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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
- Storage 711.04(b)
- When open to the public 103
- Abandoned file (See Abandoned application ; 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)
- Reissue
- 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 Petition) 711.03(c), 711.04(c)
- Undelivered action 707.13
- Unintentional (See 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
- 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 ; 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 partes reexamination 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
- 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 Chapter 800
- Returned 707.13
- Review Introduction
- Shortened statutory period 710.02, 710.02(b)
- SPE's personal attention 707.02
- Supplemental 710.06, 714.05
- Suspension (See 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)
- 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 App. 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)
- 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)
- Admissions in reexamination
- Advantages over prior art 707.07(f)
- Adverse recommendation under 37 CFR 1.312 714.16(d), 714.16(e), 714.19
- Advisory action 706.07(f) , 714.13
- Affidavit (See Oath ; 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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 - Reexaminationinter partes 2658
- Reference attributed to applicant 716.10
- Sufficiency of 716.09
- Synergism 716.02(a)
- Skepticism of experts 716.05
- Timeliness 716.01
- Unexpected results, allegations 716.02
- Unexpected results, evidence 716.02(a)
- Affidavits submitted with prior art under 35 U.S.C. 301 in patented files 2205
- Affirmation (See Oath ; Declaration )
- After final practice 706.07(f)
- Agent (See Attorney or agent ; 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 Citation of prior art) 901.06(c)
- Allowance and issue (See also Allowed application ) Chapter 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
- 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 formsNotice 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 orderapplication 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Inaccurate 707.07(h)
- Incomplete reply 711.02(a), 711.03(a) , 714.02, 714.04, 2266.01, 2666.30, 2671
- Increasing claims in excess of number of claims previously paid for 714.10, 714.16(c)
- Ink, not permanent 714.07
- Inspection by examiner 714.05
- Inventorship (See Correction of inventorship)
- Jurisdiction of application not with examiner 714.16, 714.19, 1305
- Late 710.02(d), 711, 714.17
- Literature citation in specification 608.01(p)
- Manner of making 714
- Motion under 37 CFR 41.208(c)(2), Application in issue 714.16(b)
- Name change on file wrapper 605.04(c), 719.02(b)
- New matter 608.04, 706.03(o), 2163.06
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714, 1302.04
- Nonentry (See AmendmentEntry 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
- 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)
- American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) (See Statutes : Public Law 106-113 )
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 608.02
- Amino acid sequence (See Biotechnology ; 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 ; Declaration ) 301 , 409.01(b), 602, 602.04, 602.04(a), 604, 604.04(a)
- Apparatus, Process or product and 806.05(e) to 806.05(g)
- Appeal Chapter 1200
- Abandonment 1210
- Actions subsequent to examiner's answer 1210
- Administrative handling 1203
- Affidavit after appeal 1206, 1208, 1211.03
- Amendment after examiner's answer 1210, 1211.01
- Amendment before examiner 's answer 1206
- Amendment for purpose of 714.12, 714.13
- Amendment makes application allowable 1206
- Answer, Examiner's (See Examiner's answer)
- Brief 1206
- By patent owner 1204
- Cancellation of withdrawn claims 1214.05
- Civil litigation 1216.02
- Claims copied from patent, time limit 710.02(c)
- Claims included 1205, 1205.02
- Composition of the Board 1202
- Concurrently with interference 1210
- Concurrently with prosecution before examiner 1210
- Conference 1207.01, 1302.14
- Correspondence address for litigation 501, 1216.01
- Court 1216
- Court, Federal Circuit 1216.01
- Decision by Board 1213
- Dismissal 1215.04
- Examiner reversed 1214.04
- Examiner sustained 1214.06
- Examiner's answer 1207
- Failure to prosecute appeal 1215.04
- Fee (See Fee) 1204, 1204.01, 1205
- From Board decision 1216, 1216.02
Inter partes Reexamination 2674 to 2680- Introduction 1201
- Jurisdiction 1205.03, 1210
- Matter subject to Introduction, 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
- 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 - Reexaminationinter 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 ;
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 AmendmentReply)
- 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
- Amended definition 203.03
- Arrangement 601, 608.01(a)
- Assigned (See AssigneeAssignment)
- Access 106
- Allowance 307
- Conflicting subject matter 706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k), 706.02(l) to 706.02(l)(3) , 706.03(k) , 822 , 2304.05
- Inventor deceased 409.01(e)
- Assignment for examination
- 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 Chapter 600
- Continuation (See Continuation) 201.07
- Continuation-in-part (See also Continuation-in-part ) 201.08
- Continued prosecution (CPA) (See Continued prosecution application (CPA))
- 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 Divisional application) 201.06
- Drawings, necessary 601.01(f)
- Effective filing date 706.02, 706.02(a)
- Electronic submission of (EFS-Web) 502.05
- English language 608.01
- Examination Chapter 700
- Examples 707.07(l)
- Facsimile transmission 608.01
- Fee, filing (See Fee) 607
- Field of the invention 608.01(c)
- File wrapper continuing (FWC) 201.06(b)
- Filing date 201.11, 503, 505, 511
- Filing receipt (See Postcard, self-addressed) 503
- Five year pendency 707.02, 708.01
- Font 608.01
- Foreign (See Foreign application) 201.13, 201.16
- Form Chapter 600
- Government-owned
- Incomplete 203.06, 506, 601.01(d), 601.01(e), 601.01(f), 608.01(u)
- Informal 506, 702.01
- 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
- 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) to 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) to 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 Chapter 600
- Pending five years 707.02
- Plant (See Plant patent) Chapter 1600
- Prior art 2121, 2129
- Prior art effect of international publication 706.02(a), 1857.01, 1896, 2136.03
- Priority
- Protest 1901
- Provisional (See 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 Chapter 500
- Reconstruction 508.04
- Recording and tracking in Technology Center 1704
- Referred to in patent, status information 102
- Refile 201.10
- Reissue (See 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)
- Special (See also Special application ) 707.02, 708 to 708.03
- Status 102 , 203 , 1730
- 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 Transitional application) 706.07(g), 803.03
- Types (See Patent) 201
- Utility (See 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
- 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 ) Chapter 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 ; 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 Chapter 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,
- Corrections in recorded assignment 323, 323.01(b), 323.01(c), 323.01(d)
- Cover sheet 302.07
- Date of recording 317.01
- Effect of recording 317.03
- Electronic submission of (EPAS) 302.10, 502.01, 502.05, 1730
- 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 authoritychecked 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
- 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 Power of attorney) 402, 406, 2501
- Proof of authority in inter partes reexamination 2613
- Reexamination
ex parte 2210, 2222 - Reexamination, inter partes 2622, 2623
- Registered 401, 402
- Request for limited recognition 1002.02(m)
- Roster of attorneys and agents 601.03, 1730 , 2205, 2220
- Selection 401
- Signature of 402
- Suggested 401
- Suspended or excluded 105, 407, 714.01(a), 714.19
- 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 d ouble patenting rejection 706.02(k), 804.02 , 1490 , 2129