MPEP Key Word Index - M
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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 - M
- Machine, process or product ...806.05(e) 806.05(f) , 806.05(g)
- Mail (See also Mail Stop and Correspondence )
- Address ...501
- Depositing correspondence ...502
- Distribution ...501
- Express ...502 , 513 , 711.03(c)
- Identification ...502 , 503
- Receipt and handling ...Chapter 500
- Undelivered ...707.13 , 1303.02
- Zip code ...502
- Mail date as filing date ...513
- Mail room date stamp ...608.02(o)
- Mail stop ...501
- Mail Stop 8 (Solicitor) ...501 , 1216 , 1216.01
- Mail Stop 10 ...1232
- Mail Stop 16 (Refunds) ...509.03
- Mail Stop AF ...714.13
- Mail Stop Assignment Recordation ...501 , 302.08
- Mail Stop Conversion ...601.01(c)
- Mail Stop DD ...1706
- Mail Stop Document Services ...103 , 501 , 1430 , 1470 2222 , 2232 , 2501 , 2622 , 2632
- Mail Stop EBC ...403
- Mail Stop Ex Parte Reexam ...501 , 2222 , 2224 2226 , 2231
- Mail Stop Expedited Design ...1504.30
- Mail Stop Express Abandonment ...1002.02(r) , 1125
- Mail Stop INTERFERENCE ...501
- Mail Stop Inter Partes Reexam ...501 , 2622 , 2624 , 2631
- Mail Stop Issue Fee ...502 , 1306 , 1306.02
- Mail Stop L&R ...120
- Mail Stop M Correspondence ...501 , 2510
- Mail Stop MPEP ...Foreword
- Mail Stop OED ...402 , 407
- Mail Stop Patent Ext. ...501 , 1002.02(b) , 2754 , 2754
- Mail Stop PCT ...501 , 1805 , 1808 , 1821 , 1823.02 , 1865
- Mail Stop Petitions ...720 , 1002.02(b) , 1308 1901.03 , 2580 , 2590 , 2720
- Mail Stop PGPUB ...1126
- Mail Stop PGPUB DRAWINGS ...507
- Mail Stop Reissue ...1410
- Mail Stop Sequence ...2422.09 , 2429
- Mailing action ...707.12
- Mailing, Certificate of (See Certificate of mailing or transmission )
- Maintenance Fee Branch ...1501
- Maintenance fees (See also Fee ; Refunds ) ...1730 Chapter 2500
- Attorney or agent
- Change of correspondence address ...2501 , 2542
- Credit card used for payment of ...2510 , 2522
- Due dates for payment ...2506
- Duplicate Payment ...2532
- Facsimile submission ...2510
- Fee address ...2540
- Fee amounts ...2501 , 2520
- Forms ...2595
- Information available from Maintenance Fee Branch ...1730
- Information required with payment ...2515 , 2530
- Insufficient ...2531
- Internet submission ...2510
- Intervening rights in reinstated patents ...2591
- Late ...2531
- Mailing address for maintenance fee documents ... 501 , 2510
- Mailing address for payments ...501
- Maintenance Fee Branch ...2501
- Method of payment ...2522
- Notices - Expiration, Receipt, Reminder ...2575
- Obligation to pay while reissue is pending ...1415.01
- Overpayment ...2550
- Patents subject to payment of ...2504
- Payment informalities ...2530
- Petition to accept ...2515 , 2531 , 2590
- Reexamination ...2506
- Refusal to accept and record payments,Review of ...2580
- Reinstatement, delayed payment ...2590
- Reissue patents ...1415.01 , 1443 , 2504 , 2506 , 2520
- Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, due on ...2504 , 2506
- Small entity status requirements ...2550
- Special Acceptance ...2530
- Status requests ...1730 , 2570
- Mandatory Classification ...903.07
- Manual, authority of ...foreword
- Manual, subscription address ...title page
- Manual of Classification ...Introduction , 902.01
- Manuscript decision ...707.06
- Margin, application papers ...608.01
- Mark of applicant ...605.04(d)
- Marking in application, erasing at allowance ...1302.01
- Marking, Security ...121
- Markush claim ...803.02 , 2173.05(h) , 2173.05(o)
- Master classification file (MCF) ...902.03(a)
- Material mistake by Office in published PG-Pub ...1130
- Materiality of information regarding patentability (See Duty of disclosure )
- Mathematical algorithms ...706.03(a) , , 2106 , 2106.02
- Matter not in original disclosure ...608.04(a)
- Means ...2181
- Broadest reasonable interpretation ...2181
- Equivalent compared to Doctrine ofEquivalents ...2186
- Obviousness ...2183
- Prima facie case of equivalence ...2183 , 2184
- Related issues under 35 U.S.C. 112, firstor second paragraphs ...2181 , 2185
- Scope of the identification of prior art ...2182
- Single means claim ...2164.08(a) , 2181
- Means plus function limitations ...706.02(m) , 2106 2111.01 , 2114 , 2181 to 2186
- Mechanical search ...719.05
- Memorandum, citation ...707.06
- Merger of ex parte reexamination and reissue ...2285
- Merger of inter partes reexamination and reissue ...2686.03
- Merits, Appeal to Board of Patent Appealsand Interferences ...Introduction
- Method of making and apparatus or product ...806.05(e) 806.05(f)
- Metric (S.I.) system usage ...608.01
- Microorganisms (See Biotechnology )
- Microorganisms, deposit of ...1823.01 , 2402 to 2411.05
- Microorganisms, patentability of ...706.03(a) 2105 , 2164.06
- Militarily Critical Technology List (MCTL) ...120
- Military officer notary ...604.03(a)
- Minor, inventor ...409
- Misjoinder, Effect on patent ...805
- Misjoinder of inventors ...201.03 , 1402 , 1412.04 , 1481
- Mistake (See Correction of patent ; Errors )
- Mistake by Office in Pre-Grant Publication ...1130
- Mode, Best (See Best Mode )
- Mode of operation ...608.01(h)
- Model ...608.03
- Model, return ...608.03(a)
- Model at interview ...713.08
- Model filed in priority country ...201.14(b)
- Months, foreign language names ...901.05(a)
- Months, foreign language names ...901.05(a)
- Motions in interferences (See Interference : Motions )
- Multiple dependent claims
- Multiple papers on same issue in protest ...1901.07(a)
- Multiplicity of claims ...408 , 707.07(g) 714.16 , 2173.05(h) , 2173.05(n)
- Multiplicity of species ...806.01 , 808.01(a)
- Munitions Lists of the International Traffic Arms Regulation (ITAR) ...120
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