination requests 2640
- Time for filing 1002
- Trademark related 1002.02(i)
- Transfer from another application 608.02(i)
- Unavoidable delay, withdraw abandonment 711.03(c); 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c)(3); 1306
- Unintentional delay, withdraw abandonment 711.03(c); 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c)(3); 1306
  - Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing 1124
- Unintentionally delayed claim for foreign priority 201.14; 201.14(a); 201.16; 1002.02(b); 1402; 2258; 2658
- Unintentionally delayed claim for priority to a U.S. application 201.06(c); 201.11; 201.11(a); 1002.02(b); 2258; 2658
- Vacate order granting request for ex parte reexamination 2246
- Vacate an order granting inter partes reexamination 2646
- Waive rules 1002.02(b)
- Waive time provisions in ex parte reexamination 2265
- Waive time provisions in inter partes reexamination 2648; 2668; 2672
- Withdrawal of lapsed patent 1002.02(r)
- Withdrawal from issue, after issue fee paid 502; 1002.02(b); 1308
- Withdrawal from issue, issue fee not paid 1002.02(c); 1308
- Withdrawal of a terminal disclaimer 1490
- Withdrawal of abandonment 1002.02(b)
- Withdrawal of attorney 1002.02(s)
  - In interference 1002.02(g)
- Withhold from issue, before issue fee paid 1002.02(c)
Petition for Express Abandonment to Avoid Publication Under 37 CFR 1.138(a) PTO/SB/24A
- Cited 1125
- Reproduced 1135
Petition for Revival of an Application For Patent Abandoned for Failure to Notify the Office of a Foreign or International Filing PTO/SB/64a
- Cited 1124
- Reproduced 1135
Petitionable matter 706.01
PG-Pub (See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
Pharmaceutical subject matter
- Safety review by FDA 2107.03
- Statute (See Statutes: 35 U.S.C. 155)
- Utility 2107.01
Phi, Greek letter usage 608.01(g)
Philippines-United States search exchange 1711
Photograph as drawing 507; 608.02; 1503.02
Piecemeal prosecution 707.07(g)
Plant Breeder’s Rights 1613
Plant Convention, UPOV 1612
Plant patent 1600
- Action 1610
- Advertising 1610
- Affidavit 1610
- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) 1608; 1609
- Allowance 1611
- Application publication 1120 - 1135
- Asexual reproduction 1601; 1605
- Bacteria 1601
- Claim 1605; 1610
- Color drawing 1603; 1606
- Color identified 1605
- Declaration 1604
- Definitions 1601
- Department of Agriculture 1608
- Deposit 1605
- Duplicate papers 1603; 1605; 1609
- Elements of application 1603
- Examination 1608
- Examiner’s amendment 1610
- Executive Order 1608
- Filing not permitted via EFS-Web 502.05
- Issue 1611
- Laudatory expressions 1610
- Method claim improper 1605
- Oath 1604
- Parts 1603
- Plant varieties excluded 1601
- Priority claim 1613
- Publication of application 1120 - 1135
- Report of Agricultural Research Service 1608; 1609
- Rules applicable 1602
- Signature 1603
- Specification 1605; 1610
- Specimens 1607
- Statutory basis 1601
- Term 2701
- Tubers 1601
- UPOV Convention 1612
Plant patent series 901.04
P.O. Box (See Mail stop)
Post classifier 902.04; 903.02(c); 903.07(b); 903.08(d); 903.08(e); 903.09; 903.10
- Requesting consideration by 903.08(d)
Post employment agreement of former Office employee 1702
Post Office, Depositing papers in 502
Post Office address (See also Correspondence and Mail Stop)
- Applicant 409.03(e); 605.03; 719.02(b)
- Attorney 601.02
Postal Service interruptions and emergencies 511
Postcard, self-addressed 203.08; 503; 601.01(d); 601.01(f); 601.01(g); 719.01(a); 1204; 1901; 1901.05
Power of attorney 402
- Application in interference 402.08
- Application oath or declaration includes 601.02
- Assignee appoints 402.07
- Assignee revokes 402.07
- Associate attorney 402.02; 406
- Attorney not of record 714.01(c)
- Canadian patent agent 402
- Change in plurality of applications or patents 402
- Coinventor 402.01; 402.10
- Customer Number 402; 1807
- Death of applicant 409 - 409.01(f)
- Death of principal attorney 406
- Exception as to registration 402.01
- General, for international application 1807
- Invalid 402
- Joint applicant 402.01
- Limited recognition 402.01
- Notice of revocation 402.05
- Post Office address 601.02
- Provisional application 103
- Reexamination, inter partes 2613; 2622
- Revocation 402.05; 402.07; 402.08; 402.10
  - After Allowance 2501
- Secrecy order applications 120
- Unregistered attorney or agent 402; 402.01
- Withdrawal of attorney or agent 402.06; 1808; 2501
- Withdrawn in patent 2223; 2501
Power to inspect 103; 104; 324; 402; 713.05
Power to inspect, approval 104
Power to inspect, suspended attorney 105
Practitioner (See Attorney or agent)
Practitioner’s names on patents 1309
Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) 1120 - 1135
- Amendments prior to publication 1121
- Appendices not published 1121
- Application in a foreign language 608.01
- Assignee information published 1121
- Certification as to intent to file counterpart applications 1122
- Claim sets, multiple 1121
- Computer programs 1121
- Content 1120; 1121
- Conversion to provisional to avoid publication 601.01(c)
- Complete application required 1120
- Copies of published application files 1128
- Correction of errors in the PG-Pub 1130
- Correspondence address 1121
- Correspondence regarding published application 1134
- Disparaging remarks not published 1120
- Disparaging prior art 2131.05
- Drawings 507; 1120; 1121
- Early publication 1129
- Express abandonment to avoid publication 502; 1125; 1135
  - Facsimile submission 502.01
- Fee, publication 1126; 1133; 1303; 1306; 1306.03
- Forms 1135
- Inappropriate nonpublication request 1122
- Material mistake by the Office 1130
- Nonpublication request 1122
- Notice of foreign filing 1124
- Notice of Publication 1127
- Notice of New or Revised Publication 1127
- Offensive language not published 1120
- Public access to published application 1128; 1132
- Publication date, projected 1120; 1122
- Publication fee 1126; 1133; 1303
- RCEs not published 1120
- Redacted publication 1132
- Refund of publication fee 1126
- Replacement drawings prior to publication 507; 1120; 1121
- Republication 1130
- Request for early publication 1129
- Request for nonpublication 1122
- Request for redacted publication 1132
- Rescission of nonpublication request 1123; 1124
- Residence changed 719.02(b)
- Sequences published on Internet 1121
- Status information of published application 1128
- Substitute specification required 1120
- Tables, large 608.05(b)
- Third party inquiries 1134
- Voluntary publication 1133
- When published 1120
- Which applications 1120
Pre-Grant Publication Division 502; 1120; 1122; 1125; 1126
Preamble, design application 1503.01
Preamble, effect of 2111.02
Preamble, Jepson claim 2129
Predicted tests in specification 608.01(p)
Preliminary amendment 714.01(e)
- Entry denied 714.01(e)
- Excess claims 506; 714.01(e); 714.10
- New matter 608.04(b); 714.01(e)
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714
Preliminary handling of public use or on sale 2122
Preliminary hearing, public use proceeding 720.03
Premature final rejection 706.07(c)
Premature response in inter partes reexamination 2667
Prima facie showing, public use proceeding 720.02
Primary examiner 705.01(a); 706.04; 706.07(c); 706.07(d); 707.01; 710.02(b); 710.02(e); 711.03(a); 713.01; 713.02; 713.10; 714.16; 714.16(d); 714.19; 715.08; 716; 2271; 2633; 2636; 2648; 2660; 2671.01 - 2671.03
- Actions requiring personal attention 705.01(a); 707.01; 707.09; 710.02(b); 713.02; 714.16(d); 1004
- Name on file wrapper 1302.13
Print of drawing (See also Drawings) 608.02(m)
- Additional 608.02(m)
- Alteration 608.02(m)
- Colored 608.02(m)
- Examiner’s notation on 608.02(m)
- File wrapper 719.01(b)
- Kept in Technology Center 608.02(c)
- Marked-up 608.02(v)
- Marking 608.02(m)
- Patentability report 608.02(n); 705.01(d)
- Returned drawing 608.02(y)
Printed matter nonstatutory 706.03(a)
Printer waiting 708.01; 1305; 1309.02
Printing date, declassified material 707.05(f)
Printing practitioners names on patents 1309
Printing priority 1309
Prior art (See also Reference) 900
- Admissions as 706.02; 2129
- Analogous 2141.01(a)
- Disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) 706.02(l)(1); 706.02(l)(2); 706.02(l)(3); 2136.01; 2141.01
- Duty of disclosure of 2001.04
- Effects of international application publication 1857; 1857.01; 1895.01
- Equivalents 2144.06
- Electronic Information Disclosure Statement 609.07
- Filed on Saturday Sunday or a Federal holiday 609.04(b)
- Foreign application as 2135.01
- Information reasonably necessary for finding 704.11
- International application publication 706.02(a); 1857.01; 2163; 2163.03
- Kind codes 901.04(a)
- Level of ordinary skill 2141.03
- Patents as 706.02(a); 2126; 2132; 2136
- Publications under 35 U.S.C. 122(b) 1895.01; 1896; 2136; 2136.03
- Scope and content of 2141.01
  - Means limitations 2182
- Search (See also Search) 900
- Statutory Invention Registrations as 901.02; 2136
- Suitability of 2144.07
- Third party submissions 609; 1134.01
- Used in deciding request for reexamination 2242; 2642
- Well-known in the art 2144.03
Prior art citations in reexamination proceedings
- Ex parte 2202
  - Content 2205
  - Copies of prior art 2205
  - English translations 2205
  - Explanation of pertinence 2205
  - Flowcharts 2206
  - Handling 2206
  - Sample letter 2205
  - Service on patent owner 2208
  - Time for filing 2204
- Inter partes 2602; 2646; 2654; 2656; 2657
  - After the order to reexamine 2602; 2667
  - After a Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes reexamination Certificate issues 2687.01
  - Before the first Office action 2625
  - Before the order to reexamine 2602; 2654
  - By another requestor 2602; 2656
  - By the patent owner 2602; 2656
  - Storage area 2667
  - With the Request 2656
  - With third party’s comments 2666.05; 2667
Prior art copies in reexamination
- Ex parte 2218
- Inter partes 2618
Prior art filed by protestor 1901.02; 1901.03
Prior art on drawing 608.02(g); 2125
Prior art statement 609; 1893.03(g)
- Provisional application 609
- Reissue application 1418
Prior art, statement applying (reexamination) 2217; 2617
Prior art used in determining reexamination request
- Ex parte 2244
- Inter partes 2644
Prior examiner’s action 704.01; 706.04; 713.01
Priority
- Claiming in continued prosecution application 201.06(d); 1302.04
- Claiming in ex parte reexamination 2258
- Claiming in inter partes reexamination 2658
- Claiming in reissue application 1402; 1405; 1417
- Foreign application (See also Foreign application) 201.13
  - Corrected by Certificate of Correction 1481
  - Design applications 1504.02; 1504.10
  - Ex partereexamination 2258
  - Incorporation by reference 201.13; 201.17; 608.01(p)
  - Inter partes reexamination 2658
  - Proper identification 201.14(d)
- Formal requirements 201.11; 201.14; 706.02(f)(1)
- Incorporation by reference to earlier application 201.06(c); 201.17; 608.01(p)
- International application 201.11(a); 1828; 1893.03(c)
  - Corrected by Certificate of Correction 1481
- Inventor’s certificate 201.13(a)
- Overcoming reference 201.15
- Patent printing 1309
- Petition for unintentionally delayed claim to benefit of prior U.S. application 201.11; 201.11(a)
- Prior U.S. application 201.11
  - Corrected by Certificate of Correction 201.11; 1481
  - Design application 1504.20
  - In ex parte reexamination 2258
  - In inter partes reexamination 2658
  - Provisional application 706.02
- Time charts 2138.01
- Time for filing 201.13
Priority document (See Foreign application)
Priority practice (See Foreign application)
Private use (See also Public use) 2133.03(a)
Proceedings, Termination of 201.11; 711.02(c)
Process of making and product made 806.05(f)
Processing and retention fee 601.01(a)
Processing of reexamination in Technology Center
- Ex parte 2233
- Inter partes 2633
Product and process of using 806.05(h); 2173.05(p)
Product by process 2113; 2173.05(p)
Product of human ingenuity 2105
Product of nature 706.03(a)
Program Management System (PMS) 2238; 2638
Programs, Computer (See Computer programs or software)
Prolix claim 2173.05(m)
Proof, burden of 2112; 2112.01; 2113
Proof of authority of administrator or executor 409.01(b)
Proof of foreign filing 201.14
Proof of irreparable damage 409.03(g)
Proof of ownership, reissue application 1410.01
Proof of unavailability or refusal to sign 409.03(d)
Proofreading of action 707.08
Proper multiple dependent claim 608.01(n)
Property rights statement 150
- Contents of 151
Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts 115; 150; 151
Prophetic examples in the specification 608.01(p)
Proprietary interest, Proof of 409.03(f)
Proprietary materials (See Protective order material and Trade secret material)
Pro se applicant (See also Applicant and Inventor)
- Appeal brief 1205
- Certificate of mailing 512
- Change of address 601.03; 719.02(b)
- Death 409.01(f)
- Duty of disclosure 2002.01
- Examination of application 707.07(j)
- Examiner’s action 707
- Interview 713.01
- Legal representation 401
- Telephone restriction practice 812.01
Prosecution
- Closed, application allowable except for formal matters 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
- Closed, secrecy order cases 130
Prosecution after appeal 1207.04
- Piecemeal 707.07(g)
- Reopening after allowance 1308.01
- Reopening after Board decision 1214.07
Prosecution laches 2190
Prosecution of Secrecy Order application 130
Prosecution reopened after court decision 1216.01
Protective order material (See also Trade secret material) 724 - 724.06
- Submission 724.02
Protest 1900
- Access by protestor 1901.05; 1901.07
- Acknowledgment of protest 1901.05
- Certificate of service 1901.03
- Comments of applicant 1901.06
- Complete 1901.03
- Copies of documents 1901.03
- Express consent of applicant required 1134
- Filed in reissue where patent is in interference 1449; 1901.06
- Handling 1901.05
- Improper protest 1134; 1901.03
- Information which can be relied on 1901.02
- Involving fraud, lack of good faith or candor, or violation of duty of disclosure 1901.06; 2013
- Multiple papers on same issue 1901.07(a)
- Reissue application 1441.01; 1901.04
- Reissue litigation 1901.03; 1901.04
- Requirement for information 1901
- Review of adverse decision 1906
- Service on patentee or applicant 1901.03
- TC Director’s attention required 1003
- Timeliness of protest 1901.04
- Trade secret information 724; 1901.02
- Treatment by examiner 1901.06
- Under Rule 1.291 1901
- Who can file 1901.01
Protestor participation 1901.07
Provisional application 201.04(b)
- Abandonment 201.04(b); 201.11; 711.03(c)
- Access 103; 104
- Assignment of 302.03
- Assignment of application claiming benefits of 306.01
- Completeness 506; 601.01(b)
- Conversion to 201.04(b); 601.01(c)
- Correction of inventorship 201.03
- Cover sheet for 201.04(b)
- Data, on file wrapper/history of 202.02; 1302.09
- Data, in specification of 1302.04
- Drawing 608.02
- Effective filing date 601.01(b); 706.02
- EFS-Web filing of 502.05
- English language translation for benefit of date 201.11
- Filing receipt 503
- Guidelines for drafting 601
- Information disclosure statement 609
- Joint inventors in 605.07
- Last day of pendency 201.04(b)
- Ordering of abandoned 905.03
- Priority 201.04(b); 201.11
  - Error in, as reissue grounds 1402
- Request to convert to nonprovisional 1002.02(b); 1002.02(q)
- Revival 711.03(c)
- Statutory Invention Registration 1101
- Small entity status 509.03
- Specification 601.01
PTO employee restrictions, assignment 309
PTO employee restrictions, unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventor 409
Public access to ex parte reexamination file 2232
Public access to inter partes reexamination file 2632
Public domain (See also Public use, On sale, and and Disclaimer) 2121.03; 2133.03; 2133.03(a); 2145
- Dedication to public 715; 1490
Public inspection, Application file 103; 1128
- Ex parte reexamination 103; 2232
- Inter partes reexamination 103; 2609; 2632
- Redacted application publication 103; 1132
- Reissue 103; 1430; 1470
Public inspection of assignments 301.01
Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate 502.05; 707.05(a)
Public Law (See Statutes)
Public policy 706.03(a)
Public right to inspect files 103; 1128
- In ex parte reexamination 103; 2232
- In inter partes reexamination 103; 2609; 2632
Public sale (See also On sale and Public use) 2133.03
Public search facility (See Patent search facility)
Public searchers 101
Public use (See also On sale) 706.02(c); 2133.03; 2133.03(a)
- Affidavit or declaration 715.10
- Anticipation 2133.03(a)
- Commercial exploitation 2133.03(e)(1)
- Commercial use 2133.03(a)
- Completion of the invention 2133.03; 2133.03(c); 2133.03(e)(1)
- Definition of 2133.03(a)
- Evidence 706.02(c)
- Experimental use (See also Experimental use) 2133.03; 2133.03(e)
- In this country 706.02(c); 2133.03(d)
- Intent to experiment 2133.03(e)(2); 2133.03(e)(3)
- Invention 2133.03(c)
- Policy considerations 2133.03
- Public knowledge or on display 2133.03(a)
- Secrecy 2133.03(a)
- Single use 2133.03(a)
  - Control over invention 2133.03(a); 2133.03(e)(5); 2133.03(e)(7)
- Testing by third party 2133.03(e)(5); 2133.03(e)(7)
- Use with expectation of privacy 2133.03(a)
- Use by inventor or associates 2133.03(a)
- Use by independent third parties 2133.03(a)
Public use proceedings 720
- Affidavits 720.01
- Final decision 720.05
- Oral argument 720.04
- Petitions 1134; 1002.02(b)
- Preliminary handling 720.01
- Preliminary hearing 720.03
- Prima facie showing 720.02
- Rejections after 706.03(v)
- Rejections on 706.03(v); 720.05
- Testimony 720.04
Publication, Defensive 711.06; 711.06(a); 1111
Publication of Statutory Invention Registration 1111
Publication date 706.02(a); 707.05(f)
Publication fee 1126; 1133; 1303; 1306; 1306.03
Publication of abstracts 711.06; 711.06(a)
Publication
- Board decisions 1213.03
- Citing 706.02; 707.05(e); 901.06
- Date of 706.02(a)
- Declassified 707.05(f)
- Notices ; 707.06; 1703
- Official Gazette(O.G.) 1703
- Orders ; 707.06; 1703
- Own, as reference 715.01(c); 2132.01
- Pre-Grant (See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
- Prior art effect of international 706.02(a); 1857.01; 2136.03
- Rules changes 1703
- Under 35 U.S.C. 122(b) as references 1857.01; 1896; 2136; 2136.03
- Voluntary 1133
Publishing Division (See Office of Patent Publications (Office of Data Management))
Pulling abandonments 711.04(a)

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Q

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Quality Assurance 1302.04; 1308.03; 1720
- In reexamination 2289; 2689
Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS) 1415.01; 1442.03; 1443; 1448; 1449.01; 1451; 1455; 1456; 1490; 2212.01; 2233; 2236; 2246; 2262; 2270; 2271; 2281; 2285; 2287; 2289; 2294; 2295; 2633; 2635; 2636; 2646; 2660; 2664; 2670; 2671; 2671.01; 2671.02; 2673.02; 2676; 2677; 2686.03; 2687; 2687.01; 2689
Quality control program 1308.03
Quayle practice 710.02(b); 714.14
- Action recording 1705
- After final rejection 706.07(f)
- Allowance action 707.05(a); 714.14; 714.15
- Claims later added 714.20
- Copies of references 707.05(a)
- Design application 1504
- Examiner’s amendment used instead of 608.01(b)
- Formal matters corrected 706.07(f); 812.01
- Information disclosure statement 609.01; 609.04(b)
- Primary examiner signature required 1005
- Reexamination, ex parte 2250.01; 2266.01
- Reissue 1444
- Shortened statutory period 710.02(b); 2250.01
Query Printer Waiting 1306.03

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

R

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Ranges
- Anticipation of 2131.03
- Obviousness of 2144.05
Ratification of papers filed
- Death of attorney 406
- Death of inventor 409.01
- Signature improper or lacking 714.01(a)
Real party in interest 1205; 1207.02
- In inter partes reexamination 2612; 2614; 2677
Reasons for allowance 1302.14
- Amendments after final rejection 714.13
- Appeal record 1213.02
- Applicant’s comments on 1302.14
- Claim narrowing 1302.14
- Comments on, ex parte reexamination 2287
- Comments on, inter partes reexamination 2687.01
- Estoppel effect 1302.14
- Failure of applicant to comment on 1302.14
- Patent Cooperation Treaty application 1845.01; 1878.01
- Presumption of acquiescence by applicant 1302.14
- Public use proceedings 720.05
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2262; 2287
  - Inter partes 2687
Rebuttal brief in inter partes reexamination appeal 2678; 2679
- Refused entry 2679
Recapture
- Claimed subject matter 706.02(l)(1); 1412.02
- Matter in reissue 1412.02
- Of patent rights
  - Disclaimed by filing a disclaimer 1490
  - Waived when SIR published 1111
Receipt of mail and papers 500
- Arrangement of papers in file wrapper 719.01(a)
- Depositing correspondence 502
- Entry of amendments 714.18
- Filing receipt 503
- Office date stamp 505
- Period for reply 710.01(a)
Receiving Office PCT procedure 1801
- International Bureau 1805
Reciprocal privileges, foreign priority 201.13
Reciprocal security agreements 120
Reclassification
- Classes 903.02(a)
- Patents 903.05
- Subclasses 903.02(c)
Recombinant DNA (See also DNA and Biotechnology)
- Special status 708.02
Reconsideration in ex parte reexamination 2269
Reconsideration of abandonment 711.03; 711.03(c)
- Based on insufficient reply 711.03(a)
- Based on failure to reply within period 711.03(b)
Record of interview 713.01; 713.04
Record room (See File Information Unit (Record Room))
Record system for reexamination
- Ex parte 2235
- Inter partes 2635
Recording assignment 301; 302; 317
Recording change of business name 314
Recording government interests 302; 302.07
Recording of joint research agreement 302; 302.07
Recording license agreement 313
Recording of other documents 313 - 317
Recording security interest 313
Redacted publication of an application 502.05; 1132
Reduction to practice 715.07; 2133.03(c); 2138.01; 2138.05
Reexamination, Ex parte 2200
- Access to file 103; 724.04(c); 2209; 2232
- Action following Board decision 2278
- Address of patent owner 2222
- Admissions 2217; 2258
- Affidavits 2216; 2217; 2258; 2265
- After final practice 2272
- Amendment 714; 2234; 2250; 2295
  - Abstract 2287
  - After final rejection 2272
  - Examiner’s 2287
  - Filed with request 2221
  - Improper 2250
  - In a merged reissue/ex parte reexamination 2285
  - Prior reexamination certificate issued 2250; 2295
  - Provisions of Rule 1.312 do not apply 2287
  - Reissue patent issued 2250
- Ancillary issues 2217; 2258
- Appeal 2273
- Appeal brief 2274
- Appeals to courts 1216; 1216.01; 2279
- Application file location 2635
- Assignment 301
  - To an examiner 2236; 2248; 2255; 2285
- Attorney or agent 2213
  - Name on certificate 2287
- Basic characteristics 2209
- Certificate of 2288; 2294
  - Reissue patent as 2290; 2294
- Certificate attached to patent copy 2292
- Certificate distribution 2292
- Certificate format 2290
- Certificate of mailing or transmission 2224
- Certificate of prior reexamination in later request 2214; 2219; 2619
- Certificate of service 2220
- Certified copy 2232
- Citation of prior art 2202
  - After first office action 2271
- Claim for Official Gazette 2287
- Claim, multiple dependent, preparation for publishing 2287
- Claim numbering 2250
- Claims considered 2243; 2258
- Claims invalid/unenforceable 2286
- Claims presented for interference 2283; 2304.02
- Clerical handling 2270
- Collateral estoppel 2259
- Comments on "Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation" 2287
- Conclusion 2287
- Concurrent proceedings 2282 - 2686
- Conduct of proceedings 2254
- Consideration of responses 2252; 2253
- Consolidated proceedings 2283
- Constructive notice to patent owner 2230
- Content of request 2214
- Copending proceedings 2283 - 2686
- Copy of patent in request 2219
  - Double column format 2214; 2219
- Copying of file 2232
- Correction of inventorship 2250.02; 2258
- Correction of request 2231
- Correspondence 2224
- Criteria for deciding request 2242
- Decision of Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 2277
- Decision on request 2240
- Decision ordering reexamination 2246
- Decision processing 2245
- Defective submission 2266.02
- Denied 2240; 2247; 2247.01
- Dependent claim treatment 2260.01
- Director’s initiative 2239
- Domestic priority 2258
- Double correspondence 2224
- Double patenting 804; 2258
- Drawing correction 2250.01
- Duty of disclosure 2003.01; 2280
- Electronic copy 2209; 2232
- Entry of amendments 2234; 2270
- Entry of court decisions in patent file 2207
- Examiner 2236; 2248; 2255
  - Deposition 1701.01
- Examiner’s amendment 2287
- Examiner’s answer 2275
- Expiration of patent 2211; 2250
- Explanation of prior art 2217
- Extension of time 2265
- Failure to timely reply to Office action 2266
- Fees 2215; 2233; 2283; 2285
- Final action 706.07(a); 2265; 2271
- Flowchart 2201
- Foreign priority 2258
- Forms 2296
- Granted 2246; 2247.01
- Grounds of rejection 2217
- Identity of requester 2212
- Inappropriate papers 2267
  - Return of papers 2267
- Incomplete reques
  - t 2227
- Informal submission 2266.02
- Initial processing 2226
- Inquiries from persons other than the Patent Owner 2212.01
- Interference copending 2284
- Intervening rights 2293
- Interviews in 2281
- Introduction 2201
- Listing of prior art 2257
- Litigation copending 2286
- Litigation review 2240; 2287
- Mailing of Office actions 2264
- Merger 2283; 2686.01
- Merger with reissue proceedings 1449.01
- Multiple dependent claim handling, preparation for publishing 2287
- New matter 2270
- NIRC ) (See Form letters and forms: Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469)
- Notification of Concurrent Proceedings 2285
- Of a reexamination 2295
- Office action 2260; 2262
- Official Gazette
  - Notice of certificate 2291
  - Notice of request 2229
- "Old art" (i.e., previously considered/cited) 2242; 2258.01
- Oral hearing 2276
- Orders for copies of 2232
- Patent copy in request 2219
  - Double column format 2214; 2219
- Patent owner’s address 2222
- Patent owner’s statement 2249
- Patent owner’s statement of interview 2281
- Patentability review conference 2271; 2271.01; 2287
- Petition 1002.02(b)
  - Correct inventorship 2250.02
  - Denial of request 1002.02(c); 2246; 2265
  - For entry of late papers (revival of terminated proceedings) 2268
  - Merge proceedings 2283; 2285
  - Reconsideration 2268
  - Stay proceedings pending interference 2284
  - Stay proceedings pending reissue 2285
  - Unavoidable delay 2268
  - Unintentional delay 2268
  - Vacate order granting request 2246
  - Waive time provisions 2265
- Power of attorney, withdrawal 2223
- Preprocessing staff 2226; 2229; 2232; 2239
- Printing of certificate 2288
- Prior art 2218
- Prior art considered 2244; 2256
- Prior art previously cited/considered 2242; 2258.01
- Proceedings 2209
- Processing in Central Reexamination Unit and Technology Center 2233; 2245
  - Clerical handling 2270
- Project code 2238
- Public access 103; 2232
- Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS) 2289
- Quality review 2289
- Reasons for patentability and/or confirmation 2262; 2287
- Reconsideration of Office action 2269
- Record system 2235
- Refund if request denied 2247; 2248
- Reissue copending 1449.01; 2285
- Rejections 2242; 2258
  - Using "old art" 2258.01
- Reminders 2287
- Reply by third party requester 2251; 2253
  - Period for reply cannot be extended 2265
- Reports 2235
- Representative of requester 2213
- Request 2210
  - After reissue patent issues 2240; 2258; 2285
  - After first reexamination certificate issues 2294
  - Content 2214
  - Correction processing 2231
  - Decision 2240; 2244
  - Decision criteria 2242
  - Denied 2247; 2247.01
    - After reissue patent issues 2240
  - During interference 2284
  - Facsimile submission not permitted 502.01
  - Filing address 2224
  - Granted 2246; 2247.01
  - Guidelines 2242
  - "Old art" (previously considered art) involved 2242; 2258.01
- Response to Office action 2266
- Restriction improper 2258
- Review 2289
- Sample letter requesting reexamination 2214
- Scope 2258
- Search 2244; 2258.01
- Second or subsequent request 2240; 2283
  - Prior art considered 2240; 2242
- Service by patent owner on requestor of patent owner statement 2249
- Service of papers 2220; 2266; 2266.02; 2266.03
- Special status for action 2261
- Statement applying prior art 2217
- Statement by owner 2249
- Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation 2287
- Statutory basis 2201
- Stay 2283
- Submission defective or informal 2266.02
  - After final 2272
- Submission not fully responsive 2266.01
  - After final 2272
- Substantial new question of patentability 2201; 2216; 2240; 2242; 2244; 2246
  - Using "old art" 2242; 2258.01
- "Sufficient cause" for extension of time 2265
- Suspension 2283
- Terminated 2294
- Terminated files 2294
- Tickler reports 2235
- Time for request decision 2241
- Time for requesting 2211
- Time for response to actions 2263
- Time reporting 2238
- Title report 320; 2287
- Transfer 2237
- Translation required 2218
- Untimely filed paper prior to order 2225
- Untimely filed papers 2267
- Untimely responses 2252
- Use of transmittal form (PTOL-465) 2264
- Vacated 2294
- Vacated, claims invalid/unenforceable 2286
- Who may file request for 2212
- Withdrawal of attorney during 402.06; 2223
- Withdrawal of power of attorney 2223
Reexamination, Inter partes (See also Reexamination, Ex Parte ) 2600
- Access by public 103; 724.04(c); 2609; 2632
- Action closing prosecution (ACP) 2660; 2666.05; 2666.10; 2667; 2660; 2666.05; 2671.03; 2673.02; 2682
  - Content 2671.02
  - Premature 2672
  - Response to 2672
- Admissions 2617
- Affidavits 2616; 2617; 2658; 2666; 2675; 2677
- Amendment by patent owner
  - After a new ground of rejection is issued by the Board 2682
  - After Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) 2671; 2672; 2673
  - After expiration of the patent 2666.01
  - After Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) 2687.01
  - After Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) 2673; 2673.02; 2675
  - Claims 2666.01
  - Defective 2666.50; 2666.60; 2667
  - Dependent claim 2660.03
  - Drawings 2666.02
  - Entry 2670
  - In a merged reexamination proceedings 2670; 2686.01; 2686.03
  - Of a reissued patent 2686.03
  - Title 2660.02
  - To provoke an interference 2686.02
  - Unsigned 2666.50
- Appeal (i.e., Appellant) Brief 2675
  - Defective 2675; 2675.02
- Appeal Conference 2676; 2677
- Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 2674 - 2680
  - Flowchart 2601.01
- Appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2682; 2683
- Appeal to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia not available 2683
- Appellant defined 2674
- Assignment to examiner 2636; 2648; 2655
- Certificate of inter partes reexamination 2688; 2690; 2694
  - Distribution 2692
  - Format 2690
  - Reissue patent as 2688; 2694
- Certificate of service 2620; 2666.06
  - Avoid duplicate filing fee 2620
- Certificate of mailing or transmission 2624; 2665; 2666; 2666.05
- Certificate of prior reexamination in later request 2214; 2219; 2619
- Certification as to statutory estoppel 2612; 2614
- Clerical handling 2670
- Collateral estoppel 2659
- Comments on Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation 2687.01
- Comments by third party (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
- Concurrent proceedings 2282; 2686
- Constructive notice of 2630; 2654
- Copending proceedings 2282; 2686
- Copies of the prior art with request 2618
- Copy of printed patent with request 2619
  - Double column format 2614
- Copying of the file by the public 2632
- Correction of inventorship 2658; 2666.03
- Correspondence 2624
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2682; 2683
- Court ordered 2686.04
- Cross appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals 2674
- Cross appeal to the Federal Circuit 2683
- Decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 2681; 2682
- Decision on the request for inter partes reexamination 2640; 2641
  - After Court decision 2686.04
  - Content 2646
  - Criteria for deciding 2642
  - Deadline for mailing 2641
  - Denial 2640; 2647; 2647.01; 2648; 2694
  - Grant 2640
  - "Old art" (previously considered art) used 2642
  - Processing 2647; 2647.01; 2648
  - Prior art available 2644
  - Reissue about to issue 2686.03
- Dependent claim treatment 2660.03
- Design applications 2611
- Determining if a reexamination was filed for a patent 2632.01
- Domestic priority 2658
- Drawings 2666.02
- Duty of disclosure 2003.01; 2684
- Electronic copy 2609; 2632
- Enlarging claim scope prohibited 2658; 2666.01
- Estoppel, Collateral 2659
- Estoppel, Statutory 2601; 2612; 2614
- Examination scope 2658; 2671.01; 2671.02
- Examiner consultation with a Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA)
  - After response by parties 2671
  - Before appeal 2676
  - Before the decision on the Request 2633
  - In merged reexamination proceedings 2686.01
  - Regarding multiple reexamination requests 2686.01
  - Review of Rebuttal Briefs 2679
- Examiner’s Amendment
  - Canceling rejected claims 2671; 2687
  - Correcting formal matters 2687; 2687.01
  - In merged reissue/reexamination 2686.03
  - Not permitted if approval required 2687.01
  - To the Title 2660.02; 2686.03; 2687
- Examiner’s Answer 2677
- Expedited Right of Appeal Notice 2671; 2673.02
- "Express Mail" procedure 2624; 2665; 2666; 2666.05
- Extensions of time 2665
  - After Action Closing Prosecution 2672
  - To amend the claims after a Board decision containing a new ground of rejection 2682
  - To appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2682
  - To complete a reply held non-responsive 2660.30
  - To petition denial of the Request 2648; 2665
- Facsimile transmission, correspondence by 2624
- Fees 2634
  - For a copy of the file on CD 2632
  - Refund 2615; 2647; 2648
- Final Board decision 2681; 2682
- Filing date 2627
- Flowcharts 2601.01
- Foreign priority 2658
- Forms listed 2696
- Fraud 2684
- Improper comments 2667
- Inappropriate papers 2667
- Incorporation by reference in Examiner’s Answer 2677
- Interference copending 2686; 2686.02
- Intervening rights 2693
- Interviews in a merged reexamination/reissue 2686.03
- Interviews not permitted 2666.30; 2685; 2687
- Litigation concurrent 2640; 2681; 2686; 2686.04
- Litigation search 2686.04
- Litigation stayed 2686.04
- Merger of multiple requests for reexamination 2686.01
- Merger of reissue and inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Multiple requests for reexamination filed 2640; 2686; 2686.01; 2695
- New grounds for rejection 2671.01
  - By the Board of Appeals 2681; 2682
- New matter 2671.01; 2671.02
- NIRC (See Form letters and forms: Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL 2068)
- Non-final Board decision 2681
- Non-responsive reply by patent owner/third party 2666.30; 2666.50
- Notice of appeal 2662; 2674; 2674.01
  - Premature 2667
- Notice of cross appeal 2662; 2674; 2674.01
- Notice of Inter Partes Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette 2627; 2629
- Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2688; 2691
- Office action 2660; 2671
  - Not closing prosecution 2671.01
  - Reopening prosecution after ACP 2673; 2673.01
  - Reopening prosecution after Examiner’s Answer 2679
  - Reopening prosecution after RAN 2676; 2677
- Oral hearing 2662; 2675; 2677; 2680
  - Open to public 2680
- Order granting inter partes reexamination 2646; 2660
  - Returned as undelivered 2654
- Oversight 2689
- Patent copy with request 2619
  - Double column format 2614
- Panel Review 2671.03
- Petition 1002.02(b)
  - Board decision 2681
  - Consideration of submissions after NIRC 2687.01
  - Correct inventorship 2658; 2666.03
  - Denial of request for inter partes reexamination 1002.02(c); 2647; 2648
  - Entry of late papers for revival of reexamination proceeding 2668
  - Enter an amendment after RAN 2672; 2673.02; 2675
  - For an interview in a merged reexamination/reissue 2686.03
  - Merge inter partes reexamination and reissue 1002.02(b); 2667; 2686.03
  - Premature Action Closing Prosecution 2672
  - Reopen prosecution after Board decision 2682
  - Suspend second or subsequent requests 2640
  - Stay reexamination 2667; 2686.02; 2686.03
  - Unavoidable delay 2668
  - Unintentional delay 2668
  - Vacate order granting inter partes reexamination 2646
  - Waive time provisions 2648; 2668; 2672
- Premature response/comments 2625; 2667
- Prior art citation 2602; 2646; 2654; 2656; 2657
  - After the order to reexamine 2602; 2667
  - After a Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate issues 2687.01
  - Before the first Office action 2625
  - Before the order to reexamine 2602; 2654
  - By another requestor 2656
  - By the patent owner 2656
  - Storage area 2667
  - With the Request 2656
  - With third party’s comments 2666.05; 2667
- Prior art copies with request 2618
- Processing 2670
  - After a decision by the Board 2682
  - Amendment 2666.01; 2670; 2687
  - Clerical 2670
  - Examiner’s Answer 2677
  - Inappropriate papers 2667
  - Merger of multiple reexamination requests 2686.01
  - Merger of reissue and inter partes reexamination 2686.03
  - Terminated inter partes reexamination 2694
- Proof of service (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Service of papers)
- Public access 103; 2609; 2632
- Publication 2687
- Publication of Board decision 2681
- RAN (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Right of Appeal Notice (RAN))
- Real party in interest identification 2612; 2614; 2677
- Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation 2687
- Rebuttal Brief 2678; 2679
  - Refused entry 2679
- Records 2635
- Reissue copending 1449.01; 2643; 2686; 2686.03
- Reissue previously issued 2640; 2686
- Remand by the Board of Appeals 2681; 2682
- Reopening prosecution after an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) 2673; 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after a Board decision 2682
- Representative of requestor 2613
- Request for extension of time 2665
- Request for reconsideration by patent owner 2666
- Request for inter partes reexamination
  - Claims considered 2643
  - Challenge accuracy of certificate 2612
  - Content 2614
  - Denied 2640; 2647
  - Facsimile transmission not permitted 502.01; 2624
  - Filed after reissue issued 2658
  - Filed while interference pending 2686.02
  - Filing address 2624
  - Granted 2640
  - Incomplete 2627
  - Prior art cited with 2618
  - Second or subsequent filed 2640; 2686.01
  - Statement applying the prior art 2617
  - Time for filing 2611
- Request for Rehearing by the Board 2682; 2683
- Res judicata 2659
- Respondent Brief 2675.01
  - Defective 2675.01; 2675.02
- Respondent defined 2674
- Response by patent owner 2666
  - After Action Closing Prosecution 2671; 2672
  - Defective 2666.30; 2666.40; 2667
  - Improper comments 2667
  - Late (See also Reexamination, Inter partes: Time periods for response) 2667; 2668
  - No proof of service 2667
  - No response filed 2666.10; 2671; 2671.01; 2671.02
  - Not fully responsive 2666.30; 2671
  - Person not of record 2666.50
  - Premature 2625; 2667
  - To Notice of Defective Paper 2666.40; 2666.60
  - To Office action 2666; 2666.30
  - Too long 2667
  - Unsigned 2666.50; 2667
- Response by third party
  - After Action Closing Prosecution 2671; 2672
  - After patent owner corrects defect 2666.40
  - Comments regarding response by patent owner 2666.05; 2666.20; 2666.30
  - Defective 2666.50; 2667
  - Improper comments 2666.05; 2667; 2671
  - Late (See also Reexamination, Inter partes: Time periods for response) 2667; 2668
  - No proof of service 2667
  - No response filed 2666.20; 2671
  - Other than third party requester 2667
  - Period for response 2666.05; 2666.20
  - Person not of record 2666.50
  - Premature comments 2625; 2667
  - Premature appeal 2667
  - Prior art submission with 2666.05; 2667
  - Too long 2667
  - Unsigned 2666.50; 2667
- Review 2689
- Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) 2666.05; 2666.10; 2667; 2671 - 2674; 2677
  - Content 2673.02
- Scanning 2632
- Scope of examination 2658; 2671.01; 2671.02
- Service of papers 2666.06
  - Certificate of 2620; 2666.06
  - Proof of service 2666.06; 2666.50; 2667
  - To patent owner 2620; 2654; 2666.05
  - To third party requestor 2654; 2666; 2666.05
- Special Status 2661
- Statement applying the prior art 2617
- Statutory estoppel 2601; 2612; 2614
- Stayed pending litigation outcome 2686.04
- Stayed pending reissue outcome 2686.03
- Submissions prior to the first Office action 2625
- Substantial new question of patentability 2614; 2616; 2617; 2640; 2246; 2642 - 2647; 2648; 2658; 2686.01; 2686.04
- ‘Sufficient cause’ for extension of time 2665
- Suspension of requests for inter partes reexamination 2640; 2686.01
- Terminated 2694
- Third party requestor (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
- Time for requesting inter partes reexamination 2611
- Time periods after appeal for filing:
  - Amendment after Board decision containing a new ground for rejection 2682
  - Notice of Appeal in the Federal Circuit 2682
  - Notice of Cross Appeal in the Federal Circuit 2683
  - Request for Rehearing 2682
- Time periods during appeal for filing:
  - Appeal (i.e., Appellant) Brief 2675
  - Corrected/Supplemental Appellant Brief 2675; 2675.02
  - Corrected/Supplemental Respondent Brief 2675.01; 2675.02
  - Corrected/Supplemental Rebuttal Brief 2679
  - Notice of Appeal 2674
  - Notice of Cross Appeal 2674; 2674.01
  - Rebuttal Brief 2678
  - Request for Oral Hearing 2680
  - Respondent Brief 2675.01
- Time periods for response 2662
  - After Action Closing Prosecution 2672
  - After defective submission 2666.30; 2666.50; 2666.60
  - After Office action 2662; 2665; 2667
  - To make claims the same in each concurrent reexamination 2686.01
- Time reporting by Office personnel 2638
  - For a Panel Review 2671.03
- Title 2660.02
- Transfer 2637
- Unpublished legal opinions 2677
Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA) 2632; 2633; 2640; 2641; 2647.02; 2664; 2670; 2675; 2679; 2686.01; 2686.04; 2689
Reexamination Processing System (REPS) 103; 2632
Reference (See also Prior art)
- A.I. Series patent 901.04
- A.P.C. publication 901.06(c)
- Abandoned application 901.02; 2127
- Abbreviatures 901.06(d)
- Abstracts 706.02; 901.06(d)
- Additional 707.05(d)
- Admissions 2129
- Analogous art 904.01(c); 2141.01(a); 2143.01; 2145
- Antedating (See Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131))
- Applications, domestic and foreign 2127
- Applying reference under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) 706.02(f)(1)
- Arrangement in Examiner’s Search files 901.07
- As evidence of inherency 2131.01
- As evidence in multiple reference, 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection 2131.01
- Assigned application as 804.03
- Availability 2128
- Between applicant’s priority date and U.S. filing date 201.15; 706.02(b)
- Borrowing from Technology Center 901.08
- Citation 707.05 - 707.05(g); 901.04; 901.05(a)
  - After allowance 1302.12; 1308.01
  - After appeal 1207.02; 1207.03; 1207.04
  - By applicant 707.05(b); 707.05(c); 1302.12
  - Correction 707.05(g)
    - Period for reply 710.06
- Claims foreign date 715.01
- Combination of references 706.02(j)
- Copending 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01
- Copies 707.05(a)
- Cross, how cited 707.05(e)
- Cross reference addition 905.02
- Date, determination of 707.05(f); 2124; 2126; 2128 - 2128.02
- Date, exception to the rule 2124
- Declassified printed matter 707.05(f)
- Defensive publications 901.06(d)
- Design application 707.05(a)
- Disclosure, broad 2123
- Disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) 706.02(l)(1); 706.02(l)(3)
- Drawings as prior art 2125
- Effects of international application publication 1857; 1857.01
- Effective date
  - Patent 706.02; 706.02(a); 707.05(e); 707.05(f); 715
  - Publication 706.02(a); 715.01(c); 1857.01; 2128.02
- Electronic publications 707.05(e); 904.02(c); 2128
- Enabled disclosure 2131.01
- Enabling, plant genetics 2121.03
- Enabling, compounds and compositions 2121.02
- Enabling, apparatus and articles 2121.04
- Equivalents 904.01(b)
- Every element rule for anticipation 2131
- Evidencing the meaning of a term used in the primary reference 2131.01
- Foreign patent 706.02; 707.05(e); 901.05(a); 901.05(b)
- Forfeited application 901.02
- From interference 1302.12
- Incorrect citation 707.05(g); 710.06; 1302.12
- Inoperability 716
- Internal documents, confidential 2128.01
- Intervening 201.15; 706.02(b)
- Joint patent to applicant and another 715.01(a); 715.01(c)
- Listing at allowance 1302.12; 1455
- Lost counts in interference 2138.01
- Multiple reference rejections under 35 USC 102 2131.01
- Newly discovered after allowance 1308.01
- Nonanalogous art (See also Reference: Analogous art) 2131.05; 2141.01(a)
- None cited by examiner 707.05; 707.05(a)
- Operability 2121
- Ordering official cross 903.06
- Overcome
  - Under Rule 1.130 718
  - Under Rule 1.131 (See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131)) 706.02(a); 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 715; 1302.14; 2132.01; 2133.02
  - Under Rule 1.132 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 716; 2132.01
- Overcoming under 35 U.S.C. 119 201.15
- Paper, orally presented 2128.01
- Patent 901.04; 2126
- Patent, date available 2126.01
- Patent, Foreign (See Foreign patent)
- Patent, official number lacking 901.04
- Patent claiming same invention 715.05; 2301.03
- Pending application (See also Application) 901.03
- Publication of applicant’s invention 715.01(a); 715.01(c); 2132.01; 2133.01
- Publication, date available 2128.02
- Publication, printed 2128
- Publications 706.02; 707.05(e); 901.06; 2131.01; 2132.01; 2133.01
- Published abstracts of application 706.02; 711.06(a); 2131.01; 2133.01
- Rejection over broad disclosure instead of preferred embodiments 2123
- Replacement of missing 901.09
- Same assignee 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 715.01(b)
- Selection of pertinent 904.02
- Statutory bar 706.02(a); 201.13; 2133.02
- Statutory section to use 706.02(a)
- Supply procedure 707.05(a); 707.05(g); 710.06
- Swearing back (See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131)) 706.02(k); 715; 2132.01; 2133.02
- Thesis 2128.01
- Utility 2122
- "Well known in the art," supported by 2144.03
Reference characters 608.01(g)
Reference to foreign application 202.03; 202.04; 901.03
Reference to prior patent 608.01(p); 608.01(r); 901.03
Reference to related application (See Cross-noting)
Reference to related application for disclosure 608.01(p)
Refile application (See also Application and Substitute application) 201.10
Refunds (See also Fee and Deposit account) 509; 607.02
- Additional invention or species 803.03(a); 803.03(b)
- Canceled claims 506
- Correspondence address 509.03; 2540; 2542
- Filing fee 201.04(b); 503; 506; 601.01(a)
- International applications 1002.02(p); 1827.01; 1850; 1864
- International search fee 707; 1827.01; 1852; 1859
- Issue fee 1308.01; 1308.03
- Maintenance fee 2520; 2540; 2542; 2550; 2590
- Oral hearing 1209
- Publication fee 1126
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2215; 2247; 2248
  - Inter partes 2615; 2647; 2648
- Refund Section, Office of Finance 509.03; 607.02
- Petition fee 506.02
- Small entity fee 509.03; 2550
- Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) 1109
Refusal to publish SIR 1105
Registration, Attorney or agent 402; 1702
Regulations, Technology Center (TC) facilities 510
Regulations, public search room 510
Rehearing by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1002.02(j); 1214.01; 1214.03; 1214.04
Reissue application 1401 - 1470
- Absolute intervening rights 1460
- Access to 103; 724.04(b); 1430; 1470
- Acknowledgment of protest 1901.05
- Additional information required 1442.01; 1442.04
- Adjudication of original patent 1442.01
- Allowance 1455
- Amendment 714; 1411; 1453
  - Examiner’s 1455
  - Of drawings 1413; 1453
  - So that reissue can be merged with ex parte reexamination 2285
  - So that reissue can be merged with inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Amends or corrects original patent 1400.01; 1402
- Appeal brief 1454
- Assignee consent 1410.01; 1443; 1451
- Broadened 706.03(x); 1412.03
- Cannot be used to remove terminal disclaimer 1490
- Certificate of correction 1411.01; 1412.04; 1443; 1480 - 1485
- Claim
  - Broadening 1412.02; 1412.03
  - Dependent 1412.03
  - Format 1411; 1453
  - Numbering 1451; 1455
  - Oath requirement 1414
  - Printed in Official Gazette 1455
  - Same invention as original patent 1412.01
  - Too narrow 1402
- Collateral estoppel 2112.01
- Consent by assignee 1410.01; 1443; 1451
- Content 1410
- Continuation 1410.01; 1414; 1451
- Copending application reference 1402
- Copending ex parte reexamination proceedings 2285
- Copending inter partes reexamination proceedings 2686.03
- Correct inadequacies 1402
- Court decision involving original patent 1442.01
- Court ordered 1442.05
- Cross noting 1451; 1455
- Deceptive intention 1414
- Declaration 1410.01; 1414; 1414.01; 1444
  - Supplemental 1414.01; 1444; 1455
- Defective oath, ground for rejection 706.03(x); 1414
- Dependent claim 1455
- Design 1457
- Diligence 1403
- Disclaimer 1411.01; 1450
- Divisional 1002.02(b); 1410.01; 1412.01; 1414; 1450; 1451; 1457
- Domestic priority, delayed claim 201.11
- Double patenting 1451
- Drawings 1413; 1414; 1453
- Duty of disclosure 1406; 1418; 1448; 2001.06(c); 2003
- EFS-Web filing of 502.05; 1410
- Election of species 1450
- Equitable intervening rights 1460
- Error correction after allowance 1414.01; 1444
- Error in original patent 1401; 1402; 1414; 1414.01
- Examination 1440; 1443; 1445
  - Review of Oath/Declaration 1444
- Examiner Reissue Guide and Checklist 1443
- Expedited examination 708.01; 1441; 1442; 1442.03
  - Design 1457
- Expired patent 1415.01
- Filing fee 1415
- Final Office action 1443
- Foreign priority claim 201.14; 201.16; 201.14(b); 1402; 1417
- Format 1410; 1411; 1411.01
- Fraud 1448; 2012
- Grounds for filing 1402
- Inequitable conduct 1448; 2010
- Information disclosure statement 2003
- Initial examiner review 1443
- Inoperative or invalid, Oath requirement 1414
- Inspection 103
- Interference 1449.02
- Interference on original patent concurrent with 1449.01
- Intervening rights 1460
- Inventorship error 1402; 1412.04
- List of references 1455
- Litigation involved 1404; 1442.01 - 1442.05; 1443
  - Marking envelope 1404
- Litigation protest 1901.03
- Maintenance fees on original patent 1415.01
- Merger of reissue applications after restriction 1450
- Merger of reissue application with ex parte reexamination 2285
- Merger of reissue application with inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Multiple filings 1451
- New matter 1411.02
- Numbering of claims 1451; 1453
- Notice in original file 202.05
- Oath 1414; 1414.01; 1444
  - Primary examiner’s decision 1004
  - Supplemental 1414.01; 1444; 1455
- Offer to surrender patent (not required) 1416
- Official Gazette
  - Claim to be printed in 1455
  - Filing notice in 1430; 1441; 1441.01; 1443; 1452; 1457; 1470
- Omission of feature 1411.02
- Open to public 103; 1430; 1470
- Ordering copies of papers in file 1430
- Ownership 201.12; 1410.01; 1443
- Patent series 901.04
- Patent term, affect on 1405
- Petition to merge reissue and ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b); 2285
- Petition to merge reissue and inter partes reexamination 1002.02(b); 2686.03
- Petition to stay reissue pending ex parte reexamination 2285
- Petition to stay reissue pending inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Print of drawing 608.02; 608.02(m)
- Prior art consideration 1402
- Prior art statement 1418
- Priority correction 201.14(b); 201.16; 1402; 1405; 1417
- Protest 1441.01; 1443; 1901
- Protest filed in reissue where patent is in interference 1443; 1449
- Public access 103; 1430; 1470
- Recapture of matter 706.02(l)(1); 1412.02
- Reexamination proceedings copending 1449.01
  - Ex parte 2285
  - Inter partes 2643; 2686; 2686.03; 2695
- Rejection 706.03(x)
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1451
- Requirement for information 1442.04
- Restriction 1450; 1451
  - Design 1457
- Return of original patent 1416
- Review 1456
- Same invention as original patent 1412.01
- Special for examination 708.01; 1441; 1442; 1442.03
  - Design 1557
- Specification 1410; 1411; 1411.01; 1453; 1455
- Status 1430; 1470
- Statutory basis 1401
- Statutory disclaimer 1490
- Stayed pending ex parte reexamination 2686.03
- Stayed pending inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Submission of papers in 1404
- Suit on original patent 1442.01
- Surrendered patent returned to applicant 1416
- Suspension 1450
- Terminal disclaimer 1410.01; 1411; 1451; 1490
- Transfer of original drawing (prior practice) 608.02(i); 1413
- Treatment of protest 1901.06
- Twice reissued 1411
- Two month delay period 1441; 1441.01
Rejected application 203.02
Rejection (See also Anticipation rejection, Indefinite claim, and Obviousness) 706
- Abandonment of invention 706.02(d); 706.03(s)
- Admission by applicant 706.02(c); 2133.03(c)
- After allowance of application 706.04; 706.05; 1308.01
- After allowance of claim 706.04
- After allowance, primary examiner review of 1004
- After appeal, new rejection 1207.03
- After termination of interference 2308
- Against public policy 706.03(a)
- Aggregation 2173.05(k)
- All valid grounds 707.07(g)
- Allowed claim by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1213.02
- Alternative phrases 2173.05(h)
- Anticipation (See also Anticipation rejection) 706.02(a); 707.07(d); 2131; 2132; 2133; 2136
- Art (See also Prior art) 706.02
- Assigned applications, Same applicant 804.03
- Atomic Energy Act 706.03(b)
- Authorship 2137
- Backup rejections 706.02
- Bar, Statutory 706.02(a); 2133 - 2133.03(e)(7)
  - Overcoming 706.02(b)
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences introduces 1214.01
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences statement on allowed claim 1213.02
- Breadth 2173.04
- Broadening in reissue application 1412.03
- Broader than the disclosure 2173.03
- Chemical practice
  - Markush 2173.05(h); 2173.05(o)
  - Undue breadth 2163.05; 2173.04; 2173.05(h)
- Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent 706.06
- Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent, failure to reply 706.03(u)
- Claims 706
- Combination of references 706.02(j); 707.07(d); 2131.01
- Common knowledge 2144.03
- Commonly assigned 706.02(k); 2146
- Computer programming cases 2106; 2161.01
- Conflicting applications 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3); 709.01; 715.01(b); 804; 804.01; 804.02; 822; 822.01
- Contrasted to objection 706.01
- Copending applications, different inventive entities 706.02(k); 706.02(l) - 706.02(l)(3)
- Cumulative 706.02; 707.07(d)
- Dedication 715; 1490
- Defective reissue oath 706.03(x); 1444
- Dependent claim 608.01(n)
- Derivation of invention 2137
- Disclaimer 706.02(k); 710.02(d)
- Double patenting (See Double patenting)
- Duplicate claims 706.03(k)
- Estoppel, defensive publication 711.06
- Estoppel, interference 2308.03
- Final (See also Final rejection) 706.07 - 706.07(f)
- Foreign application, statutory bar 706.02(e)
- Form paragraphs used 706.02(i); 706.02(m)
- Form used 707
- Fraud upon public 706.03(a)
- Frivolous invention 706.03(a)
- Full anticipation, expression recommended 706.02(i); 707.07(d)
- Function of machine 2173.05(v)
- Functional claim 2114; 2173.05(g)
- Functional equivalents 2144.06
- Generic claim 715.02; 806.04; 809.02(a)
- Genus and species 806.04(h); 806.04(i); 2131.02; 2144.08
- Ground clearly stated 706.02(j); 707.07(d)
- Inaccurate 2173.03
- Incomplete 706.03(c); 707.07(j)
- Indefinite 706.03(d)
- Inoperativeness 2164.08(b)
- Insufficient disclosure 706.03(c)
- Insufficient disclosure, trademark 608.01(v)
- Interference, estoppel 2308.03
- Interference terminated 706.03(v); 2308
- International publication as prior art 706.02(a); 1857.01; 2136.03
- Judicial notice 2144.03
- Language used 706.02(j); 707.07(d)
- Linking claim 806.04; 806.05(c); 809; 809.03
- Markush, improper 2173.05(h); 2173.05(o)
- Multiplicity 2173.05(n)
- Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
- New, after appeal 1207.03
- New, after final rejection 706.07(e)
- New matter 706.03(o); 2163.06
- Nonelected invention 706.03(m)
- Nonstatutory claim 706.03(a); 2107
- Nonstatutory subject matter 706.03(a)
- Not based on prior art 706.03
- Not inventor 706.02(g)
- Not readable on disclosure 2173.03
- Oath, defective reissue 706.03(x); 1444
- Objection distinguished 706.01
- Obviousness (See also Obviousness) 706.02; 706.02(j); 707.07(d)
- Official notice 2144.03
- Old combination 2173.05(j)
- Omnibus claim 706.03(d); 2173.05(r)
- Omnibus rejection 707.07(d)
- Overcoming 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection 706.02(b)
- Overlapping applications 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 709.01; 715.01(b); 804; 804.01; 804.02; 822; 822.01
- Perpetual motion 706.03(a)
- Personal remarks avoided 707.07(d)
- Previously allowed claim 706.04; 1004
- Prima facie case of obviousness 706.02(j)
- Printed matter 706.03(a)
- Prior art 706.02
- Prior art between applicant’s foreign priority date and U.S. filing date 201.15; 706.02(b)
- Product by process 2113; 2173.05(p)
- Product of nature 706.03(a)
- Prolix 2173.05(m)
- Provisional rejection 706.02(f)(2); 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(3)
- Public sale (See also On sale and Public use) 706.02(c)
- Public use (See also Public use) 706.02(c)
- Public use proceeding 706.03(v); 720.05
- Ranges 706.03(c); 2131.03; 2144.05
- Recapture in reissue application 1412.02
- Reissue application
  - Broadened claims 706.03(x); 1412.03; 2163.05
  - Defective oath 706.03(x); 1444
  - Recapture 1412.02
  - Repeated 707.07(f)
- Res judicata 706.03(w)
- Scientific principle 706.03(a)
- Secondary considerations 2131.04
- Single means claim 2164.08(a)
- Species and genus 806.04(h); 806.04(i); 2131.02; 2144.08
- Statement of 707.07(d)
- Statutory bar 706.02(a); 2133 - 2133.03(e)(7)
- Suggested claims not made 706.03(u)
- Technical 706.03
- Trademark or trade name 608.01(v)
- Undue breadth 2163.05; 2173.04
- Utility 706.03(a); 2107
- Vague 706.03(d)
- Well known in the art 2144.03
Rejoinder 806.05(c); 806.05(f); 806.05(h); 806.05(i); 809; 812.01; 821; 821.01; 821.02; 821.04; 821.04(a); 821.04(b); 1302.04(h)
Related inventions 802.01; 806.04(b); 806.05; 806.05(j); 808.02; 809.03
- Rejoinder of, generic or linking claim allowable 821.04(a)
- Rejoinder of, product claim allowable 821.04(b)
Related inventions, species 806.04(b)
Remailing Office action 707.13; 710.06
Remand by Board
- Affidavit 1211.03
- Amendment 1211.01
- Further search 1211.04
- In general 1211
- Ex parte reexamination 2274; 2275
- Inter partes reexamination 2675; 2675.01; 2677; 2681; 2682
- Special 708.01
Removal of application from Office 101
Renumbering claims 1302.01
Reopening after allowance 1308.01
Reopening after court decision 1216.01
Reopening prosecution after Action Closing Prosecution in inter partes reexamination 2673; 2673.01
Reopening prosecution after Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2682
Replenishment of deposit accounts (See Deposit account: Replenishment)
Reply (See also Amendment and Period for reply)
- After abandonment 714.17
- After Board decision 1214.01; 1214.06
- After final rejection 714.12; 714.13
  - By filing RCE 706.07(h)
  - Within 2 months 706.07(f)
- Attorney arguments 716.01(c); 2145
- By patent owner in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by patent owner)
- By third party in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
- Complete 714.02 - 714.04
- Copying claim from patent not a reply 711.02(b)
- Election requirement 809.02(a); 818.03(a); 818.03(b); 818.03(c)
- Formal matters 714.02
- Incomplete 710.02(c); 711.02; 711.02(a); 711.03(a); 714.02 - 714.05; 2266.01
- In ex parte reexamination 2266
- Incomplete, election of species lacking 809.02(a); 818.03(b)
- Incomplete, proceedings not stayed by petition 1002
- Incomplete, time for completing 710.02(c); 711; 714.03; 2266.01
- Late 711; 711.02
- Late, excused 710.02(d)
- Patentability pointed out 706.02(b); 714.02; 714.04
- Restart period for 710.06
- Restoration of canceled matter 608.01(s)
- Restriction requirement 818 - 819
- Signed by all applicants 714.01(a)
- Statutory period 710.01
- Unmatched with application file 508.03
Reply brief 1208
Representative capacity 402; 405; 714.01(c)
- Cannot expressly abandon 711; 711.01
- Cannot sign terminal disclaimer 1490
- Interviews 405
Representative of foreign assignee 302.04
Representative of inventor or owner 400
Representative of requester 2213
Representatives of out-of-town attorneys 408
Republication of PG-Pub 502.05; 1130
Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 706.07(h)
- After allowance 1308
- Conditions for filing 706.07(h)
- Design application 1502.01
- Improper CPA treated as 201.06(d)
- Inter partesreexamination of 2611
- Submission requirement 706.07(h)
- Suspension of action in 709
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
Request for ex parte reexamination
- Decision criteria 2242
- Facsimile submission not permitted 502.01
- Notice of request in Official Gazette 2229
- Requester’s representative 2213
- Time for filing 2210; 2211
- Time to decide 2241
Request for inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Request and Reexamination, Inter partes: Decision on the request for reexamination)
Request form (PCT/RO/101) 1812; 1821; 1844; 1844.01
Request for patentability report 705.01(e); 1003
Request for reconsideration of patent term adjustment 1002.02(b)
Request for rehearing of Board decision 1002.02(b); 1214.01; 1214.03; 1214.04
- Inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
Request for reinstatement of period of patent term adjustment 1002.02(b)
Request for Statutory Invention Registration (PTO/SB/94) reproduced 1101
Request to convert provisional application to nonprovisional application 1002.02(b)
Request to issue patent in name of assignee after issue fee paid 1002.02(r)
Requirement for information 704.10 - 704.14(d); 706.02(c); 710.02(d); 1901.06; 2122; 2123
- After the first action on the merits 704.11(b)
- Authority for requirement 704.10
- Consideration of information submitted 704.14(b); 707.05(b)
- Format of requirement 704.14(a)
- Relation to duty of disclosure 704.12(a); 2005
- Relationship to information disclosure statements … 704.14(d)
- Reply to 704.12
  - Elements of a complete reply 704.12(b)
  - Time periods for 704.13
  - Treatment of an incomplete reply 704.12(c)
- Scope of requirement 704.11
- What information may be required 704.11; 704.11(a)
- When requirement may be made 704.11(b)
Requirements must be repeated 707.07(e)
Requisites of the application 702
Res judicata 706.03(w); 707.07(g); 2259; 2659
Rescission of nonpublication request 1123; 1124
Rescission of Previous Nonpublication Request (35 U.S.C. 122(b)(2)(B)(ii)) and if Applicable, Notice of Foreign Filing (35 U.S.C. (b)(B)(iii)) form PTO/SB/36
- Cited 1123; 1124
- Reproduced 1135
Reservation clause in application 608.01(e); 608.01(t)
Residence, Applicant’s 605.02; 719.02(b)
Resignation of examiner, old cases special 708.03
Respondent Brief in appeal of inter partes reexamination 2675.01; 2675.02
Response (See Reply)
Restriction (See also Election and Election of species) 800
- Action, examiner’s 814 - 817
- Action after, special 708.01
- Action on the merits 810
- Apparatus and process or product 806.05(e) - 806.05(g)
- Application referred to second examiner 815
- Basis 802
- Burden, without serious 803
- Claimed subject matter 806.01
- Claims to divisible inventions added before action 818.02(a)
- Combination and subcombination 806.05(a); 806.05(c)
- Continuation 819
- Design application 1504.05
- Definition 802.02
- Distinct invention 802.01; 806; 806.05
- Distinct processes 806.05(j)
- Distinct products 806.05(j)
- Election other than express 818.02
- Election fixed by action on claim 818.01
- Final requirement 821.01
- Grouped in parent application 811.04
- Improper 803; 806; 808.02
- Independent embodiments 802.01; 806.04(b); 806.06
- Independent inventions 802.01; 803; 806; 806.06; 808.01(a)
- Intermediate-final product 806.04(b); 806.05(j)
- Introduction 801
- Linking claim 806.04; 806.05(c); 809; 809.03; 821.04(a)
- Linking claim, traverse of rejection 818.03(d)
- Markush type claims 803; 803.02
- Nonelected claims, treatment of 821 - 821.03
  - Eligible for rejoinder 821
  - Reissue application 1450
- Nonelected invention 706.03(m); 821.04(a)
- Nucleotide sequences 803.04; 2434
- Patentability over prior art 809; 809.03
- Patentability report, effect 807
- Petition from requirement 818.03(c)
- Process and product or apparatus 806.05(e); 806.05(g)
- Product and process of using 806.05(h)
- Product, process of making and using 806.05(i)
- Reasons for holding of independence or distinctness 808.01
- Reissue application 1450; 1451
- Rejection of nonelected claims 821 - 821.03
- Rejoinder 806.05(c); 806.05(f); 806.05(h); 806.05(i); 809; 812.01; 821; 821.01; 821.02; 821.04; 821.04(a); 821.04(b); 1302.04(h)
- Related inventions 802.01; 803; 806; 806.04(b); 806.05; 808.02; 809.03
  - Rejoinder of, generic or linking claim allowable 821.04(a)
  - Rejoinder of, product claim allowable 821.04(b)
- Requirement 812; 814 - 817
  - Additional 811.02
  - After election 818
    - With traverse 818.03(b); 821.01
    - Without traverse 821.02
  - By group where examinable 812
  - Clear and detailed record 814
  - Completeness 815
  - Concluding paragraph 817; 818.03(b)
  - Consult other group 812.01; 815
  - Final 810; 818.03
  - First action 811
  - Patentability 810
  - Petition from 818.03(c)
  - Reasons for insisting upon 808; 808.02
  - Rejection on double patenting following 804.01
  - Repeated after withdrawal 811.03
  - Reply to 818 - 818.03(d)
  - Review by examiner with at least partial signatory authority 803.01
  - Submission to TC director 804.04
  - Second requirement 811.02
  - Sequences 803.04; 2434
  - Single claim 803
  - Single embodiment 806.03
  - Species may be independent or related inventions 806.04(b)
  - Species of unclaimed genus 808.01(a)
  - Subcombination, Combination 806.05(a); 806.05(c)
  - When made 811; 811.02
  - Withdrawal 819
- Subcombinations usable together 806.05(d); 806.05(j)
- Telephone 812.01
- Transitional application 803.03
- Traverse of requirement 818; 818.03(c); 821.01
Restrictions on employees of Office 309; 409
Restrictions on former employees of Office 1702
Retroactive foreign filing license 140
Return of Papers
- Discourteous matter 714.19; 714.25; 1003
- Entered in the file 201.14(c); 719.01; 1003
- Return of drawing 608.02(y)
- Return of filing fee 607.02
- Return of oath 604.04(a)
- Return of patent 1416
- Return of post card (sometimes postcard or post-card) 503; 1901.05
Returned Office action 707.13
Review at allowance 1302.01
Review for national security 115
Review for Government property rights 115
Revised statutes (See Statutes)
Revival of abandoned application 711.03; 711.03(c); 1002.02(b)
Revocation of agent under PCT 1808
Revocation/Appointment of Power of Attorney or Authorization of Agent PTO/SB/82 2222; 2622
Revocation of power of attorney 402.05; 402.07
- After Allowance 2501
Rewritten specification 608.01(q)
Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) 2666.05; 2666.10; 2667; 2671 - 2674; 2677
- Content 2673.02
Right of priority (See also Foreign application)
- Foreign application 201.13
- Form paragraphs 201.14(c)
- Formal requirements 201.14
- Overcoming a reference 201.15; 706.02(b)
- Papers required 201.14(b)
- Time for filing papers 201.14(a)
- U.S. application 201.11
Right to exclude others 509.02; 1111; 1601; 2162
Rights, Transfer of patent or application 509.02
RNA (See Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences)
Roster of attorneys or agents 601.03; 1730; 2205; 2220
Rules, 21 CFR 60.3(b) 2751
Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations) ; R
- 10 CFR 810 Cited 140
- 21 CFR 312.80-312.88 Cited 2107.03
- 37 CFR:
  - 1.1 Reproduced 501
  - 1.2 Reproduced 713.04; 2002.02
  - 1.3 Reproduced 714.25
  - 1.4 Reproduced 501; 502.02; 502.04; 509.03; 2002.02
  - 1.5 Reproduced 502
  - 1.6 Reproduced 502; 502.01; 505; 513
  - 1.7 Reproduced 710.05
  - 1.8 Reproduced 512
  - 1.9 Reproduced 201; 201.04(b); 1893
  - 1.10 Reproduced 511; 513
  - 1.11 Reproduced 103; 1430; 1879.04
  - 1.12 Reproduced 301.01
  - 1.14 Reproduced 101; 102; 103; 104; 110; 150; 1128; 1879.04
  - 1.20 Reproduced 2250.03; 2666.04
  - 1.22 Reproduced 509
  - 1.23 Reproduced 509
  - 1.25 Reproduced 509.01
  - 1.26 Reproduced 509; 607.02
  - 1.27 Reproduced 509.02; 509.03
  - 1.28 Reproduced 509.03
  - 1.31 Reproduced 401
  - 1.32 Reproduced 402
  - 1.33 Reproduced 403; 601.03; 714.01(a); 2222; 2622
  - 1.34 Reproduced 402
  - 1.36 Reproduced 402.05
  - 1.41 Reproduced 605
  - 1.42 Reproduced 409.01(a)
  - 1.43 Reproduced 409.02
  - 1.45 Reproduced 605; 605.07
  - 1.47 Reproduced 409.03
  - 1.48 Reproduced 201.03
  - 1.51 Reproduced 601
  - 1.52 Reproduced 608.01; 608.05; 2250
  - 1.53 Reproduced 201.04(b); 201.06(c); 201.06(d); 506; 601.01; 601.01(c)
  - 1.54 Reproduced 503
  - 1.55 Reproduced 201.13; 201.13(a)
  - 1.56 Reproduced 2001; 2001.01; 2001.04; 2001.05; 2002
  - 1.57 Reproduced 201.17; 608.01(p)
  - 1.58 Reproduced 608.01; 608.05(b)
  - 1.59 Reproduced 724.06
  - 1.63 Reproduced 201.06(c); 602
  - 1.64 Reproduced 605.04(a)
  - 1.66 Reproduced 602.04(a); 604
  - 1.67 Reproduced 603
  - 1.68 Reproduced 602
  - 1.69 Reproduced 602.06; 2004
  - 1.71 Reproduced 608.01; 608.01(v)
  - 1.72 Reproduced 606; 608.01(b)
  - 1.73 Reproduced 608.01(d)
  - 1.74 Reproduced 608.01(f)
  - 1.75 Reproduced 608.01(i); 608.01(n); 2173.05(n)
  - 1.76 Reproduced 601.05
  - 1.77 Reproduced 608.01(a); 608.05
  - 1.78 in effect on November 29, 2000, Reproduced 201.11; 804.03; 822.01
  - 1.79 Reproduced 608.01(e)
  - 1.81 Reproduced 608.02
  - 1.83 Reproduced 608.02(d)
  - 1.84 Reproduced 608.01(f); 608.01(v); 608.02; 1606
  - 1.85 Reproduced 608.02(b); 608.02(p)
  - 1.91 Reproduced 608.03
  - 1.93 Reproduced 608.03
  - 1.94 Reproduced 608.03(a)
  - 1.95 Reproduced 608.03(a)
  - 1.96 Reproduced 608.05(a)
  - 1.97 Reproduced 609
  - 1.98 Reproduced 609
  - 1.99 Reproduced 1134.01
  - 1.102 Reproduced 708.01; 708.02
  - 1.103 Reproduced 709
  - 1.104 Reproduced 706; 707; 707.05; 707.07; 1302.14; 1852; 2260; 2660
  - 1.105 Reproduced 704.10
  - 1.111 Reproduced 201.04(b); 714.02; 714.03(a); 2266; 2666
  - 1.112 Reproduced 706
  - 1.113 Reproduced 706.07
  - 1.114 Reproduced 706.07(h)
  - 1.115 Reproduced 714.01(e)
  - 1.116 Reproduced 714.12
  - 1.121 Reproduced 608.02(p); 608.04; 714; 1453; 2234; 2250; 2666.01
  - 1.125 Reproduced 608.01(q)
  - 1.126 Reproduced 608.01(j)
  - 1.129 Reproduced 706.07(g); 803.03
  - 1.130 Reproduced 718; 804.03
  - 1.131 Reproduced 715
  - 1.132 Reproduced 716
  - 1.133 Reproduced 713.01; 713.04
  - 1.135 Reproduced 710.01; 711; 711.03(c); 714.03
  - 1.136 Reproduced 710.02; 710.02(e)
  - 1.137 Reproduced 711.03(c); 1124; 2268; 2668
  - 1.138 Reproduced 711; 1125
  - 1.141 Reproduced 802; 806.05(i)
  - 1.142 Reproduced 802
  - 1.143 Reproduced 818.03
  - 1.144 Reproduced 818.03(c)
  - 1.145 Reproduced 821.03
  - 1.146 Reproduced 806.04
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  - 1.152 Reproduced 1503.02
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  - 1.155 Reproduced 1504.30
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  - 1.178 Reproduced 1416; 1418; 1442.04
  - 1.181 Reproduced 711.03(c); 1002
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  - 1.251 Reproduced 508.04
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  - 1.312 Reproduced 714.16
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  - 1.484, former Reproduced 1878.01
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  - 1.495 Reproduced 709; 1893.01(a)
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  - 1.902 Reproduced 2202; 2602; 2625
  - 1.903 Reproduced 2666.06
  - 1.906 Reproduced 2658
  - 1.907 Reproduced 2612; 2686.04
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  - 1.915 Reproduced 2610; 2613; 2614; 2615; 2627; 2666.06
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  - 1.937 Reproduced 2654; 2686.03
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  - 1.941 Reproduced 2666.01; 2666.02
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  - 1.957 Reproduced 2666.10; 2666.20; 2666.30
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  - 1.985 Reproduced 2686
  - 1.987 Reproduced 2686.04
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  - 1.997 Reproduced 2686.03; 2688
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  - 5.25 Reproduced 140
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  - 10.18 Reproduced 402; 410
  - 11.9 Reproduced 402.01; 402.09
  - 11.10 Reproduced 1702
  - 11.18 Reproduced 509.03
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  - 41.6 Reproduced 1213.03
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  - 41.31 Reproduced 1204
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  - 41.43 Reproduced 1207.05; 1208
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  - 41.54 Reproduced 1214
  - 41.61 Reproduced 2674; 2674.01
  - 41.66 Reproduced 2675; 2675.01; 2678
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  - 41.8 Reproduced 2284; 2686.02
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  - 41.100 Reproduced 2301.02
  - 41.102 Reproduced 2284; 2303; 2686.02
  - 41.103 Reproduced 2284; 2307; 2686.02
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  - 41.127 Reproduced 2308
  - 41.200 Reproduced 2301.02
  - 41.201 Reproduced 2301.02
  - 41.202 Reproduced 2304.02; 2304.02(a); 2304.02(b); 2304.02(c); 2304.02(d); 2304.03; 2305
  - 41.203 Reproduced 2301.03
  - 41.206 Reproduced 2304.05
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Sale, On (See On sale)
Sample letter on citation of prior art in patent 2205
Sanctions 410
Saturday, effect on time for reply 502; 505; 513; 710.05; 2504; 2506
Scanning inter partes reexamination papers 2632
Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) 901.06(a)
- Biotechnology sequence listings 2421.03; 2427.01; 2427.02; 2429
- Foreign patents 706.02(e); 901.05; 901.05(c); 903.03; 905.06
- Hours 1730
- Litigation search 2240; 2287; 2640; 2686.04
- Literature collection 719.05
- Location and telephone number 1730
- Translation assistance 901.05(d); 901.06(a)
Scientific principle not patentable 706.03(a)
Scope of claims 904.01(a); 2163.05; 2164.08
- Design application 1503.01; 1504.04; 1504.05; 1504.06
Scope of class 903.02(b)
Scope of reexamination
- Ex parte 2258
- Inter partes 2658
Screening new application for security review 115; 706.03(b)
Seal 604.01
- Not required 604.01; 604.03(a)
- Venue 604.02
Search 900
- After reversal by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1214.04
- Aids in Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) 901.06(a)
- Analogous art areas 904.01(c)
- Claim analysis 904.01
- Computer 719.05
- Databases (See Electronic databases)
- Electronic documents 707.05(e); 904.02(c)
- Fee, PCT 1827
- Field of 904.02; 904.02(a)
  - Not to be given for patented inventions 1701
- File wrapper notation 705.01(a); 719.05; 904
- Incomprehensible disclosure 702.01
- In Technology Center, by member of public 713.02
- Informal application 702.01; 704.01
- INPADOC 901.06(a)
- Interference 2304.01(a)
- Internet 707.05(e); 904.02(c)
- Mechanized 719.05
- Notes in classification definitions 902.02(a)
- Notes in file wrapper 705.01(a); 719.05; 903.07(a)
- Online database (See also Electronic databases) 901.06(a); 902.03(e)
- Outlining 904.02(a)
- Patentability report 705.01(a); 705.01(b)
- Prior examiner’s 704.01
- Procedure 704.01; 904
- Requirements for information 704.11; 704.11(a)
- Restriction requirement 808.02
- Scope 2112
- Selecting pertinent references 904.03
- Title 306
- Unduly extensive and burdensome 806.01; 808.01(a); 818.02(b)
Search exchange, United States-Philippines 1711
Search notes box entries 719.05
Search facility hours 510; 1730
Search tools, automated 902.03(e)
Searched box entries 719.05
Secrecy, in general 101
Secrecy of international applications 120
"Secrecy Order" application 115; 120; 130
- After declassification 130
- Allowance 130
- Commodity Control List 120
- Correspondence 120
- Facsimile transmission of correspondence not permitted 120
- Final rejection 130
- Interference 130; 2306
- Petition for rescission or modification 120
- Prosecution 130
- Review 115; 140
- Security, Application affecting 120; 121; 130; 140
Secret sale (See On sale)
Security interest in patent, recording (See also Assignment) 313
Security markings 121; 130; 140; 724
Security screening of new applications 115; 140
Security Working Group 3640, applications submitted 121; 130; 706.03(b); 1002.02(c)(1)
Self-addressed postcard (See also Postcard, self-addressed) 503
Sequence listing (See also Sequence rules) 2422.03
- Database (See Sequence rules)
- EFS-Web submission 502.05
- Hand delivery 2422.09
- Mail Stop 242 (See also Mail Stop) 2.09
- Pre-Grant Publications (PG-Pub) 1121
- Statements 2422.06; 2422.07
Sequence rules (See also Biotechnology) 2400
- Amendments to sequence listing and computer readable form 2426
- Amino acid definition 2422.01
- Applications affected, new applications 2421.01
- AuthorIn 2430
- Background information 2401; 2420
- Bona fide reply 2421.03
- Changes to rules 2421.04
- Coding regions, depiction of 2423.02
- Compliance requirement 2422.07; 2429
- Computer readable format requirement 502.05; 2422.04; 2425
- Database 2421.01; 2421.02; 2421.04; 2422.01; 2422.03; 2422.04; 2423.02; 2424.02; 2424.02; 2425; 2429; 2430
- Definitions for nucleotides/amino acids 2422.01
- Effective date 2401; 2420
- Exclusive conformance requirement 2422.02
- Extensions of time 2421.03
- Format and symbols 2423; 2423.01
- Form paragraphs 2427.01
- Hand-delivery of sequence listings and computer readable forms 2422.09
- Helpful hints for compliance 2429
- Informational requirements for sequence listings 2424; 2424.01; 2424.02
- Mandatory information items 2424; 2424.02
- Miscellaneous requirements, information 2424.03
- New applications 2421.01
- Notice to comply 2421.03; 2427.02
- Nucleotide definition 2422.01
- Numbering of sequences 2423.02
- Numeric identifiers 2424; 2424.02
- Official copy of sequence listing 2422.04
- PatentIn information 1730; 2430
- Presumptions regarding compliance 2422.08
- Previously filed identical computer readable form, reference to 2422.05
- Replacement of sequence listing and computer readable form 2426
- Sample sequence listing 2431
- Sample statements 2428
- Sanctions for failure to comply 2422.07
- Sequence identifier requirement 2422.03
- Sequence listing requirement 2422.03
  - Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) 1823.02; 1848; 2430
- Sequence presentation 2423.03
- Sequences embedded in application text 2422.03
- Sequences in drawings 2422.02
- Statement regarding content of paper and computer readable copies 502.05; 2422.06; 2428
- Statement regarding new matter 2422.07; 2428
- Summary of requirements 2421.02
- Variants of a presented sequence 2422.03
- Voluntary compliance 2421.01
- WIPO Standard ST. 25, Appendix 2 Tables
  - Reproduced 2422
  - Cited 2422.01; 2423; 2423.01
Sequences, restriction 803.04; 2434
Series codes 503
Series of dependent claims 608.01(n)
Series, Patent (See Patent)
Service, proof of, in a petition for access 103
Service of citation in patent 1901
Service of court papers on Director 1216
Service of patent owner statement on requestor in ex parte reexamination 2242; 2266.03
Service of papers in inter partes reexamination 2666.06
- Certificate of 2620; 2666.06
- Proof of service 2666.06; 2666.50; 2667
- To patent owner 2620; 2654; 2666.05
- To third party requestor 2654; 2666; 2666.05
Shift of election 819
Shoes (See also Search) 901.07
Shortened statutory period (See also Period for reply and Statutory period) 710.02; 710.02(b)
- Appeal 1205; 1214.06; 1215.04
- Date of abandonment 711.04(a)
- Drawings 608.02(b)
- Extension of time 710.02(e); 1002.02(c)
- Final rejection 706.07; 706.07(b); 706.07(f); 706.07(g); 714.13
- Informal application 702.01
- Information disclosure statement 609.04(b)
- Oath 602.03
- Quayle 714.14
- Reexamination, ex parte 2250.01; 2263; 2265; 2273; 2285; 2286
- Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) 1103; 1107
- Time limits compared 710.02(d)
Signatory Authority, Full 1004
Signatory Authority, Partial 1005
Signature
- Alteration in specification signed 608.01
- Amendment 714.01
  - Signature improper 714.01(a); 714.01(c); 714.01(d)
  - Signature missing 714.01(a)
  - Signed by applicant, not by attorney of record 714.01(d)
  - Signed by attorney not of record 405
- Applicant 605.04(a); 605.04(d); 605.04(e)
- Applicant changes name 201.03; 605.04(c); 719.02(b)
- Applicant, international application 1820
- Applicant unable to write 605.04(d)
- Application papers 605.04(a)
- Attorney or agent not of record 405
- Certification, effect of 401; 410
- Continued prosecution application 201.06(d)
- Correction of name 605.04(c)
- Express abandonment 711; 711.01
- Facsimile 502.01; 502.02
- Full, first or middle name 605.04(b)
- Required on every paper 402
- Title with 605.04(e)
- Uniformity with name 605.04(b)
Signing, continued prosecution application 201.06(d)
Signing examiner’s letter 706.07; 707.08; 707.09
Signing file wrapper 1302.13
Simulated tests in the specification 608.01(p)
Simultaneous issue of patents 1306.02
Single means claim 2164.08(a); 2181
Size of paper (See A4 size paper and Paper size)
Sketch of subject matter of claims 904.01(a)
Small Business Act 509.02
Small Business Administration 509.02
Small entity status (See also Fee)
- Change of status 509.03
- Claiming status 509.03
- Correcting status 509.03
- Definition 509.02
- Established in parent application 201.06(c)
- Fees 509.02
- Government organizations 509.02
- Improper payment 509.03
- Independent inventor 509.02
- Maintenance fees 509.03; 2515; 2550
- Nonprofit organization 509.02; 509.03
- Refund 509.03; 607.02
- Small business concern 509.02
- Statement verified 509.03
- Transfer of invention rights 509.02
Solicitor’s Office (See Office of Solicitor)
Sources of information to disclose 2001.06
Special application 708 - 708.03
- Accelerated examination 708.02
- Allowable application, except for form 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14; 1301
- Appealed application 1204
- Applicant’s age, health 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- Biotechnology case, small entity 708.02
- Cancer 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- Counter-terrorism inventions 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- DNA 708.02
- Energy 708.02
- Environmental Quality Program 1002.02(s)
- Five year pendency 707.02
- HIV/AIDS 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- Infringement 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- List 708.01
- Manufacture 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- Patent printing priority 1309
- Petition to make 708.02; 1002.02(s)
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2261
  - Inter partes 2661
- Reissue application 706.03(x); 1442
- Remanded by Board 708.01
- Revived applications 711.03(c)
- Superconductivity 708.02
Special examining procedure 708.02
Special Program Examiner (SPRE) 103; 706.02(l)(1); 1415.01; 1442.02; 1442.03; 1443; 1448; 1449.01; 1455; 1456; 1825; 1845.01; 1851; 1896; 2633; 2641
- Petitions decided 1002.02(s)
Species 806.01; 806.04; 806.04(b); 806.04(d); 806.04(e); 806.04(f); 806.04(h); 806.04(i); 808.01(a); 809.02(a)
- Anticipation by a generic chemical formula 2131.02
- Anticipation of a genus by the species 2131.02
- Cancellation of species claims 821.01; 821.02
- Claims restricted to 806.04(e)
- Election of (See Election of species)
- How recognized 806.04(f)
- Independent inventions 802.01; 808.01(a)
- Mutually exclusive characteristics 806.04(f)
- Obviousness of 2144.08
- Patentably distinct 806.04(h)
- Patentability over genus 806.04(h)
- Plural 706.03(k); 806.04; 808.01(a)
- Reissue 1450
- Rejection 806.04(h); 2131.02
- Related 806.04(b)
- Withdrawal of species claim 821.01; 821.02
Specification (See also Disclosure) 608.01; 2161
- Amendment, manner of making 714
- Arrangement 608.01(a)
- Background of the invention 608.01(c)
- Best mode (See also Best mode) 2165
- Brief description of drawings 608.01(f)
- Brief summary of invention 608.01(d)
- British English spellings in 608.01
- British provisional and complete 201.15
- Changes prior to filing 601.01(a); 608.01
- Completeness 608.01(p); 2161; 2163 - 2165
- Computer lists 608.05
- Confused by amendments 608.01(q); 1302.02
- Content of 608.01(a)
- Continued prosecution application 201.06(d)
- Copyrights in 1512
- Correction by examiner’s amendment 1302.04 - 1302.04(g)
- Correction by initialing 1302.04
- Cross-noting of related applications 1302.04
- Defines claim term 2111.01
- Derogatory remarks prohibited 608.01(r)
- Description 608.01(g); 2163; 2163.02
- Design application 1503.01
- Detailed description of invention 608.01(g)
- Enablement (See also Enablement) 2164
- English language 608.01
- Facsimile transmission 608.01
- Font 608.01
- Format 608.01
- Illustrations in 608.01
- Incorporation by reference 2163.07
- Interlineation prior to filing 608.01
- Language faulty 608.01
- Missing pages 601.01(d)
- New matter 608.04; 706.03(o); 2163.06
- Omitted pages 201.17; 601.01(d)
- Paragraph numbering 608.01; 714
- Parts 608.01(a)
- Provisional application 601.01(b)
- Reference characters corrected 1302.04
- Reissue application 1411
- Requirements for 2161
- Return 608.01
- Rewritten 608.01(q); 1302.02
- Signature 605.04(a)
- Substitute, amendment including 714.19; 714.20
- Substitute specification 608.01(q); 714.19; 714.20
  - Pre-Grant Publication 502.05; 1120
- Summary of invention 608.01(d)
- Table submission on compact disc 608.05(b)
- Terminology basis for claims 608.01(o); 2163.07
- Title of invention 606
- Title of invention changed 606.01
- Trademarks in 1512
- Transfer to another application 608.01(t)
- Written description (See also Written description) 2163
Specimen, Composition of matter 608.03
Specimen, Handling 608.03(a)
Specimen, Plant application 1607
Stamp
- Drafting, no longer required 608.02(o)
- Technology Center date 714.18
- Office date 502; 505; 506; 710.01(a); 714.18
Statement applying the prior art in an ex parte reexamination 2217
Statement applying the prior art in an inter partes reexamination 2617
Statement, Examiner’s (See Action)
Statement by inventors when changing inventorship 201.03
Statement by owner in ex parte reexamination 2249
Statement of allowability by Board 1213.01
Statement of invention, coextensive with claims 608.01(d)
Statement of invention, reviewed on allowance 1302.01
Statement, Prior art (See also Prior art) 201.06(d); 609
Status inquiries 102; 203.08
- Congressional 203.08(a)
- Maintenance fees 2570
- White House 203.08(a)
Status letter 203.08
Status letter database 203.08
Status of application 102; 203
- Abandoned 203.05
- Allowed or in issue 203.04
- Amended 203.03
- Incomplete 203.06
- New 203.01
- Parent patent application 102; 201.11
- Priority claims 102
- Published application 1128
- Referred to in foreign patent 102
- Rejected 203.02
Statute, citation
Statute of limitations
- Citation of prior art 2204
- Term of biological material deposit 2408
- Time for requesting ex parte reexamination 2210; 2211
- Time for requesting inter partes reexamination 2611
Statutes
- Atomic Energy Act Cited 120; 140; 150; 706.03; 706.03(a) - 706.03(b)
- Freedom of Information Act 1002.02(k)(2)
- Public Law 87-333 Cited 201.13
- Public Law 94-131 608.01(n)
- Public Law 96-517 509.02; 2201; 2209; 2501
- Public Law 97-247 509.02; 509.03; 511; 711.03(c); 2501
- Public Law 98-622 605.07; 706.02(k); 804; 2501
- Public Law 100-418, Section 9101(c), (d) 140
- Public Law 102-204 2501
- Public Law 102-444 2501
- Public Law 103-465 201.03; 201.11; 601.01(d); 706.07(g); 707.05; 715; 715.07(c); 803.03; 804.02; 2132; 2138.02
- Public Law 105-358 2501
- Public Law 106-113 201.04(b); 201.11; 201.14(b); 505; 510; 512; 706.02(a); 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(1); 715; 1402; 2201; 2273; 2279; 2501; 2601; 2602; 2611; 2642
- Public Law 107-273 Cited 706.02(a); 706.02(k); 706.07(a); 2201; 2242; 2258.01; 2273; 2279; 2601; 2612; 2683
- Public Law 108-453 Cited 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(1); 706.02(l)(3); 804; 804.03; 2136.01; 2146
- Public Law 506 (81st Cong.) Article 136 Cited 604.03(a)
- Revised Statute of 1874;
- 5 U.S.C. 552(a) 2422; 2423
- 5 U.S.C. 6103 Cited 710.05
- 7 U.S.C. 2321 1612
- 10 U.S.C. 140(c) Cited 120
- 15 U.S.C. 15(b) Cited 101
- 15 U.S.C. 1062 Cited 513
- 17 U.S.C. 401 Cited 1512
- 17 U.S.C. 909 Cited 608.01; 608.01(v)
- 18 U.S.C. 1001
  - Cited 402; 711.03(c); 715.04; 716.02(g); 2428
  - Reproduced 602
- 18 U.S.C. 1905 Cited 101
- 18 U.S.C. 2071 Reproduced 101
- 18 U.S.C. 2331 708.02
- 20 U.S.C. 1000 Cited 509.02
- 26 U.S.C. 501 Cited 509.02
- 28 U.S.C. 1745 Cited 901.05
- 28 U.S.C. 1746
  - Cited 602
  - Reproduced 602
- 35 U.S.C. 2 Reproduced 1001
- 35 U.S.C. 3 Reproduced 1001
- 35 U.S.C. 4 Reproduced 309
- 35 U.S.C. 6 Reproduced 1202
- 35 U.S.C. 7 Reproduced 901.06(a)
- 35 U.S.C. 8 Reproduced 903.01
- 35 U.S.C. 21 Reproduced 511; 513; 710.05
- 35 U.S.C. 22 Reproduced 608.01
- 35 U.S.C. 25 Reproduced 602
- 35 U.S.C. 26 Reproduced 602
- 35 U.S.C. 41 Reproduced 2268; 2501; 2668
- 35 U.S.C. 42 Reproduced 607.02
- 35 U.S.C. 100 Reproduced 701
- 35 U.S.C. 101 Reproduced 701; 804; 2107.01
- 35 U.S.C. 102 Reproduced 706.02; 706.02(a); 1504.02; 1857.01; 2131; 2132; 2133; 2133.03(c); 2134; 2135; 2136; 2137; 2138; 2217; 2258; 2301.01; 2617
- 35 U.S.C. 102(e), former Reproduced 2136
- 35 U.S.C. 103 Reproduced 706.02; 706.02(l); 706.02(l)(1); 706.02(n); 804.03; 1504.03; 2141; 2146
- 35 U.S.C. 104 Reproduced 715.07(c); 2301.01
- 35 U.S.C. 111 Reproduced 201; 201.04(b); 601
- 35 U.S.C. 112 Reproduced 1504.04
- 35 U.S.C. 113 Reproduced 608.02
- 35 U.S.C. 114 Reproduced 608.03
- 35 U.S.C. 115 Reproduced 602
- 35 U.S.C. 116 Reproduced 409.03; 605.07
- 35 U.S.C. 117 Reproduced 409.01(a)
- 35 U.S.C. 118 Reproduced 409.03
- 35 U.S.C. 119 Reproduced 201.11; 201.13
- 35 U.S.C. 120 Reproduced 201.11; 1504.20
- 35 U.S.C. 121 Reproduced 802; 804
- 35 U.S.C. 122 Reproduced 101; 1120; 1122; 1123; 1124; 1132; 1134
- 35 U.S.C. 131 Reproduced 701
- 35 U.S.C. 132 Reproduced 706.03(o); 706.07(h); 2304.04(b)
- 35 U.S.C. 133 Reproduced 710; 2268; 2668
- 35 U.S.C. 134 Reproduced 1204
- 35 U.S.C. 135 Reproduced 2301.01
- 35 U.S.C. 141 Reproduced 1216; 2683
- 35 U.S.C. 142 Reproduced 1216.01
- 35 U.S.C. 143 Reproduced 1216.01
- 35 U.S.C. 144 Reproduced 1216.01
- 35 U.S.C. 145 Reproduced 1216
- 35 U.S.C. 146 Reproduced 1216
- 35 U.S.C. 152 Reproduced 307
- 35 U.S.C. 153 Reproduced 1309
- 35 U.S.C. 154 Reproduced 2701
- 35 U.S.C. 154, former, Reproduced 2720
- 35 U.S.C. 156 Reproduced 2751; 2752; 2755.01; 2758; 2759
- 35 U.S.C. 157 Reproduced 1101
- 35 U.S.C. 161 Reproduced 1601
- 35 U.S.C. 162 Reproduced 804; 1605; 2105; 2403.02
- 35 U.S.C. 163 Reproduced 1601
- 35 U.S.C. 164 Reproduced 1608
- 35 U.S.C. 171 Reproduced 1501; 1504.01
- 35 U.S.C. 172 Reproduced 1504.02; 1504.10
- 35 U.S.C. 173 Reproduced 1505
- 35 U.S.C. 181 Reproduced 115
- 35 U.S.C. 182 Reproduced 706.03(s)
- 35 U.S.C. 184 Reproduced 140; 706.03(s)
- 35 U.S.C. 185 Reproduced 140; 706.03(s)
- 35 U.S.C. 186 Reproduced 140
- 35 U.S.C. 187 Reproduced 140
- 35 U.S.C. 188 Reproduced 140
- 35 U.S.C. 251 Reproduced 1401; 1412.03
- 35 U.S.C. 252 Reproduced 1460
- 35 U.S.C. 253 Reproduced 1490
- 35 U.S.C. 254 Reproduced 1480
- 35 U.S.C. 255 Reproduced 1481
- 35 U.S.C. 256 Reproduced 1481.02
- 35 U.S.C. 261 Reproduced 301
- 35 U.S.C. 262 Reproduced 301
- 35 U.S.C. 267 Reproduced 710
- 35 U.S.C. 293 Reproduced 302.04
- 35 U.S.C. 294 Reproduced 311
- 35 U.S.C. 301 Reproduced 2202; 2602
- 35 U.S.C. 302 Reproduced 2210
- 35 U.S.C. 303 Reproduced 2240
- 35 U.S.C. 304 Reproduced 2246
- 35 U.S.C. 305 Reproduced 2254; 2261
- 35 U.S.C. 306 Reproduced 1216; 2273
- 35 U.S.C. 307 Reproduced 2288; 2293
- 35 U.S.C. 311 Reproduced 2610
- 35 U.S.C. 312 Reproduced 2640
- 35 U.S.C. 313 Reproduced 2646
- 35 U.S.C. 314 Reproduced 2654; 2661; 2686.04
- 35 U.S.C. 315 Reproduced 2674
- 35 U.S.C. 316 Reproduced 2688; 2693
- 35 U.S.C. 317 Reproduced 2686.04
- 35 U.S.C. 318 Reproduced 2686.04
- 35 U.S.C. 361 Reproduced 1805
- 35 U.S.C. 362 Reproduced 1840
- 35 U.S.C. 363 Reproduced 1810
- 35 U.S.C. 365 Reproduced 201.13(b)
- 35 U.S.C. 371 Reproduced 1893.01
- 35 U.S.C. 373 Reproduced 1810
- 35 U.S.C. 374 Reproduced 1857; 1857.01
- 42 U.S.C. 141 Cited 120
- 42 U.S.C. 181 Cited 120
- 42 U.S.C. 2182 Reproduced 150
- 42 U.S.C. 2457 Reproduced 150
Statutory authority of Director 1001
Statutory bar 706.02(a); 2133 - 2133.03(e)(7)
- Foreign application 201.13; 1504.02
- Overcoming 706.02(b)
- Rule 1.130 not available 718
- Rule 1.131 not available 715
Statutory classes of invention, utility 706.03(a)
Statutory disclaimer (See Disclaimer and Terminal disclaimer)
Statutory estoppel in inter partes reexamination 2601; 2612; 2614
Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) 409.03(j); 1100
- Defensive publication compared 711.06
- Effect of 1111
- Examination 1101; 1103
- Provisional application 1101
- Publication of 1111
- Refund of fee 1109
- Rejections using 706.02(a); 901.02; 2136
- Request for 1101
- Secrecy order application 1103
Statutory period (See also Period for reply: Shortened statutory period) 710.01; 710.01(a)
- Abandonment for failure to reply 711.02; 711.02(a)
- Appeal 1205
- Broadening claims in a reissue application 1412.03
- Computed 710.01(a)
- Date from which period runs 710.06
- Date of abandonment 711.04(a)
- Full statutory period 130
- Not extendible 710.02(e)
- Postal service emergency 511
- Property rights statement 150
- Reexamination, ex parte 2265; 2272
- Reexamination, inter partes 2662; 2665
- Secrecy order application 130
- Shortened statutory period (See Shortened statutory period)
- Two periods for reply set 710.04; 710.04(a)
Stay of reexamination
- Ex parte 2284; 2285
- Inter partes 2686.03; 2686.04
Stay of reissue 1442.02; 2285
Stockholm Revision, Paris Convention (See also Treaties) 201.13
Strasbourg Agreement (See also Treaties) 903.09
STIC (See Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC))
Subclass, list of patent numbers 902.03(c)
Subcombination
- Aggregation and 806.05(a)
- Combination and 802.01
- Species 806.04(b)
Subgeneric Markush claims 2173.05(h)
Subject matter, design patent 1502; 1504.01
Subject matter, nonstatutory 706.03(a)
Subject matter combinations 903.02(b)
Submission of amendment or showing of facts after Board decision 1214.01
Submission of patents or publications, third party 1134.01
Submission to classification unit
- Classification of application 903.08(d); 903.08(e)
- Patentability report 705.01(a)
Submission of prior art by applicant 707.05(b)
Submission of information by applicant 704.12(b); 704.14(b); 707.05(b)
Subpoena by court, Application file 1216.02
Subpoena of examiner 1701.01
Subscription correspondence address
Substantial new question of patentability
- In ex parte reexamination 2216; 2242; 2258.01
- In inter partes reexamination 2614; 2616; 2617; 2640; 2642
Substitute application (See also Application) 201.09; 201.10
- Assignment 306
- Copendency lacking 201.11
- Definition 201.09
- Does not carry ownership from parent 306
- File wrapper/history notation 202.02
- Reference to parent application 201.09; 201.11
Substitute attorney or agent 406
Substitute oath 602.02
Substitute page 714.20
Substitute specification 608.01; 608.01(q); 714.19; 714.20
- Amendment incorporating 714; 714.19; 714.20
- New matter 608.01(q)
Sufficiency of disclosure affidavit 716
‘Sufficient cause’ for extension of time in ex parte reexamination 2265
‘Sufficient cause’ for extension of time in inter partes reexamination 2665
Suggested claims, Failure to make 706.03(u)
Suggestion of allowable claims by examiner 707.07(j); 713.01
Suggestion of claims for interference 2304.03 - 2304.04(b)
Suggestion of claims for interference, time limit 710.02(c)
Summary of action PTOL-326 707
Summary of interview 713.01; 713.04
Summary of invention 608.01(d)
Sunday or holiday, effect on time for reply 502; 505; 513; 710.05
Sunday or holiday, effect on reference 706.02(a)
Supervisory applications examiner 714.13
Supervisory patent examiner 705.01; 707; 707.02; 708.03; 713.01; 713.08; 714.05; 714.13; 714.16; 714.16(d); 714.18; 812.01; 903.08(b); 1207; 1207.01; 1207.02; 1207.03; 1211.01; 1214.07; 2233; 2236; 2237; 2238; 2248; 2271.01; 2287; 2633; 2636; 2637; 2638; 2641; 2648; 2671; 2671.03; 2676
- Petitions decided by 1002.02(d)
Supervisory review, Rule 1.817 711.03(d)
Supplemental action 710.06; 714.05
Supplemental Amendment 714.03(a)
Supplemental Application Data Sheet (ADS) 601.05
Supplemental examiner’s answer 1207.05; 1211
Supplemental oath or declaration 603
- After allowance 603.01; 714.16
- Reissue 1414.01
Surcharge for late payment of fees in international application 1827
Surface ornamentation 1502; 1502.01; 1503.02; 1504.01; 1504.01(a); 1504.01(c); 1504.03
Surrender of patent (not required) 1416
Suspension
- Applicant’s request for 709
- Decided by 709; 1002.02(c); 1004
- Deferral of examination 709
- Ex parte prosecution during interference 2307.03
- Not permitted if outstanding Office action 709
- Of action, because of litigation 1213
- Of action, by Office 709
- Overlapping application 709.01
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte 2283; 2284
  - Inter partes 2640; 2686.01
- Request for, in CPA 709
- Request for, in RCE 709
- Rules 1002
- Secrecy order application 2306
- Supplemental Reply 709
Swearing back of reference (See Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131))
Symbols, Drawing 608.02

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

T

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Tables submitted on compact disc 608.05(b)
Technical documents 901.06(a)
Technical rejections 706.03
Technical support staff duties (See Manual of Clerical Procedure)
Technology Center Director (See Director of Technology Center)
Technology Center, papers sent to wrong 508.01
Technology Center Working Group 3640 (security group) 121; 130; 1002.02(c)(1)
Telephone call, multiplicity rejection 2173.05(n)
Telephone numbers 1730
- Attorney 408; 713.01; 714.01
- Examiner 707.08
- General information 1730
Telephoning of attorney to examiner 408; 713.01
Term, Patent 707.05; 2701
- Adjustment of 2701; 2710; 2730; 2731; 2732; 2733; 2734; 2735; 2736
  - Determination of 2733
  - Due care showing 2734
  - Grounds for 2730
  - Period of 2731
  - Reductions to 2732
  - Request for reconsideration 2735
  - Third party papers 2736
- Continued prosecution application 2701
- Deposit of biological material 2408
- Design 1502.01; 1505
- Divisional 201.06
- Extension under 35 U.S.C. 156
  - FDA regulatory review and 2750 - 2758
    - Deadline 2754.01 - 2754.03
    - Duty of disclosure and 2762
    - Interim extension 2755.01; 2755.02
    - Specific Products
      - Animal drugs 2750; 2751; 2758
      - Antibiotic drugs 2751; 2758
      - Color additives … 2750; 2751; 2754.01; 2758
      - Food additives 2750; 2751; 2754.01; 2758
      - Medical devices 2750; 2751; 2753; 2758
      - Veterinary Biological Products 2750; 2751; 2756; 2758
    - Third party papers 2736
    - Withdrawal 2761; 2764
  - USPTO delays and 2710
- Foreign 901.05
- Transitional practice 706.07(g); 803.03
- Utility 2701
Terminal disclaimer (See also Disclaimer) 1490
- Avoiding double patenting rejection 706.02(k); 706.02(l)(3); 804.02; 806.04(i); 1490
- Certificate of correction and 2701; 2720
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 1490
- Continuing applications 1490
- Copending applications procedure 1490
- Informal memo 1490
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1490
- Reissue 1410.01; 1451; 1490
- Required for revival 711.03(c)
- Routing 1490
- Signature in 402; 1490
- Situations where not applicable 804.03
- Withdrawal of 1490
Terminology in application 608.01(g); 608.01(o); 706.03(d); 1302.01
Termination of proceedings 201.11; 711.02(c)
- Ex parte reexamination 2294
- Inter partes reexamination 2694
TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) 1703
Test comments 707.07(l)
Testamentary, Letters (See also Administrator or executor) 409.01(b)
Testimony, examiner 1701.01
Testimony, public use proceeding 720.04
Tests, comparative (See Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132))
Third action cases 707.02
Third party reply in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
Third party requestor (See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
Third party submissions/inquiries/correspondence in published applications 1134; 1134.01
Time and Activity Report 1704; 1705
Time for claiming benefit of earlier application 201.11
Time for deciding Director initiated reexamination 2211; 2239
Time for deciding reexamination request 2241
Time for filing papers, right of priority 201.14(a)
Time for filing petitions 1002
Time for requesting reexamination
- Ex parte 2210; 2211
- Inter partes 2611
Time for reply (See also Period for reply) 702.01; 710
Time for reply to action in reexamination
- Ex parte 2263
- Inter partes 2662
Time limit 710.02; 710.02(c)
- For making suggested claims 710.02(c)
- International preliminary examination report (IPER) 1879.01; 1879.01(a)
- International search report (ISR) 1843.05
- Period for reply 710
- Permanent ink copy 714.07
- Prior art filing 2204
- Reply to final rejection 706.07(f)
- Restriction requirement 811
- Rewrite claims following Board decision 1214.06
- Shortened statutory period compared to 710.02; 710.02(b); 710.02(d)
- Statutory period 710.01; 710.01(a)
- Transfer of application 903.08(d)
- Two periods running 710.04
Time period for owner’s statement 2249
Time reporting 2238; 2638; 2671.03
Time to pay maintenance fees 2506
Timely submission of protest 1901.04
Title conveyed by assignment 201.12; 300
Title documents, handling 317
Title of invention 606; 1893.03(e)(1)
- Change by examiner 2660.02; 2686.03
- Design application 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
  - Amendment of 1503.01
  - Use of Trademarks in 1512
- International application 1821
- Plant patent application 1610
- Reviewed at issue 606.01; 1302.01
Title report 303; 320; 2287
Titles of USPTO Officials
Title with signature 605.04(e)
Trade secret material 724 - 724.05
- Completeness of file wrapper 724.01
- Materials submitted covered by 35 U.S.C. 122 724.04(a)
- Method of submitting 724.02
- Office treatment and handling 724.04; 724.06
  - After publication 724.04(a)
- Petition to expunge materials 724.05
- Reexamination under 37 CFR 1.11(d) 724.04(c)
- Reissue under 37 CFR 1.11(b) 724.04(b)
- Types of 724.03
Trade secret submission label 724.02
Trademark and trade name 608.01(v); 706.03(d); 2173.05(u); I
- Design patent, relationship to 1512
- Misuse in patent specification 608.01(v)
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
Trademarks, Partial list of I
Transfer of application
- After amendment 903.08(c)
- After classification decision 903.08(g)
- Allowable application 903.07(b); 1305
- Decision of classification examiner 903.08(f)
- Divisible inventions 812
- Interference 2304.01(b)
- New 903.08(a)
- Notification of applicant 903.08
- Outside Technology Center 903.08(d)
- Primary examiner’s authority 903.08
- Procedure 903.08(a); 903.08(d)
- Secrecy order application 130
- Submitted to classification examiner 903.08(d)
- Within Technology Center 903.08(d)
Transfer of class or subclass 903.05
Transfer of drawing 608.02(i)
Transfer of reexamination
- Ex parte 2237
- Inter partes 2637
Transfer of rights to patent or application 509.02
Transfer of specification prohibited 608.01(t)
Transfer of U.S. patent 903.05
Transitional application (See also Application)
- After final practice 706.07(g)
- Generic claim allowable 803.03(b)
- Linking claim allowable 803.03(a)
- Patent term 2701
- Restriction practice 803.03
Transitional phrases 2111.03
- "Characterized by" 2111.03
- "Composed of" 2111.03
- "Comprising" 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- "Consisting essentially of" 2111.03
- "Consisting of" 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- "Containing" 2111.03
Translation, foreign application or foreign priority document 201.15
Translations index in STIC 901.06(a)
Translators in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 901.05(d); 901.06(a)
Transmission, certificate of (See Certificate of mailing or transmission)
Transmittal Fee, PCT 1827
Traverse, answer all matters 707.07(f)
Traverse, division or species requirement 818; 818.03 - 818.03(d); 821.01; 821.02
Traverse, rejection of linking claim 818.03(d)
Treaties
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Design application) 201.13; 1504.10
- Budapest Treaty (See also Biotechnology and Microorganisms) 901.05(b); 2402; 2404.01; 2405; 2408; 2409; 2410.01; 2410.02; 2411.01
- European Community Design 1504.10
- European Patent Convention 901.05; 1817; 1840.01; 1865.01
- GATT 2138.02
- Hague Agreement (See also Design application) 201.13; 1504.10
- Hague Convention 409.01(b); 602.04(a); 604.04
- Inter-American Convention 201.13
- Libreville Agreement 201.13
- NAFTA 201.04(b); 715; 715.07(c); 2138.02
- Paris Convention 201.13; P
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) 1800; AI; T
- Strasbourg Agreement 903.09
- UPOV Convention (See also Plant patent) 1612; 1613
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) 201.04(b); 715; 715.07(c); 2701; 2132
TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) 1801
Tubers 1601
Twenty year term (See Term, Patent)
Two month delay period in reissues 1441
Two periods for reply running 710.04
Type font 608.01; 1504.01(a)

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Unavailable inventor 409; 409.03
Unavoidable abandonment (See Abandonment)
Unclaimed disclosure, reservation 608.01(e)
Undelivered mail 707.13; 1303.02
Undue breadth rejection 706.03; 707.07(g); 2164.08(a); 2173.04; 2173.05(h)
Unexpected results (See also Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.02 - 716.02(g)
Unintentional abandonment (See Abandonment)
United Kingdom priority document 201.15
United States Code (See Statutes)
United States of America, Foreign language names for 901.05(a)
Unity of invention 803; 823; 1850; 1875; 1893.03(d)
University or other institution of higher learning 509.02
Unlocatable Patent or Application Files 508.04
Unmatched papers 508.03
Unofficial subclasses and digests 903.02(c)
Unscheduled closing 201.13
Unsigned amendment 711; 714.01(a)
Untimely filed (premature) paper prior to order for ex parte reexamination 2225
Untimely filed (premature) paper prior to order for inter partes reexamination 2625
Untimely response to ex parte reexamination 2267
Untimely response to inter partes reexamination 2667
UPOV Convention (See also Plant patent and Treaties) 1612; 1613
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (See also Treaties) 201.04(b); 715; 715.07(c); 2701; 2132
Use claims 2173.05(q)
Use, Public (See Public use)
User pass 510
USPTO Contact Center 1730
Utility classes 902.02
Utility, disclosure in drug cases 2164.06; 2164.07
Utility requirement guidelines 2107
- Legal precedent for 2107 - 2107.03
- Relationship of enablement to 2164.07
Utility lacking, rejection 706.03(a); 2107
Utility model 901.05(b)
Utility patent (See also Design application, Patent, and Plant patent) 901.04; 1502.01
- Application publication 1120 - 1135
- Copies of 707.05(a)
- Copyrighted material in 608.01(v)
- Design patent compared to 1502.01
- Double patenting 804
- Drawings / Photographs 608.01(f); 608.02
- Elements of 600
- Expiration date or term 2211; 2250; 2611
- Maintenance fees 2506
- Period of enforceability 2204; 2211; 2611
- Specification 608.01
Utility required 608.01(p); 706.03(a); 2107; 2164.07

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Vague and indefinite rejection (See Indefinite claim)
Validity of patent, examiner comments 1701
Venue 604.02
Video conference center 713.01
Video tapes 713.01
Violation of duty of disclosure (See also Duty of disclosure)
- Argued in protest 1901.02; 1901.06
Visitors to Office 510
Voluntary publication 502.05; 1133

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Waiver
- Of confidentiality 103; 201.06(d); 1002.02(k)(1)
- Of deficiencies in oath or declaration 602.03
- Of patent rights 706; 711.06; 1101; 1111
- Of rules 201.03; 402.10; 602; 711.03(c); 724.06; 803.04; 1002; 1002.02(b); 1481; 2248; 2265; 2421.01; 2425; 2434
Walk-up customer window 502
Washington D.C. representatives of attorneys 408
When disclosure is made 2003
White House inquiry 203.08(a)
Who has duty to disclose 2001.01
WIPO 201.13; 901.04; 1801
WIPO Standards
- ST. 3 901.05(b); 1851
- ST. 10 901.05(b)
- ST. 14 707.05(e); 901.05(b)
- ST. 16 901.05(b); 1851; 2424.03
- ST. 25, Appendix 2
  - Tables reproduced 2422
  - Cited 2422.01; 2423; 2423.01
- ST. 34 901.05(b)
Withdrawal from appeal after remand by Board 1002.02(d)
Withdrawal from issue 1303.01; 1308
- Amendment crossing allowance 714.15
- Director’s approval 1003; 1308
- Petition for 1002.02(b); 1002.02(c); 1308
- Quality Review 1308.03
- Refund of fee 1308.01
- Rejection 706.04; 1308.01
Withdrawal of abandonment (See Abandonment and Petition)
Withdrawal of appeal 1215.01
Withdrawal of appeal claim 1214.05; 1215.03
Withdrawal of attorney (See also Attorney or agent and Power of attorney) 402.06; 1002.02(s); 1808; 2223; 2560
Withdrawal of claims
- To nonelected invention 821.01; 821.02; 821.03
- To nonelected species 821.01; 821.02
Withdrawal of final rejection 706.07(e)
- Premature final 706.07(d)
- Primary decides 1004
Withdrawal of holding of abandonment (See also Abandonment and Petition) 711.03(c); 711.04(c)
Withdrawal of power of attorney in patent 2223; 2623
Withdrawal of SIR request 1109
Withdrawal of terminal disclaimer 1490
Withhold from issue petition 1002.02(c)
Witness, Examiner as 1701.01
World Trade Organization member countries 201.13
World Wide Web address 1730
Wrapper (See File wrapper/history)
Writing, Disclosures must be in 2002.02
Written description (See also Specification) 706.03(c); 2163
- Amendments supported by original description 2163.07
  - Inherent function, theory or advantage 2163.07(a)
  - Incorporation by reference 201.17; 608.01(p); 2163.07(b)
- Burden on the examiner 2163.04
- Changes to scope of claims 2163.05
- Circumstances when issues arise 2163.03
- Design application 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.01(a); 1504.04
- Form paragraphs used to reject 706.03(c)
- Guidelines for compliance 2163
- New matter 2163.06
- Requirements for compliance 2163.02
- Support for claimed subject matter 201.11; 2163.01
- Corresponding to count in interference 2163.03

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X series of patents (See also Patent) 901.04

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