Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP

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300 Ownership and Assignment

300 Ownership and Assignment
-    301 Ownership/Assignability of Patents and Applications
-    -    301.01 Accessibility of Assignment Records
-    302 Recording of Assignment Documents
-    -    302.01 Assignment Document Must Be Copy for Recording
-    -    302.02 Translation of Assignment Document
-    -    302.03 Identifying Patent or Application
-    -    302.04 Foreign Assignee May Designate Domestic Representative
-    -    302.05 Address of Assignee
-    -    302.06 Fee for Recording
-    -    302.07 Assignment Document Must Be Accompanied by a Cover Sheet 
-    -    302.08 Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents
-    -    302.09 Facsimile Submission of Assignment Documents
-    302.10 Electronic Submission of Assignment Documents
-    303 Assignment Documents Not Endorsed on Pending Applications
-    306 Assignment of Division, Continuation, Substitute, and Continuation-in-Part in Relation to Parent Application
-    -    306.01 Assignment of an Application Claiming the Benefits of a Provisional Application
-    307 Issue to Assignee
-    309 Restrictions Upon Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
-    310 Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development
-    311 Filing of Notice of Arbitration Awards
-    313 Recording of Licenses, Security Interests, and Other Documents Other Than Assignments
-    314 Certificates of Change of Name or of Merger
-    315 Indexing Against a Recorded Certificate
-    317 Handling of Documents in the Assignment Division
-    -    317.01 Recording Date
-    -    317.02 Correction of Unrecorded Returned Documents and Cover Sheets
-    -    317.03 Effect of Recording
-    318 Documents Not to be Placed in Files
-    320 Title Reports
-    323 Procedures for Correcting Errors in Recorded Assignment Document
-    -    323.01 Correction of Error in Recorded Cover Sheet
-    -    -    323.01(a) Typographical Errors in Cover Sheet
-    -    -    323.01(b) Typographical Errors in Recorded Assignment Document
-    -    -    323.01(c) Assignment or Change of Name Improperly Filed and Recorded by Another Person Against Owner's Application or Patent
-    -    -    323.01(d) Expungement of Assignment Records
-    324 Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action

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