MPEP Subject Matter Index - C
Index from the Ninth Edition of the MPEP, Revision 10.2019, Last Revised in June 2020
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- CAFC (See Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC))
- Canceled matter, before papers executed 602.08(b)
- Canceled matter, cannot be recaptured in reissue 1412.02
- Canceled matter, Restoring 608.01(s)
- Canceled matter in patented file 901.01
- Canceling claim after issue 714.16
- Canceling claims not appealed 1214.05
- Canceling drawing 608.02(t)
- Cancellation of drawing figures 608.02(t)
- Candor, Duty of (See also Duty of candor and good faith) 2001; 2001.03
- Carbon copy, application papers 608.01
- Carbon copy of amendment 714.07
- Card catalog in library 901.06(a)
- Caricatures, Offensive 608; 1504.01(e)
- Catalog and circulars 901.06(a)
- Central Facsimile Number 502; 502.01
- Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) (See also Office of Patent Legal Administration (OPLA)) 103; 1002.02(c)(4); 2212.01; 2224; 2227; 2229; 2231; 2233; 2235 - 2237; 2239; 2240; 2242; 2245 - 2249; 2258.01; 2262; 2265; 2267; 2270; 2271.01; 2274; 2281; 2283 - 2287; 2289; 2294; 2295; 2624; 2634 - 2636; 2646; 2647; 2647.01; 2648; 2660; 2662; 2664; 2666.06; 2667; 2670; 2671; 2671.01; 2671.02; 2671.03; 2674 - 2679; 2682; 2686.01; 2686.03; 2686.04; 2687; 2687.01; 2689; 2694; 2812
- Certificate, derivation 901.04
- Certificate effect of signature 402.03; 410
- Certificate, Ex parte Reexamination 2288
- Format 2290
- Certificate, Inter partes Reexamination 2688; 2690; 2694
- Certificate, Inter Partes review 901.04
- Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
- Applicant’s mistake 1481
- Assignee’s name 307; 1481.01
- Branch 1002.02(l)
- Copy required in reexamination
- Ex parte 2214
- Date of issuance 1485
- Domestic priority 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 1003; 1402; 1481; 1481.03
- Electronic publication 1485
- Expedited issuance 1480.01
- Foreign priority 216.01; 1481; 1481.03
- Form PTO-1050 1480; 1480.01; 1485
- Form PTO/SB/44 1480; 1480.01; 1485
- Handling of request for 1485
- International application priority 1481.03
- Inventorship 1412.04; 1481; 1481.02
- Matters requiring TC Director’s attention 1003
- Office’s mistake 1480; 1480.01
- Official Gazette listing 1480; 1485
- Patent in litigation 1003
- Petition of refusal to issue 1002.02(c)
- Reissue application 1411.01; 1443
- Report by examiner 1485
- Third party standing 1480
- Certificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8) 502.01; 511; 512; 513
- Certificate of service
- Certificate, post grant review 901.04
- Certification Division 103
- Certified copies
- Abstract of Title 320
- Appeal to federal circuit 1216.01
- Application as filed 608.01; 1730
- Civil litigation 1216
- Facsimile submission not permitted 502.02
- Facsimile requests for 1730
- Foreign application 213.04; 215; 502.02; 1402; 1417; 1481.03; 1504.10; 1893.03(c); 2138.06
- MPEP; 1730
- Orders for 1730
- Patent copies 1730
- Patent related file wrappers 1730
- PCT application 1801; 1828; 1893.03(c); 1895.01; 1896
- Photocopies not permitted 502.02
- Provisional application 103; 104
- Reexamination file
- Change from small entity status (See also Small entity status) 509.03(b)
- Change of correspondence address 601.03; 711.03(c)
- Characteristic feature in design applications 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
- Chemical compound 608.01(b)
- Chemical practice
- Enablement 2164.06(b)
- Generic chemical formula 2131.02; 2144.08
- Markush 803.02; 2117; 2173.05(h)
- Chief Administrative Patent Judge 1002.02(f)
- Circulars (See also Publication)
- Citation of prior art
- A.P.C. publications 901.06(c)
- Abbreviatures 711.06; 711.06(a)
- Abstract 711.06; 711.06(a); 2120
- Allowance, Listing at 1302.12
- Applicant’s 707.05(b); 707.05(d); 1302.12
- Complete data 707.05(e)
- Copies furnished 707.05(a)
- Correction 707.05(g)
- Correction, period for reply 710.06
- Cross references 707.05(e)
- Data used 707.05(e)
- Decisions, orders, notices, memoranda 707.06
- Defensive publications 711.06; 711.06(a)
- Electronic Resources 707.05(e)
- Examiner’s answer 1207
- Foreign language documents 2120
- Foreign patent data 707.05(e); 901.05(a)
- Foreign printed applications 901.05(b)
- Form PTO-892 reproduced 707.05(a)
- Incorrect 707.05(g); 710.06
- Literature, in specification 608.01(p)
- Mailing copy to patent owner 2206; 2208
- Memorandum 707.06
- Notices 707.06
- Order of listing 707.05(c)
- Orders 707.06
- Patents series, U.S. (See also Patent) 901.04
- Periodical 707.05(e); 901.06
- Prior art effect of international application 2136.03; 2139.02; 2152.05; 2154.01(a)
- Prior art in application 707.05(b); 1302.12
- Prior art in patent 1920; 2200
- Publications 707.05(e)
- References 707.05
- Citizenship of applicant 601.05
- Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 145 1214.07; 1216; 1216.02
- Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 146 1216
- Claim 608.01(i); 608.01(k)
- "Adapted for" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
- "Adapted to" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
- Added by amendment 608.01(o)
- Results in change of inventorship 602.09
- Added in excess of number of claims previously paid for 714.10
- After prosecution closed 714.16; 714.19
- After prosecution closed, near end of time period 714.20
- Aggregation 2173.05(k)
- All allowed 710.02(b)
- All canceled 711.01
- Allowable except as to form 706; 707.07(a); 707.07(j)
- Allowed, Rejection of 706.04; 706.05
- Allowed, Withdrawn appeal 1215.02
- Alternative phrase (See also Indefinite claim) 2117; 2173.01; 2173.05(h); 2173.05(i)
- Amendment of (See also Amendment) 714
- Analysis 904.01
- Antecedent basis (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.03; 2173.05(e)
- Basis in description 608.01(o); 2171
- Basis in disclosure 608; 2163.03
- Breadth 2163.05; 2164.08; 2173.04
- Broadening in reissue application 1412.02; 1412.03
- Dependent claim 1412.03
- Cancellation by examiner after appeal 1214.05
- Cancellation results in change of inventorship 602.01(c)
- Change after Board statement of allowability 1213.01
- Combination, old 2173.05(j)
- Combination and subcombination 806.05(a)
- Combination Sets 905.03
- Comprising 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Considered in deciding reexamination request 2243; 2643
- Consisting essentially of 2111.03
- Consisting of 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Construed in light of specification 608.01(o); 804; 2103; 2106; 2111 - 2111.03; 2129; 2145; 2164.08; 2173.02 - 2173.05(c); 2181; 2184
- Contingent limitations 2111.04
- Copied from patent (See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Correspondence with disclosure 1302.01; 2173.03
- Defined by specification, term 2111.01
- Dependent 608.01(n)
- Dependent, objected to when improper 608.01(n); 706.01
- Dependent on canceled or rejected claim 608.01(n); 706.01; 707.07(j); 1214.06
- Design application 1503; 1503.01
- Differing only by functional statement 2114; 2173.05(g)
- Diminishing scope 2173.05(h)
- Disclaimer 710.02(d); 2304.04(c)
- Domestic benefit 210 - 211.05; 217
- Double inclusion 2173.05(o)
- Duplicate 608.01(m); 2173.05(o)
- Each mentioned in letter 707.07(i)
- Equivalence 2183
- Excess added by preliminary amendment over number of claims previously paid for 714.10
- Excess over fee after notice of allowance 714.16(c)
- Fees, dependent 608.01(n)
- File wrapper notation 1302.09
- Foreign priority (See also Foreign application) 210; 213 - 217
- Form 608.01(m)
- Function of machine 2173.05(v)
- Functional 2103; 2114; 2173.05(g)
- Generic (See also Generic claim) 806.04(d); 2173.05(h)
- Illustrated by drawing 608.02(d); 2173.05(s)
- Improvement (i.e., Jepson claim) 2129
- Inaccurate 2173.03
- Incomplete 2172.01
- Indefinite 2173; 2175
- Independent 608.01(n)
- Index 719.04
- Informal 702.01
- International application 1824
- Interpretation 2111; 2111.01; 2111.02; 2111.03
- Jepson 2129
- Linking 806.04; 806.05(c); 809; 809.03; 821.04(a)
- Linking, Generic 806.04; 821.04(a)
- Markush 2117
- Generic 803.02
- Improper 2117
- Indefinite 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Subgenus 2173.05(h)
- Support 608.01(p)
- Material or article worked upon 2115
- Means (See also Means) 2181 - 2185
- Missing 601.01(e)
- Multiple dependent 608.01(n)
- Multiplicity 2173.05(h); 2173.05(n)
- Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
- New matter 608.04; 608.04(a); 2163.06
- Reissue application 1411.02
- Nonelected invention 803.02; 821.01; 821.02; 821.04(a)
- Nonelected invention, Added 821.03
- Nonstatutory 2104 - 2107
- Novel, nonobvious starting material or end product 2116.01
- Numbering 608.01(j)
- Objection contrasted with rejection 706.01
- Official Gazette(O.G.) 1302.09
- Omnibus claim 2173.05(r)
- Ordinary and customary meaning 2106; 2111.01
- Patentably distinct 608.01(m)
- Plain meaning of claim term 2111.01
- Plant application 1605; 1610
- Present on Filing Date 608.01(l); 1410
- Priority (See also Foreign application) 210; 213 - 217
- Product, Functional 2114
- Product by process 2113; 2173.05(p)
- Prolix (See also Indefinite claim) 2173.05(m)
- Ranges 2131.01; 2131.03; 2144.05; 2163.05; 2173.05(c)
- Reference numerals included 608.01(m); 2173.05(s)
- Reissue application
- Rejection 706; 2121 - 2187
- Relative terminology 2173.05(b)
- Renumbering at issue 608.01(j); 1302.01
- Renumbering dependent 608.01(n); 1302.01
- Single means 2164.08(a); 2173.05(g); 2181
- Single sentence 608.01(m)
- Species, how recognized 806.04(e); 806.04(f)
- Species (plural) added 818.02(b)
- Statutory requirement 608.01(k)
- Subgenus (Markush type) 2173.05(h)
- Subject matter eligibility 2104; 2106 - 2106.07(c)
- Suggested for interference 2304.03 - 2304.04(b)
- Failure to make 2304.04(c)
- Time limit 710.02(c)
- Summary of invention, consistent 608.01(d)
- Terminology basis in description 608.01(o); 2163.02; 2163.05; 2173.01; 2173.05(a)
- Unsupported 2163.01; 2173.03
- Use claims 2173.05(q)
- Vague (See also Indefinite claim) 706.03; 2171 - 2173
- Varying scope 608.01(m)
- "Whereby" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
- "Wherein" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
- With motion granted in part 714.20
- Withdrawal of appealed claim by cancellation 1214.05; 1215.03
- Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent (See also Interference) 710.04(a); 2304.4(a)
- Appeal of rejection 1200
- Disclaimer rejection 2304.04(c)
- Late amendment 714.19
- Not a reply to Office action 711.02(b)
- Patent in different Technology Center 2304.01(b)
- Period for reply 710.02(c); 710.04(a)
- Prosecution closed 714.19
- Rejection 2303
- TC Director’s attention 1003
- Rejection, Failure to reply to 2304.04(c)
- Special 708.01
- Claiming same invention 715; 715.05; 2104; 2107.01; 2135; 2135.01; 2136.01; 2136.05(a); 2139.03; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2152.07; 2154.01(d)
- Class, scope 903.02(b)
- Class, transfer 903.05
- Class definitions 902.02
- Classification (See also Patent classification) 900
- Application (See Classification of application)
- Basis 903.02
- Cooperative Patent Classification System (See also Cooperative Patent Classification) 902; 905.02
- Design 907; 1503.01
- Examiner (See Classification examiner)
- Foreign patents 903.03
- Harmonized subclasses 903.06
- Index to U.S. Patent Classification 906
- Classification, International
- Indices 902.03
- Information 902.03(a)
- International 906
- Issue classification form/sheet/slip 903.07; 907; 1302.09; 1302.10; 1302.13
- Locarno International 907
- Mandatory 903.07
- Manual for USPC 902.01
- Patent classification Home Page on the Internet 902.03(a)
- Nonpatent literature 901.06
- Patent, Change of 903.05
- Patent Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet 902.03(b)
- Principles 903.02
- Revision 903.02(b)
- Rules governing applications 903.08(e)
- Statutory authority 903.01
- Classification examiner
- Classification of application 900
- Allowed application 903.07; 1004; 1302.10
- Amendment affecting 903.08(c)
- Borderline 903.08(a)
- By applicant 601
- Cross-referencing 903.07(a)
- Disputed 903.08(a); 903.08(d)
- File wrapper data 719.03
- Improperly classified 903.08(a)
- New application, by SPE 903.08(b)
- Post classifier 903.08(e); 903.10
- Preliminary 601
- Rules governing 903.08(e)
- Transfer to another Technology Center 903.08(a); 903.08(d)
- Classifier, Post 903.08(e); 903.10
- Clean copy of specification 608.01(q); 1302.02
- Clearance for new law interpretation 1003; 1207.02
- Closed prosecution except for formal matters 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
- Prosecution not closed 707.07(j)
- Closing of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 213.03; 510
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations))
- Coinventor, Power of attorney 402.10
- Collateral estoppel (See also Estoppel) 2012.01
- Combination and aggregation 2173.05(j); 2173.05(k)
- Combination and subcombination 806.05(a); 806.05(c); 903.02(b)
- Comments on tests or examples 707.07(l)
- Commercial activity or explotation as on sale (See also On sale) 2120.02; 2133.03 - 2133.03(e)(7); 2139.02; 2152.02(d)
- Commercial success of invention, affidavit alleging (See also Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.03; 1504.03
- Commissioner for Patents (See also Office of the Commissioner for Patents) 409.03; 708.01
- Commissioner initiated reexamination (See Director initiated Reexamination)
- Commissioner for Trademarks
- Petitions decided by 1002.02(i)
- Commodity Control List (CCL) 120
- Common applicants 709.01; 715.01(a); 717.02 - 717.02(d); 2136.01; 2137; 2139.03; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.07; 2154.01(d); 2158.01
- Common knowledge, use in rejections 2143; 2144.03
- Common ownership 717.02 - 717.02(d); 717.02; 2136.01; 2137; 2144.01; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2154.02(c); 2156
- Common representative for international application 402.09; 1807
- Communication with suspended or excluded attorney or agent 105
- Communications, official mailing address for 501
- Communication via Internet e-mail 502.03
- Comparative tests (See also Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.02(b)
- Complete application 506; 601.01 - 601.01(g)
- Complete British specification 214.03
- "Comprising" as transitional phrase 2111.03
- "Comprising" in Markush claim 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Compact disc submissions 608.05; 2422.03; 2422.03(a); 2425
- Computer generated icons 1504.01(a)
- Computer programs or software
- Adequate disclosure 2164.06(c); 2181
- Affidavit practice 2164.06(c)
- Best mode 2161.01
- Deposit of listings 608.05; 608.05(a)
- Enablement 2161.01; 2164.06(c)
- Patentable subject matter 2106; 2106.04(a)(1); 2106.04(a)(2); 2106.05 - 2106.05(h)
- Printed in PG-Pub 1121
- Undue experimentation 2164.06(c)
- Written description 2161.01
- Concealment 608.01(h); 2138.03; 2165.04
- Conception 715.07; 2136.03 - 2137; 2138 - 2138.06; 2163
- Concordance, International and United States classification 906
- Concurrent Office proceedings 2282 - 2286.01; 2820
- Conduct in public information facilities 510
- Conduct of ex parte reexamination proceedings 2254
- Conduct of inter partes reexamination proceedings 2654
- Confidential material 121; 724 - 724.05
- Confidential material submission 121; 724.02
- Confidential party of interest 2202; 2203
- Confidential status of application 101; 2136.01; 2154.01(d)
- Confidential submission of prior art and section 301 written statements 2202; 2203
- Confidentiality, pending applications 100
- Confidentiality of international applications 110
- Confirmation number 503
- Conflicting applications, same assignee 709.01; 715.01(b); 804.03; 822; 2136.01; 2141.01; 2146; 2146.01; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.06; 2154.01(d); 2154.02(c); 2158; 2158.01
- Conflicting oaths or declarations 602.01(c)
- Congress, Inquiry on status of application by member of 203.08(a)
- Conservator, unavailable joint inventor 409.02
- "Consisting essentially of" as transitional phrase 2111.03
- "Consisting of" as transitional phrase 2111.03
- "Consisting of" in Markush claim 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
- Constitutional basis for patents
- Constructive election (See also Election of species) 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
- Constructive notice to patent owner of request for reexamination 2230; 2654
- Constructive reduction to practice 715.07
- Consular certificate 602.04
- Consular certificate, Foreign executor or administrator 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate, Omission of 602.04
- Consular officer 602.04
- Content of ex-parte reexamination request 2214
- Continuation 201.06(c); 201.07; 601.01(a)
- Abandonment of prior nonprovisional application 201.06(c)
- Affidavits, copies of 201.06(c)
- Assignment carried from parent 306
- Change of attorney/correspondence address 201.06(c)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Cross-reference to prior application 202; 211
- Definition 201.07
- Design 1504.20
- Effective filing date 211.02
- Examination 201.06(c)
- Extension of time 201.06(c)
- File wrapper continuing (FWC) 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202
- Final rejection on first action 706.07(b)
- Incorporation by reference 201.06(c)
- Identification on letter of transmittal 506
- Inspection of parent 103
- International application 1828.02
- International application as parent 211.01(c); 1895
- Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
- Inventorship 201.06(c)
- New matter 201.07; 608.04(b)
- Oath 201.06(c); 602.05(a); 602.05(b)
- Parent application data noted in file history/wrapper 202; 1302.04
- Reference to parent application 202; 211
- Reference to parent application inadvertently omitted 1302.04
- Reissue 1402; 1410.01; 1410.02; 1412.03; 1415.01; 1441; 1451; 1455; 1460; 1481.03
- Restriction 819
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
- Rule 1.60 application, Former 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62 application, Former 201.06(b)
- Small or micro entity status 201.06(c)
- Specification and drawings 201.06(c)
- Substitute statement under 37 CFR 1.64 201.06(c)
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
- Time for filing 211.03
- When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
- Written description requirement 211.05
- Continuation-in-part 201.08; 601.01(a)
- Assignment from parent does not apply 306
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Cross reference to parent application 202; 211
- Definition 201.08
- Design application 1504.20
- Effective filing date 211.02; 2133.01; 2139.01; 2146.03(a); 2151; 2152.01
- File wrapper continuing procedure 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation 202
- Filed by assignee 324
- Identification on letter of transmittal 506
- Inspection of parent 103
- International application used as mechanism to file 1828.02
- International application as parent 211.01(c)
- Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
- Ownership 306
- Reference to parent application 211.02
- Rejection over publication of parent application 2133.01; 2154.01(b)
- Rejection over published priority document 2154.01(b)
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
- Time for filing 211.03
- When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 201.01; 201.06; 201.06(d)
- Amendments before first Office action 714.01(e)
- Application number 503
- Assignee right to take action 324; 325
- Certificate of mailing or transmission 512
- Complete non-provisional application 601.01; 601.01(a)
- Continuation-in-part not permitted 201.08
- Continuity with parent 211.01(b)
- Correspondence 502; 502.01
- Cross reference to previous application 202
- Design application 201.06(d); 1502.01
- Eliminated for utility and plant applications 201.06(d)
- Express abandonment of prior application 711.01; 711.02(b)
- Extension of time 201.06(d)
- Filing date 201.06(d)
- Improper CPA treated as RCE 201.6(d); 706.07(h)
- Information disclosure statement in parent 609.02; 707.05
- Inventorship 201.06(d)
- Patent term 1303; 2701
- Plant application, no longer available 201.06(d)
- Public access to 201.06(d)
- Published as PG-Pub 1120
- Reissue 1430; 1470
- Reference to domestic benefit claims 1302.04
- Restriction requirement in prior application 819
- Signature Requirements 201.06(d)
- Small or micro entity status 201.06(d)
- Suspension of action 709
- Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
- Utility application, no longer available 201.06(d)
- Continuing application 210; 211; 1302.12; 1302.04
- Continuing data (See also Cross-noting) 202
- Continuity between applications 211.01(b)
- Control of inspection by assignee 104; 106
- Convention, International (See also Treaties) 213.03
- Converting nonprovisional and provisional applications 201.04; 601.01(c)
- Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC) 902; 905
- Classification in 905.03; 905.04(b)
- Combination Sets 905.03
- Definition 905.02
- References in Definitions 905.01(a)(1)
- Scheme 905.01
- Warnings in Definitions 905.01(a)(3)
- Copendency 211.01(b)
- Copending U.S. application
- Common ownership 717.02(a); 2136.01; 2146; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.05; 2152.06; 2154.01(c); 2156; 2158; 2158.01
- Design application 1504.20
- Different inventive entities 717.02(a); 2136.01; 2136.04; 2136.05(b); 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2152.07; 2154.01(d)
- Duty of disclosure in 2001.06(b)
- Terminal disclaimer practice 1490
- Copied patent claim (See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Copier copies 714.07
- Copies of prior art with reexamination request
- Ex parte 2218
- Copies of published applications 1128
- Copy of foreign application, certified 215
- Copy of printed patent in reexamination
- Ex parte 2219
- Copying ex-parte reexamination file by public 2232
- Copying inter partes reexamination file by public 2632
- Copyrights 608.01(v)
- Relationship to design patents 1512
- Correction of drawing 608.02(p); 1302.05
- Deferrable 608.02(b); 608.02(p)
- Marked-up copy 608.02(v)
- New matter 608.04
- Not approved 608.02(x)
- Order for 608.02(x)
- Replacement sheets 1302.05; 1303.01
- Correction of inventorship
- Correction of name 602.01(c); 602.08(b)
- Correction of patent 1400
- By reexamination (See Reexamination, Ex parte and Reexamination, Inter partes )
- By reissue (See also Reissue application) 1401 - 1470
- By supplemental examination (See also Supplemental examination) 2809.01
- Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
- Statutory disclaimer (See also Disclaimer and Terminal disclaimer) 1490
- Correction of PG-Pub 1130
- Correction of reference citation 707.05(g); 710.06
- Correspondence (See also Mail stop)
- Address of PTO 501; 502
- Address in secrecy order applications 120
- Address of patent owner 2622; 2805
- Address, official mailing 501
- Address of an attorney 403; 403.01(a); 403.01(b)
- Boxes (See Mail stop)
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Crossing in mail 714.05
- Duplicate filings 402.10; 403; 502.04; 714.01(a)
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04
- Facsimile transmission 502.01; 2510; 2515
- Identifying with issue batch number (no longer required) 1303.01
- Maintenance fee 2510; 2515; 2542
- Plural attorneys 402.10; 403.02
- Post Allowance 502; 1306
- Published application 1134
- Receipt and handling 500
- Reexamination, ex parte 2224
- Reexamination, inter partes 2624
- Signature requirements 502.02
- Third party, application published 1134
- With whom held 403
- Counter-terrorism inventions, special status 708.02
- Counting actions 1705
- Countries for foreign priority 213.01
- Country codes 1851
- Coupons
- Court decision
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 711.02(b); 1002.02(k)(1); 1002.02(k)(3); 1214.06; 1216; 1216.01
- Court ordered inter partes reexamination 2686.04
- Court papers, service on Director 1216
- Cover sheet — provisional application 201.04
- CREATE Act (See Joint Research Agreement)
- Credit Card Payment Form PTO-2038 reproduced 509
- Criteria for deciding ex parte reexamination request 2242
- Criteria for deciding inter partes reexamination request 2642
- Cross appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in inter partes reexamination 2674
- Cross appeal to the Federal Circuit in inter partes reexamination 2683
- Cross-noting
- Data of parent application on file wrapper/history 202; 1302.09
- Data of provisional application in specification 1302.04
- Data of provisional application on file wrapper/history 202
- Data of related application in application data sheet 211.02; 1302.04
- Foreign application cited in an application oath 202; 214.03
- Foreign application, file wrapper/history 202
- In original patent file of reissue application 202
- Reissue applications 1451; 1455; 1481.03
- Specific reference 202; 211
- Cross-reference
- Crossed mailings 714.05
- Current Employee Restrictions 1702
- Customary meaning of claim term 2111; 2111.01; 2173.01
- Customer Numbers 402; 403; 711.04(c); 1807; 2515; 2540
- Customer Service Center 104; 508.04; 714.13; 1730
- Customer Service Window 101; 103; 501; 502; 505; 710.02(e); 714.13; 2422.09