Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP

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• P.O. Box(See Mail stop )
• PAIR 102 , 104 , 203.08 , 1121 , 1128 , 1730 , 2232 , 2632
• PALM 101 , 102 , 508.01 , 508.03 , 711.04(b) 1845.02 , 1893 , 1893.03(a) , 1893.03(b) 1895.01 , 2232 , 2233 , 2235 , 2237 2289 , 2629 , 2632 , 2633 , 2635 , 2647.02 2648 , 2660 , 2664 , 2670 , 2687 , 2689
• Application location 2635
• Application records and reports 1704
• Application status 102
• Examiner Docket, Time, and Activity Reports 1705
• 'Flag' in reissue application 1456
• Paper Correlating Office 508.03
• Paper, easily erasable 608.01 , 714.05 , 714.07 , 714.19
• Paper number 714.18 , 714.21
• Paper number of print 719.01(b)
• Paper size(See also A4 size paper )
• Application papers 608.01
• Drawings 608.02
• Photographs 608.02
• Substitute drawings 608.02(h)
• Papers(See also Return of Papers )
• Delivered to wrong Technology Center 508.01
• Depositing 502
• Distribution 508
• File wrapper 719.01 , 719.01(a)
• Identification 502 , 503
• Receipt and handling Chapter 500
• Received after patenting or abandonment 508.02
• Signature required 402
• Submitted in reissue litigation 1404
• Unmatched 508.03
• Parent application 201.04
• Parent application data, Cross-noting 201.11 202.02
• Parent application carries assignment
• to some continuing applications 201.12
• Parent application review 707.05 , 719.05 904 , 2001.06(b)
• Paris Convention(See also Treaties ) 201.13 , App. P
• Article 4 Cited 201.13 , 201.14(b)
• Partial signatory authority 1005
• Patent
• 1836 (present) series 901.04
• A.I. series 901.04
• Allowance and issue Chapter 1300
• Application publication 1120 to 1135
• Arrangement in Examiner's Search Files 901.07
• Assignment 301
• Borrowing from Examiner's Search Files 901.08
• Citation handling 1920
• Citation of prior art in 1920 , 2202
• Claim copied(See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent )
• Classification change 903.05
• Classification indices 902.03 , 902.03(a)
• Classification Home Page on the Internet 902.03(a)
• Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet 902.03(b)
• Classification Insight on USPTO LAN 902.03(c)
• Copy in ex parte reexamination request 2219
• Double column format 2214 , 2219
• Copy in inter partes reexamination request 2619
• Double column format 2614
• Copy Orders 1730
• Correction of Chapter 1400
• Definition Introduction , 2135.01
• Design Chapter 1500
• Design series 901.04
• Design vs. Utility 1502.01
• Effective date 706.02(a) , 715 , 715.01 , 2133.01
• Extension(See Term, Patent )
• File reconstruction 508.04
• Files 905.03
• Foreign(See Foreign patent )
• General Information About, booklet 703
• Issue Chapter 1300
• Issue Notification form 1306.03
• Index 902.03(b)
• Interference 2304 to 2304.05
• Inventorship 2137.01
• Jurisdiction 1305
• Law, opinions not given 713.02
• Laws(See Statutes )
• Licensing 301
• Litigation relating to reissue 1442.04
• Ordering soft copy905.02
• Owner, appeal by 1204
• Owner, service of citation on 2208
• Owner' s address in reexamination 2222 , 2622
• Ownership 301
• Plant series 901.04 , Chapter 1600
• Post-issuance information updating 2501
• Prior art citation in 2003.01
• Printing priority 1309
• Publication of application 1120 to 1135
• Reconstruction of file 508.04
• Reference(See Reference )
• Reissue series 901.04
• Reissued, effect of 1460
• Right to exclude others 509.02 , 1111 1601 , 2162
• Rules(See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations) )
• Simultaneous issue 1306.02
• Statutory subject matter 706.03(a) , 2107 , 1601
• Surrender of original in reissue (not required) 1416
• Statutes(See Statutes )
• System, Constitutional basis for Introduction
• Term adjustment 2710 to 2736
• Terms(See Term, Patent )
• Transfer 903.05
• Transfer of rights in 509.02
• Type, Design vs. utility 1502.01
• Utility series 901.04 , 1502.01
• Utility vs. design 1502.01
• X series 901.04
• Patent and Trademark Assignment System 302.09
• Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO)
• Address 501 , 502
• Business hours 510
• Employees, property interest in patent 309
• Employees, unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventors 409
• Matters decided by various officials Chapter 1000
• Publications Introduction
• Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office 401 , 902.03(d) , 1706
• Development and Use of Patent Classification
• Systems 903.02
• Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office(See Official Gazette (O.G.) )
• Receipt and handling of mail Chapter 500
• Telephone numbers 1730
• Web site 1730
• Patent application publication(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
• Patent Assistance Center(See Inventors Assistance Center )
• Patent attorney or agent(See Attorney or agent )
• Patent classification(See also Classification ; Prior Art ) Chapter 900
• Classes 707.05(e) , 902.01 902.02 , 903.02(a) , 903.02(b)
• Cross references 903.07 , 903.07(a)
• Digests 903.07
• Issue slip 903.07
• Manual of Classification Introduction , 902.01
• Master classification file (MCF) 902.03(a)
• Orders 902.04
• Post classifier(See Post classifier )
• Shoes 510 , 901.05(c) , 901.07 , 902.02(b) , 905.04
• Statutory authority 903.01
• Subclasses 707.05(e) , 902.01 902.02 , 903.02(a) , 903.02(c)
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)(See also International application ; Treaties ) Chapter 1800 , App. T
• Administrative Instructions App. AI
• Agent 1807
• Amendment before the designated office 1893.01(a)(2) 1893.01(a)(3)
• Amendment of claims before the International Bureau 1853
• Applicant 1810 , 1817.01 , 1817.01(a)
• Applicant for United States Receiving Office 1805 1810 , 1820
• Basic flow timeline 1842
• Classification of application 903.08(b)
• Classification of subject matter 1844.01 , 1879
• Common representative 1807
• Concepts, major 1801
• Country codes 1851
• Definitions 1802
• Design patents1501.01 , 1503.01
• Designated office 1893.01(a)
• Designation of states 1817.01 , 1817.01(a)
• Fees 1827 , 1893.01(c)
• Reduced basic fee by filing sequence listing and/or tables on compact disc 1823.02
• Filing date requirements 1810
• Foreign filing license 1832
• Foreign patent citation codes 1851
• Forms
• Compact Disc Transmittal Sheet For Submission of Sequence Listing and/or Tables To The United States Receiving Office Under Pct Administrative Instructions-Part 8 1823.02
• IB/307 1893.03(e)
• IB/308 1893.01(a)(1)
• PCT/DO/EO/903 1893.01(a)(3) , 1893.03(a) 1893.03(b) , 1893.03(e) 1893.03(g) , 1895.01
• PCT/DO/EO/905 1893.01(a)(1) , 1893.01(d) 1893.01(e) , 1893.03(b)
• PCT/DO/EO/1390 1893.03(a)
• PCT/ISA/201 1852
• PCT/ISA/203 1843.04
• PCT/ISA/206 1850
• PCT/ISA/210 1843.04 , 1844 , 1844.01 1845.02 , 1893.03(e)
• PCT/ISA/217 1836
• PCT/ISA/220 1844 , 1845.02
• PCT/IPEA/401 1864 , 1865 , 1866
• PCT/IPEA/405 1875 , 1875.01
• PCT/IPEA/408 1860 , 1860.01 , 1874 , 1876 , 1878 , 1878.01 , 1879
• PCT/IPEA/409 1871 , 1871.01 , 1874 , 1878 1878.01 , 1878.01(a) , 1879 , 1893.03(e)
• PCT/IPEA/410 1864.04
• PCT/IPEA/411 1876
• PCT/IPEA/412 1836 , 1876.01
• PCT/IPEA/416 1879.02
• PCT/IPEA/420 1875.02
• PCT/IPEA/428 1878.02
• PCT/RO/101 1801 , 1812 , 1817.01(a) 1821 , 1844 , 1844.01
• PCT/RO/117 1893.03(e)
• PCT/RO/136 1893.03(e)
• PTO-1382 1830 , 1832
• USPTO/299 1850
• USPTO/499 1850 , 1875 , 1875.01
• Gazette 1801 , 1823.01 , 1857
• Guidelines on qualifying for reduced basic fee by filing sequence listing on compact disc 1823.02
• Help Desk 1730
• Information sources 1730
• International Bureau 1801
• International preliminary examination 1860 , 1860.01
• International preliminary examination report 1879
• International preliminary report on patentability 1801
• 1845 , 1879.03 , 1893.03(e)
• International publication 1857
• Prior art effect 1857.01 , 1896 , 2136.03
• International search report 1844
• International searching authority 1840
• Member countries 1817
• National procedure 1893
• National stage(See National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371) )
• Numbering of sheets 1812
• Office of PCT Legal Administration 103 , 1730
• Priority 201.13(b) , 1828 , 1893.03(c) , 1895
• Priority document 201.13(b) , 1828
• Publication 1857
• Receiving office 1801
• Receiving office procedure 1801
• Record copy transmittal 1801
• Reply to invitation concerning lack of unity of invention 1850 , 1875.02 , 1893.03(d)
• Reply to written opinion 1878.02
• Representation before the designated office 402
• Revocation of agent 1808
• Schedule of fees 1827
• Search report 707.05 , 1302.14 , 1844
• Secrecy order 120
• Sequence listings 1823.02 , 1848
• On electronic media 1823.02
• Signature missing 1820
• Unity of invention 823 , 1850 , 1875 , 1893.03(d)
• Written opinion, preparation 1845 , 1878 , 1878.01
• Written opinion, time to reply to 1845.01 , 1878 , 1878.01
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Administrative Instructions App. AI
• 105Reproduced 1834
• 204Reproduced 1823
• 205Reproduced 1824
• 208Reproduced 1823.02
• 209Reproduced 1823
• 404Reproduced 1857
• 502Reproduced 1850
• 513Reproduced 1848
• 603Reproduced 1875.02
• 604Reproduced 1879
• 605Reproduced 1872
• 606Reproduced 1880
• 607Reproduced 1876
• 801Reproduced 1823.02
• 803Reproduced 1823.02
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Articles App. T
• 3Reproduced 1812
• 5Reproduced 1823
• 6Reproduced 1824
• 7Reproduced 1825
• 11Reproduced 1810 , 1896
• 17Reproduced 1843
• 18Reproduced 1844
• 19Reproduced 1853
• 21Reproduced 1857
• 29Reproduced 1857
• 30Reproduced 110
• 31Reproduced 1864.02 , 1864.03 , 1865 , 1869
• 32Reproduced 1862
• 33Reproduced 1878.01(a) 1878.01(a)(1) , 1878.01(a)(3)
• 34Reproduced 1862 , 1864.01 , 1874 1875
• , 1878 , 1878.01 , 1878.02
• 35Reproduced 1879
• 36Reproduced 1879.02 , 1879.03
• 37Reproduced 1880
• 38Reproduced 1879.04
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Rules
• 4.3.Reproduced 1844.01
• 4.11.Reproduced 1817.02 , 1819
• 4.15.Reproduced 1820
• 5.1.Reproduced 1823
• 5.2.Reproduced 1823.02
• 6Reproduced 1824
• 6.1.Reproduced 1824
• 6.2.Reproduced 1824
• 6.3.Reproduced 1824
• 6.4.Reproduced 1824
• 6.5.Reproduced 1824
• 7Reproduced 1825
• 7.1.Reproduced 1825
• 7.2.Reproduced 1825
• 8Reproduced 1826
• 8.1.Reproduced 1826 , 1844.01
• 8.2.Reproduced 1826 , 1844.01
• 8.3.Reproduced 1826
• 11Reproduced 1825
• 11.5.Reproduced 1825
• 11.6.Reproduced 1825
• 11.11.Reproduced 1825
• 11.13.Reproduced 1825
• 13Reproduced 1850
• 13.1Reproduced 1850
• 13.2Reproduced 1850
• 13.3Reproduced 1850
• 13.4Reproduced 1850
• 13.5Reproduced 1850
• 13bisReproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.1.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.2.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.3.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.4.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.5.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.6.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13bis.7.Reproduced 1823.01
• 13terReproduced 1823.02
• 13ter.1 Reproduced 1823.02 , 1848
• 13ter.2 Reproduced 1823.02
• 17Reproduced 201.13(b)
• 17.1.Reproduced 201.13(b)
• 17.2Reproduced 201.13(b)
• 33Reproduced 1843
• 33.1.Reproduced 1843
• 33.2.Reproduced 1843
• 33.3.Reproduced 1843
• 37.1Reproduced 1844.01
• 37.2Reproduced 1844.01
• 38Reproduced 110 , 1844.01
• 38.1Reproduced 1844.01
• 38.2Reproduced 1844.01
• 39Reproduced 1843.02
• 39.1.Reproduced 1843.02
• 40Reproduced 1850
• 40.1.Reproduced 1850
• 40.2.Reproduced 1850
• 41Reproduced 1852
• 41.1.Reproduced 1852
• 43bisReproduced 1845
• 43bis.1.Reproduced 1845
• 44ter.Reproduced 1879.04
• 46Reproduced 1853
• 46.1.Reproduced 1853
• 46.2.Reproduced 1853
• 46.3.Reproduced 1853
• 46.4.Reproduced 1853
• 46.5.Reproduced 1853
• 54Reproduced 1864.02
• 54.1.Reproduced 1864.02
• 54.2.Reproduced 1864.02
• 54.3Reproduced 1864.02
• 54.4.Reproduced 1864.02
• 60Reproduced 1868
• 60.1.Reproduced 1868
• 61Reproduced 1881
• 61.2.Reproduced 1881
• 61.3.Reproduced 1881
• 62Reproduced 1871 , 1871.01
• 62.1.Reproduced 1871 , 1871.01
• 62.2.Reproduced 1871 , 1871.01
• 62bisReproduced 1871
• 62bis.1Reproduced 1871
• 64Reproduced 1878.01(a)
• 64.1.Reproduced 1878.01(a)
• 64.2.Reproduced 1878.01(a)
• 64.3.Reproduced 1878.01(a)
• 65Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
• 65.1.Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
• 65.2.Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
• 66Reproduced 1843.02 , 1864.01 , 1870 , 1878 , 1878.02
• 66.1.Reproduced 1843.02
• 66.1bis.Reproduced 1878
• 66.3.Reproduced 1878.02
• 66.4.Reproduced 1878
• 66.5.Reproduced 1878.02
• 66.6.Reproduced 1878.02
• 66.7.Reproduced 1870
• 66.8.Reproduced 1864.01 , 1878.02
• 66.9.Reproduced 1878.02
• 69Reproduced 1879.01
• 69.1.Reproduced 1879.01 , 1879.01(a)
• 69.2.Reproduced 1879.01 , 1879.01(a)
• 70Reproduced 1879.03
• 70.17Reproduced 1879.03
• 71Reproduced 1879.02
• 71.1.Reproduced 1879.02
• 71.2.Reproduced 1879.02
• 72Reproduced 1879.03
• 72.1.Reproduced 1879.03
• 72.2.Reproduced 1879.03
• 72.2bis.Reproduced 1879.03
• 72.3.Reproduced 1879.03
• 82Reproduced 1834.02
• 82.1.Reproduced 1834.02
• 82.2.Reproduced 1834.02
• 90.4.Reproduced 1807
• 90.5.Reproduced 1807
• 90.6.Reproduced 1808
• 90bisReproduced 1859 , 1880
• 90bis.1Reproduced 1859
• 90bis.2Reproduced 1859
• 90bis.3Reproduced 1859
• 90bis.4Reproduced 1880
• 90bis.5Reproduced 1859
• 90bis.6Reproduced 1859
• 90bis.7Reproduced 1859
• 91Reproduced 1836
• 91.1.Reproduced 1836
• 92Reproduced 1834
• 92.1.Reproduced 1834
• 92.2.Reproduced 1834
• Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs)
• Accepting documents under the Disclosure Document Program 1706
• Patent application publication(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
• Patent pending(See Statutes: 35 U.S.C. 292 )
• Patent search facility 103 , 2232 , 2629 , 2632
• Hours 510 , 1730
• Regulations for public use 510
• Patent term extension/adjustments 1303 , 2211 , 2250 2611 , 2666.01
• Patentability(See also Reasons for Allowance ; Rejection )
• Chapter 2100
• Patentability report 705
• Appeal 705.01(a) , 1207
• Count 705.01(c)
• Date status 705.01(c)
• Dispute between examiners 705.01(a)
• Drawing 608.02(n) , 705.01(d)
• Final action 705.01(a)
• Improper 705.01(e)
• Initiate 705.01
• Interviews 705.01(f) , 713.01
• Limitation as to use 705.01(e)
• Practice used only in extraordinary situations 705
• Primary decides propriety 1004
• Print of drawing 608.02(n) , 705.01(d)
• Purpose 705.01(e)
• Request for 1003
• Recording 705.01(c)
• Restriction, Effect on 807
• Search 705.01(a) , 705.01(b)
• Sequence of examination 705.01(b)
• Transfer of appeal 705.01(a)
• Patentability review conference in ex parte reexamination
• 2271 , 2271.01 , 2287
• Patentability review conference in inter partes reexamination 2671.03
• Patentability statement 1302.14
• Patentable novelty, pointed out 714.04
• Patentable subject matter
• Computer programs 2106
• Disclosed but not claimed 706
• Living subject matter 1601 , 2105
• Mathematical algorithms 2106
• Plants 1601 , 2105
• Patented file 905.03
• Patented file, ordering 711.04(b)
• 'Patent In' computer program(See also Sequence rules ) 1730 , 2430
• Patents of addition, foreign 901.05(b)
• Payment of fees 509
• Payor number(See Customer numbers )
• PCT(See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) )
• Pencil notations, erased at allowance 1302.01
• Pending application as prior art(See also Application publication ) 706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) , 901.03
• Pending application preserved in confidence 101
• Pending applications as references(See also Application Publication ) 706.02(f)(1) , 706.02(f)(2) 706.02(k) , 901.03
• Period for reply 710
• After Board decision 1214.01
• After final 706.07(f)
• In transitional application 706.07(g)
• After interference 710.02(b)
• Amendment after 714.17
• Claim copied from patent 710.04(a)
• Claims all allowed 707.07(a) , 710.02(b) , 714.14
• Computed 710.01(a) , 710.05
• Copying claim from patent does not extend statutory period 710.04(a)
• Correction of citation 707.05(g) , 710.06
• Date of receipt of amendment 710.01(a) , 710.05
• Defective Office action 707.05(g) , 710.06
• Difference between shortened statutory period and time limit 710.02(d)
• Extension 710.02(d) , 710.02(e)
• Extension of time to commence civil action 1002.02(k)(1)
• Extension of time to file notice of appeal at CAFC 1002.02(k)(1)
• Full statutory period for reply 130
• Holiday, Saturday, or Sunday expiration of time 505 , 513 , 710.05 , 710.01(a)
• Incomplete reply 710.02(c) , 711.02(a) 714.03 , 2266.01 , 2666.30
• Less than six months 710.02 , 710.02(b) , 710.02(c) 710.02(d) , 710.02(e)
• Miscellaneous factors 710.06
• Petition 1002
• Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts 150
• Remailing 707.13 , 710.06
• Restarting 710.06
• Saturday, Expiration of time 505 , 710.01(a) , 710.05
• Secrecy order application 130
• Shortened, Extension 710.02(d) , 710.02(e)
• Shortened statutory period 710.02 , 710.02(b) 710.02(e)
• Shortened statutory period, Distinguished from time limit 710.02(d)
• Shortened statutory period, When used 710.02(b)
• Statutory period 710.01
• How computed 710.01(a)
• Suggesting claims 710.02(c)
• Sunday, Expiration of time 505 , 710.01(a) , 710.05
• Supplemental action 710.06
• Time computation 710.01(a) , 710.05
• Time limit action 710.02
• Time limit action, When used 710.02(c)
• Two periods running 710.04 , 710.04(a)
• Withdrawal of attorney or agent during 402.06
• Periodicals 901.06 , 901.06(a)
• Period of enforceability 2204 , 2211 , 2610 , 2611 , 2686.02
• Permanent ink 608.01 , 714.07 , 714.19
• Perpetual motion 506 , 608.03 , 706.03(a) 707.07(g) , 2107.01
• Persons who may cite prior art relating to an issued patent 2203
• Pertinent prior art 904.02
• Petition
• Abandonment holding 711.02 , 711.03(c) , 711.03(d) 1002.02(c) , 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q) , 1002.02(r)
• Abandonment holding, Examiner's statement 711.03(d)
• Abandonment holding for failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing 1124
• Accept color drawings or photographs 507 1002.02(d) , 1503.02
• Accepting late issue fee 711.03(c)
• Accept omitted pages 1002.02(p)
• Access to application 103 , 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(p)
• Access to interference agreement 1002.02(f)
• Access to interference application 1002.02(f)
• Access to unopened preliminary statements 1002.02(g)
• Add inventor in provisional application 1002.02(q)
• Admit model 1002.02(c)
• Attorney withdrawal 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c) 1002.02(p)
• Biotechnology processes under 35 U.S.C. 103(b) 706.02(n)
• Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2681
• Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences involved 1002.02(f) , 1002.02(g) , 1002.02(j)
• Certificate of Correction 1002.02(d) , 1002.02(g) 1002.02(l)
• Change in inventorship 1002.02(d) , 1002.02(e) 1002.02(l) , 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q) , 1481
• Change inventor' s name 605.04(c)
• Change in order of inventors names 605.04(f)
• Color drawings or photographs 507 1002.02(d) , 1503.02
• Common ownership situation 706.02(k)
• Concurrent ex parte and inter partes prosecution 1002.02(g)
• Consideration of submission after NIRC in inter partes reexamination 2687.01
• Converting a 111(a) application to a 371 application 1002.02(p)
• Converting a 371 application to 111(a) application 1002.02(p)
• Converting a nonprovisional to provisional 1002.02(b) 1002.02(c) , 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q)
• Correct filing date 506.02 , 513 601.01(b) , 1002.02(b)
• Correction of inventorship 201.03 , 1002.02(d) 1002.02(e) , 1002.02(l) 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q)
• In ex parte reexamination 2250.02
• In inter partes reexamination 2658 , 2666.03
• Counter-terrorism inventions 708.02 , 1002.02(s)
• Defer issuance 1002.02(b) , 1306.01
• Delegation of Director' s authority 1001.01
• Denial 1002.02
• Denial of request for reexamination 1002.02(c)
• Ex parte 2246 , 2248 , 2265
• Inter partes 2647 , 2648
• Director' s duties Introduction , 1002
• Dismissed 1002.02
• Dismissed without prejudice 1002.02
• Divisional reissue 1002.02(b)
• Entry of amendment 1002.02(d) , 1206
• Entry of amendment after RAN in inter partes reexamination 2672 , 2673.02 , 2675
• Entry of late paper for revival of ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b) , 2268
• Entry of late papers for revival of inter partes reexamination proceeding 1002.02(b) , 2668
• Expedited examination of design applications 502 , 1002.02(c)(3)
• Express abandonment after payment of issue fee 1002.02(b)
• Express abandonment to avoid pre-grant publication 502 , 1125 , 1135
• Facsimile submission 502.01
• Expunge papers from file 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)
• Expunge information 724.05 , 1002.02(c)
• Extension of time 710.02(e) , 714.17 , 1002.02(q)
• Application before Office of Patent Legal Administration 1002.02(b)
• Application before Office of Petition 1002.02(b)
• Filing date 506.02 , 513 601.01(b) , 601.01(c) , 601.01(f) 601.01(g) , 1002.02(b)
• Final rejection 1002.02(c)
• SIR application 1105
• Foreign filing license 140 , 1002.02(c)(1)
• Facsimile submission 502.01
• Inspection 103
• Interference 1002.02(c) , 1002.02(f) , 1002.02(g)
• Interview in merged reissue/inter partes reexamination 2686.03
• Late foreign priority claim 1002.02(b)
• Maintenance fees, accept and record 1002.02(b) 2580
• Maintenance fees, delayed payment/reinstatement 1002.02(b) , 2515 , 2531 , 2590
• Make special(See also Special application ) 708.02 , 1002.02(s) , 1504.30
• Matter subject to Introduction , 706.01 , 1002
• Merge reexaminations 1002.02(b) , 2283
• Merge reissue and ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b) , 2285
• Merge reissue andinter partes reexamination 1002.02(b) , 2667 , 2686.03
• Modification of secrecy order 120
• New matter 608.04(c) , 1002.02(c)
• Nonsigning inventor 409.03 , 1002.02(b) 1002.02(p)
• Objection by examiner 1002.02(c)
• Patent term extension 1002.02(b)
• Period for filing 1002
• Premature Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) in inter partes reexamination 2672
• Premature final rejection 706.07(c) , 1002.02(c)
• Preliminary amendment as part oforiginal disclosure 608.04(b)
• Procedure 1002.01
• Public use proceedings 1002.02(b)
• Publication Division 1002.02(r)
• Reconsideration of denied petition (ex parte reexamination) 2268
• Rescission of secrecy order 1002.02(c)(1)
• Refused assignment 313 , 317
• Refusal to enter amendment 1002.02(c)
• Refusal to initiate interference 1002.02(c)
• Refusal to issue Certificate of Correction 1002.02(c)
• Registration to practice 1002.02(m)
• Reinstate rejection after Board decision 1002.02(c)
• Reinstatement 1002.02(m)
• Relating to PCT international application and/ornational stage application 1002.02(p)
• Relating to reexamination or reissue 1002.02(b)
• Reopen prosecution after Board decision 1002.02(c)
• Reopen prosecution after Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2682
• Requirement for information 1002.02(c)
• Rescission of secrecy order 120
• Resetting period for reply 1002.02(c)
• Restriction requirement holding 821.01 , 1002.02(c)
• Retroactive foreign filing license 140
• Return model 1002.02(c)
• Return original oath 1002.02(c)
• Revival 711.03(c) , 1002.02(b) , 1124
• Revive PCT application 1002.02(p)
• Rule 1.48 (inventorship) 201.03
• Secrecy order 1002.02(c)(1)
• Sequence rules 1002.02(c)(2)
• Special status 708.02 , 1002.02(s) , 1504.30
• Stay ex parte reexamination proceedings 2284 , 2285
• Stayinter partes reexamination proceedings 2667 2686.02 , 2686.03
• Sufficiency of an affidavit 1002.02(c)
• Supervisory authority of Director of the USPTO 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)
• Suspend action - public safety or defense 1002.02(c)(1)
• Suspend rules 1002.02(b)
• Suspension of second or subsequentinter partes reexamination requests 2640
• Time for filing 1002
• Trademark related 1002.02(i)
• Transfer from another application 608.02(i)
• Unavoidable delay, withdraw abandonment 711.03(c) 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)(3) , 1306
• Unintentional delay, withdraw abandonment 711.03(c) 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)(3) , 1306
• Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing 1124
• Unintentionally delayed claim for foreign priority 201.14 , 201.14(a) , 201.16 1002.02(b) , 1402 , 2258 , 2658
• Unintentionally delayed claim for priority to a U.S. application 201.06(c) , 201.11 , 201.11(a) 1002.02(b) , 2258 , 2658
• Vacate order granting request for ex parte reexamination 2246
• Vacate an order grantinginter partesreexamination 2646
• Waive rules 1002.02(b)
• Waive time provisions in ex parte reexamination 2265
• Waive time provisions in inter partes reexamination 2648 , 2668 , 2672
• Withdrawal of lapsed patent 1002.02(r)
• Withdrawal from issue, after issue fee paid 502 , 1002.02(b) , 1308
• Withdrawal from issue, issue fee not paid 1002.02(c) , 1308
• Withdrawal of a terminal disclaimer 1490
• Withdrawal of abandonment 1002.02(b)
• Withdrawal of attorney 1002.02(s)
• In interference 1002.02(g)
• Withhold from issue, before issue fee paid 1002.02(c)
• Petition for Express Abandonment to Avoid Publication Under 37 CFR 1.138(a) PTO/SB/24A
• Cited 1125
• Reproduced 1135
• Petition for Revival of an Application For Patent Abandoned for Failure to Notify the Office of a Foreign or International Filing PTO/SB/64a
• Cited 1124
• Reproduced 1135
• Petitionable matter 706.01
• PG-Pub(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
• Pharmaceutical subject matter
• Safety review by FDA 2107.03
• Statute(See Statutes: 35 U.S.C. 155 )
• Utility 2107.01
• Phi, Greek letter usage 608.01(g)
• Philippines-United States search exchange 1711
• Photograph as drawing 507 , 608.02 , 1503.02
• Piecemeal prosecution 707.07(g)
• Plant Breeder' s Rights 1613
• Plant Convention, UPOV 1612
• Plant patent Chapter 1600
• Action 1610
• Advertising 1610
• Affidavit 1610
• Agricultural Research Service (ARS) 1608 , 1609
• Allowance 1611
• Application publication 1120 to 1135
• Asexual reproduction 1601 , 1605
• Bacteria 1601
• Claim 1605 , 1610
• Color drawing 1603 , 1606
• Color identified 1605
• Declaration 1604
• Definitions 1601
• Department of Agriculture 1608
• Deposit 1605
• Duplicate papers 1603 , 1605 , 1609
• Elements of application 1603
• Examination 1608
• Examiner's amendment 1610
• Executive Order 1608
• Issue 1611
• Laudatory expressions 1610
• Method claim improper 1605
• Oath 1604
• Parts 1603
• Plant varieties excluded 1601
• Priority claim 1613
• Publication of application 1120 to 1135
• Report of Agricultural Research Service 1608 , 1609
• Rules applicable 1602
• Signature 1603
• Specification 1605 , 1610
• Specimens 1607
• Statutory basis 1601
• Term 2701
• Tubers 1601
• UPOV Convention 1612
• Plant patent series 901.04
• PO Box(See Mail stop )
• Post classifier 902.04 , 903.02(c) , 903.07(b) 903.08(d) , 903.08(e) 903.09 , 903.10
• Requesting consideration by 903.08(d)
• Post employment agreement of former Office employee 1702
• Post Office, Depositing papers in 502
• Post Office address(See also Correspondence ; Mail Stop )
• Applicant 409.03(e) , 605.03 , 719.02(b)
• Attorney 601.02
• Postal Service interruptions and emergencies 511
• Postcard, self-addressed 203.08 , 503 601.01(d) , 601.01(f) , 601.01(g) 719.01(a) , 1204 , 1901 , 1901.05
• Power of attorney 402
• Application in interference 402.08
• Application oath or declaration includes 601.02
• Assignee appoints 402.07
• Assignee revokes 402.07
• Associate attorney 402.02 , 406
• Attorney not of record 714.01(c)
• Canadian patent agent 402
• Change in plurality of applications or patents 402
• Coinventor 402.01 , 402.10
• Customer Number 402
• Death of applicant 409 to 409.01(f)
• Death of principal attorney 406
• Exception as to registration 402.01
• General, for international application 1807
• Invalid 402
• Joint applicant 402.01
• Limited recognition 402.01
• Notice of revocation 402.05
• Post Office address 601.02
• Provisional application 103
• Reexamination,inter partes 2613 , 2622
• Revocation 402.05 , 402.07 , 402.08 , 402.10
• After Allowance 2501
• Secrecy order applications 120
• Unregistered attorney or agent 402 , 402.01
• Withdrawal of attorney or agent 402.06 , 2501
• Withdrawn in patent 2223 , 2501
• Power to inspect 103 , 104 , 324 , 402 , 713.05
• Power to inspect, approval 104
• Power to inspect, suspended attorney 105
• Practitioner(See Attorney or agent )
• Practitioner' s names on patents 1309
• Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) 1120 to 1135
• Amendments prior to publication 1121
• Appendices not published 1121
• Application in a foreign language 608.01
• Assignee information published 1121
• Certification as to intent to file counterpart applications 1122
• Claim sets, multiple 1121
• Computer programs 1121
• Content 1120 , 1121
• Conversion to provisional to avoid publication 601.01(c)
• Complete application required 1120
• Copies of published application files 1128
• Correction of errors in the PG-Pub 1130
• Correspondence address 1121
• Correspondence regarding published application 1134
• Disparaging remarks not published 1120
• Drawings 507 , 1120 , 1121
• Early publication 1129
• Express abandonment to avoid publication 502 1125 , 1135
• Facsimile submission 502.01
• Fee, publication 1126 , 1133 , 1303 , 1306 , 1306.03
• Forms 1135
• Inappropriate nonpublication request 1122
• Material mistake by the Office 1130
• Nonpublication request 1122
• Notice of foreign filing 1124
• Notice of Publication 1127
• Notice of New or Revised Publication 1127
• Offensive language not published 1120
• Public access to published application 1128 , 1132
• Publication date, projected 1120 , 1122
• Publication fee 1126 , 1133 , 1303
• RCE' s not published 1120
• Redacted publication 1132
• Refund of publication fee 1126
• Replacement drawings prior to publication 507 1120 , 1121
• Republication 1130
• Request for early publication 1129
• Request for nonpublication 1122
• Request for redacted publication 1132
• Rescission of nonpublication request 1123 , 1124
• Residence changed 719.02(b)
• Sequences published on Internet 1121
• Status information of published application 1128
• Substitute specification required 1120
• Tables, large 608.05(b)
• Third party inquiries 1134
• Voluntary publication 1133
• When published 1120
• Which applications 1120
• Pre-Grant Publication Division 502 , 1120 1122 , 1125 , 1126
• Preamble, design application 1503.01
• Preamble, effect of 2111.02
• Preamble, Jepson claim 2129
• Predicted tests in specification 608.01(p)
• Preliminary amendment 506 , 714.01(e)
• Preliminary amendment
• Entry denied 714.01(e)
• Excess claims 506 , 714.01(e) , 714.10
• New matter 608.04(b) , 714.01(e)
• Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714
• Preliminary handling of public use or on sale 2122
• Preliminary hearing, public use proceeding 720.03
• Premature final rejection 706.07(c)
• Premature response in inter partes reexamination 2667
• Prima facie showing, public use proceeding 720.02
• Primary examiner 705.01(a) , 706.04 , 706.07(c) 706.07(d) , 707.01 , 710.02(b) , 710.02(e) 711.03(a) , 713.01 , 713.02 , 713.10 , 714.16 714.16(d) , 714.19 , 715.08 , 716 , 2271 2633 , 2636 , 2648 , 2660 , 2671.01 to 2671.03
• Actions requiring personal attention 705.01(a) 707.01 , 707.09 , 710.02(b) 713.02 , 714.16(d) , 1004
• Name on file wrapper 1302.13
• Print of drawing(See also Drawings ) 608.02(m)
• Additional 608.02(m)
• Alteration 608.02(m)
• Colored 608.02(m)
• Examiner's notation on 608.02(m)
• File wrapper 719.01(b)
• Kept in Technology Center 608.02(c)
• Marked-up 608.02(v)
• Marking 608.02(m)
• Patentability report 608.02(n) , 705.01(d)
• Returned drawing 608.02(y)
• Printed matter nonstatutory 706.03(a)
• Printer waiting 708.01 , 1305 , 1309.02
• Printing date, declassified material 707.05(f)
• Printing practitioners names on patents 1309
• Printing priority 1309
• Prior art(See also Reference ) Chapter 900
• Admissions as 2129
• Analogous 2141.01(a)
• Disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) 706.02(l)(1) , 706.02(l)(2)
• 706.02(l)(3) , 2136.01 , 2141.01
• Duty of disclosure of 2001.04
• Effects of international application publication 1857 1857.01 , 1895.01
• Equivalents 2144.06
• Electronic Information Disclosure Statement 609.07
• Filed on Saturday Sunday or a Federal holiday 609.04(b)
• Foreign application as 2135.01
• Information reasonably necessary for finding 704.11
• International application publication 706.02(a) 1857.01 , 2163 , 2163.03
• Kind codes 901.04(a)
• Level of ordinary skill 2141.03
• Patents as 706.02(a) , 2126 , 2132 , 2136
• Publications under 35 U.S.C. 122(b) 1895.01 1896 , 2136 , 2136.03
• Scope and content of 2141.01
• Means limitations 2182
• Search(See also Search ) Chapter 900
• Statutory Invention Registrations as 901.02 , 2136
• Suitability of 2144.07
• Third party submissions 609 , 1134.01
• Used in deciding request for reexamination 2242 , 2642
• Well-known in the art 2144.03
• Prior art citations in reexamination proceedings
• Ex parte 2202
• Content 2205
• Copies of prior art 2205
• English translations 2205
• Explanation of pertinence 2205
• Flowcharts 2206
• Handling 2206
• Sample letter 2205
• Service on patent owner 2208
• Time for filing 2204
• Inter partes 2602 , 2646 2654 , 2656 , 2657
• After the order to reexamine 2602 , 2667
• After a Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes reexamination Certificate issues 2687.01
• Before the first Office action 2625
• Before the order to reexamine 2602 , 2654
• By another requestor 2656
• By the patent owner 2656
• Storage area 2667
• With the Request 2656
• With third party' s comments 2666.05 , 2667
• Prior art copies in reexamination
• Ex parte 2218
• Inter partes 2618
• Prior art filed by protestor 1901.02 , 1901.03
• Prior art on drawing 608.02(g) , 2125
• Prior art statement 609 , 1893.03(g)
• Provisional application 609
• Reissue application 1418
• Prior art, statement applying (reexamination) 2217 , 2617
• Prior art used in determining reexamination request
• Ex parte 2244
• Inter partes 2644
• Prior Examiner's action 704.01 , 706.04 , 713.01
• Priority
• Claiming in continued prosecution
• application 201.06(d) , 1302.04
• Claiming in ex parte reexamination 2258
• Claiming in inter partes reexamination 2658
• Claiming in reissue application 1402 , 1405 , 1417
• Foreign application(See also Foreign application ) 201.13
• Corrected by Certificate of Correction 1481
• Design applications 1504.02 , 1504.10
• Ex parte reexamination 2258
• Incorporation by reference 201.13 , 201.17 , 608.01(p)
• Inter partes reexamination 2658
• Proper identification 201.14(d)
• Formal requirements 201.11 , 201.14 , 706.02(f)(1)
• Incorporation by reference to earlier application 201.06(c) , 201.17 , 608.01(p)
• International application 201.11(a) , 1828 , 1893.03(c)
• Corrected by Certificate of Correction 1481
• Inventor' s certificate 201.13(a)
• Overcoming reference 201.15
• Patent printing 1309
• Petition for unintentionally delayed claim to benefit of prior U.S. application 201.11 , 201.11(a)
• Prior U.S. application 201.11
• Corrected by Certificate of Correction 201.11 , 1481
• Design application 1504.20
• In ex parte reexamination 2258
• In inter partes reexamination 2658
• Provisional application 706.02
• Time charts 2138.01
• Time for filing 201.13
• Priority document(See Foreign application )
• Priority practice(See Foreign application )
• Private use(See also Public use ) 2133.03(a)
• Proceedings, Termination of 201.11 , 711.02(c)
• Process of making and product made 806.05(f)
• Processing and retention fee 601.01(a)
• Processing of reexamination in Technology Center
• Ex parte 2233
• Inter partes 2633
• Product and process of using 806.05(h) , 2173.05(p)
• Product by process 2113 , 2173.05(p)
• Product of human ingenuity 2105
• Product of nature 706.03(a)
• Program Management System (PMS) 2238 , 2638
• Programs, Computer(See Computer programs or software )
• Prolix claim 2173.05(m)
• Proof, burden of 2112 , 2112.01 , 2113
• Proof of authority of administrator or executor 409.01(b)
• Proof of foreign filing 201.14
• Proof of irreparable damage 409.03(g)
• Proof of ownership, reissue application 1410.01
• Proof of unavailability or refusal to sign 409.03(d)
• Proofreading of action 707.08
• Proper multiple dependent claim 608.01(n)
• Property rights statement 150
• Contents of 151
• Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts 115 , 150 , 151
• Prophetic examples in the specification 608.01(p)
• Proprietary interest, Proof of 409.03(f)
• Proprietary materials(See Protective order material ; Trade secret material )
• Pro se applicant(See also Applicant ; Inventor )
• Appeal brief 1205
• Certificate of mailing 512
• Change of address 601.03 , 719.02(b)
• Death 409.01(f)
• Duty of disclosure 2002.01
• Examination of application 707.07(j)
• Examiner's action 707
• Interview 713.01
• Legal representation 401
• Telephone restriction practice 812.01
• Prosecution
• Closed, application allowable except for formal matters 707.07(j) , 710.02(b) , 714.14
• Closed, secrecy order cases 130
• Prosecution after appeal 1207.04
• Piecemeal 707.07(g)
• Reopening after allowance 1308.01
• Reopening after Board decision 1214.07
• Prosecution laches 2190
• Prosecution of Secrecy Order application 130
• Prosecution reopened after court decision 1216.01
• Protective order material(See also Trade secret material ) 724 to 724.06
• Submission 724.02
• Protest Chapter 1900
• Access by protestor 1901.05 , 1901.07
• Acknowledgment of protest 1901.05
• Certificate of service 1901.03
• Comments of applicant 1901.06
• Complete 1901.03
• Copies of documents 1901.03
• Express consent of applicant required 1134
• Filed in reissue where patent is in interference 1449 , 1901.06
• Handling 1901.05
• Improper protest 1134 , 1901.03
• Information which can be relied on 1901.02
• Involving fraud, lack of good faith or candor, orviolation of duty of disclosure 1901.06 , 2013
• Multiple papers on same issue 1901.07(a)
• Reissue application 1441.01 , 1901.04
• Reissue litigation 1901.03 , 1901.04
• Requirement for information 1901
• Review of adverse decision 1906
• Service on patentee or applicant 1901.03
• TC Director' s attention required 1003
• Timeliness of protest 1901.04
• Trade secret information 724 , 1901.02
• Treatment by examiner 1901.06
• Under Rule 1.291 1901
• Who can file 1901.01
• Protestor participation 1901.07
• Provisional application 201.04(b) , 1706
• Abandonment 201.04(b) , 201.11 , 711.03(c)
• Access 103 , 104
• Assignment of 302.03
• Assignment of application claiming benefits of 306.01
• Completeness 506 , 601.01(b)
• Conversion to 201.04(b) , 601.01(c)
• Correction of inventorship 201.03
• Cover sheet for 201.04(b)
• Data, on file wrapper/history of 202.02 , 1302.09
• Data, in specification of 1302.04
• Drawing 608.02
• Effective filing date 601.01(b) , 706.02
• English language translation for benefit of date 201.11
• Filing receipt 503
• Guidelines for drafting 601
• Information disclosure statement 609
• Joint inventors in 605.07
• Last day of pendency 201.04(b)
• Ordering of abandoned 905.03
• Priority 201.04(b) , 201.11
• Error in, as reissue grounds 1402
• Request to convert to nonprovisional 1002.02(b) 1002.02(q)
• Revival 711.03(c)
• Statutory Invention Registration 1101
• Small entity status 509.03
• Specification 601.01
• PTO employee restrictions, assignment 309
• PTO employee restrictions, unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventor 409
• Public access to ex parte reexamination file 2232
• Public access to inter partes reexamination file 2632
• Public domain(See also Public use ; On sale ; and Disclaimer ) 2121.03 , 2133.03 2133.03(a) , 2145
• Dedication to public 715 , 1490
• Public inspection, Application file 103 , 1128
• Ex parte reexamination 103 , 2232
• Inter partes reexamination 103 , 2609 , 2632
• Redacted application publication 103 , 1132
• Reissue 103 , 1430 , 1470
• Public inspection of assignments 301.01
• Public Law(See Statutes )
• Public policy 706.03(a)
• Public right to inspect files 103 , 1128
• In ex parte reexamination 103 , 2232
• in inter partes reexamination 103 , 2609 , 2632
• Public sale(See also On sale ; Public use ) 2133.03
• Public search facility (See Patent search facility )
• Public searchers 101
• Public use(See also On sale ) 706.02(c) 2133.03 , 2133.03(a)
• Affidavit or declaration 715.10
• Anticipation 2133.03(a)
• Commercial exploitation 2133.03(e)(1)
• Commercial use 2133.03(a)
• Completion of the invention 2133.03 2133.03(c) , 2133.03(e)(1)
• Definition of 2133.03(a)
• Evidence 706.02(c)
• Experimental use(See also Experimental use ) 2133.03 , 2133.03(e)
• In this country 706.02(c) , 2133.03(d)
• Intent to experiment 2133.03(e)(2) , 2133.03(e)(3)
• Invention 2133.03(c)
• Policy considerations 2133.03
• Public knowledge or on display 2133.03(a)
• Secrecy 2133.03(a)
• Single use 2133.03(a)
• Control over invention 2133.03(a) 2133.03(e)(5) , 2133.03(e)(7)
• Testing by third party 2133.03(e)(5) , 2133.03(e)(7)
• Use with expectation of privacy 2133.03(a)
• Use by inventor or associates 2133.03(a)
• Use by independent third parties 2133.03(a)
• Public use proceedings 720
• Affidavits 720.01
• Final decision 720.05
• Oral argument 720.04
• Petitions 1134 , 1002.02(b)
• Preliminary handling 720.01
• Preliminary hearing 720.03
• Prima facie showing 720.02
• Rejections after 706.03(v)
• Rejections on 706.03(v) , 720.05
• Testimony 720.04
• Publication, Defensive 711.06 , 711.06(a) , 1111
• Publication of Statutory Invention Registration 1111
• Publication date 706.02(a) , 707.05(f)
• Publication fee 1126 , 1133 , 1303 , 1306 , 1306.03
• Publication of abstracts 711.06 , 711.06(a)
• Publication
• Board decisions 1213.03
• Citing 706.02 , 707.05(e) , 901.06
• Date of 706.02(a)
• Declassified 707.05(f)
• Notices Introduction , 707.06 , 1703
• Official Gazette(O.G.) 1703
• Orders Introduction , 707.06 , 1703
• Own, as reference 715.01(c) , 2132.01
• Patent and Trademark Office Introduction
• Pre-Grant(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
• Prior art effect of international 706.02(a) , 1857.01 2136.03
• Rules changes 1703
• Under 35 U.S.C. 122(b) as references 1857.01 , 1896 , 2136 , 2136.03
• Voluntary 1133
• Publishing Division(See Office of Patent Publications )
• Pulling abandonments 711.04(a)

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