MPEP Section 703, "General Information Concerning Patents"

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This document contains Section 703 (""General Information Concerning Patents" ") of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (the "M.P.E.P."), Eighth Edition, Seventh Revision (July 2008). This page was last updated in November 2009. You may return to the section index to find a particular section. Alternatively, you may search the MPEP using the search box that appears on the left side of every page of BitLaw--you may restrict your search to the MPEP on the search results page.

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The booklet "General Information Concerning Patents" for use by applicants contemplating the filing or prosecution of their own applications, >which was last published in 2001,< may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. *>An updated version of the< booklet is * available from the USPTO Web page at: http://www.uspto.gov.