Word Index for Patent Related Regulations (37 C.F.R.)
Last Revised in November 2024
Key Word Index
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A
Abandoned applications:
Abandonment by failure to reply: 1.135
Abandonment after judgment: 41.127
Abandonment for failure to pay issue fee: 1.316
Express abandonment: 1.138
Processing fee: 1.21(n)
Referred to in issued patents: 1.14
Revival of: 1.137
When open to public inspection: 1.14
Abandonment of application. (See Abandoned applications.)
Abstract of the disclosure: 1.72(b), 1.77, 1.163
Access to pending applications (limited): 1.14
Action by applicant: 1.111 - 1.114
Addresses for correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office: 1.1
Deposit account replenishment: 1.25(c)(3)
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: 1.1(a)
Disciplinary Proceedings: 1.1(a)(3)(ii)
FOIA Officer: 102.1(b), 102.4(a)
Generally: 1.1(a)
Licensing and Review: 5.1(a)
Office of the General Counsel: 1.1(a)(3)
Office of the Solicitor: 1.1(a)(3)(iii)
Mail Stops
Mail Stop 8: 1.1(a)(3)
Mail Stop 24: 4.3(c)
Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services: 1.1(a)(4)(i), 3.27
Mail Stop Congressional Relations: 150.6
Mail Stop Document Services: 1.1(a)(4)(ii)
Mail Stop Ex parte Reexam: 1.1(c)(1)
Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE: 1.1(e)
Mail Stop Inter partes Reexam: 1.1(c)(2)
Mail Stop Interference: 41.10(b)
Mail Stop L&R: 5.1
Mail Stop OED: 1.1(a)(5)
Mail Stop PCT: 1.1(b), 1.417, 1.434(a), 1.480(b)
Maintenance fee payments: 1.1(d)
Patent correspondence: 1.1(a)(1)
Patent and Trademark Appeal Board: 1.1(a)(1), 41.10, 42.6(b)(2)(ii)
Privacy Officer: 102.23(a), 102.24(a)
Trademark correspondence: 2.190(a)
Adjustment of patent term. (see Patent term adjustment due to examination delay.)
Administrator may make application and receive patent (see Legal Representative)
Admission to practice. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Affidavit (See also Oath in patent application):
After appeal: 41.33
As evidence in a contested case: 41.154
Attribution or prior public disclosure under the AIA: 1.130
To disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art: 1.131(c)
Traversing rejections or objections: 1.132
Agents. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Allowance and issue of patent:
Amendment after allowance: 1.312
Application abandoned for nonpayment of issue fee: 1.316
Deferral of issuance: 1.314
Delayed payment of issue fee: 1.137
Failure to pay issue fee: 1.137(c), 1.316
Issuance of patent: 1.314
Notice of allowance: 1.311
Patent to issue upon payment of issue fee: 1.311, 1.314
Patent to lapse if issue fee is not paid in full: 1.317
Reasons for: 1.104(e)
Withdrawal from issue: 1.313
Amendment:
Adding or substituting claims: 1.121
After appeal: 41.33, 41.63
After decision on appeal, based on new rejection by the Board: 41.50(b)(1), 41.77(b)(1)
After final action: 1.116
After final action (transitional procedures): 1.129
After notice of allowance: 1.312
Copying claim of another application for interference: 41.202
Copying claim of issued patent: 41.202
Deletions and insertions: 1.121
Drawings: 1.121
During inter partes review: 42.107(d), 42.221
Manner of making: 1.121
Not covered by original oath: 1.67
Numbering of claims: 1.126
Of amendments: 1.121
Of claims: 1.121
Of computer program listing appendix: 1.96(c)(5)
Of disclosure: 1.121
Of drawing: 1.121
Of large tables: 1.58(g)
Of sequence listing: 1.825
Of sequence listing XML: 1.835
Of specification: /1-21.html">1.21(n) and writing: 1.52
Preliminary: 1.115
Proposed during interference: 41.121, 41.208
Provisional application: 1.53(c)
Reexamination proceedings: 1.121(j), 1.530, 1.941
Reissue: 1.121(i), 1.173
Requisites of: 1.33, 1.111, 1.116, 1.121, 1.125
Right to amend: 1.111, 1.116
Signature to: 1.33
Substitute specification: 1.125
Time for: 1.134
To applications in interference: 41.121
To correct inaccuracies: 1.121
To correspond to original drawing or specification: 1.121
To reissues.: 1.173
To save from abandonment: 1.135
Within appeal brief: 41.37(c)(2), 41.41(b)(1),
Amino acid sequences. (See Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences.)
Appeals:
Civil Actions under 35 U.S.C. 145 or 146: 90.3
To Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit:
Fee provided by rules of court: 90.2
From the Patent Trial and Appeal Board: 90.1, 90.3
Notice and service: 90.2
Time for filing notice of appeal: 90.3
To the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Affidavits after appeal: 41.33, 41.63
Briefs: 41.37, 41.41, 41.67, 41.68, 41.71
Decision/Action by Board: 41.50, 41.77
Return of jurisdiction to examiner: 1.979, 41.54, 41.81
Termination of proceedings: 1.197(b), 42.72
Ex parte appeals: 41.30 - 41.54
Examiner’s answer: 41.39, 41.69
Fees: 41.20, 41.45
Hearing of: 41.47, 41.73, 42.70
Inter partes reexamination: 41.61 - 41.81
New grounds of rejection: 41.39(a)(2), 41.50(b), 41.69(b),
______ 41.71(c)(3), 41.77(b)
Notice of appeal: 41.31, 41.61
Public inspection or publication of decisions: 41.6, 42.14
Rehearing: 41.50(b)(2), 41.52, 41.79, 41.77(b)(2)
Reopening after final Board decision: 1.198
Sanctions: 41.128, 42.12
What may be appealed: 41.31, 41.61
Who may appeal: 41.31, 41.61
Applicant for patent:
Assignee or obligated assignee: 1.46
Correspondence address: 1.33
Daytime telephone number: 1.33
Deceased or legally incapacitated inventor: 1.43, 1.422
In a continued prosecution application: 1.53(b), 1.53(d)(4)
In an international application: 1.421 - 1.424
Informed of application number: 1.54(b)
Inventorship in a provisional application: 41.41(c)
Legal Representative: 1.43
Legal Representative: 1.43
Mailing address and residence of inventors may be provided in oath/declaration or in application data sheet: 1.63, 1.76
Must be represented by a patent practitioner if juristic entity: 1.31
Person making oath or declaration: 1.64 (pre-AIA)
Personal attendance unnecessary: 1.2
Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy: 1.3
Required to report assistance received: 1.4
Who may apply for a patent: 1.41 - 1.48
Application Data sheet: 1.76
Application for patent (See also Abandoned applications, Claims, Drawing, Examination of applications, Provisional applications, Publication of application, Published application, Reissues, Specification):
Access to: 1.14
Acknowledgment of filing: 1.54(b)
Alteration: 1.52(c), 1.53(d)(5)
Application number and filing date: 1.54
Arrangement: 1.77
Compact disc submissions (see Electronic documents)
Confidentiality of applications: 1.14
Continuation or division, reexecution not required: 1.63
Continued prosecution application: 1.53(d)
Filed by facsimile: 1.6, 1.8
Copies of, furnished to applicants: 1.59
Cross-references to related applications: 1.78
Deceased or legally incapacitated inventor: 1.43
Declaration: 1.68
Duty of disclosure: 1.56
Examined only when complete: 1.53 (pre-AIA), 1.53
Filed by other than inventor: 1.42, 1.43, 1.46
Filing date: 1.53(pre-plt(AIA))
Filing requirements: 1.53(pre-plt(AIA))
Foreign language oath or declaration: 1.69
Formulas and tables: 1.58
General requisites: 1.51
Identification required in letters concerning: 1.5
Incomplete application not forwarded for examination: 1.53(pre-plt(AIA))
Interlineations, etc., to be indicated: 1.52
Involving national security: 5.1
Language, paper, writing, margin: 1.52
Later filing of oath and filing fee: 1.53 (pre-AIA)
Missing pages when application filed: 1.53(e)
Naming of inventors:
Application data sheet: 1.76(b)(1)
In a continued prosecution application: 1.53(d)(4)
In a provisional application: 1.41(c), 1.51(c)(1)(ii)
In an international application: 1.421
National stage: 1.497
Inconsistencies between application data sheet and oath or declaration: 1.76(d)
Joint inventors: 1.45
Oath/declaration.: 1.63(a)
Non-English language: 1.52
Nonpublication request: 1.213
Numbering of claims: 1.126
Numbering of paragraphs: 1.52, 1.125
Original disclosure not expunged: 1.59(a)(2)
Parts filed separately: 1.54
Parts of application desirably filed together: 1.54
Parts of complete application: 1.51
Processing fees: 1.17
Provisional application: 1.9, 1.51, 1.53
Publication of: 1.211, 1.219
Published: 1.9, 1.215
Relating to atomic energy: 1.14
Secrecy order: 5.1 - 5.5
Status information: 1.14
Tables and formulas: 1.58
Third party submission in: 1.290
To contain but one invention unless connected: 1.141
To whom made: 1.51
Two or more by same party with conflicting claims: 1.78
Application number: 1.5(a), 1.53, 1.54
Arbitration award filing: 1.335
Arbitration in a contested case before the Board: 41.126, 42.410
Assignee:
Correspondence held with assignee(s) of entire interest: 3.71, 3.73
Establishing ownership: 3.73(b)
May conduct prosecution of application: 3.71, 3.73
May make application for patent: 1.46
May take action in Board proceeding: 41.9
Must consent to application for reissue of patent: 1.171, 1.172
Partial assignee(s): 1.46, 3.71, 3.73, 3.81
Assignments and recording:
Abstracts of title, fee for: 1.19(b)(5)
Conditional assignments: 3.56
Cover sheet required: 3.28, 3.31
Corrections: 3.34
Date of receipt is date of record: 3.51
Effect of recording: 3.54
Fees: 1.21(h)
Formal requirements: 3.21 - 3.28
If recorded before payment of issue fee, patent may issue to assignee: 3.81
Impact on entitlement to micro entity status: 1.29
Impact on small entity status: 1.27
Joint research agreements: 3.11(c), 3.31(g)
Mailing address for submitting documents: 1.1(a)(4), 3.27
May serve as inventor’s oath or declaration: 1.63(e)
Must be recorded in Patent and Trademark Office to issue patent to assignee: 3.81
Must identify patent or application: 3.21
Orders for copies of: 1.12
Patent may issue to assignee: 3.81
Recording of assignments: 3.11
Records open to public inspection: 1.12
Requirements for recording: 3.21 - 3.41
What will be accepted for recording: 3.11
Atomic energy applications reported to Department of Energy: 1.14
Attorneys and agents:
Acting in representative capacity: 1.33, 1.34
Assignment will not operate as a revocation of power: 1.36
Certificate of good standing: 1.21(a)
Complaints: 4.6
Office cannot aid in selection of: 1.31
Personal interviews with examiners: 1.133
Power of attorney: 1.32
Power to inspect: 1.14
Representative capacity: 1.33, 1.34
Registration fees: 1.21(a)
Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy: 1.3
Revocation of power: 1.36(a)
Signature and certificate of attorney: 1.4, 11.18
Withdrawal of: 1.36(b), 41.5(c)
Authorization of agents. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Award in arbitration: 1.335
B
Balance in deposit account: 1.25
Basic filing fee: 1.16
Benefit of earlier application: 1.78
Biological material. (See Deposit of biological material.)
Briefs:
Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy: 1.3
Business to be transacted in writing: 1.2
C
Certificate of correction: 1.322, 1.323
Certificate of mailing (First Class) or transmission: 1.8
Certification effect of presentation to Office: 1.4(d), 11.18
Certified copies of records, papers, etc.: 1.4(f), 1.13
Fee for certification: 1.19(b)(4)
Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables: 1.58
Citation of prior art in patented file: 1.501
Citation of references: 1.104(d)
Civil action (time for commencing under 35 U.S.C. 145 or 146): 90.3(a)(3)
Claims (See also Examination of applications):
Amendment of: 1.121(c)
Commence on separate sheet or electronic page: 1.52(b)(3), 1.75(h)
Conflicting, same applicant or owner: 1.78(e), (f)
Dependent: 1.75
Design patent: 1.153
Effective filing date of (under AIA): 1.109
May be in dependent form: 1.75(c)
More than one permitted: 1.75(b)
Multiple dependent: 1.75(c)
Must conform to invention and specification: 1.75(d)
Notice of rejection of: 1.104
Numbering of: 1.126
Part of complete application: 1.51(b)(1)
Plant patent.: 1.164
Rejection of: 1.104
Required: 1.75(a)
Separate from other parts of application: 1.75(h)
Twice rejected before appeal: 41.31(a)(1)
Color drawing: 1.6(d)(4), 1.84(a)(2)
Color photographs: 1.84(a)(2)
Common ownership, statement by assignee may be required: 1.104(c)
Compact disc submissions (See Optical disc)
Complaints against examiners, how presented: 1.3
Complaints regarding invention promoters (See Invention promoters.)
Composition of matter, specimens of ingredients may be required: 1.93
Computer program listing appendix: 1.96
Concurrent office proceedings: 1.178(b), 1.565(a), 1.610(b)(3),
______ 1.620(d), 1.985 - 1.995
Conflicting claims, same applicant or owner in two or more applications: 1.78(e), (f)
Contested cases before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board: 41.100 - 41.158
Continued examination, request for: 1.114
Continued prosecution application: 1.53(d)
Suspension of action in: 1.103(c)
Continuing application for invention disclosed and claimed in prior application: 1.53, 1.63(d)
Control number, display of: 1.419
Copies of patents, published applications, records, etc.: 1.11, 1.12, 1.13
Copies of records, fees: 1.19(b), 1.59(c)
Copyright notice in specification: 1.71(d)
Copyright notice on drawings: 1.84(s)
Correction, certificate of: 1.322, 1.323
Correction of inventorship:
In a nonprovisional application: 1.48
Before filing oath/declaration or application data sheet: 1.41, 1.76(c)
By filing an application data sheet: 1.76(d)(3)
When filing a continuation or divisional application: 1.63(d)
When filing a continued prosecution application: 1.53(d)(4)
In a provisional application: 1.48(d)
In a reexamination proceeding: 1.530(l)
In an international application: 1.472
When entering the national stage: 1.497
In an issued patent: 1.324
In other than a reissue application: 1.48
Inconsistencies between application data sheet and oath or declaration: 1.76(d)
Motion to correct inventorship in an interference: 41.121(a)(2)
Supplemental application data sheet(s): 1.76(c)
Correspondence:
Address:
Change of correspondence address: 1.33
Established by the office if more than one is specified: 1.33(a)
Of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: 1.1
Business with the Office to be transacted by: 1.2
Discourteous communications not entered: 1.3
Double, with different parties in interest not allowed: 1.33(a)
Duplicate copies disposed of: 1.4(b)
Facsimile transmission: 1.6(d)
Held with attorney or agent: 1.33
Identification of application or patent in letter relating to: 1.5
Involving national security: 5.1
May be held exclusively with assignee(s) of entire interest: 3.71
Nature of: 1.4
Patent owners in reexamination: 1.33(c)
Receipt of letters and papers: 1.6
Rules for conducting in general: 1.1 - 1.10
Separate letter for each subject or inquiry: 1.4
Signature requirements: 1.4(d)
When no attorney or agent: 1.33
With attorney or agent after power or authorization is filed: 1.33
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appeal to. (See Appeal to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.)
Covered business method patent review (See Transitional program for covered business method patent review)
Credit card payment: 1.23(b)
Cross-reference to related applications: 1.76 - 1.78
Customer Number:
Defined: 1.32(a)(5)
Required to establish a Fee Address: 1.363(c)
D
Date of invention of subject matter of each claim: 1.110
Day for taking any action or paying any fee falling on Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday: 1.7
Death or incapacity of inventor: 1.43
In an international application:.1.422
Decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board: 41.50, 41.77
Declaration (See also Oath in patent application):
Assignment may serve as: 1.63(e)
Foreign language: 1.69
In lieu of oath: 1.68
In patent application: 1.68
Substitute statement: 1.64
Deferral of examination: 1.103
Definitions:
Applicable to part 42 (Trial Practice Before the Board): 42.2
Applicant: 1.42
Assignment: 3.1
Claimed invention: 1.9(f)
Covered business method patent: 42.301
Customer Number: 1.32(a)(5)
Director: 1.9(j)
Document: 3.1
Effective filing date of a claimed invention: 1.109
Federal holiday within the District of Columbia: 1.9(h)
International application: 1.9(b)
Inventor or inventorship: 1.9(d)(1)
Joint inventor or coinventor: 1.9(d)(2)
Joint research agreement: 1.9(e)
Micro entity: 1.29
National application: 1.9(a)
National security classified: 1.9(j)
Nonprofit organization: 1.27(a)(3)
Nonprovisonal application: 1.9(a)(3)
Paper: 1.9(k)
Patent practitioner or patent practitioner of record: 1.32
Person (for small entity purposes): 1.27(a)(1)
Power of Attorney: 1.32(a)(2)
Principal: 1.32(a)(3)
Provisional application: 1.9(a)(2)
Published application: 1.9(c)
Recorded document: 3.1
Revocation: 1.32(a)(4)
Small business concern: 1.27(a)(2)
Small entity: 1.27(a)
Technological invention: 42.301
Terms under Patent Cooperation Treaty: 1.401
Deposit accounts: 1.25
Fees: 1.21(b)
Deposit of biological material:
Acceptable depository: 1.803
Biological material: 1.801
Examination procedures: 1.809
Furnishing of samples: 1.808
Need or opportunity to make a deposit: 1.802
Replacement or supplemental deposit: 1.805
Term of deposit: 1.806
Time of making original deposit: 1.804
Viability of deposit: 1.807
Deposit of computer program listings: 1.52(e)(i), 1.96
Depositions (See also Testimony in contested cases before the Board):
Certificate of officer to accompany: 41.157(e)(6)
Original filed as exhibit: 41.157(e)(7)
Person before whom taken: 41.157(e)
Transcripts of: 41.154(a), 41.157
Derivation Proceeding:
Arbitration: 42.410
Common interests in the invention: 42.411
Content of the petition: 42.405
Definitions: 42.401
Fee: 42.404
Filing date: 42.407
Institution of derivation proceeding: 42.408
Pendency: 42.400
Procedure: 42.400
Public availability of Board records: 42.412
Service of petition: 42.406
Settlement agreements: 42.409
Time for filing: 42.403
Who may petition: 42.402
Description of invention. (See Specification.)
Design Patent Applications:
Arrangement of application elements: 1.154
Claim: 1.153(a)
Drawing: 1.152
Expedited examination: 1.155
Filing fee: 1.16(b)
Issue fee: 1.18(b)
Oath or Declaration: 1.153(b)
Rules applicable: 1.151
Title, description and claim: 1.153
Determination of request for ex parte reexamination: 1.515
Director of the USPTO (See also Petition to the Director):
Address of: 1.1(a)
Availability of decisions by: 1.14(e)
Initiates ex parte reexamination: 1.520
Disclaimer, statutory:
Disclosure, amendments to add new matter not permitted: 1.121(f)
Discovery in cases before the Board: 41.150 - 41.158, 42.224
Division. (See Restriction of application.)
Document supply fees: 1.19
Drawing:
Amendment of: 1.121
Arrangement of views: 1.84(i)
Arrows: 1.84(r)
Character of lines: 1.84(l)
Color: 1.6(d)(4), 1.84(a)(2), 1.165(b)
Content of drawing: 1.83
Copyright notice: 1.84(s)
Correction: 1.84(w), 1.85(c), 1.121
Cost of copies of: 1.19
Design application: 1.152
Figure for front page: 1.76(b)(3), 1.84(j)
Filed with application: 1.81
Graphics: 1.84(d)
Hatching and shading: 1.84(m)
Holes: 1.84(x)
Identification: 1.84(c)
If of an improvement, must show connection with old structure: 1.83(b)
Informal drawings: 1.85
Ink: 1.84(a)(1)
Lead lines: 1.84(q)
Legends: 1.84(o)
Letters: 1.84(p)
Location of names: 1.84(c)
Mask work notice: 1.84(s)
Must be described in and referred to specification: 1.74
Must show every feature of the invention: 1.83
No return or release: 1.85(b)
Numbering of sheets: 1.84(t)
Numbering of views: 1.84(u)
Numbers: 1.84(p)
Original should be retained by applicant: 1.81(a)
Paper: 1.84(e)
Part of application papers: 1.51(b)(3)
Photographs: 1.84(b)
Plant patent application: 1.165
Reference characters: 1.74, 1.84(p)
Reissue: 1.173
Release not permitted: 1.85(b)
Required by law when necessary for understanding: 1.81
Scale: 1.84(k)
Security markings: 1.84(v)
Shading: 1.84(m)
Size of sheet and margins: 1.84(f), (g)
Standards for drawings: 1.84
Symbols: 1.84(n)
Views: 1.84(h)
When necessary, part of complete application: 1.51(b)(3)
Duty of disclosure: 1.56, 1.555
Patent term extension: 1.765
E
Effective filing date of a claimed invention: 1.109
Election of species: 1.146
Electronic documents:
Application size fee: 1.16(s) 1.52(f)
Optical disc submissions:
Amino acid sequences: 1.821, 1.823, 1.825, 1.831, 1.832, 1.833, 1.834
Computer program listing appendix: 1.96
Incorporation by reference in specification: 1.52(e)
Large tables: 1.58
Nucleotide sequences: 1.821, 1.823, 1.825, 1.831, 1.832, 1.833, 1.834
Requirements: 1.52(e)
Submitted as part of permanent record: 1.52(e), 1.58, 1.96, 1.821, 1.823, 1.825, 1.831, 1.832, 1.833, 1.834
Employee testimony. (See Testimony by Office employees.)
Establishing micro entity status: 1.29
Establishing small entity status: 1.27, 1.28
Evidence in contested cases before the Board: 41.154
Ex parte appeals:
Action following decision: 41.54
Amendments during: 41.33
Appeal brief: 41.37
Decisions and other actions by the Board: 41.50
Definitions: 41.30
Evidence: 41.33
Examiner’s answer: 41.39
Extending time periods: 41.31(d)
Fee: 41.20(b)(4), 41.45
Jurisdiction: 41.35
Oral hearing: 41.47
Rehearing: 41.52
Reply brief: 41.41
Tolling of time period to file a reply brief: 41.40
Who may appeal: 41.31(a)
Ex parte reexamination. (See Reexamination.)
Examination of applications:
Advancement of examination: 1.102
As to form: 1.104
Citation of references: 1.104(d)
Completeness of examiner’s action: 1.104(b)
Deferral of: 1.103
Examiner’s action: 1.104(a)
International-type search: 1.104(a)
Nature of examination: 1.104
Reasons for allowance: 1.104(e)
Reconsideration after rejection if requested: 1.111
Reissue: 1.176
Rejection of claims: 1.104(c)
Request for continued examination: 1.114
Requirements for information by examiner: 1.105
Suspension of: 1.103
Examiners:
Executor (See Legal Representative): 1.42
Exhibits (See Models and exhibits)
Export of technical data: 5.15, 5.19, 5.20
Express abandonment: 1.138
Expungement: 1.59
Extension of patent term (See also Patent term adjustment):
Due to examination delay under the URAA (35 U.S.C. 154): 1.701
Due to regulatory review period (35 U.S.C. 156):
Certificate of extension: 1.780
Conditions for: 1.720
Correction of informalities: 1.740
Determination of eligibility: 1.750
Duty of disclosure: 1.765
Filing date of application: 1.741
Formal requirements: 1.740
Incomplete application: 1.741
Interim extension under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5): 1.790
Interim extension under 35 U.S.C. 156(e)(2): 1.760
Multiple applications: 1.785
Order granting interim extension: 1.780
Patents subject to: 1.710
Priority Mail Express: 1.6, 1.10
Signature requirements for application: 1.730
Termination of interim extension granted under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5): 1.791
Withdrawal of application: 1.770
Extension of time: 1.136
F
Facsimile transmission: 1.6(d), 1.8
Federal holiday within the District of Columbia: 1.9(h)
Fees and payment of money:
Application size: 1.16(s), 1.52(f), 1.492(j)
Credit card: 1.23
Deposit accounts: 1.25
Document supply fees: 1.19
Extension of time: 1.17
Fee on appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit provided by rules of court: 1.301
Fees payable in advance: 1.22
Foreign filing license petition: 1.17(g)
For international-type search report: 1.21(e)
Itemization required: 1.22
Method of payment: 1.23
Money by mail at risk of sender: 1.23
Money paid by mistake: 1.26
Necessary for application to be complete: 1.51
Petition fees: 1.17, 1.181, 41.20
Post allowance: 1.18
Prioritized examination under 37 CFR 1.102(e): 1.17
Processing fees: 1.17
Reexamination request: 1.20(c)
Refunds: 1.26
Relating to international applications: 1.25(b), 1.445, 1.481, 1.482, 1.492
Schedule of fees and charges: 1.16 - 1.21
Files open to the public: 1.11
Filing date of application: 1.53
Filing, search, and examination fees: 1.16
Filing in Post Office: 1.10
Filing of interference settlement agreements: 41.205
Final rejection:
First Class Mail (includes Priority Mail Express): 1.8
Foreign application: 1.55
License to file: 5.11 - 5.25
Foreign country:
Foreign mask work protection: Part 150
Evaluation of request: 150.4
Definition: 150.1
Duration of proclamation: 150.5
Initiation of evaluation: 150.2
Mailing address: 150.6
Submission of requests: 150.3
Formulas and tables in patent applications.: 1.58
Fraud practiced or attempted on Office: 1.56
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): 102.1 - 102.11
Appeals from initial determinations or untimely delays: 102.10
Business information: 102.9
Correspondence address: 102.1(b), 102.4(a)
Expedited processing: 102.6
Fees: 102.11
Public reference facilities: 102.2
Records: 102.3
Responses to requests: 102.7
Requirements for making requests: 102.4
G
Gazette. (See Official Gazette.)
General authorization to charge deposit account: 1.25, 1.136(a)(3)
General information and correspondence: 1.1 - 1.8
Government acquisition of foreign patent rights: Part 501
Government employee invention: Part 501
Government interest in patent, recording of: 3.11, 3.31, 3.41, 3.58
Governmental registers: 3.58
Guardian of insane person may apply for patent: 1.43
H
Hague Agreement
Hearings:
Holiday, time for action expiring on: 1.6, 1.7
I
Identification of application, patent or registration: 1.5
Inconsistencies between application data sheet and oath or declaration: 1.76(d)
Incorporation by reference: 1.57 (pre-AIA)
Information disclosure statement:
At time of filing application: 1.51
Content of: 1.98
Not permitted in provisional applications: 1.51
Reexamination: 1.555, 1.902
Suspension of action to provide time for consideration of an IDS in a CPA: 1.103(b)
Third party submission of: 1.290, 1.291
To comply with duty of disclosure: 1.97
Information, Public: 102.1 - 102.11
Inter partes appeals:
Action following decision: 41.81
Amendments during: 41.63
Appellant’s brief: 41.67
Decisions and other actions by the Board: 41.77
Definitions: 41.60
Evidence: 41.63
Examiner’s answer: 41.69
Extending time periods: 41.61(e)
Fee: 41.20(b), 41.61
Jurisdiction: 41.64
Notice of appeal and cross appeal to Board: 41.61
Oral hearing: 41.73
Rehearing: 41.79
Rebuttal brief: 41.71
Respondent’s brief: 41.68
Time for filling briefs: 41.66
Who may appeal: 41.61(a)
Inter partes reexamination. (See Reexamination.)
Inter partes review:
Amendment of the patent: 42.121
Content of the petition: 42.104
Fee: 42.103
Filing date: 42.106
Filing of supplemental information: 42.123
Institution of inter partes review: 42.108
Multiple proceedings and joinder: 42.122
Pendency: 42.100
Preliminary response to petition: 42.107
Procedure: 42.100
Response by patent owner: 42.120
Service of petition: 42.105
Time for filing: 42.102
Who may petition: 42.101
Interferences:
Abandonment of the contest: 41.127(b)
Access to applications: 1.11(e)
Addition of patent or application: 41.203(d)
Amendment during: 41.121(a)(2)
Applicant requests: 41.202
Arbitration: 41.126
Burden of proof: 41.207
Common interests in the invention: 41.206
Concession of priority: 41.127(b)(3)
Copying claims from patent: 41.121(a)(2), 41.202
Declaration of interference: 41.203
Definitions: 41.201
Disclaimer to avoid interference: 41.127(b)(2)
Discovery: 41.150
Extension of time: 41.4
In what cases declared: 41.203
Junior party fails to overcome filing date of senior party: 41.204(a)(3)
Jurisdiction over involved files: 41.103
Manner of service of papers: 41.106
Motions: 41.121
Notice to file civil action: 90.2
Notice of declaration: 41.203(b)
Petitions: 41.3
Presumption as to order of invention: 41.207(a)(1)
Priority Statement: 41.204(a)
Prosecution by owner of entire interest: 41.9(a)
Records of, when open to public: 1.11(e)
Requests by applicants: 41.202(a)
Same party: 41.206
Sanctions: 41.128
Secrecy order cases: 5.3(b)
Service of papers: 41.106(e)
Statutory disclaimer by patentee during: 41.127(b)
Suggestion of claims for interference: 41.202
Suspension of other proceedings: 41.103
Time period for completion: 41.200(c)
Translation of document in foreign language: 41.154(b)
International application. (See Patent Cooperation Treaty.)
International Design Application: 1.1001 - 1.1071
Content Requirements: 1.1021
Definition: 1.1001
Examination: 1.1062
Fees: 1.1031
Notification of Refusal: 1.1063
Signature: 1.1022
Who may file: 1.1011
International Preliminary Examining Authority: 1.416
Interviews with examiner: 1.133, 1.560, 1.955
Invention promoters:
Complaints regarding: 4.1 - 4.6
Publication of: 4.1, 4.3, 4.5
Reply to: 4.4
Submission of: 4.3
Withdrawal of: 4.3(f)
Definition: 4.2(a)
Reply to complaint: 4.4
Inventor (See also Applicant for patent, Application for patent):
Death or legal incapacity of inventor: 1.43
In an international application: 1.421
Refuses to sign application: 1.45
Unavailable: 1.45
Inventor’s certificate priority benefit: 1.55
Inventorship and date of invention of the subject matter of individual claims: 1.110
Issue fee: 1.18
Issue of patent. (See Allowance and issue of patent.)
J
Joinder of inventions in one application: 1.141
Joint inventors: 1.45
Joint patent to inventor and assignee: 1.42, 1.45, 3.81
Jurisdiction:
After decision by Patent Trial and Appeal Board: 1.979, 41.54, 41.81
After notice of allowance: 1.312
Over involved files: 41.103
L
Lapsed patents: 1.317
Legal representative of deceased or incapacitated inventor: 1.43, 1.64
Legibility of papers: 1.52(a)
Letters to the Office. (See Correspondence.)
Library service fee: 1.19(c)
License and assignment of government interest in patent: 3.11, 3.31, 3.41
License for foreign filing: 5.11 - 5.15
List of U.S. patents classified in a subclass, cost of: 1.19(d)
Lost files: 1.251
M
Mail Stops:
Mail Stop 8: 1.1(a)(3)
Mail Stop 24: 4.3(c)
Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services: 1.1(a)(4), 3.27
Mail Stop Congressional Relations: 150.6
Mail Stop Document Services: 1.1(a)(4)
Mail Stop Ex parte Reexam: 1.1(c)(1)
Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE: 1.1(e)
Mail Stop Inter partes Reexam: 1.1(c)(2)
Mail Stop Interference: 41.10(b)
Mail Stop L&R: 5.1
Mail Stop OED: 4.6
Mail Stop Patent Ext: 1.1(e)
Mail Stop PCT: 1.1(b), 1.417, 1.434(a), 1.480(b)
Maintenance fees: 1.20
Acceptance of delayed payment of: 1.378
Address for payments: 1.1(d)
Address for correspondence (applicant’s): 1.363
Review of decision refusing to accept: 1.377
Submission of: 1.366
Time for payment of: 1.362
Mask work notice in specification: 1.71(d)
Mask work notice on drawing: 1.84(s)
Mask work protection, foreign: 150.1 - 150.6
Micro entity status: 1.29
Microorganisms. (See Deposit of biological material.)
Minimum balance in deposit accounts: 1.25(a)
Missing pages when application filed: 1.53(e)
Mistake in patent, certificate thereof issued: 1.322, 1.323
Models and exhibits:
Copies of: 1.95
Disposal without notice unless return arrangements made: 1.94
If on examination model found necessary request therefor will be made: 1.91
In contested cases: 41.154
May be required: 1.91(b)
Model not generally admitted in application or patent: 1.91(a)
Not to be taken from the Office except in custody of sworn employee: 1.95
Return of: 1.94
Working model may be required: 1.91(b)
Money. (See Fees and payment of money.)
Motions in interferences: 41.121
To take testimony in foreign country: 41.156(b)
N
Name of Applicant or Inventor (see Applicant for patent, Application for patent, Inventor)
New matter inadmissible in application: 1.121(f)
New matter inadmissible in reissue: 1.173(a)
Non-English language specification fee: 1.17(i)(1)
Nonprofit organization:
Notice:
Of allowance of application: 1.311
Of appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: 90.2
Of arbitration award: 1.335
Of defective ex parte reexamination request: 1.510(c)
Of declaration of interference: 41.203
Of oral hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board: 41.47, 41.73, 42.70
Of rejection of an application: 1.104
Of taking testimony: 41.157(c)
Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences:
Amendments to: 1.825, 1.835
Disclosure in patent applications: 1.821, 1.831
Fee for very long sequence listing (mega-sequence listing): 1.21(o)
Form and format for: 1.824
Format for sequence data: 1.822, 1.832
Replacement of: 1.825, 1.835
Requirements: 1.823, 1.833
Submission on optical disc: 1.52, 1.821, 1.823, 1.825, 1.831, 1.833, 1.835
Symbols: 1.822, 1.832
O
Oath in patent application. (See also Declaration):
Apostles: 1.66
Assignment may serve as inventor’s oath or declaration: 1.63(e)
Before whom taken in foreign countries: 1.66
Before whom taken in United States: 1.66
By legal representative of deceased or legally incapacitated person: 1.43, 1.64
Certificate of Officer administering: 1.66
Continuation-in-part: 1.63(d)
Declaration: 1.68
Foreign language: 1.69
International application: 1.497
Inventor’s Certificate: 1.55(k)
Made by inventor: 1.41, 1.63
Made by someone other than inventor: 1.64
Officers authorized to administer oaths: 1.66
Part of complete application: 1.51(b)(2)
Person making: 1.63, 1.64
Plant patent application: 1.162
Reissue application: 1.175
Requirements of: 1.63
Sealed: 1.66
Signature to: 1.63, 1.64, 1.67
Substitute statement: 1.64
Supplemental: 1.67
To acknowledge duty of disclosure: 1.63(c)
When taken abroad to seal all papers: 1.66
Object of the invention: 1.73
Office action time for reply: 1.134
Office fees. (See Fees and payment of money.)
Official action, based exclusively upon the written record: 1.2
Official business, should be transacted in writing: 1.2
Official Gazette:
Announces request for reexamination: 1.11(c), 1.904
Notice of issuance of ex parte reexamination certificate: 1.570(f)
Notice of issuance of inter partes reexamination certificate: 1.997(f)
Optical disc submission (See Electronic documents)
Oral statements: 1.2
P
Payment of fees, Method: 1.23
Paper, definition of: 1.9
Papers (requirements to become part of Office permanent records): 1.52
Papers not received on Saturday, Sunday, or holidays: 1.6(a)(1)
Patent application. (See Application for patent and Provisional patent applications.)
Patent application publication. (See Published application.)
Patent attorneys and agents. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Patent Cooperation Treaty:
Access to international application files: 1.14(g)
Amendments and corrections during international processing: 1.471
Amendments during international preliminary examination: 1.485
Applicant for international application: 1.421, 1.424
Assignee, obligated assignee, or person having sufficient proprietary interest: 1.424
Changes in person, name or address, where filed: 1.421(f), 1.472
Conduct of international preliminary examination: 1.484
Copies of international application files: 1.14(g)
Definition of terms: 1.401
Delays in meeting time limits: 1.468
Demand for international preliminary examination: 1.480
Designation of States: 1.432
Entry into national stage: 1.491, 1.495
Examination at national stage: 1.496
Fees:
Authorization to charge fees under 37 CFR 1.16: 1.25(b)
Due on filing of international application.: 1.431(c)
Failure to pay results in withdrawal of application: 1.431(d)
Filing, processing and search fees: 1.445
International Filing Fee: 1.431(c), 1.445(b)
International preliminary examination: 1.481, 1.482
National stage: 1.25(b), 1.492
Refunds: 1.446
Filing by other than inventor: 1.421(b)
International application requirements: 1.431
Abstract: 1.438
Claims: 1.436
Description: 1.435
Drawings: 1.437
Physical requirements: 1.433
Request: 1.434
International Bureau: 1.415
International Preliminary Examining Authority: 1.416
Inventor deceased or legally incapacitated: 1.422
Inventors, joint: 1.421(b), 1.497(a)
National stage in the United States:
Commencement: 1.491
Entry: 1.491, 1.495
Examination: 1.496
Fees: 1.25(b), 1.492
Oath or declaration at national stage: 1.497
Priority, claim for: 1.55, 1.451, 1.452
Record copy to International Bureau, transmittal procedures: 1.461
Representation by attorney or agent: 1.455
Time limits for processing applications: 1.465, 1.468
United States as:
Designated or Elected Office: 1.414
International Searching Authority: 1.413
Receiving Office: 1.412
Unity of invention:
Patent term adjustment due to examination delay: 1.702 - 1.705
Application for: 1.705
Determination: 1.705
Grounds for: 1.702
Period of adjustment: 1.703
Reduction of period of adjustment: 1.704
Patent term extension due to examination delay: 1.701
Patent term extension due to regulatory review period. (See Extension of patent term due to regulatory review period (35 U.S.C. 156).)
Patent Trial and Appeal Board. (See Appeals.)
Patent Trial Practice and Procedure:
Action by patent owner: 42.9
Certificate: 42.80
Citation of authority: 42.13
Conduct of the proceeding: 42.5
Counsel: 42.10
Definitions: 42.2
Duty of Candor: 42.11
Fees: 42.15
Filing of documents, including exhibits: 42.6
Judgment: 42.73
Jurisdiction: 42.3
Management of the record: 42.7
Mandatory notices: 42.8
Notice of trial: 42.4
Oral Argument: 42.70
Petitions and Motions Practice:
Content of petitions and motions: 42.22
Default filing times: 42.25
Decision on petitions or motions: 42.71
Generally: 42.20
Notice of basis for relief: 42.21
Oppositions and replies: 42.23
Page and word count limits for petitions, motions, oppositions, and replies: 42.24
Policy: 42.1
Public Availability: 42.14
Sanctions: 42.12
Service of documents: 42.6
Settlement: 42.74
Testimony and Production
Admissibility: 42.61
Applicability of the Federal rules of evidence: 42.62
Compelling testimony and production: 42.52
Confidential information in a petition: 42.55
Discovery: 42.51
Expert testimony; tests and data: 42.54
Expungement of confidential information: 42.56
Form of evidence: 42.63
Objection; motion to exclude; motion in limine: 42.64
Protective order: 42.54
Taking testimony: 42.53
Termination of trial: 42.72
Patents (See also Allowance and issue of patent):
Available for license or sale, publication of notice: 1.21(i)
Certified copies of: 1.13
Correction of errors in: 1.171, 1.322, 1.324
Disclaimer: 1.321
Identification required in letters concerning: 1.5
Lapsed, for nonpayment of issue fee: 1.317
Price of copies: 1.19
Records of, open to public: 1.11, 1.12
Reissuing of, when defective: 1.171 - 1.178
Payment of fees: 1.23
Personal attendance unnecessary: 1.2
Petition for reissue: 1.171, 1.172
Petition to the Director:
Fees: 1.17
For delayed payment of issue fee: 1.137
For expungement of papers: 1.59
For extension of time: 1.136
For license for foreign filing: 5.12
For the revival of an abandoned application: 1.137
From formal objections or requirements: 1.113(a), 1.181
From requirement for restriction: 1.129(b)(2)(iii), 1.144
General requirements: 1.181
In interferences: 41.3
In reexamination: 1.181
If examiner refused the ex parte request: 1.515(c)
Questions not specifically provided for: 1.182
Suspension of rules: 1.183
Petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim for domestic benefit: 1.78(b), 1.78(d)
Petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim for foreign priority: 1.55(e)
To exercise supervisory authority: 1.181(a)(3)
To make special: 1.102(c), 1.102(d)
Untimely unless filed within two months: 1.181(f)
Photographs: 1.84(b), 1.152
Plant patent applications:
Applicant: 1.162
Claim: 1.164
Declaration: 1.162
Description: 1.162
Drawings: 1.165
Examination: 1.167
Fee for copies: 1.19
Filing fee: 1.16(c)
Issue fee: 1.18(c)
Oath: 1.162
Rules applicable: 1.161
Specification and arrangement of application elements: 1.163
Specimens: 1.166
Post issuance and reexamination fees: 1.20
Post-grant review:
Amendment of the patent: 42.221
Content of the petition: 42.204
Discovery: 42.224
Fee: 42.203
Filing date: 42.206
Filing of supplemental information: 42.223
Institution of inter partes review: 42.208
Multiple proceedings and joinder: 42.222
Pendency: 42.200
Preliminary response to petition: 42.207
Procedure: 42.200
Response by patent owner: 42.220
Service of petition: 42.205
Time for filing: 42.202
Who may petition: 42.201
Post Office receipt as filing date: 1.10(a)(2)
Postal emergency or interruption: 1.10(g)-(i)
Power of attorney. (See Attorneys or agents.)
Power to inspect: 1.14(c)
Preissuance submissions by third parties: 1.290
Preliminary amendments: 1.115
Preliminary Examining Authority, International: 1.416
Preserved in confidence, applications: 1.12, 1.14
Exceptions (status, access or copies available): 1.14
Prior art citation in patented files: 1.501
Prior art statement:
Prior art submission by third party:
In patent application: 1.290
In patent file: 1.501
In protest against pending unpublished application: 1.291
Prior invention, affidavit or declaration of to overcome rejection: 1.130, 1.131
Priority, right of, under treaty or law:
Domestic benefit claim:
Cross-reference to related application(s): 1.76 - 1.78
Filing fee must be paid in provisional application: 1.78
Indication of whether international application was published in English: 1.78(a)(2)
Must be on application data sheet: 1.76(a), 1.78(a)(3), 1.78(c)(2)
Petition to accept, unintentionally delayed: 1.78(d)
Translation of non-English language provisional application required: 1.78(a)(5)
Waived if not timely: 1.78(a)(4), 1.78(c)(3)
Foreign priority claim:
Filed after issue fee has been paid: 1.55(g)
Must be on application data sheet: 1.55(d), 1.76(a)
Petition to accept, unintentionally delayed: 1.55, 1.78(b)
Priority document: 1.55
Time for claiming: 1.55
Denial of access to records: 102.25(g)
Definitions: 102.22
Disclosure of records: 102.25, 102.30
Fees: 102.31
Grant of access to records: 102.25(b)
Inquiries: 102.23
Medical records: 102.26
Penalties: 102.32
Requests for records: 102.24
Requests for correction or amendment: 102.27
Processing fees: 1.17, 1.445
Proclamation as to protection of foreign mask works: 150.1 - 150.6
Protests to grants of patent: 1.291
Provisional applications:
Claiming the benefit of: 1.78
Converting a nonprovisional to a provisional: 1.53(c)(2)
Converting a provisional to a nonprovisional: 1.53(c)(3)
Cover sheet required by § 1.51(c)(1) may be a § 1.76 application data sheet: 1.53(c)(1)
Definition: 1.9(a)(2)
Filing date: 1.53(c)
Filing fee: 1.16(d)
General requisites: 1.51(c)
Later filing of fee and cover sheet: 1.53(g)
Names of inventor(s): 1.41(a)
Application data sheet: 1.53(c)(1), 1.76
Correction of: 1.48
Cover sheet: 1.51(c)(1), 1.53(c)(1)
Joint inventors: 1.45
No right of priority: 1.53(c)(4)
No examination: 1.53(i)
Papers concerning, should identify provisional application as such, by application number: 1.5(f)
Parts of complete provisional application: 1.51(c)
Processing fees: 1.17(q)
Revival of: 1.137(g)
When abandoned: 1.53(i)
Provisional rights:
Submission of international publication or English translation thereof pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 154(d)(4): 1.417
Public Information: 102.1 - 102.34
Publication of application: 1.211
Early publication: 1.219
Express abandonment to avoid publication: 1.138(c)
Fee: 1.18(d)
Nonpublication request: 1.213
Publication of redacted copy: 1.217
Republication: 1.221
Voluntary publication: 1.221
Published application:
Access to: 1.11, 1.14
Certified copies of: 1.13
Contents: 1.215
Definition: 1.9(c)
Preissuance submission in: 1.290
Records of, open to public: 1.11, 1.12
Republication of: 1.221
R
Reasons for allowance: 1.104
Reconsideration of Office action: 1.112
Reconstruction of lost files: 1.251
Recording of assignments. (See Assignments and recording.)
Records of the Patent and Trademark Office: 1.11 - 1.15
Reexamination:
Announcement in Official Gazette: 1.11(c)
Correction of inventorship: 1.530
Correspondence address: 1.33(c)
Ex parte proceedings:: 1.501 - 1.570
Amendments, manner of making: 1.121(j), 1.530(d)
Appeal to Board: 41.30 - 41.54
Concurrent with interference, reissue, other reexamination, litigation, or office proceeding(s): 1.565
Conduct of: 1.550
Duty of disclosure in: 1.555
Examiner’s determination to grant or refuse request for: 1.515
Extensions of time in: 1.550(c)
Initiated by the Director: 1.520
Interviews in: 1.560
Issuance and publication of certificate concludes: 1.570
Order for reexamination by examiner: 1.525
Patent owner’s statement: 1.530
Processing of prior art citations during: 1.502
Reply to patent owner’s statement to third party requester: 1.535
Request for: 1.510
Scope of: 1.552
Service of papers: 1.248
Examiner’s action.: 1.104
Fee: 1.20(c)
Fees may be charged to deposit account: 1.25(b)
Identification in letter: 1.5(d)
Inter partes proceedings: 1.902 - 1.997
Amendments, manner of making: 1.121(j), 1.530(d), 1.941
Appeal to Board: 41.60 - 41.81
Appeal to C.A.F.C.: 1.983, 41.81
Concurrent with interference, reissue, other reexamination, litigation, or office proceeding(s): 1.565, 1.985
Conduct of: 1.937
Duty of disclosure in: 1.555, 1.933
Examiner’s determination to grant or refuse request for: 1.923
Extensions of time in: 1.956
Filing date of request for: 1.919
Issuance of certificate at conclusion of: 1.997
Merged with concurrent reexamination proceedings: 1.989
Merged with reissue application: 1.991
Notice of, in the Official Gazette: 1.904
Persons eligible to file request for: 1.913
Processing of prior art citations during: 1.902
Scope of: 1.906
Service of papers: 1.248, 1.903
Submission of papers by the public: 1.905
Subsequent requests for: 1.907
Suspension due to concurrent interference: 1.993
Suspension due to litigation: 1.987
Information Disclosure Statements: 1.98, 1.555, 1.933
Open to public: 1.11(d)
Reconsideration before final action: 1.112
Refund of fee: 1.26
Reply to action: 1.111
Revival of terminated or limited reexamination prosecution: 1.137
Reference characters in drawings: 1.74, 1.84(p)
References cited on examination: 1.104
Reference filing: 1.57(a)
Refund of money paid by mistake: 1.26
International applications: 1.446
Later establishment of small entity status: 1.28
Time period for requesting: 1.26(b)
Register of Government interest in patents: 3.58
Rehearing:
Reissues:
Amendments: 1.173
Applicants, assignees: 1.172
Application for reissue: 1.171
Application made and sworn to by inventor, if living: 1.172
Continuing duty of applicant: 1.178
Declaration: 1.175
Drawings: 1.173
Examination of reissue: 1.176
Filed during ex parte reexamination: 1.565
Filed during inter partes reexamination: 1.985
Filing fee: 1.16
Filing of announcement in Official Gazette: 1.11
Grounds for and requirements: 1.171 - 1.178
Issue fee: 1.18(a)
Multiple applications for reissue of a single patent: 1.177
Oath: 1.175
Open to public: 1.11
Original patent surrendered: 1.178
Restriction: 1.176
Specification: 1.173
Take precedence in order of examination: 1.176
To contain no new matter: 1.173(a)
What must accompany application: 1.171, 1.172
Rejection:
After two rejections appeal may be taken from examiner to Board: 41.31
Applicant will be notified of rejection with reasons and references: 1.104(a)(2)
Based on commonly owned prior art, how overcome: 1.131
Examiner may rely on admissions by applicant or patent owner, or facts within examiner’s knowledge: 1.104(c)(3)
Final: 1.113
Formal objections: 1.104(a)(2)
References will be cited: 1.104(d)
Reply brief: 41.41
Reply to Office action:
Abandonment for failure to: 1.135
By applicant or patent owner: 1.111
Substantially complete: 1.135
Supplemental: 1.111(a)(2)
Time for: 1.134
Representative capacity: 1.34(a)
Request for continued examination: 1.114
Request for reconsideration: 1.112
Request for ex parte reexamination: 1.510
Request for inter partes reexamination: 1.903, 1.913 - 1.927
Requirement for submission of information: 1.105
Restoration of Benefit: 1.78(b)
Restoration of Right of Priority: 1.55(c)
Restriction of application.: 1.141 - 1.146, 1.176
Claims to nonelected invention withdrawn: 1.142(b)
Constructive election: 1.145
Petition from requirements for: 1.129, 1.144
Provisional election: 1.143
Reconsideration of requirement: 1.143
Requirement for: 1.142
Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention: 1.145
Return of correspondence: 1.5(a)
Revival of abandoned application, terminated or limited reexamination prosecution, or lapsed patent: 1.137
Unintentional abandonment fee: 1.17(m)
Revocation of power of attorney or authorization of agent: 1.36(a)
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Saturday, when last day falls on: 1.7
Secrecy order: 5.1 - 5.5
Sequences:
Amendments to sequence listing and computer readable copy: 1.825, 1.835
Disclosure requirements: 1.821, 1.823, 1.831, 1.833
Sequence data, symbols and format: 1.822
Submissions in ASCII plain text file: 1.824, 1.834
Submissions on optical disc in lieu of paper: 1.52(e)(1)(ii), 1.821, 1.823, 1.831, 1.833
Serial number of application: 1.5
Service of notices in interference cases: 41.106
Service of papers: 1.248
Service of process: 15 CFR 15.1-15.3
Shortened period for reply: 1.134
Signature:
EFS character coded: 1.4(d)(3 )
Handwritten: 1.4(d)(1)
Implicit certifications: 1.4(d), 11.18
S-signature: 1.4(d)(2)
To a written assertion of small entity status: 1.27(c)(2)
To amendments and other papers: 1.33(b)
To an application for extension of patent term: 1.730
To express abandonment: 1.138(b)
To oath: 1.63
To reissue oath or declaration: 1.172
When copy is acceptable: 1.4
Small business concern:
Small entity:
Definition: 1.27(a)
Errors in status excused: 1.28
Fraud on the office: 1.27(h)
Federal Government Use License Exceptions: 1.27(a)(4)
Statement: 1.27(c)
Statement in parent application: 1.27(c)(4)
Status establishment: 1.27(g), 1.28
Status update: 1.27, 1.28
Solicitor’s address: 1.1(a)(3)
Species of invention claimed: 1.141, 1.146
Specification (See also Application for patent, Claims):
Abstract: 1.72(b)
Amendments to: 1.121, 1.125
Arrangement of: 1.77, 1.154, 1.163
Best mode: 1.71(b)
Claim(s): 1.75
Commence on separate sheet: 1.71(f)
Contents of: 1.71 - 1.75
Copyright notice: 1.71(d)
Cross-references to other applications: 1.78(c)(5)
Description of the invention: 1.71
If defective, reissue to correct: 1.171 - 1.178
Mask work notice: 1.71(d)
Must conclude with specific and distinct claim: 1.75(a)
Must point out new improvements specifically: 1.71(c)
Must refer by figures to drawings: 1.74
Must set forth the precise invention: 1.71(b)
Object of the invention: 1.73
Order of arrangement in framing: 1.77
Paper, writing, margins: 1.52
Paragraph numbering: 1.52(b)(6)
Part of complete application: 1.51(b)(1)
Reference to drawings: 1.74
Requirements of: 1.71 - 1.75
Separate from other parts of application: 1.71(f)
Substitute: 1.125
Summary of the invention: 1.73
Title of the invention: 1.72(a)
To be rewritten, if necessary: 1.125
Specimens. (See Models and exhibits.)
Specimens of composition of matter to be furnished when required: 1.93
Specimens of plants: 1.166
Statement of status as small entity: 1.27
Status information: 1.14
Statutory disclaimer fee: 1.20(d)
Submission of international publication or English translation thereof pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 154(d)(4): 1.417
Sufficient funds in deposit account: 1.25
Summary of invention: 1.73
Sunday, when last day falls on: 1.7
Supervisory authority, petition to Director to exercise: 1.181(a)(3)
Supplemental examination of patents:
Conclusion of: 1.625
Conduct of: 1.620
Content of request: 1.610
Filing of papers in supplemental examination: 1.601
Format of papers filed: 1.615
Procedure after conclusion: 1.625
Publication of certificate: 1.625
Supplemental oath /declaration: 1.67
Surcharge for oath or basic filing fee filed after filing date: 1.16(f), 1.53(f)
Suspension of action: 1.103
Suspension of rules: 1.183
Symbols for drawings: 1.84(n)
Symbols for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data: 1.822
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Tables in patent applications: 1.58
Terminal disclaimer: 1.321
Testimony by Office employees: 15 CFR 15.11-15.18
Testimony in cases before the Board: 41.156 - 41.158, 42.52, 42.53, 42.65
Compelling testimony and production: 41.156, 42.52
Expert testimony: 41.158, 42.65
Taking testimony: 41.157, 42.53
Third party submission in application: 1.290, 1.291
Time expiring on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday: 1.7
Time for claiming benefit of prior (domestic) application: 1.78
Time for claiming foreign priority: 1.55
Time for filing preliminary amendment to ensure entry thereof: 1.115(a)(3)
Time for payment of issue fee: 1.311(a)
Time for payment of publication fee: 1.311(a)
Time for reply by applicant: 1.134, 1.135, 1.136
Time for reply to Office action: 1.134, 1.136
Time for requesting a refund: 1.26(b)
Time, periods of: 1.7
Timely filing of correspondence: 1.8, 1.10
Title of invention: 1.72(a)
Title reports, fee for: 1.19(b)(4)
Transitional procedures: 1.129
Transitional program for covered business method patent review:
Content of petition: 42.304
Definitions: 42.300
Pendency: 42.300
Procedure: 42.300
Time for filing: 42.303
Who may petition: 42.302
Trial practice before the Board: 42.1 - 42.412
U
Unintentional abandonment: 1.137(b)
United States as
Designated Office: 1.414
Elected Office: 1.414
International Preliminary Examining Authority: 1.416
International Searching Authority: 1.413
Receiving Office: 1.412
Unlocatable files: 1.251
Unsigned continuation or divisional application: 1.53, 1.63(d)(1)
Use of file of parent application: 1.53(d)
W
Waiver of confidentiality: 1.53(d)(6)
Withdrawal from issue: 1.313
Withdrawal of attorney or agent: 1.36(b)