MPEP Key Word Index - U

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MPEP Key Word Index - U

Unavailable inventor ...409 , 409.03
Unavoidable abandonment (See Abandonment )
Unclaimed disclosure, reservation ...608.01(e)
Undelivered mail ...707.13 , 1303.02
Undue breadth rejection ...706.03 , 707.07(g) 2164.08(a) , 2173.04 , 2173.05(h)
Unexpected results (See also Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132) ) ...716.02 to 716.02(g)
Unintentional abandonment (See Abandonment )
United Kingdom priority document ...201.15
United States Code (See also Statutes )
United States of America, Foreign language names for ...901.05(a)
Unity of invention ...803 , 823 , 1850 , 1875 , 1893.03(d)
University or other institution of higher learning ...509.02
Unlocatable Patent or Application Files ...508.04
Unmatched papers ...508.03
Unofficial subclasses and digests ...903.02(c)
Unscheduled closing ...201.13
Unsigned amendment ...711 , 714.01(a)
Untimely filed (premature) paper prior to orderfor ex parte reexamination ...2225
Untimely filed (premature) paper prior to orderfor inter partes reexamination ...2625
Untimely response to ex parte reexamination ...2267
Untimely response to inter partes reexamination ...2667
UPOV Convention (See also Plant patent ; Treaties ) ...1612 1613
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (See also Treaties ) ...201.04(b) , 715 , 715.07(c) , 2701 , 2132
Use claims ...2173.05(q)
Use, Public (See Public use )
User pass ...510
USPTO Contact Center ...1730
Utility classes ...902.02
Utility, disclosure in drug cases ...2164.06 , 2164.07
Utility requirement guidelines ...2107

Legal precedent for ...2107 to 2107.03
Relationship of enablement to ...2164.07

Utility lacking, rejection ...706.03(a) , 2107
Utility model ...901.05(b)
Utility patent (See also Design application ; Patent ; Plant patent ) ...901.04 , 1502.01

Application publication ...1120 to 1135
Copies of ...707.05(a)
Copyrighted material in ...608.01(v)
Design patent compared to ...1502.01
Double patenting ...804
Drawings / Photographs ...608.01(f) , 608.02
Elements of ...Chapter 600
Expiration date or term ...2211 , 2250 , 2611
Maintenance fees ...2506
Period of enforceability ...2204 , 2211 , 2611
Specification ...608.01

Utility required ...608.01(p) , 706.03(a) , 2107 , 2164.07