MPEP Chapter 300 Index

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Chapter 300: Ownership and Assignment

300 Ownership and Assignment
301 Ownership/Assignability of Patents and Applications

301.01 Accessibility of Assignment Records

302 Recording of Assignment Documents

302.01 Assignment Document Must Be Copy for Recording
302.02 Translation of Assignment Document
302.03 Identifying Patent or Application
302.04 Foreign Assignee May Designate Domestic Representative
302.05 Address of Assignee
302.06 Fee for Recording
302.07 Assignment Document Must Be Accompanied by a Cover Sheet
302.08 Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents
302.09 Facsimile Submission of Assignment Documents
302.10 Electronic Submission of Assignment Documents

303 Assignment Documents Not Endorsed on Pending Applications
306 Assignment of Division, Continuation, Substitute, and Continuation-in-Part in Relation to Parent Application

306.01 Assignment of an Application Claiming the Benefits of a Provisional Application

307 Issue to Assignee
309 Restrictions Upon Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
310 Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development
311 Filing of Notice of Arbitration Awards
313 Recording of Licenses, Security Interests, and Other Documents Other Than Assignments
314 Certificates of Change of Name or of Merger
315 Indexing Against a Recorded Certificate
317 Handling of Documents in the Assignment Division

317.01 Recording Date
317.02 Correction of Unrecorded Returned Documents and Cover Sheets
317.03 Effect of Recording

318 Documents Not to be Placed in Files
320 Title Reports
323 Procedures for Correcting Errors in Recorded Assignment Document

323.01 Correction of Error in Recorded Cover Sheet

323.01(a) Typographical Errors in Cover Sheet
323.01(b) Typographical Errors in Recorded Assignment Document
323.01(c) Assignment or Change of Name Improperly Filed and Recorded by Another Person Against Owner's Application or Patent
323.01(d) Expungement of Assignment Records

324 Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action