Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP
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- Machine, process or product 806.05(e) 806.05(f) , 806.05(g)
- Mail(See also Mail Stop and Correspondence )
- Address 501
- Depositing correspondence 502
- Distribution 501
- Express 502 , 513 , 711.03(c)
- Identification 502 , 503
- Receipt and handling Chapter 500
- Undelivered 707.13 , 1303.02
- Zip code 502
- Mail date as filing date 513
- Mail room date stamp 608.02(o)
- Mail stop 501
- Mail Stop 8 (Solicitor) 501 , 1216 , 1216.01
- Mail Stop 101232
- Mail Stop 16 (Refunds) 509.03
- Mail Stop AF 714.13
- Mail Stop Assignment Recordation 501 , 302.08
- Mail Stop Conversion 601.01(c)
- Mail Stop DD 1706
- Mail Stop Document Services 103 , 501 , 1430 , 1470 2222 , 2232 , 2501 , 2622 , 2632
- Mail Stop EBC 403
- Mail StopEx Parte Reexam 501 , 2222 , 2224 2226 , 2231
- Mail Stop Expedited Design 1504.30
- Mail Stop Express Abandonment 1002.02(r) , 1125
- Mail Stop INTERFERENCE 501
- Mail StopInter Partes Reexam 501 , 2622 , 2624 , 2631
- Mail Stop Issue Fee 502 , 1306 , 1306.02
- Mail Stop L&R 120
- Mail Stop M Correspondence 501 , 2510
- Mail Stop MPEP Foreword
- Mail Stop OED 402 , 407
- Mail Stop Patent Ext. 501 , 1002.02(b) , 2754 , 2754
- Mail Stop PCT 501 , 1805 , 1808 , 1821 , 1823.02 , 1865
- Mail Stop Petitions 720 , 1002.02(b) , 1308 1901.03 , 2580 , 2590 , 2720
- Mail Stop PGPUB 1126
- Mail Stop PGPUB DRAWINGS 507
- Mail Stop Reissue 1410
- Mail Stop Sequence 2422.09 , 2429
- Mailing action 707.12
- Mailing, Certificate of(See Certificate of mailing or transmission )
- Maintenance Fee Branch 1501
- Maintenance fees(See also Fee ; Refunds ) 1730 Chapter 2500
- Attorney or agent
- Change of correspondence address 2501 , 2542
- Credit card used for payment of 2510 , 2522
- Due dates for payment 2506
- Duplicate Payment2532
- Facsimile submission 2510
- Fee address 2540
- Fee amounts 2501 , 2520
- Forms 2595
- Information available from Maintenance Fee Branch 1730
- Information required with payment 2515 , 2530
- Insufficient 2531
- Internet submission 2510
- Intervening rights in reinstated patents 2591
- Late 2531
- Mailing address for maintenance fee documents 501 , 2510
- Mailing address for payments 501
- Maintenance Fee Branch 2501
- Method of payment 2522
- Notices - Expiration, Receipt, Reminder 2575
- Obligation to pay while reissue is pending 1415.01
- Overpayment 2550
- Patents subject to payment of 2504
- Payment informalities 2530
- Petition to accept 2515 , 2531 , 2590
- Reexamination 2506
- Refusal to accept and record payments,Review of 2580
- Reinstatement, delayed payment 2590
- Reissue patents 1415.01 , 1443 , 2504 , 2506 , 2520
- Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, due on 2504 , 2506
- Small entity status requirements 2550
- Special Acceptance 2530
- Status requests 1730 , 2570
- Mandatory Classification 903.07
- Manual, authority of foreword
- Manual, subscription address title page
- Manual of Classification Introduction , 902.01
- Manuscript decision 707.06
- Margin, application papers 608.01
- Mark of applicant 605.04(d)
- Marking in application, erasing at allowance 1302.01
- Marking, Security 121
- Markush claim 803.02 , 2173.05(h) , 2173.05(o)
- Master classification file (MCF) 902.03(a)
- Material mistake by Office in published PG-Pub 1130
- Materiality of information regarding patentability(See Duty of disclosure )
- Mathematical algorithms 706.03(a) , 2106
- Matter not in original disclosure 608.04(a)
- Means 2181
- Broadest reasonable interpretation 2181
- Equivalent compared to Doctrine ofEquivalents 2186
- Obviousness 2183
- Prima facie case of equivalence 2183 , 2184
- Related issues under 35 U.S.C. 112, firstor second paragraphs 2181 , 2185
- Scope of the identification of prior art 2182
- Single means claim 2164.08(a) , 2181
- Means plus function limitations 706.02(m) , 2106 2111.01 , 2114 , 2181 to 2186
- Mechanical search 719.05
- Memorandum, citation 707.06
- Merger of ex parte reexamination and reissue 2285
- Merger of inter partes reexamination and reissue 2686.03
- Merits, Appeal to Board of Patent Appealsand Interferences Introduction
- Method of making and apparatus or product 806.05(e) 806.05(f)
- Metric (S.I.) system usage 608.01
- Microorganisms(See Biotechnology )
- Microorganisms, deposit of 1823.01 , 2402 to 2411.05
- Microorganisms, patentability of 706.03(a) 2105 , 2164.06
- Militarily Critical Technology List (MCTL) 120
- Military officer notary 604.03(a)
- Minor, inventor 409
- Misjoinder, Effect on patent 805
- Misjoinder of inventors 201.03 , 1402 , 1412.04 , 1481
- Mistake(See Correction of patent ; Errors )
- Mistake by Office in Pre-Grant Publication 1130
- Mode, Best(See Best Mode )
- Mode of operation 608.01(h)
- Model 608.03
- Model, return 608.03(a)
- Model at interview 713.08
- Model filed in priority country 201.14(b)
- Months, foreign language names 901.05(a)
- Months, foreign language names 901.05(a)
- Motions in interferences(See Interference: Motions )
- Multiple dependent claims
- Multiple papers on same issue in protest 1901.07(a)
- Multiplicity of claims 408 , 707.07(g) 714.16 , 2173.05(h) , 2173.05(n)
- Multiplicity of species 806.01 , 808.01(a)
- Munitions Lists of the International Traffic Arms Regulation (ITAR) 120
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