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- NAFTA 715.07(c)
- Name(See also Applicant ; Inventor )
- Change 605.04(c) , 719.02(b)
- Change, file sent to Office of Initial Patent Examination 605.04(c)
- Full first or middle required 605.04(b)
- Order 605.04(f)
- Signature(See Signature )
- Uniformity with signature 605.04(b)
- Names used in trade 608.01(v)
- National Aeronautics and Space
- Administration (NASA) 115 , 150 , 151
- National application 201
- National security, application affecting 115 , 120 , 121 130 , 140
- National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371) 201 1893.03 to 1896
- Compared with national application 1896
- Continuation or continuation-in-part 1895 1895.01 , 1896
- Drawings 1893.03(f)
- Filing date 1893.03(b)
- Information disclosure statement 609.03 , 1893.03(g)
- Inter partes reexamination of 2611
- Order of examination 708 , 1893.03
- Petitions related to 1002.02(p)
- Priority 1893.03(c)
- Unity of invention 1893.03(d)
- Naturally occurring article 706.03(a)
- Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
- Negotiation authority 713.05
- New application (definition) 203.01
- Assignment to examiner for examination 903.08(b)
- Assignment to examiner in TC for examination 903.08 , 903.08(a) , 903.08(e)
- Classification by primary examiner 903.08(b)
- Examiner review for completeness 702
- Inspection 903.08(a)
- Transfer 903.08(a)
- Transfer refused 903.08(d)
- New examiner, action by 707.01
- New ground of rejection by the Board of Patent Appeals
- and Interferences 1214.01
- New ground of rejection in inter partes reexamination
- 2671.01
- New ground of rejection on appeal 1207.03
- New matter 706.03(o) , 2163.06
- Amendment of disclosure 608.04 , 2163.03 , 2163.04
- Claim 608.04 , 706.03(o) , 2163.03
- Claim terminology 608.01(o)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
- Continuing application 201.07 , 2163.03
- Design application 1503.01 , 1503.02 1504.01(a) , 1504.04
- Disclosure 608.04 , 2163.06
- Divisional application 201.06
- Drawing 608.04 , 706.03(o)
- Inherent characteristics 608.04(a) , 2163.07(a)
- Objection 706.03(o) , 2163.07
- Petitionable 608.04(c) , 2163.06
- Preliminary amendment 608.04(b) , 714.01(e)
- Priority 2163.03 , 2163.05
- Reexamination,inter partes 2671.01 , 2671.02
- Reissue application 1411.02
- Rejection 608.04 , 706.03(o) , 2163.06
- Specification, petitionable 608.04(c)
- Substitute specification 608.01(q)
- Trademark definition 608.01(v)
- When entered 714.19 , 714.20
- NIRC(See Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate ; Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate )
- Nonanalogous art 904.01(c) , 1302.14 , 2131.05
- Nonelected invention
- Nonelected species
- Non-English oath or declaration 602.06
- Nonnaturally occurring manufacture or composition of matter 2105
- Nonpatent literature 901.06
- Nonprofit organization, claiming status as 509.03
- Nonprofit organizations 509.02
- Nonprovisional application(See also Application ) 201.04(a) , 506 , 601
- Nonpublication request, Application 1122
- Nonpublication Request Under 35 USC 122(b)(2)(B)(i), form PTO/SB/35
- Nonreceipt of Office letter 711.03(c)
- Nonsigning inventor' s rights 409.03(i)
- Nonstatutory claim 706.03(a) , 2107.01
- Nonstatutory claim, canceled 1302.04(b)
- Nonstatutory subject matter 706.03(a) 2105 to 2107.01
- Not fully responsive amendment 714.02 , 2266.01
- 2666.30 , 2671
- Notary jurisdiction 604.02
- Notary jurisdiction, military officer 604.03(a)
- Notary jurisdiction, venue agreement 604.02
- Notary seal 604.01
- Notation on file wrapper/history
- Notice, citation 707.06
- Notice of allowability 1302.03
- Notice of allowance(See also Allowance and issue ; Form letters and forms: Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due PTOL-85 ) 1303
- Assigned application308
- Deceased inventor 1303.03
- Reissue application 1444
- Secrecy order application 115 , 130
- Undelivered 1303.02
- Notice of appeal 1204
- Notice of cross appeal 2662 , 2674 , 2674.01
- Notice of Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2291
- Notice of Ex Parte Request for Reexamination in theOfficial Gazette 2227
- Notice of foreign filing after nonpublication request 1124
- Notice of informal patent application form (PTO-152) 707.07(a)
- Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469 2235 , 2250 2250.01 , 2271 , 2271.01 2273 , 2287 , 2288 , 2296
- Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-2068 2666.10 , 2666.20 2671 , 2671.01 , 2673.01 2674 , 2675 , 2682 , 2686.01 2687 , 2696
- Notice of Intent to Publish Statutory Inven tion Registration, SIR-L 1107
- Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette 2688 , 2691
- Notice of Inter Partes Request for Reexamination in theOfficial Gazette 2627 , 2629
- Notice of New or Revised Pre-Grant Publication 1127
- Notice of Non-Compliant amendment 714 , 714.01(e) , 714.03
- Notice of Pre-Grant Publication 1127
- Notice of references cited form (PTO-892) 609.02 , 609.03 , 609.04(a) , 609.05(a) , 609.05(c) , 609.06 , 707.05 707.05(a) to 707.05(e) , 2687
- Notices(See also Publication ) Introduction , 707.06
- Notices, maintenance fees 2575
- Nuclear material application 706.03(b)
- Nucleotide sequences(See also Biotechnology ; Sequence rules ) 803.04 , 1823.02 , 1848 1850 , 1877 , Chapter 2400
- Nullification of double patenting rejection 804.01
- Number, Application 503 , 506
- Number, Drawing reference character 608.01(g)
- Number, Serial 503 , 506
- Numbering of papers in file wrapper 719.01(a)
- Numbering paragraphs of letter 707.07(k)
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