MPEP Key Word Index - B
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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
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Treaties ) 201.13 1504.10
- Best mode 608.01(h) , 2165 to 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 ) Chapter 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 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 ; Interference ) 706.03(v) , 706.03(w) 707.06 , 707.07(f) , 708.01 711.02(b) 2284 2301
- Appeal from 1216 1216.02
- Constitution and duties 1202
- Decision
- Duty of disclosure to 2001.03
- Hearing 1209
- Interference
- Jurisdiction 706.01 706.07(c) 1210 2301 2308
- May require appellant to address matter 1212
- New ground of rejection by 1214.01
- Non-final decision in inter partes reexamination 2681
- Petitions 1002.02(g) 1002.02(j)
- Rehearing by 1002.02(f) 1214.01
- 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 ; Mail Stop )
- Breadth, Undue (See Undue breadth rejection )
- Brief, filed on appeal 1205
- Brief description of the drawings (See also Specification ) 608.01(f)
- Brief summary of invention 608.01(d) , 1302.01
- British English spelling 608.01
- British specification, provisional 201.15
- Broadening claims in reissue 1412.03
- Browser executable code in specification 608.01 608.01(p)
- Budapest Treaty (See also Microorganisms ; Treaties ) 901.05(b) , 2402 , 2404.01 , 2405 , 2408 2409 2410.01 2410.02 2411.01
- Bulletin, Classification (See Classification ; Orders )
- Burden of proof 2112 , 2112.01 , 2113
- Business hours of USPTO 510