M
- Machine, process or product 806.05(e); 806.05(f); 806.05(g)
- Mail (See also Mail Stop)
- Mail date as filing date 513
- Mail stop 501
- Mailing action 707.12
- In ex parte reexamination 2264
- In inter parte reexamination 2664
- Mailing, Certificate of (See Certificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8))
- Maintenance Fee Branch 1501
- Contact information 1730
- Maintenance fees (See also Fee and Refunds) 1730; 2500
- Attorney or agent
- Handling of requests to withdraw 2560
- Revocation of power of attorney 2501; 2560
- Change of correspondence address 2501; 2542
- Credit card used for payment of 2510; 2522
- Due dates for payment 2506
- Duplicate Payment 2532
- Facsimile submission 2510
- Fee address 2540
- Fee amounts 2501; 2520
- Forms 2595
- Information available from Maintenance Fee Branch 1730
- Information required with payment 2515; 2530
- Insufficient 2531
- Internet submission 2510
- Intervening rights in reinstated patents 2591
- Late 2531
- Mailing address for maintenance fee documents 501; 2510
- Mailing address for payments 501
- Maintenance Fee Branch 2501
- Method of payment 2522
- Notices – Expiration, Receipt, Reminder 2575
- Obligation to pay while reissue is pending 1415.01
- Overpayment 2550
- Patents subject to payment of 2504
- Payment informalities 2530
- Petition to accept 2515; 2531; 2590
- Reexamination 2506
- Refusal to accept and record payments, Review of 2580
- Reinstatement, delayed payment 2590
- Unavoidable delay basis 2590
- Unintentional delay basis 2590
- Reissue patents 1415.01; 1443; 2504; 2506; 2520
- Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, due on 2504; 2506
- Small entity status requirements 2550
- Special Acceptance 2530
- Status requests 1730; 2570
- Mandatory Classification 903.07
- Manual, authority of
- Manual, subscription address
- Manual of Classification ; 902.01
- Manuscript decision 707.06
- Margin, application papers 608.01
- Mark of applicant 605.04(d)
- Marking in application, erasing at allowance 1302.01
- Marking, Security 121
- Markush claim 803.02; 2173.05(h); 2173.05(o)
- Master classification file (MCF) 902.03(a)
- Material mistake by Office in published PG-Pub 1130
- Materiality of information regarding patentability (See Duty of disclosure)
- Mathematical algorithms 706.03(a); 2106; 2181
- Matter not in original disclosure 608.04(a)
- Means 2181
- Broadest reasonable interpretation 2181
- Equivalent compared to Doctrine of Equivalents 2186
- Obviousness 2183
- Prima facie case of equivalence 2183; 2184
- Related issues under 35 U.S.C. 112, first or second paragraphs 2181; 2185
- Scope of the identification of prior art 2182
- Single means claim 2164.08(a); 2181
- Means plus function limitations 706.02(m); 2106; 2111.01; 2114; 2181 - 2186
- Mechanical search 719.05
- Memorandum, citation 707.06
- Merger of ex parte reexamination and reissue 2285
- Merger of inter partes reexamination and reissue 2686.03
- Merits, Appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- Method of making and apparatus or product 806.05(e); 806.05(f)
- Metric (S.I.) system usage 608.01
- Microorganisms (See Biotechnology)
- Microorganisms, deposit of 1823.01; 2402 - 2411.05
- Microorganisms, patentability of 706.03(a); 2105; 2164.06
- Militarily Critical Technology List (MCTL) 120
- Military officer notary 604.03(a)
- Minor, inventor 409
- Misjoinder, Effect on patent 805
- Misjoinder of inventors 201.03; 1402; 1412.04; 1481
- Mistake (See Correction of patent and Errors)
- Mistake by Office in Pre-Grant Publication 1130
- Mode, Best (See Best Mode)
- Mode of operation 608.01(h)
- Model 608.03
- Model, return 608.03(a)
- Model at interview 713.08
- Model filed in priority country 201.14(b)
- Months, foreign language names 901.05(a)
- Motions in interferences (See Interference: Motions)
- Multiple dependent claims
- Multiple papers on same issue in protest 1901.07(a)
- Multiplicity of claims 408; 707.07(g); 714.16; 2173.05(h); 2173.05(n)
- Multiplicity of species 806.01; 808.01(a)
- Munitions Lists of the International Traffic Arms Regulation (ITAR) 120