MPEP Key Word Index - R
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MPEP Key Word Index - R
- Ranges
- Ratification of papers filed
- Real party in interest ...1205 , 1207.02
- Reasons for allowance ...1302.14
- Amendments after final rejection ...714.13
- Appeal record ...1213.02
- Applicant’s comments on ...1302.14
- Claim narrowing ...1302.14
- Comments on, ex parte reexamination ...2287
- Comments on,inter partes reexamination ...2687.01
- Estoppel effect ...1302.14
- Failure of applicant to comment on ...1302.14
- Patent Cooperation Treaty application ...1845.01 , 1878.01
- Presumption of acquiescence by applicant ...1302.14
- Public use proceedings ...720.05
- Reexamination
- Rebuttal brief in inter partes reexamination appeal
- ...2678 , 2679
- Recapture
- Receipt of mail and papers ...Chapter 500
- Arrangement of papers in file wrapper ...719.01(a)
- Depositing correspondence ...502
- Entry of amendments ...714.18
- Filing receipt ...503
- Office date stamp ...505
- Period for reply ...710.01(a)
- Receiving Office PCT procedure ...1801
- Reciprocal privileges, foreign priority ...201.13
- Reciprocal security agreements ...120
- Reclassification
- Recombinant DNA (See also DNA ; Biotechnology )
- Reconsideration in ex parte reexamination ...2269
- Reconsideration of abandonment ...711.03 , 711.03(c)
- Record of interview ...713.01 , 713.04
- Record room (See File Information Unit (Record Room) )
- Record system for reexamination
- Recording assignment ...301 , 302 , 317
- Recording change of business name ...314
- Recording government interests ...302 , 302.07
- Recording of joint research agreement ...302 , 302.07
- Recording license agreement ...313
- Recording of other documents ...313 to 317
- Recording security interest ...313
- Redacted publication of an application ...1132
- Reduction to practice ...715.07 , 2133.03(c) 2138.01 , 2138.05
- Reexamination, Ex parte ...Chapter 2200
- Access to file ...103 , 724.04(c) , 2209 , 2232
- Action following Board decision ...2278
- Address of patent owner ...2222
- Admissions ...2217 , 2258
- Affidavits ...2216 , 2217 , 2258 , 2265
- After final practice ...2272
- Amendment ...714 , 2234 , 2250 , 2295
- Abstract ...2287
- After final rejection ...2272
- Examiner’s ...2287
- Filed with request ...2221
- Improper ...2250
- In a merged reissue/ ex parte reexamination ...2285
- Prior reexamination certificate issued ...2250 , 2295
- Provisions of Rule 1.312 do not apply ...2287
- Reissue patent issued ...2250
- Ancillary issues ...2217 , 2258
- Appeal ...2273
- Appeal brief ...2274
- Appeals to courts ...1216 , 1216.01 , 2279
- Application file location ...2635
- Assignment ...301
- To an examiner ...2236 , 2248 , 2255 , 2285
- Attorney or agent ...2213
- Basic characteristics ...2209
- Certificate of ...2288 , 2294
- Certificate attached to patent copy ...2292
- Certificate distribution ...2292
- Certificate format ...2290
- Certificate of mailing or transmission ...2224
- Certificate of prior reexamination in later request ...2214 , 2219 , 2619
- Certificate of service ...2220
- Certified copy ...2232
- Citation of prior art ...2202
- Claim for Official Gazette ...2287
- Claim, multiple dependent, preparation for publishing ...2287
- Claim numbering ...2250
- Claims considered ...2243 , 2258
- Claims invalid/unenforceable ...2286
- Claims presented for interference ...2283 , 2304.02
- Clerical handling ...2270
- Collateral estoppel ...2259
- Comments on ‘Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation’ ...2287
- Conclusion ...2287
- Concurrent proceedings ...2282 to 2686
- Conduct of proceedings ...2254
- Consideration of responses ...2252 , 2253
- Consolidated proceedings ...2283
- Constructive notice to patent owner ...2230
- Content of request ...2214
- Copending proceedings ...2283 to 2686
- Copy of patent in request ...2219
- Copying of file ...2232
- Correction of inventorship ...2250.02 , 2258
- Correction of request ...2231
- Correspondence ...2224
- Criteria for deciding request ...2242
- Decision of Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ...2277
- Decision on request ...2240
- Decision ordering reexamination ...2246
- Decision processing ...2245
- Defective submission ...2266.02
- Denied ...2240 , 2247 , 2247.01
- Dependent claim treatment ...2260.01
- Director’s initiative ...2239
- Domestic priority ...2258
- Double correspondence ...2224
- Double patenting ...804 , 2258
- Drawing correction ...2250.01
- Duty of disclosure ...2003.01 , 2280
- Electronic copy ...2209 , 2232
- Entry of amendments ...2234 , 2270
- Entry of court decisions in patent file ...2207
- Examiner ...2236 , 2248 , 2255
- Examiner’s amendment ...2287
- Examiner’s answer ...2275
- Expiration of patent ...2211 , 2250
- Explanation of prior art ...2217
- Extension of time ...2265
- Failure to timely reply to Office action ...2266
- Fees ...2215 , 2233 , 2283 , 2285
- Final action ...706.07(a) , 2265 , 2271
- Flowchart ...2201
- Foreign priority ...2258
- Forms ...2296
- Granted ...2246 , 2247.01
- Grounds of rejection ...2217
- Identity of requester ...2212
- Inappropriate papers ...2267
- Incomplete reques
- Informal submission ...2266.02
- Initial processing ...2226
- Inquiries from persons other than the Patent Owner ...2212.01
- Interference copending ...2284
- Intervening rights ...2293
- Interviews in ...2281
- Introduction ...2201
- Listing of prior art ...2257
- Litigation copending ...2286
- Litigation review ...2240 , 2287
- Mailing of Office actions ...2264
- Merger ...2283 , 2686.01
- Merger with reissue proceedings ...1449.01
- Multiple dependent claim handling, preparation for publishing ...2287
- New matter ...2270
- NIRC (See Form letters and forms: Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469) )
- Notification of Concurrent Proceedings ...2285
- Of a reexamination ...2295
- Office action ...2260 , 2262
- Official Gazette
- ‘Old art’ (i.e., previously considered/cited) ...2242 , 2258.01
- Oral hearing ...2276
- Orders for copies of
- Patent copy in request ...2219
- Patent owner’s address ...2222
- Patent owner’s statement ...2249
- Patent owner’s statement of interview ...2281
- Patentability review conference ...2271 , 2271.01 , 2287
- Petition ...1002.02(b)
- Correct inventorship ...2250.02
- Denial of request ...1002.02(c) , 2246 , 2265
- For entry of late papers (revival of terminated proceedings) ...2268
- Merge proceedings ...2283 , 2285
- Reconsideration ...2268
- Stay proceedings pending interference ...2284
- Stay proceedings pending reissue ...2285
- Unavoidable delay ...2268
- Unintentional delay ...2268
- Vacate order granting request ...2246
- Waive time provisions ...2265
- Power of attorney, withdrawal ...2223
- Preprocessing staff ...2226 , 2229 , 2232 , 2239
- Printing of certificate ...2288
- Prior art ...2218
- Prior art considered ...2244 , 2256
- Prior art previously cited/considered ...2242 , 2258.01
- Proceedings ...2209
- Processing in Central Reexamination Unit and Technology Center ...2233 , 2245
- Project code ...2238
- Public access ...103 , 2232
- Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS) ...2289
- Quality review ...2289
- Reasons for patentability and/or confirmation ...2262 , 2287
- Reconsideration of Office action ...2269
- Record system ...2235
- Refund if request denied ...2247 , 2248
- Reissue copending ...1449.01 , 2285
- Rejections ...2242 , 2258
- Reminders ...2287
- Reply by third party requester ...2251 , 2253
- Reports ...2235
- Representative of requester ...2213
- Request ...2210
- After reissue patent issues ...2240 , 2258 , 2285
- After first reexamination certificate issues ...2294
- Content ...2214
- Correction processing ...2231
- Decision ...2240 , 2244
- Decision criteria ...2242
- Denied ...2247 , 2247.01
- During interference ...2284
- Facsimile submission not permitted ...502.01
- Filing address ...2224
- Granted ...2246 , 2247.01
- Guidelines ...2242
- ‘Old art’ (previously considered art) involved ...2242 , 2258.01
- Response to Office action ...2266
- Restriction improper ...2258
- Review ...2289
- Sample letter requesting reexamination ...2214
- Scope ...2258
- Search ...2244 , 2258.01
- Second or subsequent request ...2240 , 2283
- Service by patent owner on requestor of patent owner statement ...2249
- Service of papers ...2220 , 2266 , 2266.02 , 2266.03
- Special status for action ...2261
- Statement applying prior art ...2217
- Statement by owner ...2249
- Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation ...2287
- Statutory basis ...2201
- Stay ...2283
- Submission defective or informal ...2266.02
- Submission not fully responsive ...2266.01
- Substantial new question of patentability ...2201 , 2216 2240 , 2242 , 2244 , 2246
- ‘Sufficient cause’ for extension of time ...2265
- Suspension ...2283
- Terminated ...2294
- Terminated files ...2294
- Tickler reports ...2235
- Time for request decision ...2241
- Time for requesting ...2211
- Time for response to actions ...2263
- Time reporting ...2238
- Title report ...320 , 2287
- Transfer ...2237
- Translation required ...2218
- Untimely filed paper prior to order ...2225
- Untimely filed papers ...2267
- Untimely responses ...2252
- Use of transmittal form (PTOL-465) ...2264
- Vacated ...2294
- Vacated, claims invalid/unenforceable ...2286
- Who may file request for ...2212
- Withdrawal of attorney during ...402.06 , 2223
- Withdrawal of power of attorney ...2223
- Reexamination, Inter partes (See also Reexamination, Ex Parte ) ...Chapter 2600
- Access by public ...103 , 724.04(c) , 2609 , 2632
- Action closing prosecution (ACP) ...2660 , 2666.05 2666.10 , 2667 , 2660 , 2666.05 2671.03 , 2673.02 , 2682
- Admissions ...2617
- Affidavits ...2616 , 2617 , 2658 , 2666 , 2675 , 2677
- Amendment by patent owner
- After a new ground of rejection is issued by the Board ...2682
- After Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) ...2671 2672 , 2673
- After expiration of the patent ...2666.01
- After Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) ...2687.01
- After Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) ...2673 2673.02 , 2675
- Claims ...2666.01
- Defective ...2666.50 , 2666.60 , 2667
- Dependent claim ...2660.03
- Drawings ...2666.02
- Entry ...2670
- In a merged reexamination proceedings ...2670 , 2686.01 , 2686.03
- Of a reissued patent ...2686.03
- Title ...2660.02
- To provoke an interference ...2686.02
- Unsigned ...2666.50
- Appeal (i.e., Appellant) Brief ...2675
- Appeal Conference ...2676 , 2677
- Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ...2674 to 2680
- Appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...2682 , 2683
- Appeal to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia not available ...2683
- Appellant defined ...2674
- Assignment to examiner ...2636 , 2648 , 2655
- Certificate of inter partes reexamination ...2688 2690 , 2694
- Certificate of service ...2620 , 2666.06
- Certificate of mailing or transmission ...2624 2665 , 2666 , 2666.05
- Certificate of prior reexamination in later request ...2214 , 2219 , 2619
- Certification as to statutory estoppel ...2612 , 2614
- Clerical handling ...2670
- Collateral estoppel ...2659
- Comments on Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation ...2687.01
- Comments by third party (See Reexamination, Inter partes : Response by third party )
- Concurrent proceedings ...2282 , 2686
- Constructive notice of ...2630 , 2654
- Copending proceedings ...2282 , 2686
- Copies of the prior art with request ...2618
- Copy of printed patent with request ...2619
- Copying of the file by the public ...2632
- Correction of inventorship ...2658 , 2666.03
- Correspondence ...2624
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...2682 , 2683
- Court ordered ...2686.04
- Cross appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals ...2674
- Cross appeal to the Federal Circuit ...2683
- Decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ...2681 , 2682
- Decision on the request for inter partes reexamination ...2640 , 2641
- After Court decision ...2686.04
- Content ...2646
- Criteria for deciding ...2642
- Deadline for mailing ...2641
- Denial ...2640 , 2647 , 2647.01 2648 , 2694
- Grant ...2640
- ‘Old art’ (previously considered art) used ...2642
- Processing ...2647 , 2647.01 , 2648
- Prior art available ...2644
- Reissue about to issue ...2686.03
- Dependent claim treatment ...2660.03
- Design applications ...
- Determining if a reexamination was filed for a patent ...2632.01
- Domestic priority ...2658
- Drawings ...2666.02
- Duty of disclosure ...2003.01 , 2684
- Electronic copy ...2609 , 2632
- Enlarging claim scope prohibited ...2658 , 2666.01
- Estoppel, Collateral ...2659
- Estoppel, Statutory ...2601 , 2612 , 2614
- Examination scope ...2658 , 2671.01 , 2671.02
- Examiner consultation with a Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA)
- After response by parties ...2671
- Before appeal ...2676
- Before the decision on the Request ...2633
- In merged reexamination proceedings ...2686.01
- Regarding multiple reexamination requests ...2686.01
- Review of Rebuttal Briefs ...2679
- Examiner’s Amendment
- Canceling rejected claims ...2671 , 2687
- Correcting formal matters ...2687 , 2687.01
- In merged reissue/reexamination ...2686.03
- Not permitted if approval required ...2687.01
- To the Title ...2660.02 , 2686.03 , 2687
- Examiner’s Answer ...2677
- Expedited Right of Appeal Notice ...2671 , 2673.02
- Extensions of time ...2665
- After Action Closing Prosecution ...2672
- To amend the claims after a Board decision containing a new ground of rejection ...2682
- To appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...2682
- To complete a reply held non-responsive ...2660.30
- To petition denial of the Request ...2648 , 2665
- Facsimile transmission, correspondence by ...2624
- Fees ...2634
- Final Board decision ...2681 , 2682
- Filing date ...2627
- Flowcharts ...2601.01
- Foreign priority ...2658
- Forms listed ...2696
- Fraud ...2684
- Improper comments ...2667
- Inappropriate papers ...2667
- Incorporation by reference in Examiner’s Answer ...2677
- Interference copending ...2686 , 2686.02
- Intervening rights ...2693
- Interviews in a merged reexamination/reissue ...2686.03
- Interviews not permitted ...2666.30 , 2685 , 2687
- Litigation concurrent ...2640 , 2681 , 2686 , 2686.04
- Litigation search ...2686.04
- Litigation stayed ...2686.04
- Merger of multiple requests for reexamination ...2686.01
- Merger of reissue andinter partes reexamination ...2686.03
- Multiple requests for reexamination filed ...2640 , 2686 , 2686.01 , 2695
- New grounds for rejection ...2671.01
- New matter ...2671.01 , 2671.02
- NIRC (See Form letters and forms: Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL 2068 )
- Non-final Board decision ...2681
- Non-responsive reply by patent owner/third party ...2666.30 , 2666.50
- Notice of appeal ...2662 , 2674 , 2674.01
- Notice of cross appeal ...2662 , 2674 , 2674.01
- Notice of Inter Partes Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette ...2627 , 2629
- Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette ...2688 , 2691
- Office action ...2660 , 2671
- Not closing prosecution ...2671.01
- Reopening prosecution after ACP ...2673 , 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after Examiner’s Answer ...2679
- Reopening prosecution after RAN ...2676 , 2677
- Oral hearing ...2662 , 2675 , 2677 , 2680
- Order grantinginter partes reexamination ...2646 , 2660
- Oversight ...2689
- Patent copy with request ...2619
- Panel Review ...2671.03
- Petition ...1002.02(b)
- Board decision ...2681
- Consideration of submissions after NIRC ...2687.01
- Correct inventorship ...2658 , 2666.03
- Denial of request for inter partes reexamination ...1002.02(c) , 2647 , 2648
- Entry of late papers for revival of reexamination proceeding ...2668
- Enter an amendment after RAN ...2672 , 2673.02 , 2675
- For an interview in a merged reexamination/reissue ...2686.03
- Merge inter partes reexamination and reissue ...1002.02(b) , 2667 , 2686.03
- Premature Action Closing Prosecution ...2672
- Reopen prosecution after Board decision ...2682
- Suspend second or subsequent requests ...2640
- Stay reexamination ...2667 , 2686.02 , 2686.03
- Unavoidable delay ...2668
- Unintentional delay ...2668
- Vacate order granting inter partes reexamination ...2646
- Waive time provisions ...2648 , 2668 , 2672
- Premature response/comments ...2625 , 2667
- Prior art citation ...2602 , 2646 , 2654 , 2656 , 2657
- After the order to reexamine ...2602 , 2667
- After a Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate issues ...2687.01
- Before the first Office action ...2625
- Before the order to reexamine ...2602 , 2654
- By another requestor ...2656
- By the patent owner ...2656
- Storage area ...2667
- With the Request ...2656
- With third party’s comments ...2666.05 , 2667
- Prior art copies with request ...2618
- Processing ...2670
- After a decision by the Board ...2682
- Amendment ...2666.01 , 2670 , 2687
- Clerical ...2670
- Examiner’s Answer ...2677
- Inappropriate papers ...2667
- Merger of multiple reexamination requests ...2686.01
- Merger of reissue and inter partes reexamination ...2686.03
- Terminated inter partes reexamination ...2694
- Proof of service
- Public access ...103 , 2609 , 2632
- Publication ...2687
- Publication of Board decision ...2681
- RAN (See Reexamination, Inter partes : Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) )
- Real party in interest identification ...2612 , 2614 , 2677
- Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation ...2687
- Rebuttal Brief ...2678 , 2679
- Records ...2635
- Reissue copending ...1449.01 , 2643 , 2686 2686.03
- Reissue previously issued ...2640 , 2686
- Remand by the Board of Appeals ...2681 , 2682
- Reopening prosecution after an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) ...2673 , 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after a Board decision ...2682
- Representative of requestor ...2613
- Request for extension of time ...2665
- Request for reconsideration by patent owner ...2666
- Request for inter partes reexamination
- Claims considered ...2643
- Content ...2614
- Denied ...2640 , 2647
- Facsimile transmission not permitted ...502.01 , 2624
- Filed after reissue issued ...2658
- Filed while interference pending ...2686.02
- Filing address ...2624
- Granted ...2640
- Incomplete ...2627
- Prior art cited with ...2618
- Second or subsequent filed ...2640 , 2686.01
- Statement applying the prior art ...2617
- Time for filing ...2611
- Request for Rehearing by the Board ...2682 , 2683
- Res judicata ...2659
- Respondent Brief ...2675.01
- Respondent defined ...2674
- Response by patent owner ...2666
- After Action Closing Prosecution ...2671 , 2672
- Defective ...2666.30 , 2666.40 , 2667
- Improper comments ...2667
- Late (See also Reexamination, Inter partes : Time periods for response ) ...2667 , 2668
- No proof of service ...2667
- No response filed . ...2666.10 , 2671 2671.01 , 2671.02
- Not fully responsive ...2666.30 , 2671
- Person not of record ...2666.50
- Premature ...2625 , 2667
- To Notice of Defective Paper ...2666.40 , 2666.60
- To Office action ...2666 , 2666.30
- Too long ...2667
- Unsigned ...2666.50 , 2667
- Response by third party
- After Action Closing Prosecution ...2671 , 2672
- After patent owner corrects defect ...2666.40
- Comments regarding response by patent owner ...2666.05 , 2666.20 , 2666.30
- Defective ...2666.50 , 2667
- Improper comments ...2666.05 , 2667 , 2671
- Late (See also Reexamination, Inter partes : Time periods for response ) ...2667 , 2668
- No proof of service ...2667
- No response filed ...2666.20 , 2671
- Other than third party requester ...2667
- Period for response ...2666.05 , 2666.20
- Person not of record ...2666.50
- Premature comments ...2625 , 2667
- Premature appeal ...2667
- Prior art submission with ...2666.05 , 2667
- Too long ...2667
- Unsigned ...2666.50 , 2667
- Review ...2689
- Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) ...2666.05 , 2666.10 2667 , 2671 to 2674 , 2677
- Scanning ...2632
- Scope of examination ...2658 , 2671.01 , 2671.02
- Service of papers ...2666.06
- Certificate of ...2620 , 2666.06
- Proof of service ...2666.06 , 2666.50 , 2667
- To patent owner ...2620 , 2654 , 2666.05
- To third party requestor ...2654 , 2666 , 2666.05
- Special Status ...2661
- Statement applying the prior art ...2617
- Statutory estoppel ...2601 , 2612 , 2614
- Stayed pending litigation outcome ...2686.04
- Stayed pending reissue outcome ...2686.03
- Submissions prior to the first Office action ...2625
- Substantial new question of patentability ...2614 , 2616 , 2617 , 2640 , 2246 2642 to 2647 , 2648 , 2658 , 2686.01 , 2686.04
- ‘ Sufficient cause’ for extension of time ...2665
- Suspension of requests for inter partes reexamination ...2640 , 2686.01
- Terminated ...2694
- Third party requestor
- Time for requestinginter partes reexamination ...2611
- Time periods after appeal for filing:
- Amendment after Board decision containing a new ground for rejection ...2682
- Notice of Appeal in the Federal Circuit ...2682
- Notice of Cross Appeal in the Federal Circuit ...2683
- Request for Rehearing ...2682
- Time periods during appeal for filing:
- Appeal (i.e., Appellant) Brief ...2675
- Corrected/Supplemental Appellant Brief ...2675 , 2675.02
- Corrected/Supplemental Respondent Brief ...2675.01 , 2675.02
- Corrected/Supplemental Rebuttal Brief ...2679
- Notice of Appeal ...2674
- Notice of Cross Appeal ...2674 , 2674.01
- Rebuttal Brief ...2678
- Request for Oral Hearing ...2680
- Respondent Brief ...2675.01
- Time periods for response ...2662
- After Action Closing Prosecution ...2672
- After defective submission ...2666.30 2666.50 , 2666.60
- After Office action ...2662 , 2665 , 2667
- To make claims the same in each concurrent reexamination ...2686.01
- Time reporting by Office personnel ...2638
- Title ...2660.02
- Transfer ...2637
- Unpublished legal opinions ...2677
- Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA) ...2632 , 2633 2640 , 2641 , 2647.02 , 2664 , 2670 2675 , 2679 , 2686.01 , 2686.04 , 2689
- Reexamination Processing System (REPS) ...103 , 2632
- Reference (See also Prior art )
- A.I. Series patent ...901.04
- A.P.C. publication ...901.06(c)
- Abandoned application ...901.02 , 2127
- Abbreviatures ...901.06(d)
- Abstracts ...706.02 , 901.06(d)
- Additional ...707.05(d)
- Admissions ...2129
- Analogous art ...904.01(c) , 2141.01(a) 2143.01 , 2145
- Antedating (See Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131) )
- Applications, domestic and foreign ...2127
- Applying reference under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) ...706.02(f)(1)
- Arrangement in Examiner’s Search files ...901.07
- As evidence of inherency ...2131.01
- As evidence in multiple reference, 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection ...2131.01
- Assigned application as ...804.03
- Availability ...2128
- Between applicant’s priority date andU.S. filing date ...201.15 , 706.02(b)
- Borrowing from Technology Center ...901.08
- Citation ...707.05 to 707.05(g) , 901.04 , 901.05(a)
- After allowance ...1302.12 , 1308.01
- After appeal ...1207.02
- By applicant ...707.05(b) , 707.05(c) , 1302.12
- Correction ...707.05(g)
- Claims foreign date ...715.01
- Combination of references ...706.02(j)
- Copending ...706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) 706.02(l) to 706.02(l)(3) , 709.01
- Copies ...707.05(a)
- Cross, how cited ...707.05(e)
- Cross reference addition ...905.02
- Date, determination of ...707.05(f) , 2124 2126 , 2128 to 2128.02
- Date, exception to the rule ...2124
- Declassified printed matter ...707.05(f)
- Defensive publications ...901.06(d)
- Design application ...707.05(a)
- Disclosure, broad ...2123
- Disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) ...706.02(l)(1) , 706.02(l)(3)
- Drawings as prior art ...2125
- Effects of international application publication ...1857 1857.01
- Effective date
- Patent ...706.02 , 706.02(a) , 707.05(e) , 707.05(f) , 715
- Publication ...706.02(a) , 715.01(c) , 1857.01 , 2128.02
- Electronic publications ...707.05(e) , 904.02(c) , 2128
- Enabled disclosure ...2131.01
- Enabling, plant genetics ...2121.03
- Enabling, compounds and compositions ...2121.02
- Enabling, apparatus and articles ...2121.04
- Equivalents ...904.01(b)
- Every element rule for anticipation ...2131
- Evidencing the meaning of a termused in the primary reference ...2131.01
- Foreign patent ...706.02 , 707.05(e) , 901.05(a) , 901.05(b)
- Forfeited application ...901.02
- From interference ...1302.12
- Incorrect citation ...707.05(g) , 710.06 , 1302.12
- Inoperability ...716
- Internal documents, confidential ...2128.01
- Intervening ...201.15 , 706.02(b)
- Joint patent to applicant and another ...715.01(a) 715.01(c)
- Listing at allowance ...1302.12 , 1455
- Lost counts in interference ...2138.01
- Multiple reference rejections under35 USC 102 ...2131.01
- Newly discovered after allowance ...1308.01
- Nonanalogous art (See also Reference : Analogous art ) ...2131.05 2141.01(a)
- None cited by examiner ...707.05 , 707.05(a)
- Operability ...2121
- Ordering official cross ...903.06
- Overcome
- Under Rule 1.130 ...718
- Under Rule 1.131 (See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131) ) ...706.02(a) 706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) , 715 1302.14 , 2132.01 , 2133.02
- Under Rule 1.132 ...706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) 716 , 2132.01
- Overcoming under 35 U.S.C. 119 ...201.15
- Paper, orally presented ...2128.01
- Patent ...901.04 , 2126
- Patent, date available ...2126.01
- Patent, Foreign (See Foreign patent )
- Patent, official number lacking ...901.04
- Patent claiming same invention ...715.05 , 2301.03
- Pending application (See also Application ) ...901.03
- Publication of applicant’s invention ...715.01(a) 715.01(c) , 2132.01 , 2133.01
- Publication, date available ...2128.02
- Publication, printed ...2128
- Publications ...706.02 , 707.05(e) , 901.06 2131.01 , 2132.01 , 2133.01
- Published abstracts of application ...706.02 , 711.06(a) 2131.01 , 2133.01
- Rejection over broad disclosure instead of preferred embodiments ...2123
- Replacement of missing ...901.09
- Same assignee ...706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) 706.02(l) to 706.02(l)(3) , 709.01 , 715.01(b)
- Selection of pertinent ...904.02
- Statutory bar ...706.02(a) , 201.13 , 2133.02
- Statutory section to use ...706.02(a)
- Supply procedure ...707.05(a) , 707.05(g) , 710.06
- Swearing back (See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131) ) ...706.02(k) 715 , 2132.01 , 2133.02
- Thesis ...2128.01
- Utility ...2122
- ‘Well known in the art,’ supported by ...2144.03
- Reference characters ...608.01(g)
- Reference to foreign application ...202.03 , 202.04 , 901.03
- Reference to prior patent ...608.01(p) 608.01(r) , 901.03
- Reference to related application (See Cross-noting )
- Reference to related applicationfor disclosure ...608.01(p)
- Refile application (See also Application ; Substitute application ) ...201.10
- Refunds (See also Fee ; Deposit account ) ...509 , 607.02
- Additional invention or species ...803.03(a) , 803.03(b)
- Canceled claims ...506
- Correspondence address ...509.03 , 2540 , 2542
- Filing fee ...201.04(b) , 503 , 506 , 601.01(a)
- International applications ...1002.02(p) , 1819 , 1847 1850 , 1864
- International search fee ...707 , 1819 , 1847 1852 , 1859
- Issue fee ...1308.01 , 1308.03
- Maintenance fee ...2520 , 2540 , 2542 , 2550 , 2590
- Oral hearing ...1209
- Publication fee ...1126
- Reexamination
- Ex parte ...2215 , 2247 , 2248
- Inter partes ...2615 , 2647 , 2648
- Refund Section, Office of Finance ...509.03 , 607.02
- Petition fee ...506.02
- Small entity fee ...509.03 , 2550
- Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) ...1109
- Refusal to publish SIR ...1105
- Registration, Attorney or agent ...402 , 1702
- Regulations, examiner’s search facilities ...510
- Regulations, public search room ...510
- Rehearing by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ...1002.02(j) , 1214.01 , 1214.03 , 1214.04
- Rehearing by C.A.F.C. ...1216.01
- Reissue application ...1401 to 1470
- Absolute intervening rights ...1460
- Access to ...103 , 724.04(b) , 1430 , 1470
- Acknowledgment of protest ...1901.05
- Additional information required ...1442.01 , 1442.04
- Adjudication of original patent ...1442.01
- Allowance ...1455
- Amendment ...714 , 1411 , 1453
- Examiner’s ...1455
- Of drawings ...1413 , 1453
- So that reissue can be merged with ex parte reexamination ...2285
- So that reissue can be merged with inter partes reexamination ...2686.03
- Amends or corrects original patent ...1400.01 , 1402
- Appeal brief ...1454
- Assignee consent ...1410.01 , 1443 , 1451
- Broadened ...706.03(x) , 1412.03
- Cannot be used to remove terminal disclaimer ...1490
- Certificate of correction ...1411.01 , 1412.04 , 1443 1480 to 1485
- Claim
- Broadening ...1412.02 , 1412.03
- Dependent ...1412.03
- Format ...1411 , 1453
- Numbering ...1451 , 1455
- Oath requirement ...1414
- Printed in Official Gazette ...1455
- Same invention as original patent ...1412.01
- Too narrow ...1402
- Collateral estoppel ...2112.01
- Consent by assignee ...1410.01 , 1443 , 1451
- Content ...1410
- Continuation ...1410.01 , 1414 , 1451
- Copending application reference ...1402
- Copending ex parte reexamination proceedings ...2285
- Copendinginter partes reexamination proceedings ...2686.03
- Correct inadequacies ...1402
- Court decision involving original patent ...1442.01
- Court ordered ...1442.05
- Cross noting ...1451 , 1455
- Deceptive intention ...1414
- Declaration ...1410.01 , 1414 , 1414.01 , 1444
- Defective oath, ground for rejection ...706.03(x) 1414
- Dependent claim ...1455
- Design ...1457
- Diligence ...1403
- Disclaimer ...1411.01 , 1450
- Divisional ...1002.02(b) , 1410.01 1412.01 , 1414 , 1450 , 1451 , 1457
- Domestic priority, delayed claim ...201.11
- Double patenting ...1451
- Drawings ...1413 , 1414 , 1453
- Duty of disclosure ...1406 , 1418 , 1448 2001.06(c) , 2003
- Election of species ...1450
- Equitable intervening rights ...1460
- Error correction after allowance ...1414.01 , 1444
- Error in original patent ...1401 , 1402 , 1414 , 1414.01
- Examination ...1440 , 1443 , 1445
- Examiner Reissue Guide and Checklist ...1443
- Expedited examination ...708.01 , 1441 , 1442 , 1442.03
- Expired patent ...1415.01
- Filing fee ...1415
- Final Office action ...1443
- Foreign priority claim ...201.14 , 201.16 , 201.14(b) 1402 , 1417
- Format ...1410 , 1411 , 1411.01
- Fraud ...1448 , 2012
- Grounds for filing ...1402
- Inequitable conduct ...1448 , 2010
- Information disclosure statement ...2003
- Initial examiner review ...1443
- Inoperative or invalid, Oath requirement ...1414
- Inspection ...103
- Interference ...1449.02
- Interference on original patent concurrent with ...1449.01
- Intervening rights ...1460
- Inventorship error ...1402 , 1412.04
- List of references ...1455
- Litigation involved ...1404 , 1442.01 to 1442.05 , 1443
- Litigation protest ...1901.03
- Maintenance fees on original patent ...1415.01
- Merger of reissue applications after restriction ...1450
- Merger of reissue application with ex parte reexamination ...2285
- Merger of reissue application withinter partes reexamination ...2686.03
- Multiple filings ...1451
- New matter ...1411.02
- Numbering of claims ...1451 , 1453
- Notice in original file ...202.05
- Oath ...1414 , 1414.01 , 1444
- Offer to surrender patent (not required) ...1416
- Official Gazette
- Omission of feature ...1411.02
- Open to public ...103 , 1430 , 1470
- Ordering copies of papers in file ...1430
- Ownership ...201.12 , 1410.01 , 1443
- Patent series ...901.04
- Patent term, affect on ...1405
- Petition to merge reissue and ex parte reexamination ...1002.02(b) , 2285
- Petition to merge reissue andinter partes reexamination ...1002.02(b) , 2686.03
- Petition to stay reissue pending ex parte reexamination ...2285
- Petition to stay reissue pendinginter partes reexamination ...2686.03
- Print of drawing ...608.02 , 608.02(m)
- Prior art consideration ...1402
- Prior art statement ...1418
- Priority correction ...201.14(b) , 201.16 1402 , 1405 , 1417
- Protest ...1441.01 , 1443 , 1901
- Protest filed in reissue where patentis in interference ...1443 , 1449
- Public access ...103 , 1430 , 1470
- Recapture of matter ...706.02(l)(1) , 1412.02
- Reexamination proceedings copending ...1449.01
- Rejection ...706.03(x)
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) ...1451
- Requirement for information ...1442.04
- Restriction ...1450 , 1451
- Return of original patent ...1416
- Review ...1456
- Same invention as original patent ...1412.01
- Special for examination ...708.01 , 1441 , 1442 , 1442.03
- Specification ...1410 , 1411 , 1411.01 , 1453 , 1455
- Statutory basis ...1401
- Statutory disclaimer ...1490
- Stayed pending ex parte reexamination ...2686.03
- Stayed pendinginter partes reexamination ...2686.03
- Submission of papers in ...1404
- Suit on original patent ...1442.01
- Surrendered patent returned to applicant ...1416
- Suspension ...1450
- Terminal disclaimer ...1410.01 , 1411 , 1451 , 1490
- Transfer of original drawing
- (prior practice) ...608.02(i) , 1413
- Treatment of protest ...1901.06
- Twice reissued ...1411
- Two month delay period ...1441 , 1441.01
- Rejected application ...203.02
- Rejection (See also Anticipation rejection ; Indefinite claim ; Obviousness ) ...706
- Abandonment of invention ...706.02(d) , 706.03(s)
- Admission by applicant ...706.02(c) , 2133.03(c)
- After allowance of application ...706.04 , 706.05 1308.01
- After allowance of claim ...706.04
- After allowance, primary examiner review of ...1004
- After appeal, New rejection ...1207.03
- After termination of interference ...2308
- Against public policy ...706.03(a)
- Aggregation ...2173.05(k)
- All valid grounds ...707.07(g)
- Allowed claim by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ...1213.02
- Alternative phrases ...2173.05(h)
- Anticipation (See also Anticipation rejection ) ...706.02(a) 707.07(d) , 2131 , 2132 , 2133 , 2136
- Art (See also Prior art ) ...706.02
- Assigned applications, Same applicant ...804.03
- Atomic Energy Act ...706.03(b)
- Authorship ...2137
- Backup rejections ...706.02
- Bar, Statutory ...706.02(a) , 2133 to 2133.03(e)(7)
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences introduces ...1214.01
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences statement on allowed claim ...1213.02
- Breadth ...2173.04
- Broadening in reissue application ...1412.03
- Broader than the disclosure ...2173.03
- Chemical practice
- Claim presented corresponding toclaim of patent ...706.06
- Claim presented corresponding toclaim of patent, failure to reply ...706.03(u)
- Claims ...706
- Combination of references ...706.02(j) , 707.07(d) 2131.01
- Common knowledge ...2144.03
- Commonly assigned ...2146
- Computer programming cases ...2106 , 2161.01
- Conflicting applications ...706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) 706.02(l) to 706.02(l)(3) , 709.01 715.01(b) , 804 , 804.01 , 804.02 822 , 822.01
- Contrasted to objection ...706.01
- Copending applications, different inventive entities ...706.02(k) , 706.02(l) to 706.02(l)(3)
- Cumulative ...706.02 , 707.07(d)
- Dedication ...715 , 1490
- Defective reissue oath ...706.03(x) , 1444
- Dependent claim ...608.01(n)
- Derivation of invention ...2137
- Disclaimer ...706.02(k) , 710.02(d)
- Double patenting (See Double patenting )
- Duplicate claims ...706.03(k)
- Estoppel, defensive publication ...711.06
- Estoppel, interference ...2308.03
- Final (See also Final rejection ) ...706.07 to 706.07(f)
- Foreign application, statutory bar ...706.02(e)
- Form paragraphs used ...706.02(i) , 706.02(m)
- Form used ...707
- Fraud upon public ...706.03(a)
- Frivolous invention ...706.03(a)
- Full anticipation, expression recommended ...706.02(i) 707.07(d)
- Function of machine ...2173.05(v)
- Functional claim ...2114 , 2173.05(g)
- Functional equivalents ...2144.06
- Generic claim ...715.02 , 806.04 , 809.02(a)
- Genus and species ...806.04(h) , 806.04(i) 2131.02 , 2144.08
- Ground clearly stated ...706.02(j) , 707.07(d)
- Inaccurate ...2173.03
- Incomplete ...706.03(c) , 707.07(j)
- Indefinite ...706.03(d)
- Inoperativeness ...2164.08(b)
- Insufficient disclosure ...706.03(c)
- Insufficient disclosure, trademark ...608.01(v)
- Interference, estoppel ...2308.03
- Interference terminated ...706.03(v) , 2308
- International publication as prior art ...706.02(a) , 1857.01
- , ...2136.03
- Judicial notice ...2144.03
- Language used ...706.02(j) , 707.07(d)
- Linking claim ...806.04 , 806.05(c) , 809 , 809.03
- Markush, improper ...2173.05(h) , 2173.05(o)
- Multiplicity ...2173.05(n)
- Negative limitation ...2173.05(i)
- New, after appeal ...1207.03
- New, after final rejection ...706.07(e)
- New matter ...706.03(o) , 2163.06
- Nonelected invention ...706.03(m)
- Nonstatutory claim ...706.03(a) , 2107
- Nonstatutory subject matter ...706.03(a)
- Not based on prior art ...706.03
- Not inventor ...706.02(g)
- Not readable on disclosure ...2173.03
- Oath, defective reissue ...706.03(x) , 1444
- Objection distinguished ...706.01
- Obviousness (See also Obviousness ) ...706.02 706.02(j) , 707.07(d)
- Official notice ...2144.03
- Old combination ...2173.05(j)
- Omnibus claim ...706.03(d) , 2173.05(r)
- Omnibus rejection ...707.07(d)
- Overcoming 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection ...706.02(b)
- Overlapping applications ...706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) 709.01 , 715.01(b) , 804 804.01 , 804.02 , 822 , 822.01
- Perpetual motion ...706.03(a)
- Personal remarks avoided ...707.07(d)
- Previously allowed claim ...706.04 , 1004
- Prima facie case of obviousness ...706.02(j)
- Printed matter ...706.03(a)
- Prior art ...706.02
- Prior art between applicant’s foreign priority date and U.S. filing date ...201.15 , 706.02(b)
- Product by process ...2113 , 2173.05(p)
- Product of nature ...706.03(a)
- Prolix ...2173.05(m)
- Provisional rejection ...706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) 706.02(l)(3)
- Public sale (See also On sale and Public use ) ...706.02(c)
- Public use (See also Public use ) ...706.02(c)
- Public use proceeding ...706.03(v) , 720.05
- Ranges ...706.03(c) , 2131.03 , 2144.05
- Recapture in reissue application ...1412.02
- Reissue application
- Broadened claims ...706.03(x) , 1412.03 , 2163.05
- Defective oath ...706.03(x) , 1444
- Recapture ...1412.02
- Repeated ...707.07(f)
- Res judicata ...706.03(w)
- Scientific principle ...706.03(a)
- Secondary considerations ...2131.04
- Single means claim ...2164.08(a)
- Species and genus ...806.04(h) , 806.04(i) 2131.02 , 2144.08
- Statement of ...707.07(d)
- Statutory bar ...706.02(a) , 2133 to 2133.03(e)(7)
- Suggested claims not made ...706.03(u)
- Technical ...706.03
- Trademark or trade name ...608.01(v)
- Undue breadth ...2163.05 , 2173.04
- Utility ...706.03(a) , 2107
- Vague ...706.03(d)
- Well known in the art ...2144.03
- Rejoinder ...806.05(c) , 806.05(f) , 806.05(h) , 806.05(i) , 809 , 812.01 , 821 , 821.01 , 821.02 , 821.04 , 821.04(a) , 821.04(b) , 1302.04(h)
- Related inventions ...802.01 , 806.04(b) , 806.05 806.05(j) , 808.02 , 809.03
- Rejoinder of, generic or linking claim allowable ...821.04(a)
- Rejoinder of, product claim allowable ...821.04(b)
- Related inventions, species ...806.04(b)
- Remailing Office action ...707.13 , 710.06
- Remand by Board
- Affidavit ...1211.02
- Amendment ...1211.01
- Further search ...1211.03
- In general ...1211
- Ex parte reexamination ...2274 , 2275
- Inter partes reexamination ...2675 , 2675.01 2677 , 2681 , 2682
- Special ...708.01
- Removal of application from Office ...101
- Renumbering claims ...1302.01
- Reopening after allowance ...1308.01
- Reopening after court decision ...1216.01
- Reopening prosecution after Action Closing Prosecution in inter partes reexamination ...2673 , 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after Board decision in inter partes reexamination ...2682
- Replenishment of deposit accounts (See Deposit account : Replenishment )
- Reply (See also Amendment ; Period for reply )
- After abandonment ...714.17
- After Board decision ...1214.01 , 1214.06
- After final rejection ...714.12 , 714.13
- Attorney arguments ...716.01(c) , 2145
- By patent owner in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes : Response by patent owner )
- By third party in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes : Response by third party )
- Complete ...714.02 to 714.04
- Copying claim from patent not a reply ...711.02(b)
- Election requirement ...809.02(a) 818.03(a) , 818.03(b) , 818.03(c)
- Formal matters ...714.02
- Incomplete ...710.02(c) , 711.02 , 711.02(a) 711.03(a) , 714.02 to 714.05 , 2266.01
- In ex parte reexamination ...2266
- Incomplete, election of species lacking ...809.02(a) 818.03(b)
- Incomplete, proceedings not stayed by petition ...1002
- Incomplete, time for completing ...710.02(c) , 711 714.03 , 2266.01
- Late ...711 , 711.02
- Late, excused ...710.02(d)
- Patentability pointed out ...706.02(b) , 714.02 , 714.04
- Restart period for ...710.06
- Restoration of canceled matter ...608.01(s)
- Restriction requirement ...818 to 819
- Signed by all applicants ...714.01(a)
- Statutory period ...710.01
- Unmatched with application file ...508.03
- Reply brief ...1208
- Representative capacity ...402 , 405 , 714.01(c)
- Representative of foreign assignee ...302.04
- Representative of inventor or owner ...Chapter 400
- Representative of requester ...2213
- Representatives of out-of-town attorneys ...408
- Republication of PG-Pub ...1130
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) ...706.07(h)
- After allowance ...1308
- Conditions for filing ...706.07(h)
- Design application ...1502.01
- Improper CPA treated as ...201.06(d)
- Inter partes reexamination of ...2611
- Submission requirement ...706.07(h)
- Suspension of action in ...709
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in ...1490
- Request for ex parte reexamination
- Decision criteria ...2242
- Facsimile submission not permitted ...502.01
- Notice of request in Official Gazette ...2229
- Requester’s representative ...2213
- Time for filing ...2210 , 2211
- Time to decide ...2241
- Request for inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination, Inter partes : Request ; Reexamination, Inter partes : Decision on the request for reexamination )
- Request form (PCT/RO/101) ...1812 , 1821 , 1844 , 1844.01
- Request for patentability report ...705.01(e) , 1003
- Request for reconsideration of patent term adjustment ...1002.02(b)