MPEP Key Word Index - T
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- Tables submitted on compact disc 608.05(b)
- Technical documents 901.06(a)
- Technical rejections 706.03
- Technical support staff duties (See Manual of Clerical Procedure )
- Technology Center Director (See Director of Technology Center )
- Technology Center, papers sent to wrong 508.01
- Technology Center Working Group 3640 (security group) 121 , 130 , 1002.02(c)(1)
- Telephone call, multiplicity rejection 2173.05(n)
- Telephone numbers 1730
- Telephoning of attorney to examiner 408 , 713.01
- Term, Patent 707.05 , 2701
- Adjustment of 2701 , 2710 , 2730, 2731 , 2732 , 2733, 2734 , 2735 , 2736
- Determination of 2733
- Due care showing 2734
- Grounds for 2730
- Period of 2731
- Reductions to 2732
- Request for reconsideration 2735
- Third party papers 2736
- Continued prosecution application 2701
- Deposit of biological material 2408
- Design 1502.01 , 1505
- Divisional 201.06
- Extension under 35 U.S.C. 156
- FDA regulatory review and 2750 to 2758
- Deadline 2754.01 to 2754.03
- Duty of disclosure and 2762
- Interim extension 2755.01 , 2755.02
- Specific Products
- Animal drugs …. 2750 , 2751 , 2758
- Antibiotic drugs 2751 , 2758
- Color additives … 2750 , 2751 , 2754.01 , 2758
- Food additives 2750 , 2751 , 2754.01 , 2758
- Medical devices 2750 , 2751 , 2753 , 2758
- Veterinary Biological Products 2750, 2751 , 2756 , 2758
- Third party papers 2736
- Withdrawal 2761 , 2764
- USPTO delays and 2710
- Foreign 901.05
- Transitional practice 706.07(g) , 803.03
- Utility 2701
- Terminal disclaimer (See also Disclaimer ) 1490
- Avoiding double patenting rejection 706.02(k), 706.02(l)(3) , 804.02 , 806.04(i) , 1490
- Certificate of correction and 2701 , 2720
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 1490
- Continuing applications 1490
- Copending applications procedure 1490
- Informal memo 1490
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1490
- Reissue 1410.01 , 1451 , 1490
- Required for revival 711.03(c)
- Routing 1490
- Signature in 402 , 1490
- Situations where not applicable 804.03
- Withdrawal of 1490
- Terminology in application 608.01(g) , 608.01(o), 706.03(d) , 1302.01
- Termination of proceedings 201.11 , 711.02(c)
- TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) 1703
- Test comments 707.07(l)
- Testamentary, Letters (See also Administrator or executor ) 409.01(b)
- Testimony, examiner 1701.01
- Testimony, public use proceeding 720.04
- Tests, comparative (See Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132) )
- Third action cases 707.02
- Third party reply in inter partes reexamination (See Reexamination,
Inter partes : Response by third party ) - Third party requestor (See Reexamination,
Inter partes : Response by third party ) - Third party submissions/inquiries/correspondence in published applications 1134 , 1134.01
- Time and Activity Report 1704 , 1705
- Time for claiming benefit of earlier application 201.11
- Time for deciding Director initiated reexamination 2211 , 2239
- Time for deciding reexamination request 2241
- Time for filing papers, right of priority 201.14(a)
- Time for filing petitions 1002
- Time for requesting reexamination
- Time for reply (See also Period for reply ) 702.01 , 710
- Time for reply to action in reexamination
- Time limit 710.02 , 710.02(c)
- For making suggested claims 710.02(c)
- International preliminary examination report (IPER) 1879.01 , 1879.01(a)
- International search report (ISR) 1843.05
- Period for reply 710
- Permanent ink copy 714.07
- Prior art filing 2204
- Reply to final rejection 706.07(f)
- Restriction requirement 811
- Rewrite claims following Board decision 1214.06
- Shortened statutory period compared to 710.02, 710.02(b) , 710.02(d)
- Statutory period 710.01 , 710.01(a)
- Transfer of application 903.08(d)
- Two periods running 710.04
- Time period for owner' s statement 2249
- Time reporting 2238 , 2638 , 2671.03
- Time to pay maintenance fees 2506
- Timely submission of protest 1901.04
- Title conveyed by assignment 201.12 , Chapter 300
- Title documents, handling 317
- Title of invention 606, 1893.03(e)(1)
- Change by examiner 2660.02 , 2686.03
- Design application 1503.01 , 1504.01(a)
- International application 1821
- Plant patent application 1610
- Reviewed at issue 606.01 , 1302.01
- Title report 303 , 320 , 2287
- Titles of USPTO Officials Title Page (reverse side)
- Title with signature 605.04(e)
- Trade secret material 724 to 724.05
- Completeness of file wrapper 724.01
- Materials submitted covered
- by 35 U.S.C. 122 724.04(a)
- Method of submitting 724.02
- Office treatment and handling 724.04 , 724.06
- Petition to expunge materials 724.05
- Reexamination under 37 CFR 1.11(d) 724.04(c)
- Reissue under 37 CFR 1.11(b) 724.04(b)
- Types of 724.03
- Trade secret submission label 724.02
- Trademark and trade name 608.01(v) , 706.03(d), 2173.05(u) , App. I
- Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure Foreword
- Trademarks, Partial list of Appendix I
- Transfer of application
- After amendment 903.08(c)
- After classification decision903.08(g)
- Allowable application 903.07(b) , 1305
- Decision of classification examiner903.08(f)
- Divisible inventions 812
- Interference2304.01(b)
- New 903.08(a)
- Notification of applicant 903.08
- Outside Technology Center 903.08(d)
- Primary examiner's authority 903.08
- Procedure 903.08(a) , 903.08(d)
- Secrecy order application 130
- Submitted to classification examiner 903.08(d)
- Within Technology Center 903.08(d)
- Transfer of class or subclass 903.05
- Transfer of drawing 608.02(i)
- Transfer of reexamination
- Transfer of rights to patent or application 509.02
- Transfer of specification prohibited 608.01(t)
- Transfer of U.S. patent 903.05
- Transitional application (See also Application )
- After final practice 706.07(g)
- Generic claim allowable 803.03(b)
- Linking claim allowable 803.03(a)
- Patent term 2701
- Restriction practice 803.03
- Transitional phrases 2111.03
- "Characterized by " 2111.03
- "Composed of" 2111.03
- "Comprising" 2111.03 , 2173.05(h)
- "Consisting essentially of" 2111.03
- "Consisting of" 2111.03 , 2173.05(h)
- "Containing" 2111.03
- Translation, foreign application or foreignpriority document 201.15
- Translations index in STIC 901.06(a)
- Translators in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 901.05(d), 901.06(a)
- Transmission, certificate of (See Certificate of mailing or transmission )
- Transmittal Fee, PCT 1827
- Traverse, answer all matters 707.07(f)
- Traverse, division or species requirement 818, 818.03 to 818.03(d) , 821.01 , 821.02
- Traverse, rejection of linking claim 818.03(d)
- Treaties
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Design application ) 201.13 , 1504.10
- Budapest Treaty (See also Biotechnology ; Microorganisms ) 901.05(b), 2402 , 2404.01 , 2405 , 2408, 2409 , 2410.01 , 2410.02 , 2411.01
- European Community Design 1504.10
- European Patent Convention 901.05 , 1817, 1840.01 , 1865.01
- GATT 2138.02
- Hague Agreement (See also Design application ) 201.13 , 1504.10
- Hague Convention 409.01(b) , 602.04(a) , 604.04
- Inter-American Convention 201.13
- Libreville Agreement 201.13
- NAFTA 201.04(b) , 715 , 715.07(c) , 2138.02
- Paris Convention 201.13 , App. P
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Chapter 1800, App. AI, App. T
- Strasbourg Agreement 903.09
- UPOV Convention (See also Plant patent ) 1612 , 1613
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) 201.04(b), 715 , 715.07(c) , 2701 , 2132
- TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) 1801
- Tubers 1601
- Twenty year term (See Term, Patent )
- Two month delay period in reissues 1441
- Two periods for reply running 710.04
- Type font 608.01 , 1504.01(a)