MPEP Key Word Index - N

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• NAFTA 715.07(c)
• Name (See also Applicant ; Inventor)
• Change 605.04(c) , 719.02(b)
• Correction 201.03
• Order 605.04(f)
• Petition 605.04(c)
• Translation, typographical error 201.03
• Change, file sent to Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP)) 605.04(c)
• Full first or middle required 605.04(b)
• Order 605.04(f)
• Signature (See Signature )
• Uniformity with signature 605.04(b)
• Names used in trade 608.01(v)
• National Aeronautics and Space
• Administration (NASA) 115 , 150 , 151
• National application 201
• National security, application affecting 115 , 120 , 121,  130 , 140
• National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371) 201,  1893.03 to 1896
• Compared with national application 1896
• Continuation or continuation-in-part 1895,  1895.01 , 1896
• Drawings 1893.03(f)
• Filing date 1893.03(b)
• Information disclosure statement 609.03 , 1893.03(g)
• Inter partes reexamination of 2611
• Order of examination 708 , 1893.03
• Petitions related to 1002.02(p)
• Priority 1893.03(c)
• Unity of invention 1893.03(d)
• Naturally occurring article 706.03(a)
• Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
• Negotiation authority 713.05
• New application (definition) 203.01
• Assignment to examiner for examination 903.08(b)
• Assignment to examiner in TC for examination 903.08 , 903.08(a) , 903.08(e)
• Classification by primary examiner 903.08(b)
• Examiner review for completeness 702
• Inspection 903.08(a)
• Transfer 903.08(a)
• Transfer refused 903.08(d)
• New examiner, action by 707.01
• New ground of rejection by the Board of Patent Appeals
• and Interferences 1214.01
• In inter partes reexamination 2681 , 2682
• New ground of rejection in inter partes reexamination 2671.01
• New ground of rejection on appeal 1207.03
• New matter 706.03(o) , 2163.06
• Amendment of disclosure 608.04 , 2163.03 , 2163.04
• Claim 608.04 , 706.03(o) , 2163.03
• Appealable 608.04(c)
• Claim terminology 608.01(o)
• Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
• Continuing application 201.07 , 2163.03
• Design application 1503.01 , 1503.02 ,  1504.01(a) , 1504.04
• Disclosure 608.04 , 2163.06
• Divisional application 201.06
• Drawing 608.04 , 706.03(o)
• Inherent characteristics 608.04(a) , 2163.07(a)
• Objection 706.03(o) , 2163.07
• Petitionable 608.04(c) , 2163.06
• Preliminary amendment 608.04(b) , 714.01(e)
• Priority 2163.03 , 2163.05
• Reexamination, inter partes 2671.01 , 2671.02
• Reissue application 1411.02
• Rejection 608.04 , 706.03(o) , 2163.06
• Specification, petitionable 608.04(c)
• Substitute specification 608.01(q)
• Trademark definition 608.01(v)
• When entered 714.19 , 714.20
• NIRC (See Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate ; Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate )
• Nonanalogous art 904.01(c) , 1302.14 , 2131.05
• Design applications 1504.02 , 1504.03
• Nonelected invention
• Claims to
• Added 821.03
• Canceled 821.01 , 821.02
• Eligible for rejoinder 821
• Withdrawn 821.01 , 821.02
• Nonelected species
• Claims to
• Canceled 821.01 , 821.02
• Eligible for rejoinder 821
• Withdrawn 821.01 , 821.02
• Non-English oath or declaration 602.06
• Nonnaturally occurring manufacture or composition of matter 2105
• Nonpatent literature 901.06
• Nonprofit organization, claiming status as 509.03
• Nonprofit organizations 509.02
• Nonprovisional application (See also Application ) 201.04(a) , 506 , 601
• Nonpublication request, Application 1122
• Nonpublication Request Under 35 USC 122(b)(2)(B)(i), form PTO/SB/35
• Cited 1121 , 1122
• Reproduced 1135
• Nonreceipt of Office letter 711.03(c)
• Nonsigning inventor's rights 409.03(i)
• Nonstatutory claim 706.03(a) , 2107.01
• Nonstatutory claim, canceled 1302.04(b)
• Nonstatutory subject matter 706.03(a),  2105 to 2107.01
• Not fully responsive amendment 714.02 , 2266.01,  2666.30 , 2671
• Notary jurisdiction 604.02
• Notary jurisdiction, military officer 604.03(a)
• Notary jurisdiction, venue agreement 604.02
• Notary seal 604.01
• Notation on file wrapper/history
• Foreign application 202.03
• Parent application 201.11 , 202.02
• Notice, citation 707.06
• Notice of allowability 1302.03
• Notice of allowance (See also Allowance and issue ; Form letters and forms : Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due PTOL-85 ) 1303
• Assigned application308
• Deceased inventor 1303.03
• Reissue application 1444
• Secrecy order application 115 , 130
• Undelivered 1303.02
• Notice of appeal 1204
• Ex parte reexamination 2273
• Inter partes reexamination 2662 , 2667 , 2674
• Notice of cross appeal 2662 , 2674 , 2674.01
• Notice of Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2291
• Notice of Ex Parte Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette 2227
• Notice of foreign filing after nonpublication request 1124
• Notice of informal patent application form 707.07(a)
• Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469 2235 , 2250,  2250.01 , 2271 , 2271.01,  2273 , 2287 , 2288 , 2296
• Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-2068 2666.10 , 2666.20,  2671 , 2671.01 , 2673.01,  2674 , 2675 , 2682 , 2686.01,  2687 , 2696
• Notice of Intent to Publish Statutory Invention Registration, SIR-L 1107
• Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2688 , 2691
• Notice of Inter Partes Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette 2627 , 2629
• Notice of New or Revised Pre-Grant Publication 1127
• Notice of Non-Compliant amendment 714 , 714.01(e) , 714.03
• Notice of Pre-Grant Publication 1127
• Notice of references cited form (PTO-892) 609.02 , 609.03 , 609.04(a) , 609.05(a) , 609.05(c) , 609.06 , 707.05,  707.05(a) to 707.05(e) , 2687
• Notices (See also Publication ) Introduction, 707.06
• Notices, maintenance fees 2575
• Nuclear material application 706.03(b)
• Nucleotide sequences (See also Biotechnology ; Sequence rules ) 803.04 , 1823.02 , 1848,  1850 , 1877 , Chapter 2400
• Publication on web for PG-Pubs 1121
• Restriction practice 803.04 , 1850 , 2434
• Nullification of double patenting rejection 804.01
• Number, Application 503 , 506
• Number, Drawing reference character 608.01(g)
• Number, Serial 503 , 506
• Numbering of papers in file wrapper 719.01(a)
• Numbering paragraphs of letter 707.07(k)