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Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP
Table of Contents
800 Restriction in Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111; Double Patenting
800 Restriction in Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111; Double Patenting
- 801 Introduction
- 802 Basis for Practice in Statute and Rules
- - 802.01 Meaning of "Independent" and "Distinct"
- - 802.02 Definition of Restriction
- 803 Restriction - When Proper
- - 803.01 Review by Examiner with at Least Partial Signatory Authority
- - 803.02 Markush Claims
- - 803.03 Transitional Applications
- - - 803.03(a) Transitional Application - Linking Claim Allowable
- - - 803.03(b) Transitional Application - Generic Claim Allowable
- - 803.04 Nucleotide Sequences
- 804 Definition of Double Patenting
- - 804.01 Prohibition of Double Patenting Rejections Under 35 U.S.C. 121
- - 804.02 Avoiding a Double Patenting Rejection
- - 804.03 Commonly Owned Inventions of Different Inventive Entities ; Non-Commonly Owned Inventions Subject to a Joint Research Agreement
- - 804.04 Submission to Technology Center Director
- 805 Effect of Improper Joinder in Patent
- 806 Determination of Distinctness or Independence of Claimed Inventions
- - 806.01 Compare Claimed Subject Matter
- - 806.03 Single Embodiment, Claims Defining Same Essential Features
- - 806.04 Genus and/or Species Inventions
- - - 806.04(b) Species May Be Independent or Related Inventions
- - - 806.04(d) Definition of a Generic Claim
- - - 806.04(e) Claims Limited to Species
- - - 806.04(f) Restriction Between Mutually Exclusive Species
- - - 806.04(h) Species Must Be Patentably Distinct From Each Other
- - - 806.04(i) Generic Claims Presented After Issue of Species
- - 806.05 Related Inventions
- - - 806.05(a) Combination and Subcombination
- - - 806.05(c) Criteria of Distinctness Between Combination and Subcombination
- - - 806.05(d) Subcombinations Usable Together
- - - 806.05(e) Process and Apparatus for Its Practice
- - - 806.05(f) Process of Making and Product Made
- - - 806.05(g) Apparatus and Product Made
- - - 806.05(h) Product and Process of Using
- - - 806.05(i) Product, Process of Making, and Process of Using
- - - 806.05(j) Related Products; Related Processes
- - 806.06 Independent Inventions
- 807 Patentability Report Practice Has No Effect on Restriction Practice
- 808 Reasons for Insisting Upon Restriction
- - 808.01 Reasons for Holding of Independence or Distinctness
- - - 808.01(a) Species
- - 808.02 Establishing Burden
- 809 Linking Claims
- - 809.02(a) Election of Species Required
- - 809.03 Restriction Between Linked Inventions
- 810 Action on the Merits
- 811 Time for Making Requirement
- - 811.02 New Requirement After Compliance With Preceding Requirement
- - 811.03 Repeating After Withdrawal Proper
- - 811.04 Proper Even Though Grouped Together in Parent Application
- 812 Who Should Make the Requirement
- - 812.01 Telephone Restriction Practice
- 814 Indicate Exactly How Application Is To Be Restricted
- 815 Make Requirement Complete
- 817 Outline of Letter for Restriction Requirement
- 818 Election and Reply
- - 818.01 Election Fixed by Action on Claims
- - 818.02 Election Other Than Express
- - - 818.02(a) By Originally Presented Claims
- - - 818.02(b) Generic Claims Only - No Election of Species
- - - 818.02(c) By Optional Cancellation of Claims
- - 818.03 Express Election and Traverse
- - - 818.03(a) Reply Must Be Complete
- - - 818.03(b) Must Elect, Even When Re-quirement Is Traversed
- - - 818.03(c) Must Traverse To Preserve Right of Petition
- - - 818.03(d) Traverse of Restriction Requirement With Linking Claims
- 819 Office Generally Does Not Permit Shift
- 821 Treatment of Claims Held To Be Drawn to Nonelected Inventions
- - 821.01 After Election With Traverse
- - 821.02 After Election Without Traverse
- - 821.03 Claims for Different Invention Added After an Office Action
- - 821.04 Rejoinder
- - - 821.04(a) Rejoinder Between Product Inventions; Rejoinder Between Process Inventions
- - - 821.04(b) Rejoinder of Process Requiring an Allowable Product
- 822 Claims to Inventions That Are Not Distinct in Plural Applications of Same Inventive Entity
- - 822.01 Copending Before the Examiner
- 823 Unity of Invention Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
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