MPEP Key Word Index - D

Executive summary:

This document contains a portion of the key word index for the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (the "M.P.E.P."), Eighth Edition, Fifth Revision (August 2006). This page was last updated in July 2007. You may also use the Section index to find a particular section of the MPEP. A full text search of the MPEP is available using the search box that appears on the bottom of every page of BitLaw--be sure to restrict your search to the MPEP in the pop-up list. Other portions of the key word index can be accessed through the following list:

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MPEP Key Word Index - D

  • Director of the USPTO
  • Director initiated reexamination ...2212 , 2239
  • Disbarred attorney (See Attorney or agent : Suspended or excluded )
  • Disciplinary proceedings ...402
  • Disclaimer (See also Terminal disclaimer )
  • Disclosure (See also Duty of disclosure ; Specification )
  • Disclosure document program ...1706
  • 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
  • Divisional application ...201.06 , 601.01(a)
  • DNA (See also Biotechnology ; Nucleotide sequences ) ...Chapter 2400
  • 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
  • Drafting notation ...608.02 , 707.07(a) , 707.07(c)
  • Drafting stamp (no longer required) ...608.02(o)
  • Drawings ...507 , 608.02
  • Drawing correction ...507 , 608.02(p)
  • 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
  • Duty of disclosure ...Chapter 2000
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