INDEX OF PATENT LAWS
A
Abandoned applications, fee on petition to revive ______ 41(a)7
Abandonment of application by failure to prosecute ______ 133, 371
Abandonment of invention:
Bar to patent ______ 102
By violation of secrecy ______ 182
Adjustment of patent term ______ 154
Administrative Patent Judges ______ 6
Administrator, executor, or guardian ______ 117
Affidavits and depositions in contested cases, rules for taking ______ 23
Agreement to terminate interference ______ 135
Agriculture, Secretary of, to furnish information, and detail employees to Director for plant patent ______ 164
Allowance and issue of patents ______ 153
Allowance, notice of ______ 151
Amendment:
Copying claim of issued patent ______ 135
Time for ______ 133, 135
Annual indexes of patents ______ 10
Annual report of the Director ______ 13
Apostille on assignment ______ 261
Appeals to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ______ 134
Fee ______ 41(a)6, 134
Hearing of ______ 6
Reexamination proceedings ______ 306
Appeals to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______ 141
Certificate of decision of Court recorded in the United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 144
Determination of Appeal; revision of decision ______ 144
From Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ______ 141
Grounds of decision to be furnished court ______ 143
Notice of appeal ______ 142
Proceedings on appeal ______ 143
Applicant for foreign patent, license required ______ 184
Applicant for international application ______ 373
Applicant, notified of interference ______ 135
Application:
Abandonment of, by failure to prosecute ______ 133
Assignment of ______ 261
Confidential while pending ______ 122
Continuing ______ 120
Description; specification and claim ______ 112
Divisional ______ 121
Drawings ______ 113
Effect of defective execution ______ 26
Effective as of date of earliest foreign application in certain cases ______ 119
Examination of invention ______ 131
Fee on filing ______ 41(a)1, 111
For deceased or insane inventors ______ 117
May be made by legal representative of deceased or incapacitated inventor ______ 117
Must be made within specified time after foreign application for right of priority ______ 119
Oath of applicant (See Oath in patent application)
Owned by Government ______ 267
Provisional ______ 111
Publication ______ 102, 122, 181
Reissue ______ 251
Secrecy order ______ 181
What to contain ______ 111
When filed by other than inventor ______ 118, 121
Appointments, how made ______ 3
Arbitration of interferences ______ 135
Arbitration, voluntary ______ 294
Article patented marked with number of patent ______ 287
Assignee:
May file application in certain cases ______ 118
May file divisional application ______ 121
May file reissue application ______ 251
Patent may be issued to ______ 152
Assignments, patent ______ 261
Establishing prima facie execution of ______ 261
Fees for recording ______ 41(a)10
Must be recorded in United States Patent and Trademark Office to issue patent to assignee ______ 152
Patent may issue to assignee ______ 152
Recording in Patent and Trademark Office ______ 261
Attorney fees in infringement suit ______ 285
Attorneys and agents:
May be refused recognition for misconduct ______ 32
Petition to District Court, DC ______ 32
Suspension or exclusion from practice ______ 32
Unauthorized practitioners ______ 33
B
Bars to grant of a patent ______ 102, 103
Benefit of earlier filing date in foreign country ______ 119
Benefit of earlier filing date in United States ______ 120
Best mode required ______ 112
Bill in equity (See Civil action)
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, how constituted ______ 6
C
Certificate of correction:
Applicant’s mistake ______ 255
Fee for applicant’s mistake ______ 41(a)8
Office mistake ______ 254
Certified copies:
Fee for certification ______ 41(a)11
Of drawings and specifications of patents issued ______ 9
Of records, furnished to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in appeals ______ 143
Citation of prior art in patent ______ 301
Citizenship required in oath ______ 115
Civil action:
Election of in case of interference ______ 141
Infringement ______ 291
In case of interference ______ 146
Jurisdiction, plurality of parties, foreign party ______ 146
To obtain patent ______ 145
Claim of patent:
Independent or dependent ______ 41, 112
Independent or dependent, validity ______ 282
Invalid, effect of ______ 253
Invalid, suits on patent with ______ 288
Notice of rejection ______ 132
Too extensive or narrow, remedy ______ 251
What to cover ______ 112
Classification of patents ______ 8
Clerk of United States Court may summon witness in
Interference cases ______ 24
Must notify Director of patent suits ______ 290
Commerce, Department of, United States Patent and Trademark Office in ______ 1
Commerce, Secretary of:
Appointments by ______ 3
Commissioner for Patents:
How appointed and duties ______ 3
Member of Board ______ 6
Commonly owned invention and reference subject matter ______ 103
Compensation, right to because of secrecy order ______ 183
Composition of matter:
Patentable ______ 101
Specimens of ingredients may be required ______ 114
Concealment of records ______ 18 U.S.C. 2071
Confidential status of application ______ 122, 205
Continuing application ______ 120
Contributory infringement ______ 271
Copies of records, fees ______ 41
Correction of inventors in patent ______ 256
Correction of letters patent ______ 254, 255
D
Damages for infringement ______ 284
Day of taking any action or paying any fee falling on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday ______ 21
Death or incapacity of inventor ______ 117
Decisions in patent cases, printing of ______ 10
Declaration in lieu of oath ______ 25
Dedication of term ______ 253
Defective execution of documents, effect of ______ 26
Defenses in action for infringement ______ 282
Definitions ______ 100, 351
Deposit with United States Postal Service ______ 21
Depositions, Director may establish rules for ______ 23
Deputy Commissioner ______ 6
Member of Board ______ 6
Description of invention ______ 112
Design patents:
Double recovery, not allowed ______ 289
Fees ______ 41(a)3
For what granted ______ 171
Liability for infringement of ______ 289
Penalty for unauthorized use of patented design ______ 289
Prior foreign applications ______ 172
Right of priority ______ 172
Subject to same provisions as other patents ______ 171
Term of ______ 173
Unauthorized use of ______ 289
Designated office ______ 363, 366, 367, 371, 372
Determination of patent term adjustment ______ 154
Director:
Annual report to Congress ______ 13
Consult with Patent Public Advisory Committee ______ 3
Duties of ______ 6
How appointed ______ 3
Intellectual Property Policy Issues, advises President, Federal Departments ______ 2
May disbar attorneys ______ 32
May establish charges ______ 41
May make rules for taking affidavits and depositions ______ 23
Member of Board ______ 6
Reexamination order ______ 304
Shall cause examination to be made ______ 131
To establish regulations ______ 3
To furnish court with grounds of decision, on appeal ______ 143
To prescribe rules and regulations governing recognition of attorneys and agents ______ 2
To sign patents or have name printed thereon and attested ______ 153
To superintend grant of patents ______ 3
Disbarment of attorneys and agents ______ 32
Disclaimer:
Fee ______ 41(a)5
How filed and by whom ______ 253
Must be filed before commencement of suit to recover costs ______ 288
Nature of ______ 253
District Court for District of Columbia:
Jurisdiction ______ 146
Review of disbarment of attorneys and agents ______ 32
Division of application ______ 121
Division of patent on reissue ______ 251
Drawing:
Attached to patent ______ 154
Part of patent ______ 154
Printing of ______ 10
When necessary ______ 113
Duties of Director ______ 3
E
Elected office ______ 371, 372
Employees of United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 3
How appointed ______ 3
Restrictions on as to interest in patents ______ 4
English language ______ 361
Entry into national phase in United States ______ 371
Error in naming inventors ______ 116
Establishment of date of invention by reference to knowledge or use in foreign country ______ 104
Establishment, United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 1
Examination:
Applicants shall be notified of rejection on ______ 132
To be made of application and alleged invention ______ 131
Exchange of United States Patent and Trademark Office Publications for other publications ______ 10
Exchange of printed copies of patents and published application of patents with foreign countries ______ 11
Executors, administrators or guardians ______ 117
Extension of patent term ______ 155
Extension of time to reply fee ______ 41(a)8
F
Falsely making or labeling articles as patented ______ 292
Federal agency, defined ______ 200
Federal Assistance, inventions made with:
Confidentiality ______ 205
Definitions ______ 201
Disposition of rights ______ 202
Domestic and foreign protection of federally owned inventions ______ 207
Educational awards ______ 212
March-in rights ______ 203
Policy and objective of ______ 200
Precedence of chapter over other Acts ______ 210
Preference for United States industry ______ 204
Regulations governing Federal licensing ______ 208
Relationship to antitrust laws ______ 211
Restrictions on licensing of federally owned inventions ______ 209
Uniform clauses and regulations ______ 206
Fees:
Amount of ______ 41
For attorney awarded by court ______ 285
For records, publications, and services not specified in statute ______ 41
How paid and refunded ______ 42
Independent inventor, 50% reduction ______ 41(h)
International ______ 361, 376
Nonprofit organization, 50% reduction ______ 41(h)
Payable to Director ______ 42(a)
Small business, 50% reduction ______ 41(h)
Small entity, 50% reduction ______ 41(h), 133
To witness interference cases ______ 24
Filing application by other than inventor ______ 118
Filing date requirements ______ 111
Filing fee, Amount of ______ 41(a)1
Foreign applications:
License to file required ______ 184
Penalty for filing without license ______ 185, 186
Foreign countries, exchange of printed copies of patents and published application of patents with ______ 11
Foreign country, knowledge of use in, not used to establish date of invention ______ 102, 104
Foreign patentee:
Jurisdiction ______ 293
Service ______ 293
Foreign patents:
Copies of, exchanged for United States patents and published application of patents ______ 11
Prior, effect on United States application for patent ______ 102
Foreign priority ______ 119(a)-(d), 365, 373
Fraudulent statements ______ 18 U.S.C. 1001
Funding agreement, defined ______ 200
G
Government interests in patents ______ 267
H
Holiday, time for action expiring on ______ 21
I
Importation of products made by a patented process ______ 295
Improvements, patents may be granted for ______ 101
Indexes of patents and patentees, printing of ______ 10
Infringement, patent: Action for ______ 281
Attorney fees ______ 285
By United States, time limitation in suit for ______ 286
Clerk of court to notify United States Patent and Trademark Office of suit ______ 290
Contributory ______ 271
Damages for ______ 284
Defenses in suit for ______ 273, 282
Defined ______ 271
Design patent ______ 289
Injunction ______ 283
Notice of, necessary to recovery of damages ______ 287
Pleading defense and special matters to be proved in suit ______ 282
Suit for, when a claim is invalid ______ 288
Temporary presence in United States ______ 272
Time limitation ______ 286
Injunctions may be granted by court having jurisdiction ______ 283
Insane persons, patent applications of ______ 117
Interference, patent:
Agreements, between parties, relating to termination, to be filed in Patent and Trademark Office ______ 135
Appeal to court ______ 141
Arbitration ______ 135
Determination of priority ______ 102, 135
Parties to be notified of ______ 135
Review of decision by civil action ______ 145, 146
Rules for taking testimony ______ 23
International application ______ 351, 365, 366, 367, 375
Fees ______ 376
National phase in United States ______ 371
Priority rights ______ 365
Interfering patent:
How set aside ______ 291
Jurisdiction, plurality of parties, foreign party ______ 146, 291
Relief against ______ 291
International Bureau ______ 351, 361, 362, 371
International Preliminary Examining Authority ______ 362, 364, 368
International Searching Authority ______ 351, 362, 364, 368
International studies ______ 2
Intervening rights on reissue ______ 252
Invalid patent claim disclaimer ______ 288
Invalidity of term extension ______ 282
Invention date as affected by activity abroad ______ 104
Invention, defined ______ 100
Invention made abroad ______ 104
Inventions promotion, improper and deceptive ______ 297
Inventions in outer space ______ 105
Inventions patentable ______ 101
Inventions previously patented abroad ______ 102
Inventive step ______ 103
Inventor:
Correction of patent ______ 256
Death or incapacity ______ 117
May obtain patent ______ 101
Oath for joint ______ 116
Refuses to sign ______ 118
To make application ______ 111
Inventor’s certificate as reference ______ 102
Inventor’s certificate priority right ______ 119
Issue of patent ______ 151
Issue fee ______ 41
If not paid within three months, patent withheld ______ 151
Nonpayment ______ 41, 151
Payment of ______ 151
J
Joinder of parties in patent cases ______ 299
Joint inventors ______ 116, 256
Joint owners ______ 262
Jurisdiction of District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ______ 32
K
Knowledge or use in foreign country no bar to patent ______ 102
L
Legal representative of dead or incapacitated inventor ______ 117
Liability of States ______ 296
Libraries, public, copies of patents and published applications for patents for ______ 12, 41
Library ______ 7
License for foreign filing ______ 184
Limitation on damages ______ 154, 286, 287
M
Machines patentable ______ 100
Maintenance fees ______ 41(b)
Late payment ______ 41(c)
Manufactures patentable ______ 101
Marking articles falsely as patented ______ 292
Marking articles patented ______ 287
Micro entity defined ______ 123
Misjoinder of inventor ______ 116, 202, 256
Mistake in patent, certificate thereof issued ______ 254, 255
Model, shall be furnished if required ______ 114
Money:
Paid by mistake or in excess, refunded ______ 42
Received for fees, etc. to be paid into Treasury ______ 42
Multiple dependent claim ______ 112
Fee ______ 41
Mutilation of records ______ 18 U.S.C. 2071
N
National Security ______ 3, 122, 181
National stage of international application ______ 371, 372, 373
New matter inadmissible in reissue ______ 251
New matter, may not be introduced by amendment ______ 132
Nonjoinder of inventor ______ 256
Nonobviousness ______ 103
Nonprofit organization, defined ______ 200
Nonresident patentee ______ 293
Notice as regards patents:
As to proof in infringement suits ______ 282
Of allowance of patent ______ 151
Of appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______ 142, 143
Of interference ______ 135
Of patent suit, decision to be given United States Patent and Trademark Office by clerk of court ______ 290
Of rejection of an application ______ 132
Of suit to be entered on file of patent ______ 290
To the public by Federal agency ______ 209
To the public that invention is patented ______ 287
Novelty ______ 102
O
Oath in patent application ______ 115, 152
Before whom taken in foreign countries ______ 25, 115
Before whom taken in the United States ______ 115
Declaration in lieu of ______ 25
Joint inventors ______ 116
Must be made by inventor, if living ______ 115
Requirements of ______ 115
To be made by legal representative if inventor is dead or incapacitated ______ 117
Obviousness ______ 103
Officer of United States Patent and Trademark Office may attest patents ______ 153
Officers and employees:
Of United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 3
Of United States Patent and Trademark Office, restrictions on as to interests in patents ______ 4
Official Gazette:
Exchange for publications ______ 11
Printing and distribution of ______ 11
Public Advisory Committee Report ______ 5
Owners, joint ______ 262
Ownership assignment ______ 261
P
Paris Convention ______ 119
Patent and Trademark Office: See United States Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Cooperation Treaty:
Definitions ______ 351
Patent fees ______ 41
Disposition of ______ 42
Patent laws, printing of ______ 10
Patent pending, false marking as ______ 292
Patent Public Advisory Committee ______ 3, 5
Appointment, timing and basis ______ 5
Duties ______ 5
Consultation with Director ______ 3, 5
Patent term adjustment ______ 154
Patent term extension ______ 155
Patent term extension application ______ 156
Patent term restoration ______ 155A
Patentability, conditions for ______ 102, 103
Patentable inventions ______ 101
Patented article, marked as such ______ 287
Patentee:
Defined ______ 100
Notified of interference ______ 135
Patents:
Application for ______ 111
Assignment of ______ 261
Based on international application ______ 375
Certified copies of ______ 9
Classification of ______ 8
Contents and duration of ______ 154
Copies supplied to public libraries ______ 12, 41
Copying claim of ______ 135
Date, duration, and form ______ 154
Design (See Design patents)
Effect of adverse interference decision ______ 135
Exchange of printed copies with foreign countries ______ 11
Fee on issuing ______ 41
Filing application in foreign country ______ 184
For what granted ______ 101
Foreign knowledge or use no bar to grant of ______ 102
How issued, attested, and recorded ______ 153
May be granted to assignee ______ 152
May be withheld in certain cases ______ 181
Obtainable by civil action ______ 145
Personal property ______ 261
Presumption of validity ______ 282
Price of copies ______ 41(a)9
Printing of ______ 10
Reissuing of, when defective ______ 251
Rights of invention made with federal assistance ______ 200 - 212
Restrictions on officers and employees of United States Patent and Trademark Office as to interest in ______ 4
Surrender of, to take effect on reissue ______ 251
Term ______ 154, 155, 166A, 156
Term adjustment ______ 154
Term extension ______ 155, 156
Term restoration ______ 155A
Time of issue, payment of issue fee ______ 151
To be authenticated by seal of United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 2
When to issue ______ 151
Withheld for nonpayment of issue fee ______ 151
Patent rights in inventions made with Federal
assistance ______ 200-212
Confidentiality ______ 205
Definitions ______ 201
Disposition of rights ______ 202
Domestic and foreign protection of federally owned inventions ______ 207
Educational awards ______ 212
March-in rights ______ 203
Policy and objective of ______ 200
Precedence of chapter over other Acts ______ 210
Preference for United States industry ______ 204
Regulations governing federal licensing ______ 208
Relationship to antitrust laws ______ 211
Restrictions on licensing of federally owned inventions ______ 209
Uniform clauses and regulations ______ 206
Period for response ______ 21, 133
Photolithography, Headings of drawings printed ______ 10
Plant patents:
Claim ______ 162, 164
Description ______ 162, 163
Fees ______ 41
Nature of right ______ 163
Plants patentable ______ 161
Secretary of Agriculture to furnish information and detail employees ______ 164
Pleading and proof in action for infringement ______ 282
Postal Service deposit ______ 21
Practical application, defined ______ 200
Pre-issuance opposition, when prohibited ______ 122
Presumption of product made by patented process ______ 295
Presumption of validity of patents ______ 282
Printed publication bar to a patent ______ 102
Printing:
Decisions in patent cases ______ 10
Of papers filed ______ 22
United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 10
Printing headings of drawings by United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 10
Prior art, citation of ______ 301
Prior patenting or publication bar to patent ______ 102
Priority, foreign ______ 119, 365
Priority of invention ______ 102
Priority of invention, determined by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ______ 135
Priority, right of, under treaty or law ______ 119
For design applications ______ 172
Process defined ______ 100
Process Patent Amendment Act of 1988 ______ 287
Process patentable ______ 101
Product made by patent process ______ 295
Property of United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 2
Provisional applications ______ 111, 119
Provisional rights ______ 154
Protest and pre-issuance opposition, when prohibited ______ 122
Public use or sale ______ 102
Of invention bar to a patent ______ 102
Publication of international application, effect ______ 374
Publication of patent applications ______ 122, 181
Publications regarding patents and trademarks ______ 10
R
Receiving Office ______ 351, 361, 364, 367, 368
Recording of assignments ______ 261
Reexamination order by Director ______ 304, 313
Reexamination procedure
Appeal ______ 134, 141, 306, 315
Certificate of patentability, unpatentability, and claim cancellation ______ 307, 316
Conduct of reexamination proceedings ______ 305, 314
Determination of issue by Director ______ 303, 312
Determination of new question ______ 303, 312
Ex Parte ______ 302-307
Inter Partes ______ 311-318
When prohibited ______ 317
Request ______ 302, 311
Special dispatch ______ 305, 314
Stay of litigation ______ 318
Reexamination to be made after first rejection, if desired ______ 132
References, to be cited on examination ______ 132
Refund of money paid by mistake or in excess ______ 42
Reissue of patents:
Application fee ______ 41(a)4
Application may be made by assignee in certain cases ______ 251
By reason of defective claims ______ 251
Effect of ______ 252
For unexpired term of original patent ______ 251
Intervening rights ______ 252
Of defective patents ______ 251
To contain no new matter ______ 251
Rejection, applicant shall be notified of reasons for ______ 132
Remedy for infringement of patent ______ 281
Removal of records ______ 18 U.S.C. 2071
Report to Congress, annual ______ 13
Request for reexamination proceeding ______ 302, 311
Restoration of patent ______ 155A
Restrictions on officers and employees of United States Patent and Trademark Office as to interest in patents ______ 4
Retention of revenue ______ 2
Revival if delay unavoidable ______ 133
Right of foreign priority ______ 365
Right to compensation because of secrecy order ______ 183
Rules for taking testimony, Director to establish ______ 23
Rules of practice:
Authority for ______ 2
Printing of ______ 10
S
Saturday, time for action expiring on ______ 21
Seal of United States Patent and Trademark Office ______ 2
Secrecy of applications ______ 122
Secrecy of certain inventions ______ 181 - 188
Secrecy of international application ______ 368
Secrecy order ______ 181
Small business firm, defined ______ 200
Small entity status ______ 2, 41
Specification(s):
Contents of ______ 112
If defective, reissue to correct ______ 251
Part of patent ______ 154
Printing of ______ 10, 41
Uncertified copies, price of ______ 41
Specimens, may be required ______ 114
Statutory invention registration ______ 157
Subpoenas to witnesses ______ 24
Suit against the United States ______ 286
Suit in equity (See Civil action)
Sunday, time for action expiring on ______ 21
Surcharge for later filing of fee or oath ______ 111
T
Term extension:
For administrative delays ______ 154
For delays due to interference, secrecy orders, and/or appellate review ______ 154
Regulatory review ______ 156
Term of patent:
Design ______ 173
Disclaimer of ______ 253
Extension ______ 155, 156
Period ______ 154
Restoration ______ 155A
Testimony, rules for taking ______ 23
Time:
Expiring on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday ______ 21
For payment of issue fee ______ 151
For taking action in Government cases ______ 267
Limitation on damages ______ 286
Within which action must be taken ______ 133
Title of invention ______ 154
Trademark fees ______ 42(c)
Trademarks, reference to ______ 1, 2, 3, 10
Translation error in international application ______ 375
U
Unauthorized disclosure ______ 182
Unauthorized person may not lawfully assist persons in transaction of business before the Office ______ 33
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property ______ 6
United States as designated office ______ 363
United States, defined ______ 100
United States Patent and Trademark Office:
In Department of Commerce ______ 1
Library ______ 7
Printing ______ 10
Rules, authority for ______ 2
Seal of ______ 2
Unpatented article, penalty for deceptive marking ______ 292
Use in foreign countries, no bar to grant of patent ______ 102
V
Verified translation requirement ______ 372
Voluntary arbitration ______ 294
W
Withdrawal of international application ______ 366
Withholding of patent ______ 181
Witness:
Failing to attend or refusing to testify ______ 24
Fees of, interference cases ______ 24
In interference summoned by clerk of United States court ______ 24
When in contempt, punishment ______ 24