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Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP
Table of Contents
1500 Design Patents
1500 Design Patents
- 1501 Statutes and Rules Applicable
- 1502 Definition of a Design
- - 1502.01 Distinction Between Design and Utility Patents
- 1503 Elements of a Design Patent Application
- - 1503.01 Specification
- - 1503.02 Drawing
- 1504 Examination
- - 1504.01 Statutory Subject Matter for Designs
- - - 1504.01(a) Computer-Generated Icons
- - - 1504.01(b) Design Comprising Multiple Articles or Multiple Parts Embodied in a Single Article
- - - 1504.01(c) Lack of Ornamentality
- - - 1504.01(d) Simulation
- - - 1504.01(e) Offensive Subject Matter
- - 1504.02 Novelty
- - 1504.03 Nonobviousness
- - 1504.04 Considerations Under 35 U.S.C. 112
- - 1504.05 Restriction
- - 1504.06 Double Patenting
- - 1504.10 Priority Under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d)
- - 1504.20 Benefit Under 35 U.S.C. 120
- - 1504.30 Expedited Examination
- 1505 Allowance and Term of Design Patent
- 1509 Reissue of a Design Patent
- 1510 Reexamination
- 1511 Protest
- 1512 Relationship Between Design Patent, Copyright, and Trademark
- 1513 Miscellaneous
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