Index I RULES RELATING TO PATENTS
A
Abandoned applications:
Abandonment by failure to reply ______ 1.135
Abandonment after judgment ______ 41.127
Abandonment for failure to pay issue fee ______ 1.316
Express abandonment ______ 1.138
Processing fee ______ 1.21(n)
Referred to in issued patents ______ 1.14
Revival of ______ 1.137
When open to public inspection ______ 1.14
Abandonment of application. (See Abandoned applications.)
Abstract of the disclosure ______ 1.72(b), 1.77, 1.163
Access to pending applications (limited) ______ 1.14
Action by applicant ______ 1.111 - 1.114
Addresses for correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 1.1
Deposit account replenishment ______ 1.25(c)(3)
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 1.1(a)
Disciplinary Proceedings ______ 1.1(a)(3)(ii)
Generally ______ 1.1(a)
Licensing and Review ______ 5.1(a)
Office of the General Counsel ______ 1.1(a)(3),
Office of the Solicitor ______ 1.1(a)(3)(iii),
Mail Stops
Mail Stop 8 ______ 1.1(a)(3)
Mail Stop 24 ______ 4.3(c)
Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services ______ 1.1(a)(4)(i), 3.27
Mail Stop Congressional Relations ______ 150.6
Mail Stop Document Services ______ 1.1(a)(4)(ii)
Mail Stop Ex parte Reexam ______ 1.1(c)(1)
Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE ______ 1.1(e)
Mail Stop Inter partes Reexam ______ 1.1(c)(2)
Mail Stop Interference ______ 41.10(b)
Mail Stop L&R ______ 5.1
Mail Stop OED ______ 1.1(a)(5), 4.6
Maintenance fee payments ______ 1.1(d)
Patent correspondence ______ 1.1(a)(1)
Patent and Trademark Appeal Board ______ 1.1(a)(1), 41.10, 42.6(b)(2)(ii)
Trademark correspondence ______ 2.190(a)
Adjustment of patent term. (see Patent term adjustment due to examination delay.)
Administrator may make application and receive patent (see Legal Representative)
Admission to practice. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Affidavit (See also Oath in patent application):
After appeal ______ 41.33
As evidence in a contested case ______ 41.154
Attribution or prior public disclosure under the AIA ______ 1.130
To disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art ______ 1.131(c)
Traversing rejections or objections ______ 1.132
Agents. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Allowance and issue of patent:
Amendment after allowance ______ 1.312
Application abandoned for nonpayment of issue fee ______ 1.316
Deferral of issuance ______ 1.314
Delayed payment of issue fee ______ 1.137
Delivery of patent ______ 1.315
Failure to pay issue fee ______ 1.137(c), 1.316
Issuance of patent ______ 1.314
Notice of allowance ______ 1.311
Patent to issue upon payment of issue fee ______ 1.311, 1.314
Patent to lapse if issue fee is not paid in full ______ 1.317
Reasons for ______ 1.104(e)
Withdrawal from issue ______ 1.313
Amendment:
Adding or substituting claims ______ 1.121
After appeal ______ 41.33, 41.63
After decision on appeal, based on new rejection by the Board ______ 41.50(b)(1), 41.77(b)(1)
After final action ______ 1.116
After final action (transitional procedures) ______ 1.129
After notice of allowance ______ 1.312
Copying claim of another application for interference ______ 41.202
Copying claim of issued patent ______ 41.202
Deletions and insertions ______ 1.121
Drawings ______ 1.121
During inter partes review ______ 42.107(d), 42.221
Manner of making ______ 1.121
Not covered by original oath ______ 1.67
Numbering of claims ______ 1.126
Of amendments ______ 1.121
Of claims ______ 1.121
Of disclosure ______ 1.121
Of drawing ______ 1.121
Of specification ______ 1.121
Paper and writing ______ 1.52
Petition from refusal to admit ______ 1.127
Preliminary ______ 1.115
Proposed during interference ______ 41.121, 41.208
Provisional application ______ 1.53(c)
Reexamination proceedings ______ 1.121(j), 1.530, 1.941
Reissue ______ 1.121(i), 1.173
Requisites of ______ 1.33, 1.111, 1.116, 1.121, 1.125
Right to amend ______ 1.111, 1.116, 1.127
Signature to ______ 1.33
Substitute specification ______ 1.125
Time for ______ 1.134
To applications in interference ______ 41.121
To correct inaccuracies ______ 1.121
To correspond to original drawing or specification ______ 1.121
To reissues. ______ 1.173
To save from abandonment ______ 1.135
Within appeal brief ______ 41.37(c)(2), 41.41(b)(1),
Amino acid sequences. (See Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences.)
Appeals:
Civil Actions under 35 U.S.C. 145 or 146 ______ 90.3
To Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit:
To the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Affidavits after appeal ______ 41.33, 41.63
Briefs ______ 41.37, 41.41, 41.67, 41.68, 41.71
Decision/Action by Board ______ 41.50, 41.77
Return of jurisdiction to examiner ______ 1.979, 41.54, 41.81
Termination of proceedings ______ 1.197(b), 42.72
Ex parte appeals ______ 41.30 - 41.54
Examiner’s answer ______ 41.39, 41.69
Hearing of ______ 41.47, 41.73, 42.70
Inter partes reexamination ______ 41.61 - 41.81
New grounds of rejection ______ 41.39(a)(2), 41.50(b), 41.69(b),
______ 41.71(c)(3), 41.77(b)
Notice of appeal ______ 41.31, 41.61
Public inspection or publication of decisions ______ 41.6, 42.14
Rehearing ______ 41.50(b)(2), 41.52, 41.79, 41.77(b)(2)
Reopening after final Board decision ______ 1.198
Sanctions ______ 41.128, 42.12
Applicant for patent:
Assignee or obligated assignee ______ 1.46
Correspondence address ______ 1.33
Daytime telephone number ______ 1.33
Deceased or legally incapacitated inventor ______ 1.43, 1.422
In a continued prosecution application ______ 1.53(b), 1.53(d)(4)
In an international application ______ 1.421 - 1.424
Informed of application number ______ 1.54(b)
Inventorship in a provisional application ______ 41.41(c)
Legal Representative ______ 1.43
Legal Representative ______ 1.43
Mailing address and residence of inventors may be provided in oath/declaration or in application data sheet ______ 1.63, 1.76
Must be represented by a patent practitioner if juristic entity ______ 1.31
Person making oath or declaration ______ 1.64 (pre‑AIA)
Personal attendance unnecessary ______ 1.2
Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy ______ 1.3
Required to report assistance received ______ 1.4
Application Data sheet ______ 1.76
Application for patent (See also Abandoned applications, Claims, Drawing, Examination of applications, Provisional applications, Publication of application, Published application, Reissues, Specification):
Access to ______ 1.14
Acknowledgment of filing ______ 1.54(b)
Alteration ______ 1.52(c), 1.53(d)(5)
Application number and filing date ______ 1.54
Arrangement ______ 1.77
Compact disc submissions (see Electronic documents)
Confidentiality of applications ______ 1.14
Continuation or division, reexecution not required ______ 1.63
Continued prosecution application ______ 1.53(d)
Copies of, furnished to applicants ______ 1.59
Cross-references to related applications ______ 1.78
Deceased or legally incapacitated inventor ______ 1.43
Declaration ______ 1.68
Duty of disclosure ______ 1.56
Examined only when complete ______ 1.53 (pre‑AIA) 1.53
Filed by other than inventor ______ 1.42, 1.43, 1.46,
Filing date ______ 1.53(pre‑plt(AIA))
Filing requirements ______ 1.53(pre‑plt(AIA))
Foreign language oath or declaration ______ 1.69
Formulas and tables ______ 1.58
General requisites ______ 1.51
Identification required in letters concerning ______ 1.5
Incomplete application not forwarded for examination ______ 1.53(pre‑plt(AIA))
Interlineations, etc., to be indicated ______ 1.52
Involving national security ______ 5.1
Language, paper, writing, margin ______ 1.52
Later filing of oath and filing fee ______ 1.53 (pre‑AIA)
Missing pages when application filed ______ 1.53(e)
Naming of inventors:
Application data sheet ______ 1.76(b)(1)
In a continued prosecution application ______ 1.53(d)(4)
In a provisional application ______ 1.41(c), 1.51(c)(1)(ii)
In an international application ______ 1.421
National stage ______ 1.497
Inconsistencies between application data sheet and oath or declaration ______ 1.76(d)
Joint inventors ______ 1.45
Oath/declaration. ______ 1.63(a)
Non-English language ______ 1.52
Nonpublication request ______ 1.213
Numbering of claims ______ 1.126
Numbering of paragraphs ______ 1.52, 1.125
Original disclosure not expunged ______ 1.59(a)(2)
Parts filed separately ______ 1.54
Parts of application desirably filed together ______ 1.54
Parts of complete application ______ 1.51
Processing fees ______ 1.17
Provisional application ______ 1.9, 1.51, 1.53
Publication of ______ 1.211, 1.219
Relating to atomic energy ______ 1.14
Reservation for future application not permitted ______ 1.79
Status information ______ 1.14
Tables and formulas ______ 1.58
Third party submission in ______ 1.290
To contain but one invention unless connected ______ 1.141
To whom made ______ 1.51
Two or more by same party with conflicting claims ______ 1.78
Application number ______ 1.5(a), 1.53, 1.54
Arbitration award filing ______ 1.335
Arbitration in a contested case before the Board ______ 41.126, 42.410
Assignee:
Correspondence held with assignee(s) of entire interest ______ 3.71, 3.73
Establishing ownership ______ 3.73(b)
May conduct prosecution of application ______ 3.71, 3.73
May make application for patent ______ 1.46
May take action in Board proceeding ______ 41.9
Must consent to application for reissue of patent ______ 1.171, 1.172
Assignments and recording:
Abstracts of title, fee for ______ 1.19(b)(5)
Conditional assignments ______ 3.56
Cover sheet required ______ 3.28, 3.31
Corrections ______ 3.34
Date of receipt is date of record ______ 3.51
Effect of recording ______ 3.54
Fees ______ 1.21(h)
Formal requirements ______ 3.21 -3.28
If recorded before payment of issue fee, patent may issue to assignee ______ 3.81
Impact on entitlement to micro entity status ______ 1.29
Impact on small entity status ______ 1.27
Joint research agreements ______ 3.11(c), 3.31(g)
Mailing address for submitting documents ______ 1.1(a)(4), 3.27
May serve as inventor’s oath or declaration ______ 1.63(e)
Must be recorded in Patent and Trademark Office to issue patent to assignee ______ 3.81
Must identify patent or application ______ 3.21
Orders for copies of ______ 1.12
Patent may issue to assignee ______ 3.81
Recording of assignments ______ 3.11
Records open to public inspection ______ 1.12
Requirements for recording ______ 3.21 -3.41
What will be accepted for recording ______ 3.11
Atomic energy applications reported to Department of Energy ______ 1.14
Attorneys and agents:
Acting in representative capacity ______ 1.33, 1.34
Assignment will not operate as a revocation of power ______ 1.36
Certificate of good standing ______ 1.21(a)
Complaints ______ 4.6
Office cannot aid in selection of ______ 1.31
Personal interviews with examiners ______ 1.133
Power of attorney ______ 1.32
Power to inspect ______ 1.14
Representative capacity ______ 1.33, 1.34
Registration fees ______ 1.21(a)
Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy ______ 1.3
Revocation of power ______ 1.36(a)
Authorization of agents. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Award in arbitration ______ 1.335
B
Balance in deposit account ______ 1.25
Basic filing fee ______ 1.16
Benefit of earlier application ______ 1.78
Biological material. (See Deposit of biological material.)
Briefs:
In petitions to Director ______ 1.181(b)
Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy ______ 1.3
Business to be transacted in writing ______ 1.2
C
Certificate of correction ______ 1.322, 1.323
Certificate of mailing (First Class) or transmission ______ 1.8
Certification effect of presentation to Office ______ 1.4(d), 11.18
Certified copies of records, papers, etc. ______ 1.4(f), 1.13
Fee for certification ______ 1.19(b)(4)
Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables ______ 1.58
Citation of prior art in patented file ______ 1.501
Citation of references ______ 1.104(d)
Civil action (time for commencing under 35 U.S.C. 145 or 146) ______ 90.3(a)(3)
Claims (See also Examination of applications):
Amendment of ______ 1.121(c)
Commence on separate sheet or electronic page ______ 1.52(b)(3), 1.75(h)
Conflicting, same applicant or owner ______ 1.78(e), (f)
Dependent ______ 1.75
Design patent ______ 1.153
Effective filing date of (under AIA) ______ 1.109
May be in dependent form ______ 1.75(c)
More than one permitted ______ 1.75(b)
Multiple dependent ______ 1.75(c)
Must conform to invention and specification ______ 1.75(d)
Notice of rejection of ______ 1.104
Numbering of ______ 1.126
Part of complete application ______ 1.51(b)(1)
Plant patent. ______ 1.164
Rejection of ______ 1.104
Required ______ 1.75(a)
Separate from other parts of application ______ 1.75(h)
Twice rejected before appeal ______ 41.31(a)(1)
Color drawing ______ 1.6(d)(4), 1.84(a)(2)
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (See Director of the USPTO.)
Common ownership, statement by assignee may be required ______ 1.104(c)
Compact disc submissions. (See Electronic documents.)
Complaints against examiners, how presented ______ 1.3
Complaints regarding invention promoters (See Invention promoters.)
Composition of matter, specimens of ingredients may be required ______ 1.93
Computer program listing appendix ______ 1.96
Concurrent office proceedings ______ 1.178(b), 1.565(a), 1.610(b)(3), 1.620(d), 1.985 -1.995
Conflicting claims, same applicant or owner in two or more applications ______ 1.78(e), (f)
Contested cases before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ______ 41.100 -41.158
Continued examination, request for ______ 1.114
Continued prosecution application ______ 1.53(d)
Suspension of action in ______ 1.103(c)
Continuing application for invention disclosed and claimed in prior application ______ 1.53, 1.63(d)
Control number, display of ______ 1.419
Copies of patents, published applications, records, etc. ______ 1.11, 1.12, 1.13
Copies of records, fees ______ 1.19(b), 1.59(c)
Copyright notice in specification ______ 1.71(d)
Copyright notice on drawings ______ 1.84(s)
Correction, certificate of ______ 1.322, 1.323
Correction of inventorship:
In a nonprovisional application ______ 1.48
Before filing oath/declaration or application data sheet ______ 1.41 , 1.76(c)
By filing an application data sheet ______ 1.76(d)(3)
When filing a continuation or divisional application ______ 1.63(d)
When filing a continued prosecution application ______ 1.53(d)(4)
In a provisional application ______ 1.48(d)
In a reexamination proceeding ______ 1.530(l)
In an international application ______ 1.472
When entering the national stage ______ 1.497
In an issued patent ______ 1.324
In other than a reissue application ______ 1.48
Inconsistencies between application data sheet and oath or declaration ______ 1.76(d)
Motion to correct inventorship in an interference ______ 41.121(a)(2)
Supplemental application data sheet(s) ______ 1.76(c)
Correspondence:
Address:
Change of correspondence address ______ 1.33
Established by the office if more than one is specified ______ 1.33(a)
Of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ______ 1.1
Business with the Office to be transacted by ______ 1.2
Discourteous communications not entered ______ 1.3
Double, with different parties in interest not allowed ______ 1.33(a)
Duplicate copies disposed of ______ 1.4(b)
Facsimile transmission ______ 1.6(d)
Held with attorney or agent ______ 1.33
Identification of application or patent in letter relating to ______ 1.5
Involving national security ______ 5.1
May be held exclusively with assignee(s) of entire interest ______ 3.71
Nature of ______ 1.4
Patent owners in reexamination ______ 1.33(c)
Receipt of letters and papers ______ 1.6
Rules for conducting in general ______ 1.1 -1.10
Separate letter for each subject or inquiry ______ 1.4
Signature requirements ______ 1.4(d)
When no attorney or agent ______ 1.33
With attorney or agent after power or authorization is filed ______ 1.33
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appeal to. (See Appeal to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.)
Covered business method patent review (See Transitional program for covered business method patent review)
Credit card payment ______ 1.23(b)
Cross-reference to related applications ______ 1.76 -1.78
Customer Number:
Defined ______ 1.32(a)(5)
Required to establish a Fee Address ______ 1.363(c)
D
Date of invention of subject matter of individual claims ______ 1.110
Day for taking any action or paying any fee falling on Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday ______ 1.7
Death or incapacity of inventor ______ 1.43
In an international application ______ .1.422
Decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ______ 41.50, 41.77
Return of jurisdiction to examiner ______ 1.979, 41.54, 41.81
Termination of proceedings ______ 1.197(b)
Declaration (See also Oath in patent application):
Assignment may serve as ______ 1.63(e)
Foreign language ______ 1.69
In lieu of oath ______ 1.68
In patent application ______ 1.68
Substitute statement ______ 1.64
Deferral of examination ______ 1.103
Definitions:
Applicable to part 42 (Trial Practice Before the Board) ______ 42.2
Applicant ______ 1.42
Assignment ______ 3.1
Claimed invention ______ 1.9(f)
Covered business method patent ______ 42.301
Customer Number ______ 1.32(a)(5)
Director ______ 1.9(j)
Document ______ 3.1
Effective filing date of a claimed invention ______ 1.109
Federal holiday within the District of Columbia ______ 1.9(h)
International application ______ 1.9(b)
Inventor or inventorship ______ 1.9(d)(1)
Joint inventor or coinventor ______ 1.9(d)(2)
Joint research agreement ______ 1.9(e)
Micro entity ______ 1.29
National application ______ 1.9(a)
National security classified ______ 1.9(j)
Nonprofit organization ______ 1.27(a)(3)
Nonprovisonal application ______ 1.9(a)(3)
Paper ______ 1.9(k)
Patent practitioner or patent practitioner of record ______ 1.32
Person (for small entity purposes) ______ 1.27(a)(1)
Power of Attorney ______ 1.32(a)(2)
Principal ______ 1.32(a)(3)
Provisional application ______ 1.9(a)(2)
Published application ______ 1.9(c)
Recorded document ______ 3.1
Revocation ______ 1.32(a)(4)
Small business concern ______ 1.27(a)(2)
Small entity ______ 1.27(a)
Technological invention ______ 42.301
Terms under Patent Cooperation Treaty ______ 1.401
Delivery of patent ______ 1.315
Deposit accounts ______ 1.25
Fees ______ 1.21(b)
Deposit of biological material:
Acceptable depository ______ 1.803
Biological material ______ 1.801
Examination procedures ______ 1.809
Furnishing of samples ______ 1.808
Need or opportunity to make a deposit ______ 1.802
Replacement or supplemental deposit ______ 1.805
Term of deposit ______ 1.806
Time of making original deposit ______ 1.804
Viability of deposit ______ 1.807
Deposit of computer program listings ______ 1.52(e)(i), 1.96
Depositions (See also Testimony in contested cases before the Board):
Certificate of officer to accompany ______ 41.157(e)(6)
Original filed as exhibit ______ 41.157(e)(7)
Person before whom taken ______ 41.157(e)
Derivation Proceeding:
Arbitration ______ 42.410
Common interests in the invention ______ 42.411
Content of the petition ______ 42.405
Definitions ______ 42.401
Fee ______ 42.404
Filing date ______ 42.407
Institution of derivation proceeding ______ 42.408
Pendency ______ 42.400
Procedure ______ 42.400
Public availability of Board records ______ 42.412
Service of petition ______ 42.406
Settlement agreements ______ 42.409
Time for filing ______ 42.403
Who may petition ______ 42.402
Description of invention. (See Specification.)
Design Patent Applications:
Arrangement of application elements ______ 1.154
Claim ______ 1.153(a)
Drawing ______ 1.152
Expedited examination ______ 1.155
Filing fee ______ 1.16(b)
Issue fee ______ 1.18(b)
Oath or Declaration ______ 1.153(b)
Rules applicable ______ 1.151
Title, description and claim ______ 1.153
Determination of request for ex parte reexamination ______ 1.515
Director of the USPTO (See also Petition to the Director):
Address of ______ 1.1(a)
Availability of decisions by ______ 1.14(e)
Initiates ex parte reexamination ______ 1.520
Disclaimer, statutory:
Disclosure, amendments to add new matter not permitted ______ 1.121(f)
Discovery in cases before the Board ______ 41.150 -41.158, 42.224
Division. (See Restriction of application.)
Document supply fees ______ 1.19
Drawing:
Amendment of ______ 1.121
Arrangement of views ______ 1.84(i)
Arrows ______ 1.84(r)
Character of lines ______ 1.84(l)
Color ______ 1.6(d)(4), 1.84(a)(2), 1.165(b)
Content of drawing ______ 1.83
Copyright notice ______ 1.84(s)
Correction ______ 1.84(w), 1.85(c), 1.121
Cost of copies of ______ 1.19
Design application ______ 1.152
Figure for front page ______ 1.76(b)(3), 1.84(j)
Filed with application ______ 1.81
Graphics ______ 1.84(d)
Hatching and shading ______ 1.84(m)
Holes ______ 1.84(x)
Identification ______ 1.84(c)
If of an improvement, must show connection with old structure ______ 1.83(b)
Informal drawings ______ 1.85
Ink ______ 1.84(a)(1)
Lead lines ______ 1.84(q)
Legends ______ 1.84(o)
Letters ______ 1.84(p)
Location of names ______ 1.84(c)
Mask work notice ______ 1.84(s)
Must be described in and referred to specification ______ 1.74
Must show every feature of the invention ______ 1.83
No return or release ______ 1.85(b)
Numbering of sheets ______ 1.84(t)
Numbering of views ______ 1.84(u)
Numbers ______ 1.84(p)
Original should be retained by applicant ______ 1.81(a)
Paper ______ 1.84(e)
Part of application papers ______ 1.51(b)(3)
Photographs ______ 1.84(b)
Plant patent application ______ 1.165
Reference characters ______ 1.74, 1.84(p)
Reissue ______ 1.173
Release not permitted ______ 1.85(b)
Required by law when necessary for understanding ______ 1.81
Scale ______ 1.84(k)
Security markings ______ 1.84(v)
Shading ______ 1.84(m)
Size of sheet and margins ______ 1.84(f), (g)
Standards for drawings ______ 1.84
Symbols ______ 1.84(n)
Views ______ 1.84(h)
When necessary, part of complete application ______ 1.51(b)(3)
Duty of disclosure ______ 1.56, 1.555
Patent term extension ______ 1.765
E
Effective filing date of a claimed invention ______ 1.109
Election of species ______ 1.146
Electronic documents:
Compact disc submissions:
Amino acid sequences ______ 1.821, 1.823, 1.825
Computer program listings ______ 1.96
Incorporation by reference in specification ______ 1.52(e)
Nuclide acid sequences ______ 1.821, 1.823, 1.825
Requirements ______ 1.52(e)
Submitted as part of permanent record ______ 1.52(e), 1.58, 1.96, 1.821, 1.823, 1.825
Tables ______ 1.58
Employee testimony. (See Testimony by Office employees.)
Establishing micro entity status ______ 1.29
Establishing small entity status ______ 1.27, 1.28
Evidence in contested cases before the Board ______ 41.154
Ex parte appeals:
Action following decision ______ 41.54
Amendments during ______ 41.33
Appeal brief ______ 41.37
Decisions and other actions by the Board ______ 41.50
Definitions ______ 41.30
Evidence ______ 41.33
Examiner’s answer ______ 41.39
Extending time periods ______ 41.31(d)
Fee ______ 41.20(b)(4), 41.45
Jurisdiction ______ 41.35
Oral hearing ______ 41.47
Rehearing ______ 41.52
Reply brief ______ 41.41
Tolling of time period to file a reply brief ______ 41.40
Who may appeal ______ 41.31(a)
Ex parte reexamination. (See Reexamination.)
Examination of applications:
Advancement of examination ______ 1.102
As to form ______ 1.104
Citation of references ______ 1.104(d)
Completeness of examiner’s action ______ 1.104(b)
Deferral of ______ 1.103
Examiner’s action ______ 1.104(a)
International-type search ______ 1.104(a)
Nature of examination ______ 1.104
Reasons for allowance ______ 1.104(e)
Reconsideration after rejection if requested ______ 1.111
Reissue ______ 1.176
Rejection of claims ______ 1.104(c)
Request for continued examination ______ 1.114
Requirements for information by examiner ______ 1.105
Suspension of ______ 1.103
Examiners:
Executor (See Legal Representative) ______ 1.42
Exhibits (See Models and exhibits)
Export of technical data ______ 5.19, 5.20
Express abandonment ______ 1.138
Expungement ______ 1.59
Extension of patent term (See also Patent term adjustment):
Due to examination delay under the URAA (35 U.S.C. 154) ______ 1.701
Due to regulatory review period (35 U.S.C. 156):
Certificate of extension ______ 1.780
Conditions for ______ 1.720
Correction of informalities ______ 1.740
Determination of eligibility ______ 1.750
Duty of disclosure ______ 1.765
Filing date of application ______ 1.741
Formal requirements ______ 1.740
Incomplete application ______ 1.741
Interim extension under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) ______ 1.790
Interim extension under 35 U.S.C. 156(e)(2) ______ 1.760
Multiple applications ______ 1.785
Order granting interim extension ______ 1.780
Patents subject to ______ 1.710
Priority Mail Express ______ 1.6, 1.10
Signature requirements for application ______ 1.730
Termination of interim extension granted under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) ______ 1.791
Withdrawal of application ______ 1.770
Extension of time ______ 1.136
F
Facsimile transmission ______ 1.6(d), 1.8
Federal holiday within the District of Columbia ______ 1.9(h)
Federal Register, publication of rules in ______ 1.351
Fees and payment of money:
Credit card ______ 1.23
Deposit accounts ______ 1.25
Document supply fees ______ 1.19
Extension of time ______ 1.17
Fee on appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit provided by rules of court ______ 1.301
Fees payable in advance ______ 1.22
Foreign filing license petition ______ 1.17(g)
For international-type search report ______ 1.21(e)
Itemization required ______ 1.22
Method of payment ______ 1.23
Money by mail at risk of sender ______ 1.23
Money paid by mistake ______ 1.26
Necessary for application to be complete ______ 1.51
Petition fees ______ 1.17, 1.181, 41.20
Post allowance ______ 1.18
Prioritized examination under 37 CFR 1.102(e) ______ 1.17
Processing fees ______ 1.17
Reexamination request ______ 1.20(c)
Refunds ______ 1.26
Relating to international applications ______ 1.25(b), 1.445, 1.481, 1.482, 1.492
Files open to the public ______ 1.11
Filing date of application ______ 1.53
Filing, search, and examination fees ______ 1.16
Filing in Post Office ______ 1.10
Filing of interference settlement agreements ______ 41.205
Final rejection:
First Class Mail (includes Priority Mail Express) ______ 1.8
Foreign application ______ 1.55
Foreign country:
Foreign mask work protection ______ Part 150
Evaluation of request ______ 150.4
Definition ______ 150.1
Duration of proclamation ______ 150.5
Initiation of evaluation ______ 150.2
Mailing address ______ 150.6
Submission of requests ______ 150.3
Formulas and tables in patent applications. ______ 1.58
Fraud practiced or attempted on Office ______ 1.56
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ______ 102.1 -102.11
Appeals from initial determinations or untimely delays ______ 102.10
Business information ______ 102.9
Correspondence address ______ 102.1(b), 102.4(a)
Expedited processing ______ 102.6
Fees ______ 102.11
Public reference facilities ______ 102.2
Records ______ 102.3
Responses to requests ______ 102.7
Requirements for making requests ______ 102.4
G
Gazette. (See Official Gazette.)
General authorization to charge deposit account ______ 1.25, 1.136(a)(3)
General information and correspondence ______ 1.1 -1.8
Government acquisition of foreign patent rights ______ Part 501
Government employee invention ______ Part 501
Government interest in patent, recording of ______ 3.11, 3.31, 3.41, 3.58
Governmental registers ______ 3.58
Guardian of insane person may apply for patent ______ 1.43
H
I
Identification of application, patent or registration ______ 1.5
Inconsistencies between application data sheet and oath or declaration ______ 1.76(d)
Incorporation by reference ______ 1.57 (pre‑AIA)
Information disclosure statement:
At time of filing application ______ 1.51
Content of ______ 1.98
Not permitted in provisional applications ______ 1.51
Reexamination ______ 1.555, 1.902
Suspension of action to provide time for consideration of an IDS in a CPA ______ 1.103(b)
Third party submission of ______ 1.290, 1.291
To comply with duty of disclosure ______ 1.97
Information, Public ______ 102.1 -102.11
Inter partes appeals:
Action following decision ______ 41.81
Amendments during ______ 41.63
Appellant’s brief ______ 41.67
Decisions and other actions by the Board ______ 41.77
Definitions ______ 41.60
Evidence ______ 41.63
Examiner’s answer ______ 41.69
Extending time periods ______ 41.61(e)
Jurisdiction ______ 41.64
Notice of appeal and cross appeal to Board ______ 41.61
Oral hearing ______ 41.73
Rehearing ______ 41.79
Rebuttal brief ______ 41.71
Respondent’s brief ______ 41.68
Time for filling briefs ______ 41.66
Who may appeal ______ 41.61(a)
Inter partes reexamination. (See Reexamination.)
Inter partes review:
Amendment of the patent ______ 42.121
Content of the petition ______ 42.104
Fee ______ 42.103
Filing date ______ 42.106
Filing of supplemental information ______ 42.123
Institution of inter partes review ______ 42.108
Multiple proceedings and joinder ______ 42.122
Pendency ______ 42.100
Preliminary response to petition ______ 42.107
Procedure ______ 42.100
Response by patent owner ______ 42.120
Service of petition ______ 42.105
Time for filing ______ 42.102
Who may petition ______ 42.101
Interferences:
Abandonment of the contest ______ 41.127(b)
Access to applications ______ 1.11(e)
Addition of patent or application ______ 41.203(d)
Amendment during ______ 41.121(a)(2)
Applicant requests ______ 41.202
Arbitration ______ 41.126
Burden of proof ______ 41.207
Common interests in the invention ______ 41.206
Concession of priority ______ 41.127(b)(3)
Copying claims from patent ______ 41.121(a)(2), 41.202
Declaration of interference ______ 41.203
Definitions ______ 41.201
Disclaimer to avoid interference ______ 41.127(b)(2)
Discovery ______ 41.150
Extension of time ______ 41.4
In what cases declared ______ 41.203
Junior party fails to overcome filing date of senior party ______ 41.204(a)(3)
Jurisdiction over involved files ______ 41.103
Manner of service of papers ______ 41.106
Motions ______ 41.121
Notice to file civil action ______ 90.2
Notice of declaration ______ 41.203(b)
Petitions ______ 41.3
Presumption as to order of invention ______ 41.207(a)(1)
Priority Statement ______ 41.204(a)
Prosecution by owner of entire interest ______ 41.9(a)
Records of, when open to public ______ 1.11(e)
Requests by applicants ______ 41.202(a)
Same party ______ 41.206
Sanctions ______ 41.128
Secrecy order cases ______ 5.3(b)
Service of papers ______ 41.106(e)
Statutory disclaimer by patentee during ______ 41.127(b)
Suggestion of claims for interference ______ 41.202
Suspension of other proceedings ______ 41.103
Time period for completion ______ 41.200(c)
Translation of document in foreign language ______ 41.154(b)
International application. (See Patent Cooperation Treaty.)
International Design Application ______ 37 CFR 1.1001 to 37 CFR 1.1071
Content Requirements ______ 37 CFR 1.1021
Definition ______ 37 CFR 1.1001
Examination ______ 37 CFR 1.1062
Fees ______ 37 CFR 1.1031
Notification of Refusal ______ 37 CFR 1.1063
Signature ______ 37 CFR 1.1022
Who may file ______ 37 CFR 1.1011
International Preliminary Examining Authority ______ 1.416
Interviews with examiner ______ 1.133, 1.560, 1.955
Invention promoters:
Inventor (See also Applicant for patent, Application for patent):
Death or legal incapacity of inventor ______ 1.43
In an international application ______ 1.421
Refuses to sign application ______ 1.45
Unavailable ______ 1.45
Inventor’s certificate priority benefit ______ 1.55
Inventorship and date of invention of the subject matter of individual claims ______ 1.110
Issue fee ______ 1.18
Issue of patent. (See Allowance and issue of patent.)
J
L
Lapsed patents ______ 1.317
Legal representative of deceased or incapacitated inventor ______ 1.43, 1.64
Legibility of papers ______ 1.52(a)
Letters to the Office. (See Correspondence.)
Library service fee ______ 1.19(c)
License and assignment of government interest in patent ______ 3.11, 3.31, 3.41
License for foreign filing ______ 5.11 -5.15
List of U.S. patents classified in a subclass, cost of ______ 1.19(d)
Lost files ______ 1.251
M
Mail Stops:
Mail Stop 8 ______ 1.1(a)(3)
Mail Stop 24 ______ 4.3(c)
Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services ______ 1.1(a)(4), 3.27
Mail Stop Congressional Relations ______ 150.6
Mail Stop Document Services ______ 1.1(a)(4)
Mail Stop Ex parte Reexam ______ 1.1(c)(1)
Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE ______ 1.1(e)
Mail Stop Inter partes Reexam ______ 1.1(c)(2)
Mail Stop Interference ______ 41.10(b)
Mail Stop L&R ______ 5.1
Mail Stop OED ______ 4.6
Mail Stop Patent Ext ______ 1.1(e)
Maintenance fees ______ 1.20
Acceptance of delayed payment of ______ 1.378
Address for payments ______ 1.1(d)
Address for correspondence (applicant’s) ______ 1.363
Review of decision refusing to accept ______ 1.377
Submission of ______ 1.366
Time for payment of ______ 1.362
Mask work notice in specification ______ 1.71(d)
Mask work notice on drawing ______ 1.84(s)
Mask work protection, foreign ______ 150.1 -150.6
Micro entity status ______ 1.29
Microorganisms. (See Deposit of biological material.)
Minimum balance in deposit accounts ______ 1.25(a)
Missing pages when application filed ______ 1.53(e)
Mistake in patent, certificate thereof issued ______ 1.322, 1.323
Models and exhibits:
Copies of ______ 1.95
Disposal without notice unless return arrangements made ______ 1.94
If on examination model found necessary request therefor will be made ______ 1.91
In contested cases ______ 41.154
May be required ______ 1.91(b)
Model not generally admitted in application or patent ______ 1.91(a)
Not to be taken from the Office except in custody of sworn employee ______ 1.95
Return of ______ 1.94
Working model may be required ______ 1.91(b)
Money. (See Fees and payment of money.)
Motions in interferences ______ 41.121
To take testimony in foreign country ______ 41.156(b)
N
Name of Applicant or Inventor (see Applicant for patent, Application for patent, Inventor)
New matter inadmissible in application ______ 1.121(f)
New matter inadmissible in reissue ______ 1.173(a)
Non-English language specification fee ______ 1.17(i)(1)
Nonprofit organization:
Notice:
Of allowance of application ______ 1.311
Of appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______ 90.2
Of arbitration award ______ 1.335
Of defective ex parte reexamination request ______ 1.510(c)
Of declaration of interference ______ 41.203
Of oral hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ______ 41.47, 41.73, 42.70
Of rejection of an application ______ 1.104
Of taking testimony ______ 41.157(c)
Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences:
Amendments to ______ 1.825
Disclosure in patent applications ______ 1.821
Form and format for computer readable form ______ 1.824
Format for sequence data ______ 1.822
Replacement of ______ 1.825
Requirements ______ 1.823
Submission on compact disc ______ 1.52, 1.821, 1.823, 1.825
Symbols ______ 1.822
O
Oath in patent application. (See also Declaration):
Apostles ______ 1.66
Assignment may serve as inventor’s oath or declaration ______ 1.63(e)
Before whom taken in foreign countries ______ 1.66
Before whom taken in United States ______ 1.66
By legal representative of deceased or legally incapacitated person ______ 1.43, 1.64
Certificate of Officer administering ______ 1.66
Continuation-in-part ______ 1.63(d)
Declaration ______ 1.68
Foreign language ______ 1.69
International application ______ 1.497
Inventor’s Certificate ______ 1.55(k)
Made by inventor ______ 1.41, 1.63
Made by someone other than inventor ______ 1.64
Officers authorized to administer oaths ______ 1.66
Part of complete application ______ 1.51(b)(2)
Person making ______ 1.63, 1.64
Plant patent application ______ 1.162
Reissue application ______ 1.175
Requirements of ______ 1.63
Sealed ______ 1.66
Signature to ______ 1.63, 1.64, 1.67
Substitute statement ______ 1.64
Supplemental ______ 1.67
To acknowledge duty of disclosure ______ 1.63(c)
When taken abroad to seal all papers ______ 1.66
Object of the invention ______ 1.73
Office action time for reply ______ 1.134
Office fees. (See Fees and payment of money.)
Official action, based exclusively upon the written record ______ 1.2
Official business, should be transacted in writing ______ 1.2
Official Gazette:
Amendments to rules published in ______ 1.351
Announces request for reexamination ______ 1.11(c), 1.904
Notice of issuance of ex parte reexamination certificate ______ 1.570(f)
Notice of issuance of inter partes reexamination certificate ______ 1.997(f)
Oral statements ______ 1.2
P
Payment of fees, Method ______ 1.23
Paper, definition of ______ 1.9
Papers (requirements to become part of Office permanent records) ______ 1.52
Papers not received on Saturday, Sunday, or holidays ______ 1.6(a)(1)
Patent application. (See Application for patent and Provisional patent applications.)
Patent application publication. (See Published application.)
Patent attorneys and agents. (See Attorneys and agents.)
Patent Cooperation Treaty:
Access to international application files ______ 1.14(g)
Amendments and corrections during international processing ______ 1.471
Amendments during international preliminary examination ______ 1.485
Applicant for international application ______ 1.421, 1.424
Assignee, obligated assignee, or person having sufficient proprietary interest ______ 1.424
Changes in person, name or address, where filed ______ 1.421(f), 1.472
Conduct of international preliminary examination ______ 1.484
Copies of international application files ______ 1.14(g)
Definition of terms ______ 1.401
Delays in meeting time limits ______ 1.468
Demand for international preliminary examination ______ 1.480
Designation of States ______ 1.432
Entry into national stage ______ 1.491, 1.495
Examination at national stage ______ 1.496
Fees:
Authorization to charge fees under 37 CFR 1.16 ______ 1.25(b)
Due on filing of international application. ______ 1.431(c)
Failure to pay results in withdrawal of application ______ 1.431(d)
Filing, processing and search fees ______ 1.445
International Filing Fee ______ 1.431(c), 1.445(b)
International preliminary examination ______ 1.481, 1.482
National stage ______ 1.25(b), 1.492
Refunds ______ 1.446
Filing by other than inventor ______ 1.421(b)
International application requirements ______ 1.431
Abstract ______ 1.438
Claims ______ 1.436
Description ______ 1.435
Drawings ______ 1.437
Physical requirements ______ 1.433
Request ______ 1.434
International Bureau ______ 1.415
International Preliminary Examining Authority ______ 1.416
Inventor deceased or legally incapacitated ______ 1.422
Inventors, joint ______ 1.421(b), 1.497(a)
National stage in the United States:
Commencement ______ 1.491
Examination ______ 1.496
Oath or declaration at national stage ______ 1.497
Priority, claim for ______ 1.55, 1.451, 1.452
Record copy to International Bureau, transmittal procedures ______ 1.461
Representation by attorney or agent ______ 1.455
Time limits for processing applications ______ 1.465, 1.468
United States as:
Designated or Elected Office ______ 1.414
International Searching Authority ______ 1.413
Receiving Office ______ 1.412
Unity of invention:
Patent term adjustment due to examination delay ______ 1.702 -1.705
Application for ______ 1.705
Determination ______ 1.705
Grounds for ______ 1.702
Period of adjustment ______ 1.703
Reduction of period of adjustment ______ 1.704
Patent term extension due to examination delay ______ 1.701
Patent term extension due to regulatory review period. (See Extension of patent term due to regulatory review period (35 U.S.C. 156).)
Patent Trial and Appeal Board. (See Appeals.)
Patent Trial Practice and Procedure:
Action by patent owner ______ 42.9
Certificate ______ 42.80
Citation of authority ______ 42.13
Conduct of the proceeding ______ 42.5
Counsel ______ 42.10
Definitions ______ 42.2
Duty of Candor ______ 42.11
Fees ______ 42.15
Filing of documents, including exhibits ______ 42.6
Judgment ______ 42.73
Jurisdiction ______ 42.3
Management of the record ______ 42.7
Mandatory notices ______ 42.8
Notice of trial ______ 42.4
Oral Argument ______ 42.70
Petitions and Motions Practice:
Content of petitions and motions ______ 42.22
Default filing times ______ 42.25
Decision on petitions or motions ______ 42.71
Generally ______ 42.20
Notice of basis for relief ______ 42.21
Oppositions and replies ______ 42.23
Page and word count limits for petitions, motions, oppositions, and replies ______ 42.24
Policy ______ 42.1
Public Availability ______ 42.14
Sanctions ______ 42.12
Service of documents ______ 42.6
Settlement ______ 42.74
Testimony and Production
Admissibility ______ 42.61
Applicability of the Federal rules of evidence ______ 42.62
Compelling testimony and production ______ 42.52
Confidential information in a petition ______ 42.55
Discovery ______ 42.51
Expert testimony; tests and data ______ 42.54
Expungement of confidential information ______ 42.56
Form of evidence ______ 42.63
Objection; motion to exclude; motion in limine ______ 42.64
Protective order ______ 42.54
Taking testimony ______ 42.53
Termination of trial ______ 42.72
Patents (See also Allowance and issue of patent):
Available for license or sale, publication of notice ______ 1.21(i)
Certified copies of ______ 1.13
Correction of errors in ______ 1.171, 1.322, 1.324
Delivery of ______ 1.315
Disclaimer ______ 1.321
Identification required in letters concerning ______ 1.5
Lapsed, for nonpayment of issue fee ______ 1.317
Price of copies ______ 1.19
Payment of fees ______ 1.23
Personal attendance unnecessary ______ 1.2
Petition for reissue ______ 1.171, 1.172
Petition to the Director:
Fees ______ 1.17
For delayed payment of issue fee ______ 1.137
For expungement of papers ______ 1.59
For extension of time ______ 1.136
For license for foreign filing ______ 5.12
For the revival of an abandoned application ______ 1.137
From formal objections or requirements ______ 1.113(a), 1.181
From requirement for restriction ______ 1.129(b)(2)(iii), 1.144
General requirements ______ 1.181
In interferences ______ 41.3
In reexamination ______ 1.181
If examiner refused the ex parte request ______ 1.515(c)
On refusal of examiner to admit amendment ______ 1.127
Questions not specifically provided for ______ 1.182
Suspension of rules ______ 1.183
Petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim for domestic benefit ______ 1.78(b), 1.78(d)
Petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim for foreign priority ______ 1.55(e)
To exercise supervisory authority ______ 1.181(a)(3)
To make special ______ 1.102(c), 1.102(d)
Untimely unless filed within two months ______ 1.181(f)
Photographs ______ 1.84(b), 1.152
Plant patent applications:
Applicant ______ 1.162
Claim ______ 1.164
Declaration ______ 1.162
Description ______ 1.162
Drawings ______ 1.165
Examination ______ 1.167
Fee for copies ______ 1.19
Filing fee ______ 1.16(c)
Issue fee ______ 1.18(c)
Oath ______ 1.162
Rules applicable ______ 1.161
Specification and arrangement of application elements ______ 1.163
Specimens ______ 1.166
Post issuance and reexamination fees ______ 1.20
Post-grant review:
Amendment of the patent ______ 42.221
Content of the petition ______ 42.204
Discovery ______ 42.224
Fee ______ 42.203
Filing date ______ 42.206
Filing of supplemental information ______ 42.223
Institution of inter partes review ______ 42.208
Multiple proceedings and joinder ______ 42.222
Pendency ______ 42.200
Preliminary response to petition ______ 42.207
Procedure ______ 42.200
Response by patent owner ______ 42.220
Service of petition ______ 42.205
Time for filing ______ 42.202
Who may petition ______ 42.201
Post Office receipt as filing date ______ 1.10(a)(2)
Postal emergency or interruption ______ 1.10(g)-(i)
Power of attorney. (See Attorneys or agents.)
Power to inspect ______ 1.14(c)
Preissuance submissions by third parties ______ 1.290
Preliminary amendments ______ 1.115
Preliminary Examining Authority, International ______ 1.416
Preserved in confidence, applications ______ 1.12, 1.14
Exceptions (status, access or copies available) ______ 1.14
Prior art citation in patented files ______ 1.501
Prior art statement:
Prior art submission by third party:
In patent application ______ 1.290
In patent file ______ 1.501
In protest against pending unpublished application ______ 1.291
Prior invention, affidavit or declaration of to overcome rejection ______ 1.130, 1.131
Priority, right of, under treaty or law:
Domestic benefit claim:
Cross-reference to related application(s) ______ 1.76 -1.78
Filing fee must be paid in provisional application ______ 1.78
Indication of whether international application was published in English ______ 1.78(a)(2)
Must be on application data sheet ______ 1.76(a), 1.78(a)(3), 1.78(c)(2)
Petition to accept, unintentionally delayed ______ 1.78(d)
Translation of non-English language provisional application required ______ 1.78(a)(5)
Waived if not timely ______ 1.78(a)(4), 1.78(c)(3)
Foreign priority claim:
Filed after issue fee has been paid ______ 1.55(g)
Must be on application data sheet ______ 1.55(d), 1.76(a)
Petition to accept, unintentionally delayed ______ 1.55, 1.78(b)
Priority document ______ 1.55
Time for claiming ______ 1.55
Privacy Act ______ 102.21 -102.34
Denial of access to records ______ 102.25(g)
Definitions ______ 102.22
Disclosure of records ______ 102.25, 102.30
Exemptions ______ 102.33, 102.34
Fees ______ 102.31
Grant of access to records ______ 102.25(b)
Inquiries ______ 102.23
Medical records ______ 102.26
Penalties ______ 102.32
Requests for records ______ 102.24
Requests for correction or amendment ______ 102.27
Processing fees ______ 1.17, 1.445
Proclamation as to protection of foreign mask works ______ 150.1 -150.6
Protests to grants of patent ______ 1.291
Provisional applications:
Claiming the benefit of ______ 1.78
Converting a nonprovisional to a provisional ______ 1.53(c)(2)
Converting a provisional to a nonprovisional ______ 1.53(c)(3)
Cover sheet required by § 1.51(c)(1) may be a § 1.76 application data sheet ______ 1.53(c)(1)
Definition ______ 1.9(a)(2)
Filing date ______ 1.53(c)
Filing fee ______ 1.16(d)
General requisites ______ 1.51(c)
Later filing of fee and cover sheet ______ 1.53(g)
Names of inventor(s) ______ 1.41(a)
Application data sheet ______ 1.53(c)(1), 1.76
Correction of ______ 1.48
Cover sheet ______ 1.51(c)(1), 1.53(c)(1)
Joint inventors ______ 1.45
No right of priority ______ 1.53(c)(4)
No examination ______ 1.53(i)
Papers concerning, should identify provisional application as such, by application number ______ 1.5(f)
Parts of complete provisional application ______ 1.51(c)
Processing fees ______ 1.17(q)
Revival of ______ 1.137(g)
When abandoned ______ 1.53(i)
Provisional rights:
Submission of international publication or English translation thereof pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 154(d)(4) ______ 1.417
Public Information ______ 102.1 -102.34
Publication of application ______ 1.211
Early publication ______ 1.219
Express abandonment to avoid publication ______ 1.138(c)
Fee ______ 1.18(d)
Nonpublication request ______ 1.213
Publication of redacted copy ______ 1.217
Republication ______ 1.221
Voluntary publication ______ 1.221
Published application:
R
Reasons for allowance ______ 1.104
Reconsideration of Office action ______ 1.112
Reconstruction of lost files ______ 1.251
Recording of assignments. (See Assignments and recording.)
Records of the Patent and Trademark Office ______ 1.11 -1.15
Reexamination:
Announcement in Official Gazette ______ 1.11(c)
Correction of inventorship ______ 1.530
Correspondence address ______ 1.33(c)
Ex parte proceedings: ______ 1.501 -1.570
Amendments, manner of making ______ 1.121(j), 1.530(d)
Appeal to Board ______ 41.30 -41.54
Concurrent with interference, reissue, other reexamination, litigation, or office proceeding(s) ______ 1.565
Conduct of ______ 1.550
Duty of disclosure in ______ 1.555
Examiner’s determination to grant or refuse request for ______ 1.515
Extensions of time in ______ 1.550(c)
Initiated by the Director ______ 1.520
Interviews in ______ 1.560
Issuance and publication of certificate concludes ______ 1.570
Order for reexamination by examiner ______ 1.525
Patent owner’s statement ______ 1.530
Processing of prior art citations during ______ 1.502
Reply to patent owner’s statement to third party requester ______ 1.535
Request for ______ 1.510
Scope of ______ 1.552
Service of papers ______ 1.248
Examiner’s action. ______ 1.104
Fee ______ 1.20(c)
Fees may be charged to deposit account ______ 1.25(b)
Identification in letter ______ 1.5(d)
Inter partes proceedings ______ 1.902 -1.997
Amendments, manner of making ______ 1.121(j), 1.530(d), 1.941
Appeal to Board ______ 41.60 -41.81
Appeal to C.A.F.C. ______ 1.983, 41.81
Concurrent with interference, reissue, other reexamination, litigation, or office proceeding(s) ______ 1.565, 1.985
Conduct of ______ 1.937
Duty of disclosure in ______ 1.555, 1.933
Examiner’s determination to grant or refuse request for ______ 1.923
Extensions of time in ______ 1.956
Filing date of request for ______ 1.919
Issuance of certificate at conclusion of ______ 1.997
Merged with concurrent reexamination proceedings ______ 1.989
Merged with reissue application ______ 1.991
Notice of, in the Official Gazette ______ 1.904
Persons eligible to file request for ______ 1.913
Processing of prior art citations during ______ 1.902
Scope of ______ 1.906
Service of papers ______ 1.248, 1.903
Submission of papers by the public ______ 1.905
Subsequent requests for ______ 1.907
Suspension due to concurrent interference ______ 1.993
Suspension due to litigation ______ 1.987
Information Disclosure Statements ______ 1.98, 1.555, 1.933
Open to public ______ 1.11(d)
Reconsideration before final action ______ 1.112
Refund of fee ______ 1.26
Reply to action ______ 1.111
Revival of terminated or limited reexamination prosecution ______ 1.137
Reference characters in drawings ______ 1.74, 1.84(p)
References cited on examination ______ 1.104
Reference filing ______ 1.57(a)
Refund of money paid by mistake ______ 1.26
International applications ______ 1.446
Later establishment of small entity status ______ 1.28
Time period for requesting ______ 1.26(b)
Register of Government interest in patents ______ 3.58
Rehearing:
On appeal to Board ______ 41.52, 41.79
Request for, time for appeal after action on ______ 41.31, 41.61
Reissues:
Amendments ______ 1.173
Applicants, assignees ______ 1.172
Application for reissue ______ 1.171
Application made and sworn to by inventor, if living ______ 1.172
Continuing duty of applicant ______ 1.178
Declaration ______ 1.175
Drawings ______ 1.173
Examination of reissue ______ 1.176
Filed during ex parte reexamination ______ 1.565
Filed during inter partes reexamination ______ 1.985
Filing fee ______ 1.16
Filing of announcement in Official Gazette ______ 1.11
Grounds for and requirements ______ 1.171 -1.178
Issue fee ______ 1.18(a)
Multiple applications for reissue of a single patent ______ 1.177
Oath ______ 1.175
Open to public ______ 1.11
Original patent surrendered ______ 1.178
Restriction ______ 1.176
Specification ______ 1.173
Take precedence in order of examination ______ 1.176
To contain no new matter ______ 1.173(a)
Rejection:
After two rejections appeal may be taken from examiner to Board ______ 41.31
Applicant will be notified of rejection with reasons and references ______ 1.104(a)(2)
Based on commonly owned prior art, how overcome ______ 1.131
Examiner may rely on admissions by applicant or patent owner, or facts within examiner’s knowledge ______ 1.104(c)(3)
Final ______ 1.113
Formal objections ______ 1.104(a)(2)
References will be cited ______ 1.104(d)
Reply brief ______ 41.41
Reply to Office action:
Abandonment for failure to ______ 1.135
By applicant or patent owner ______ 1.111
Substantially complete ______ 1.135
Supplemental ______ 1.111(a)(2)
Time for ______ 1.134
Representative capacity ______ 1.34(a)
Request for continued examination ______ 1.114
Request for reconsideration ______ 1.112
Request for ex parte reexamination ______ 1.510
Request for inter partes reexamination ______ 1.903, 1.913 -1.927
Requirement for submission of information ______ 1.105
Reservation clauses not permitted ______ 1.79
Restoration of Benefit ______ 1.78(b)
Restoration of Right of Priority ______ 1.55(c)
Restriction of application. ______ 1.141 -1.146, 1.176
Claims to nonelected invention withdrawn ______ 1.142(b)
Constructive election ______ 1.145
Petition from requirements for ______ 1.129, 1.144
Provisional election ______ 1.143
Reconsideration of requirement ______ 1.143
Requirement for ______ 1.142
Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention ______ 1.145
Return of correspondence ______ 1.5(a)
Revival of abandoned application, terminated or limited reexamination prosecution, or lapsed patent ______ 1.137
Unintentional abandonment fee ______ 1.17(m)
Revocation of power of attorney or authorization of agent ______ 1.36(a)
Rules of Practice, amendments to rules will be published ______ 1.351
S
Saturday, when last day falls on ______ 1.7
Sequences:
Amendments to sequence listing and computer readable copy ______ 1.825
Disclosure requirements ______ 1.821, 1.823
Sequence data, symbols and format ______ 1.822
Submissions in computer readable form ______ 1.824
Submissions on compact disc in lieu of paper ______ 1.52(e)(1)(ii), 1.821, 1.823
Serial number of application ______ 1.5
Service of notices in interference cases ______ 41.106
Service of papers ______ 1.248
Service of process ______ 15 CFR 15.1-15.3
Shortened period for reply ______ 1.134
Signature:
EFS character coded ______ 1.4(d)(3 )
Handwritten ______ 1.4(d)(1)
Implicit certifications ______ 1.4(d), 11.18
S-signature ______ 1.4(d)(2)
To a written assertion of small entity status ______ 1.27(c)(2)
To amendments and other papers ______ 1.33(b)
To an application for extension of patent term ______ 1.730
To express abandonment ______ 1.138(b)
To oath ______ 1.63
To reissue oath or declaration ______ 1.172
When copy is acceptable ______ 1.4
Small business concern:
Small entity:
Definition ______ 1.27(a)
Errors in status excused ______ 1.28
Fraud on the office ______ 1.27(h)
License to Federal agency ______ 1.27(a)(4)
Statement ______ 1.27(c)
Statement in parent application ______ 1.27(c)(4)
Solicitor’s address ______ 1.1(a)(3)
Species of invention claimed ______ 1.141, 1.146
Specification (See also Application for patent, Claims):
Abstract ______ 1.72(b)
Amendments to ______ 1.121, 1.125
Arrangement of ______ 1.77, 1.154, 1.163
Best mode ______ 1.71(b)
Claim(s) ______ 1.75
Commence on separate sheet ______ 1.71(f)
Copyright notice ______ 1.71(d)
Cross-references to other applications ______ 1.78(c)(5)
Description of the invention ______ 1.71
If defective, reissue to correct ______ 1.171 -1.178
Mask work notice ______ 1.71(d)
Must conclude with specific and distinct claim ______ 1.75(a)
Must point out new improvements specifically ______ 1.71(c)
Must refer by figures to drawings ______ 1.74
Must set forth the precise invention ______ 1.71(b)
Object of the invention ______ 1.73
Order of arrangement in framing ______ 1.77
Paper, writing, margins ______ 1.52
Paragraph numbering ______ 1.52(b)(6)
Part of complete application ______ 1.51(b)(1)
Reference to drawings ______ 1.74
Requirements of ______ 1.71 -1.75
Reservation clauses not permitted ______ 1.79
Separate from other parts of application ______ 1.71(f)
Substitute ______ 1.125
Summary of the invention ______ 1.73
Title of the invention ______ 1.72(a)
To be rewritten, if necessary ______ 1.125
Specimens. (See Models and exhibits.)
Specimens of composition of matter to be furnished when required ______ 1.93
Specimens of plants ______ 1.166
Statement of status as small entity ______ 1.27
Status information ______ 1.14
Statutory disclaimer fee ______ 1.20(d)
Submission of international publication or English translation thereof pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 154(d)(4) ______ 1.417
Sufficient funds in deposit account ______ 1.25
Summary of invention ______ 1.73
Sunday, when last day falls on ______ 1.7
Supervisory authority, petition to Director to exercise ______ 1.181(a)(3)
Supplemental examination of patents:
Conclusion of ______ 1.625
Conduct of ______ 1.620
Content of request ______ 1.610
Filing of papers in supplemental examination ______ 1.601
Format of papers filed ______ 1.615
Procedure after conclusion ______ 1.625
Publication of certificate ______ 1.625
Supplemental oath /declaration ______ 1.67
Surcharge for oath or basic filing fee filed after filing date ______ 1.16(f), 1.53(f)
Suspension of action ______ 1.103
Suspension of rules ______ 1.183
Symbols for drawings ______ 1.84(n)
Symbols for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data ______ 1.822
T
Tables in patent applications ______ 1.58
Terminal disclaimer ______ 1.321
Testimony by Office employees ______ 15 CFR 15.11-15.18
Testimony in cases before the Board ______ 41.156 -41.158, 42.52, 42.53, 42.65
Third party submission in application ______ 1.290, 1.291
Time expiring on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday ______ 1.7
Time for claiming benefit of prior (domestic) application ______ 1.78
Time for claiming foreign priority ______ 1.55
Time for filing preliminary amendment to ensure entry thereof ______ 1.115(a)(3)
Time for payment of issue fee ______ 1.311(a)
Time for payment of publication fee ______ 1.311(a)
Time for reply by applicant ______ 1.134, 1.135, 1.136
Time for reply to Office action ______ 1.134, 1.136
Time for requesting a refund ______ 1.26(b)
Time, periods of ______ 1.7
Timely filing of correspondence ______ 1.8, 1.10
Title of invention ______ 1.72(a)
Title reports, fee for ______ 1.19(b)(4)
Transitional procedures ______ 1.129
Transitional program for covered business method patent review:
U
Unintentional abandonment ______ 1.137(b)
United States as
Designated Office ______ 1.414
Elected Office ______ 1.414
International Preliminary Examining Authority ______ 1.416
International Searching Authority ______ 1.413
Receiving Office ______ 1.412
Unlocatable files ______ 1.251
Unsigned continuation or divisional application ______ 1.53, 1.63(d)(1)
Use of file of parent application ______ 1.53(d)
W
Waiver of confidentiality ______ 1.53(d)(6)
Withdrawal from issue ______ 1.313
Withdrawal of attorney or agent ______ 1.36(b)