MPEP Key Word Index - D
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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)
- 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- Allowance not withdrawn 1303.03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
- Legal representative refuses to sign 409.03(c)
- Deceptive intent (See also Fraud ; 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 partes reexamination 2681 , 2682- Reconsideration of 1214.03
- Treatment of 1721
- Citation 707.06
- Ex-parte reexamination rehearing request 2240
- Governs examiner's action Introduction
- Listed Appendix 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
- 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 r equest for reexamination 2247 , 2247.01, 2647, 2647.01
- Department of Energy (DOE) 115 , 140, 150, 151, 706.03(b)
- Department of Commerce, Organization Orders
- 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
- Deposit Account Division 509.01
- Deposit of microorganisms (See also Biotechnology ) 1605, 1823.01, 2402, 2411.05
- Deposit of correspondence 502
- Depositions
- Deposit rules (See also Biotechnology ) Chapter 2400
- Acceptable depository 2405
- Background information 2401
- Biological material, definition 2403
- Biological material, made or isolated without undue experimentation 2404.02
- Budapest Treaty (See 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
- 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
- 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
- Time for making original deposit 2406
- Assurance regarding deposit before payment of 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 Chapter 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 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
- 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
- Expert testimony 1504.03
- Feature emphasized 1503.01
- Fee, filing 607
- Fee, issue 1306
- Font, type 1504.01(a)
- Foreign priority 201.13, 1504.02, 1504.10
- Functionality 1504.01(c)
- Hague Agreement (See 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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 to 2286 , 2648 , 2667 , 2682 , 2686.01
- Director of the USPTO
- Authority and functions 706.03(b), 708.01, 709, 711.02, 714, 719.01, 1001, 1002, 2203, 2242, 2284
- Decisions Introduction
- Mailing address 501
- Notices (See Publication) Introduction, 707.06
- Orders (See Publication) Introduction , 707.06
- Director initiated reexamination 2212 , 2239
- Disbarred attorney (See Attorney or agent : Suspended or excluded )
- Disciplinary proceedings 402
- Disclaimer (See also Terminal disclaimer )
- Co-author of publication 715.01(c)
- Copy required in reexamination
- 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 ; Specification )
- Abstract 608.01(b)
- Amendment 608.04, 1302.02
- Amendment, Preliminary 608.04(b)
- Best Mode (See 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 Chapter 2000
- Enablement (See 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 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 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 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 partes reexamination 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 ; Nucleotide sequences ) Chapter 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
- 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 Chapter 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
- 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
- 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 Correction of drawing) 608.02(p), 1302.05
- 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 infirst 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\i
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 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
- 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 Chapter 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
- 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