MPEP Subject Matter Index - I
Index from the Ninth Edition of the MPEP, Revision 10.2019, Last Revised in June 2020
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- Icon, computer generated 1504.01(a)
- Identification of papers 502; 503
- Identification of priority application 214.04
- Identity of inventors under 35 U.S.C. 119 216
- Idiomatic English 608.01(q)
- Illustration (See Drawings)
- Image File Wrapper (IFW)
- Image File Wrapper (IFW) forms
- Implied election 818.02; 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
- Improper comments, inter partes reexamination 2667
- Improper joinder, effect on patent 805
- Improper naming of inventors 2109; 2137; 2157
- Improper multiple dependent claim 608.01(n)
- Improvement (Jepson claim) 2129
- Inaccurate claim 2173.03
- Inappropriate papers in inter partes reexamination 2667
- Incoming-Mail Section (See also Office of Patent Application Processing) 501
- Incomplete amendments, time for completing 710.02(c); 714.03
- Incomplete application 506; 601.01(d) - 601.01(g)
- Incomplete claim, rejection 2166; 2172.01; 2175
- Incomplete protest 1901.03
- Incomplete requests for ex parte reexamination 2227
- Incomplete response 711.03(a); 714.03
- Incorporation by reference 103; 201.06(c); 211.02; 211.02(a); 217; 608.01(p); 2163.07; 2163.07(b); 2173.05(s)
- Incorrect citation of reference 707.05(g); 710.06
- Indefinite claim 2171 - 2174; 2175; 2185
- Alternative phrase 2173.01; 2173.05(h)
- Antecedent basis 2173.05(e)
- Breadth compared 2173.04
- Chemical Formula 2173.05(t)
- Comparing 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph with 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph 2174; 2185
- Design applications 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
- Exemplary claim language 2173.05(d)
- International application 1845.01; 1874
- Multiplicity 2173.05(n)
- Must be considered 2143.03
- Nonelected claims 821
- Numerical ranges 2173.05(c)
- Practice compact prosecution 2173.06
- Prolix 2173.05(m)
- Reference to limitations in another claim 2173.05(f)
- Rejections 2175
- 35 U.S.C. 112(6) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph limitations 2181; 2185
- Independent claim 608.01(n)
- Independent, definition 802.01
- Independent inventions 802; 802.01; 803; 803.02; 806; 806.04(b); 806.06; 808.01(a)
- Independent inventor (See also Applicant, Inventor, and Pro Se applicant)
- Index of claims 707.07(i); 719.04
- Index of patents, Classification, Numerical 902.03(a)
- Index to the U.S. Patent Classification 902.01(a)
- Industrial Security Manual (ISM) 120
- Inequitable conduct (See also Duty of disclosure, Violation of) 2001.06(c); 2010
- Informal application 506; 702.01
- Informal drawing (no longer applies) 507; 608.02(b); 608.02(i)
- Informality, Action calling attention to 707.07(a); 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
- Information Center (See Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC))
- Information Disclosure Statements (See also Prior art) 201.06(d); 609; 1406; 1410; 1418; 1455
- Information material to patentability ) (See also Duty of disclosure) 2001.04; 2001.05
- Copending application 2001.06(b)
- Copied claims 2001.06(d)
- Foreign application 2001.06(a)
- Litigation 2001.06(c)
- Information reasonably necessary for finding prior art 704.11
- Information submitted with protest 1901.02
- Infringement action
- Statute of limitations 2204
- INID codes or numbers 901.04; 901.05(b); 2290
- Initial data capture for printing 1309
- Initial examiner review of reissue 1443
- Ink
- Inoperativeness 2164.07; 2164.08(b)
- Affidavit 716.07
- INPADOC 901; 901.06(a); 901.07
- Inquiries, Official and Congressional 203.08(a)
- Inquiries regarding patent search, examination, or validity 1701
- Inquiry as to status of application 102; 203.08
- Insanity 409.01(b)
- Inspection
- Amendment 714.05
- Application 103; 104
- Approval of power 104
- Assignment 301.01
- Authority to grant 104
- Authorization 402; 409.03(i)
- By assignee 104; 106; 106.01
- By excluded or suspended attorney or agent 105
- By inventor 106
- By licensee 106.01
- Control of, By assignee 106
- File Information Unit (Record room) 103
- International application 110
- Patent file 103
- Petition 103
- Record room 103
- Reissue application 103
- Right of 103; 104; 106
- Insufficient disclosure 608.01(p); 2161; 2166
- Insufficient reply 710.02(c); 711.02(a); 711.03(a); 714.03; 2266.01; 2666.30; 2671
- Int Cl (International Patent Classification) 906
- Intellectual property compared 1512
- Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-273) 2120.01; 2136; 2146
- Intent to claim 706
- Interference 2300
- Abandonment, suppression or concealment, notice 2138; 2138.03
- Access to files 104; 2306; 2307.02
- Action after 2308
- Action after ex-parte reexamination 2284
- Action after inter partes reexamination 2686.02
- Action suggesting claims 2304.04
- Administrative patent judge handles 2301
- Allowance of losing party’s application (Estoppel) 2308.03
- Applicant suggests interference with patent 2304.02
- Applications in different Technology Centers 2304.01(b)
- Basis of practice 2138.01; 2301.03
- Between application and patent 2301.03
- Between applications 2301.03
- Cancellation of losing party’s claims 2308.03(a)
- Claim of foreign priority 2304.01(c)
- Claim interpretation 2301.03
- Claim presented corresponding to patent claim 2301.03 - 2304.05
- Claims, added or amended 2308.02
- Claims, overlapping in two applications of same party 2304.05
- Claims, suggesting 1003; 2304.04(b)
- Claims corresponding to count support in specification 2163.03
- Common ownership 2304.05
- Conception 2138.01; 2138.04
- Concurrent with appeal 2307.05
- Copending ex parte reexamination 2284
- Copending inter partes reexamination 2686; 2686.02
- Copying claims, information relating to 2001.06(d)
- Count, defined 2301.02; 2301.03; 2304.02(b)
- Counts, formulation of 2301.01; 2304.02(b)
- Dates, difference in effective filing 2303
- TC Director’s attention required 1003
- Declaration 2301
- Definitions 2301.02
- Determining priority 2138.01; 2304.02(c)
- Diligence, reasonable 2138.01; 2138.06
- Disclaimer, statutory 710.02(d); 2304.04(c)
- Disposal credit 1705
- Election of invention not affected 819
- Entry of amendment filed in connection with motion 2308.02
- Estoppel 715; 2138.01; 2308.03
- Evidence 2138.04 - 2138.06
- Examination, Completion of 2303; 2303.02
- Examiner suggestion 2304.04
- Final disposal of claims 2308.01
- Fraud 2010
- Generic claims 2304.04(b)
- Identification of patent, corresponding claims presented 2304.02(a)
- Inequitable conduct 2010
- Inter partes questions not to be discussed ex parte 2307.01
- Interference Practice Specialist 2301; 2302; 2303; 2304; 2304.04(a); 2304.04(b); 2307.04; 2308.03
- Interference-in fact, no 2308.03(b)
- Interfering Subject Matter 2301.03
- Judicial review 1216; 1216.01
- Jurisdiction over interference 2307; 2308
- Limited applicability 2301.04
- Losing party, may obtain copy of opponent’s application 2308.03(a)
- Losing party, treatment of 2308.03(a)
- Lost counts 715
- Motions
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration or Department of Energy Ownership 2309
- Order to show cause 2305
- Patent in different Technology Center 2304.01(b)
- Patent term adjustment 2303; 2303.01; 2304.01(d)
- Patentee suggestion 2304.03
- Petition refusal to initiate 1002.02(c)
- Power of attorney filed 402.08
- Preparation of papers by examiner 2302
- Priority time charts 2138.01
- Provoking
- Reduction to practice 2138.01; 2138.05
- Reexamination
- References pertinent to motions, made of record 1302.12
- Referring an Interference to the Board, Preliminaries to 2304.01
- Reissue application 1449.02; 2303.02
- Reissue application copending with interference on original patent 1449.01
- Related involved files 2304.01(b)
- Access to 2307.02
- Board action in 2307.05
- Suspension in 2307.03
- Translation of 2304.01(c)
- Reply to suggestion for claims 710.02(c); 2304.04(b)
- Requirements for interference 2302
- Requiring a claim 2304.04(b)
- Requiring a priority showing 2305
- Revocation of power of attorney 402.08
- Search 1302.08; 2304.01(a)
- Second Interference, no 2308.03(c)
- Secrecy order application 130; 2306
- Sorting claims 2304.01(d)
- Special dispatch 708.01; 2301
- Statutory basis 708.01; 2301.01
- Suggestion of interference, general 2304
- Suggestion of claims 2304.02 - 2304.04(b)
- Suggestion of claims, time limit 710.02(c)
- Suspension of action pending outcome of reexamination 2284; 2686.02
- Suspension of ex parte prosecution 709; 709.01
- Suspension of related applications 2307.03
- Terminated open to public 103
- Testimony 715.07(b)
- Transfer of application 2304.01(b)
- Winning party 710.02(b); 2308
- Written Description, Adequate 2304.02(d)
- Interference practice specialist(s) 2301; 2302; 2304; 2304.04(a); 2304.04(b); 2307.04; 2308.03
- Interlibrary loans 901.06(a)
- Interlineation in specification before execution 608.01
- Intermediate-final product 806.04(b); 806.05(j)
- International application (See also Foreign application and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT))
- Abstract 1826
- Access 101; 110
- Agent 1807; 1864.04
- Amendment before the designated office 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.01(a)(3)
- Amendment of claims before International Bureau 1853
- Amino acid sequence 1823.02; 2422; 2422.03(a)
- Applicant 1806; 1810
- Assignment document 301
- Attorney 1807
- Attorney file reference number 1821
- Claims 1824
- Common representative 402.09; 1807
- Confidential status 101; 110
- Content 1812
- Continuation 1828.02
- Continuation of 211.01(c); 1895
- Continuation-in-part 1828.02
- Correspondence 1834
- Definition 201
- Deposit accounts 509.01
- Description 1823
- Designation of states 1821
- Drawings 1825; 1893.03(f)
- Drawings missing 1825
- Early national stage entry under 35 U.S.C. 371(f) 1893.01; 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.03(b)
- EFS-Web filing 502.05
- Elements 1812
- Errors, rectification of 1836
- Fees 1827; 1893.01(c); 1896
- Filing date 1810
- Foreign filing license 1805; 1828.01; 1832
- Formal requirements 1810
- Forms (See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): Forms)
- Home copy 1801; 1879.04
- International preliminary examination 1860
- International search 1843
- International searching authority 1840 - 1840.06
- Inventor 1806; 1821; 1893.01(e)
- Kinds of protection 1821; 1828.02
- Mail service 1834; 1834.02
- Member states 1817
- Microorganism deposit 1823.01
- National stage 1893 - 1896
- Submission via EFS-Web 502.05
- Numbering of sheets 1812
- Oath 1893.01(e)
- Parent to national application 211.01(c); 1895
- Power of attorney 1807
- Prior art effect 2127; 2136.03; 2154.01(a)
- Priority 210 - 217; 1828
- Restoration of 1828.01
- Priority document 215; 1828
- Publication 1857
- Record copy 1801; 1827.01; 1828; 1832
- Rectification of obvious errors 1836
- Refund of fees 1827.01; 1850; 1852; 1875.02
- Representation 402.09
- Request 1821
- Search copy 1801; 1827.01; 1840; 1840.01
- Search fee 1827
- Search report 707.05; 1844
- Secrecy order 115; 120; 1832
- Signature of applicant 1820
- Term, Adjustment of 2730; 2731; 2732; 2734
- Time limits 1836; 1842; 1843.05; 1879.01
- Title 1821
- Translation for U.S. national stage 1893.01(d)
- Transmittal fee 1827
- Transmittal letter 1830
- Unity of invention 823; 1850; 1875; 1893.03(d)
- Withdrawal 1859; 1880
- International classification 906
- International design application 201.01; 211.01(d); 1501; 2900
- Access 102; 103
- Claiming Priority 213.07
- Contents of 2909
- Conversion 2914
- Corrections of 2930
- Definition 2902
- Fees 2910
- Filing date 601.01(a); 2906; 2907; 2908
- Grant of protection 2940; 2950
- Information disclosure statement 609.04
- Naming of inventors 604
- Non Publication of 901.03
- Processing of 2920
- Secrecy Order 120
- Where to file 2905
- Who may file 2904
- International patent classification 719.05; 906
- International Patent Legal Administration 102; 103; 110; 602.01(c)(3); 1730
- International searching authority 1840
- International Trade Commission 724
- International-type search 707; 1852
- Internet 502.03; 1730
- Address 1730
- Database collections 1730
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04
- Kids Pages 1730
- "PatentIn" computer software (See also Sequence rules) 2430
- Payment of maintenance fees by 1730; 2510; 2522
- Publication of Board Decisions 1213.03
- Publication of the Official Gazette 1703
- Searching 904.02(c)
- Usage Policy 502.03; 904.02(c)
- World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO); 1801; 1851
- Inter partes questions 713.06
- Inter partes review 901.04
- Interpretation of law, new 1207.02
- Intervening rights
- Intervention by assignee 106; 324; 325
- Interviews 713
- Advance indication of issues to be discussed 713.01
- Allowed application 713.05; 713.10
- Appointment in advance 713.01
- Attorney not of record 101; 402.03; 405; 408
- Authority to conduct 713.05
- Before filing 713.02
- Before filing amendment under 37 CFR 1.312 713.10
- Before first action 706.07(b); 713.01; 713.02
- Demonstration 713.08
- During working days only 713.01
- Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04
- Excluded or suspended attorney or agent 105; 713.05
- Exhibit 713.08
- Exposure of other cases during 101; 713.07
- Field of search 713.02
- Finally rejected application 706.07(f); 713.09
- How conducted 713.01
- Inter partes questions 713.06
- Interview summary form 713.04; 2281
- Local attorney 713.03; 713.05
- Made of record 713.01; 713.04
- Merged reissue/inter partes reexamination 2686.03
- Model 713.08
- Oral agreement not binding 713.04
- Patentability report cases 713.01
- Prior to first Office action 706.07(b); 713.02
- Prohibited 713.05
- Protestor participation 1901.07
- Question of patent validity 1701
- Record of substance required 713.01; 713.04
- Reexamination
- Refused 713.01; 713.02; 713.05; 713.10
- Requested in continuing application 706.07(b)
- Requested in Office action 707
- Sounding out 713.03
- Special situations 713.05
- Substance made of record 713.04; 714.13
- Supplemental examination, prohibited in 2814
- Telephone 101; 408; 713.01; 713.05; 812.01
- Time allowed 713.01
- Video conference 713.01; 713.04; 713.05
- Videotape showing 713.01
- Where held 713.01
- Invention (See also Patent and Rejection)
- Inventive entity, Different 2109; 2136.01; 2136.04; 2146.02 - 2146.03(a); 2152.07; 2154.01(d)
- Inventive entity, Same(overlapping subject matter) 804; 804.03; 822
- Inventor (See also Applicant and Pro se applicant) 602.01
- Common, at least one 211.01; 2109; 2136.01; 2139.03; 2146.03(a); 2154.01(b); 2154.01(d)
- Continuing application 201.06(c)
- Correction (See Correction of inventorship)
- Deceased 409; 409.01(a); 409.01(b); 1806
- Duty of disclosure by 2001.01; 2002.01
- Foreign priority 210; 213 - 217; 2152.01
- Full first or middle name required 602.01(b); 602.08(b)
- Heirs 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
- Improper naming 2109; 2137; 2157
- Initials as a given name 602.08(b)
- Insane 409.01(b)
- International application 1806
- Legally incapacitated 409.01(b)
- Micro entity status 509.04
- Name change 602.01(c); 602.08b(b)
- None available 409; 409.02; 409.03(b); 602.08(b)
- Order of 602.01(c); 602.08b(b)
- Pro se 707.07(j); 713.01
- Refuses to sign 402.03; 409.03; 409.03(d); 602.08(b)
- Representative of 400
- Requirements 2109; 2157
- Residence 602.08(b)
- Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
- Self-prosecuted case 707.07(j); 713.01
- Small entity status 509.02
- Unavailable 409; 409.02; 409.03; 602.08(b)
- Inventor’s certificate
- Inventors Assistance Center 1730
- IPS (Interference Practice Specialist) 2302
- Irreparable damage, Proof of 409.03(g)
- Issue (See Allowance and issue)
- Issue batch number (no longer used) 1303.01
- Issue Classification Form/Sheet/Slip (See also Form letters and forms) 903.07; 906; 907; 1302.09; 1302.10; 1302.13
- Issue fee 1306
- Israel Patent Office (ILPO) 1840; 1840.05; 1860; 1865
- Issue of patent 1309
- Issue of patent to applicant 308
- Issue of patent to non-applicant assignee 307
- Item of information in supplemental examination 2809