Subject Matter Index D

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

D-10 notice— 130 ; 1304.01
Damage, Proof of irreparable— 409.03(g)
Databases ( See Electronic databases)
Date
- Amendment— 505 ; 511 ; 512 ; 710.01(a) ; 710.05 ; 714.18
- Citation of foreign patent— 901.05(a) ; 901.05(b)
- Convention— 213.01
- Filing— 211.02 ; 502 ; 503 ; 505 ; 506 ; 506.02 ; 1002.02(b)
  - of EFS-Web transmissions— 502.05
- Filing, Refusal to accord— 506.02
- Foreign application (priority)— 210 ; 213 – 217
- Invention— 2137 ; 2138
- Maintenance fees due— 2506
- Office action— 707.11
- Office stamp— 502 ; 505 ; 506 ; 512 ; 714.18
- Reference— 707.05(e) ; 715 ; 715.01 ; 715.01(c) ; 2120 ; 2120.01
Date of execution of oath— 602.03
Death of attorney— 406
Death of inventor ( See also Administrator or executor)— 409 ; 409.01(a) ; 409.01(b)
Deceased inventor
- Allowance not withdrawn— 1303.03
- Legal representative as applicant— 409.01(a) ; 409.01(b) ; 1806
  - Proof of authority of— 409.01(b)
- Legal representative refuses to sign— 409.03(c)
Deceptive intent ( See also Fraud and Inequitable conduct)
- Foreign filing licenses— 140
- Inventorship— 602.01(c)
- Reissue— 1401 ; 1412.02 ; 1412.03 ; 1412.04 ; 1414 ; 1414.02 ; 1414.03 ; 1444 ; 1448 ; 1451 ; 1457 ; 1481.02 ; 1490 ; 2012
Decision
- By Patent Trial and Appeal Board— 1213 ; 1302.14
  - Dissemination of— 1720
  - Ex-parte reexamination— 2277
  - Reconsideration of— 1214.03
  - Treatment of— 1721
- Citation— 707.06
- Denying ex parte reexamination request— 2247
- Ex-parte reexamination review petition— 2240
- Governs examiner’s action—
- Listed— II
- Ordering ex-parte reexamination— 2246
- Public availability— 103
- Publication of— 707.06
Declaration ( See also Oath)— 602
- Amendment— 602.01
- Attached to specification— 602 ; 602.08(c)
- Change of inventorship— 602.01(c)
- Copies, filing of— 602
- Copies from prior application— 201.06(c)
- Date of execution— 602.03
- Defective— 602.03
- Delayed filing— 506 ; 601.01(a)
- Executed before alterations made— 602.08(b)
- Facsimile transmission— 502.01 ; 602
- Foreign priority applications listed— 202 ; 214
- International application— 1820 ; 1893.01 ; 1893.01(a) ; 1893.01(a)(1) ; 1893.01(a)(2) ; 1893.01(a)(3) ; 1893.01(e) ; 1893.03(a) ; 1893.03(b) ; 1893.03(g) ; 1895
- Inventor refuses to sign or cannot be found— 602.08(b)
- Minor, by— 409
- Non-English— 602.06
- Plant patent application— 1604
- Refers to preliminary amendment— 601.01(a) ; 602.01(b)
- Reissue application— 1405 ; 1410.01 – ; 1414 ; 1414.01 – 1414.03 ; 1418 ; 1444 ; 1451 ; 1455
- Signed before alteration— 602.08
- Substitute— 602.02
Declarations, conflicting— 602.01(c)
Dedication to the public— 715 ; 1490
Defective oath— 602.03
- In reissue application— 1414 – 1414.03
Defects, correction of, in request for ex parte reexamination— 2227 ; 2231
Defense, applications affecting— 115 ; 120 ; 130 ; 140
Defensive publication citation— 711.06(a)
Defensive publication program— 711.06
Deferral of examination— 709
Definition of USPC class— 902.02
Delegation of Director’s authority— 1001.01 ; 1002 ; 1002.02
Demonstration at interview— 713.08
Denial of request for reexamination— 2247 ; 2247.01
Department of Energy (DOE)— 115 ; 140 ; 150 ; 151 ; 2104.01
Dependent claim— 608.01(n)
- Objected to when base claim is canceled— 608.01(n) ; 707.07(j)
- Reissue— 1402 ; 1412.03 ; 1415 ; 1453 ; 1455
Dependent claim, objected to when improper— 608.01(n) ; 706.01
Deposit account— 509.01
- Authorizations— 509.01 ; 1302.04
- Extensions of time— 706.07(f)
- International applications— 1850 ; 1875.01
- Issue fee— 1303 ; 1306 ; 1308.01
- Maintenance fee— 2510 ; 2515 ; 2522
- Overdrawn— 509.01
- Petition fee— 711.03(c)
- Refunds— 509 ; 509.01 ; 607.02
- Replenishment— 509.01 ; 1730
  - Mailing address— 501
Deposit Account Division— 509.01
Deposit of microorganisms ( See also Biotechnology)— 1605 ; 1823.01 ; 2402 – 2411.05
Deposit of correspondence— 502
Depositions
- Evidence— 1901.02 ; 2013
- Of examiner— 1701.01
Deposit rules ( See also Biotechnology)— 2400
- Acceptable depository— 2405
- Biological material, definition— 2402 ; 2403
- Biological material, made or isolated without undue experimentation— 2404.02
- Budapest Treaty ( See also Treaties)— 2402
- Budapest Treaty depositories— 2405
- Depositories, Current list of Budapest Treaty— 2405
- Examination procedures— 2411 ; 2411.01
  - After grant— 2407.02
  - Application in condition for allowance except for deposit— 2411.03
  - Certificate of correction— 2407.02
  - Content of application regarding deposited material— 2411.05
  - Need for 37 CFR 1.312 amendment— 2411.03
  - Reissue— 2407.02
  - Rejections based on deposit issue— 2411.01
  - Responses from applicant— 2411.02
- Furnishing of samples— 2410
  - Access to deposits— 2410.01
  - Certification of availability of deposit— 2410.02
  - Conditions of deposit— 2410.01
  - Exception to removal of restrictions— 2410.01
  - Restrictions removed upon grant— 2410.01
- Known and readily available biological material— 2404.01
  - Budapest Treaty deposit— 2404.01
  - Continuity of access— 2404.01
  - Deposits certified as available— 2404.01 ; 2410.02
  - Health, safety restrictions— 2404.01
  - Indicia of “known and readily available”— 2404.01
- Material capable of self-replication— 2403.01
  - Direct self-replication— 2403.01
  - Indirect self-replication— 2403.01
- Need for a deposit— 2402 ; 2403 ; 2404
- Non-Budapest Treaty deposit— 2404.01
- Plant material— 2403.02
- Plant Patent Act, Relation to— 2403.02
- Reference to deposit in application— 2404 ; 2404.03
  - Implication, presumption— 2404 ; 2404.03
  - Requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112— 2163 ; 2164.06(a) ; 2404 ; 2404.03
- Replacement or supplement of deposit— 2407
  - After a patent has issued— 2407.02
  - Exemption from replacement— 2407.05
  - Failure to replace— 2407.03
  - In a pending application— 2407.01
  - Reason for replacement— 2407.04
  - Replacement not recognized— 2407.06
  - Request for certificate of correction— 2407.02
  - Treatment of replacement, presumption of identity— 2407.04
- Seeds— 2403.02
- Term of deposit— 2408
  - Budapest Treaty term— 2408
  - Enforceable life of patent— 2408
- Time for making original deposit— 2406
  - Assurance regarding deposit before payment of issue fee— 2406 ; 2411.03
  - Corroboration— 2406.02
  - Description in application specification— 2406.01
  - During application pendency— 2406
  - Loss of U.S. filing date in other countries— 2406 ; 2406.03
  - New matter— 2406.01
  - Patent Cooperation Treaty applications— 1823.01
  - Post-issuance deposits— 2406
  - Viability of deposit— 2409
  - Viability statement— 2409
- 35 U.S.C. 112 requirements— 2402 ; 2403 ; 2404
Deputy Director of Patents and Trademarks— 1002.02(o) ; 1202
Derivation proceedings— 2310
- Action once instituted— 2313
- Action after decision— 2315
- Board action— 2314
- Certificate— 901.04
- Definition— 2310.02
- Jurisdiction— 2312
- Statutory basis— 2310.01
- Technology Center practice specialist— 2311 ; 2315
Derogatory remark regarding prior art— 608.01(r)
Description
- Basis for claim— 608.01(o) ; 2161 ; 2163 ; 2166
- Computer programming— 2161.01
- Detailed— 608.01(g)
- International application— 1823
Design application— 1500
- Analogous art— 1504.02 ; 1504.03
- Anticipation— 1504.02
- Application, elements of— 1503
- Articles, design comprising multiple— 1504.01(b)
- “Average observer” test— 1504.02
- Benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120— 211.01(a) ; 211.01(b) ; 1504.20
- Benelux Designs Convention ( See also Treaties)— 213.01 ; 1504.10
- Characteristic feature— 1503.01 ; 1504.01(a)
- Claim— 1503 ; 1503.01
- Combining references— 1504.03
- Commercial success— 1504.03
- Computer generated electronic images— 1504.01(a)
- Continuation application— 1504.20
- Continuation-in-part (CIP) application— 1504.20
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA)— 1502.01
- Convention, International— 213.01 ; 1504.10
- Copending applications— 1504.06 ; 1504.20
- Copying, evidence of, to rebut obviousness— 1504.03
- Copyright, Relationship to— 1512
- Definition— 1502
- Description— 1503 ; 1503.01
- Disclaimer— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Disclosure— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Divisional application— 201.06 ; 1504.20
- Double patenting— 804 ; 1504.06
- Patent Term Filing Date— 804 ; 1490
- Drawing— 1503 ; 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
  - Broken lines— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
  - Color— 1503.02
  - Trademarks— 1512
- EFS-Web— 502.05 ; 1730
- Embodiments, alternate or multiple— 1503.01 ; 1504.01(b) ; 1504.05
- Enablement— 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- European Community Design treaty— 1504.10
- Examination— 1504 ; 1504.01 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.03 ; 1504.04
- Expedited Examination— 501 ; 1002.02(c)(3) ; 1504.30
  - Reissue— 1457
- Expert testimony— 1504.03
- Feature emphasized— 1503.01
- Fee, filing— 607
  - Reissue— 1457
- Fee, issue— 1306
- Font, type— 1504.01(a)
- Foreign priority— 210 ; 213 ; 215 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.10
  - More than six months before U.S. filing— 1504.02
- Functionality— 1504.01(c)
  - Obviousness and— 1504.03
- Hague Agreement ( See also Treaties)— 213.01 ; 1002.02(p) ; 1504.10 ; Chapter 2900
- Hidden end use— 1504.01(c)
- Hidden feature— 1504.02 ; 1504.03 ; 1504.04
- Icon and electronic images, computer generated— 1504.01(a)
- International ( See also International design application)
  - Global design database— 707.05(e)
  - Publication— 1120
  - Status Information for— 1128
- Indefiniteness— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Library collections relating to— 901.06(a)
- Modification, description— 1503.01
- Multiple embodiments— 1504.05
- Multiple parts of article— 1504.01(b)
- New matter— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.01(a) ; 1504.04
- Object, Design for— 1502
- Obviousness— 1504.03
- Obviousness-type (nonstatutory) double patenting (ODP)— 1504.06
- Offensive subject matter— 1504.01(e)
- Ornamentality lacking— 1504.01(c)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty— 1501 ; 1502.01
- Patentability— 1504.01 ; 1504.01(a) – 1504.01(e) ; 1504.02 ; 1504.03 ; 1504.04
- Petition, Special Status— 708.02 ; 1504.30
- Petition to accept color drawings or photographs— 608.02 ; 1503.02
- Photographs— 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Preamble— 1503.01
- Priority under 35 U.S.C. 119— 210 ; 215 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.10
- References supplied— 707.05(a) ; 1513
- Quayle action— 1504
- Registration abroad— 1504.02 ; 1504.10
- Reissue— 1457 ; 1509
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE)— 1502.01
- Request for Expedited Examination— 1504.30
- Restriction— 1504.05
  - Reissue— 1457
- Rules applicable— 1501
- Scope of claim— 1503.01 ; 1504.04 ; 1504.05 ; 1504.06
- Search— 1504 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.03
- Secondary considerations— 1504.03
- Simulation— 1504.01(d)
- Specification— 1503.01
  - Use of Copyrights in— 1512
  - Use of Trademarks in— 1512
- Statutory subject matter— 1502 ; 1504.01
- Surface ornamentation— 1502 ; 1502.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.01 ; 1504.01(a) ; 1504.01(c) ; 1504.03
- Surface treatment or indicia— 1503.02
- Term of— 1457 ; 1502.01 ; 1505
- Title— 1503.01 ; 1504.01(a)
  - Amendment of— 1503.01
  - Use of Trademarks in— 1512
- Trademark, relationship to— 1512
- Type fonts— 1504.01(a)
- Utility patent, relationship to— 1502.01
- Views— 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Visual characteristics— 1502
- Written description lacking— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.01(a) ; 1504.04
Design patent practitioer— 402 ; 403 ; 405 ; 1502.02 ; 2911
Design patent series ( See also Patent)— 901.04
Designated office— 1801 ; 1803 ; 1893.01(a)
Designation of states— 1821
Detailed description ( See Specification)
Determination of public use or on sale— 2120.02 ; 2133.03 – 2133.03(e)(7) ; 2139.02 ; 2152.02(c) ; 2152.02(d)
Determining if a Reexamination Was Filed for a Patent— 2232.01
Determining whether an application is subject to first to invent provisions of AIA— 2159 – 2159.04
Digest ( See Cross-reference: Art collection)
Dictionary as a source for the ordinary and customary meaning of a claim term— 2111.01 ; 2173.02 ; 2173.05(a)
Diligence
- Charts for priority— 2138.01
- Filing application— 2138.06
- Filing reissue— 1403
- Interference practice— 2138.01
- Of actions during regulatory review— 2001.06(e) ; 2004 ; 2015 ; 2757.01
- Reasonable— 2138.03 ; 2138.06
- Shown in 37 CFR 1.131 affidavit— 715.07 ; 715.07(a)
- To overcome a rejection— 2136.05
Director of Technology Center— 714.13 ; 714.14 ; 714.16 ; 714.25 ; 715.08 ; 804.04 ; 1002.02 ; 1002.02(c) ; 1207.01 ; 1207.02 ; 1207.03 ; 1207.05 ; 1208 ; 1214.04 ; 1308 ; 1308.01 ; 1901.06 ; 2242 ; 2258.01 ; 2265 ; 2267 ; 2274 ; 2284 – 2286
- Functions— 1002.02(c) ; 1003
- TC 2900— 1002.02(c)(3)
- TC Director Who Oversees Licensing and Review— 710 ; 1002.02(c)(1)
Director of the USPTO
- Authority and functions— 708.01 ; 709 ; 711.02 ; 714 ; 719.01 ; 1001 ; 1002 ; 2104.01 ; 2209 ; 2212 ; 2239 ; 2240 ; 2242 ; 2244 ; 2246 ; 2258.01 ; 2258.02 ; 2265 ; 2266 ; 2284 ; 2286.01
  - Publication of confidential decisions— 103
  - Withdrawal from issue— 1308
- Decisions—
- Mailing address— 501
- Notices ( See also Publication)— ; 707.06
- Orders ( See also Publication)— ; 707.06
Director initiated reexamination— 2212 ; 2239
Disbarred attorney ( See Attorney or agent: Suspended or excluded)
Disciplinary proceedings— 402 ; 410
- Mailing address— 501
Disclaimer ( See also Terminal disclaimer)
- Co-author of publication— 715.01(c)
- Copy required in reexamination
  - Ex parte— 2214
- Correction or withdrawal of— 1490
- Defensive publication— 711.06
- Design application— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Effect— 1490
- Forms— 1490
- Processing— 1490
- Rejection— 710.02(d) ; 2136.05(a) ; 2139.03 ; 2141 ; 2146.02 ; 2146.03 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2148 ; 2152.07
- Requirements— 1490
- Statutory— 1490
- Terminal— 804 ; 804.02 ; 1490 ; 2136.05(a) ; 2139.03 ; 2141.01 ; 2146.02 ; 2146.03 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2148 ; 2152.07
Disclosure ( See also Duty of disclosure and Specification)
- Abstract— 608.01(b)
- Amendment— 608.04 ; 1302.02
- Amendment, Preliminary— 608.04(b)
- Best Mode ( See also Best Mode)— 608.01(h) ; 2165
- Chemical compound— 608.01(p)
- Claim Present on Filing Date— 608.01(l) ; 1410 ; 2163.01
- Claimed— 901.03
- Common, parent and continuing applications— 211.05
- Completeness— 608.01(p) ; 2163 ; 2164
- Computer programming cases— 2164.06(c) ; 2161.01 ; 2181
- Correspondence with claims— 2163.05 ; 2163.07 ; 2173.03
- Design application— 1503 ; 1503.01
- Detailed description— 608.01(g)
- Duty of— 2000
- Enablement ( See also Enablement)— 2164
- Foreign application— 211.05
- Implicit— 2144.01
- Incomplete— 608.01(p) ; 2161 – 2165 ; 2175
- Incomprehensible— 702.01
- Incorporation by reference ( See also Incorporation by reference)— 217 ; 608.01(p)
- Insufficient— 608.01(p) ; 702.01 ; 2175
- Later filed application— 608.01(p)
- Operability— 716.07 ; 2164.08(b)
- Preliminary amendment— 608.04(b)
- Reasonable inquiry— 2001
- Related applications— 608.01(p) ; 1302.04
- Requirements for— 2161
- Secrecy order, Material subject to— 120
- Specification ( See also Specification)— 608.01
- Sufficiency for continuity— 211.05
- Sufficiency of— 716 ; 716.09
- Support for claims— 2163.01
- Trade name— 608.01(v)
- Trademark— 608.01(v)
- Utility— 608.01(p) ; 2104 ; 2107 – 2107.03
- Written ( See also Written description)— 2163
Discourtesy— 714.19 ; 714.25
Dismissal of appeal— 1215.04
Disposals counted— 1705
Distinct, definition— 802.01
Distinct inventions— 802 ; 802.01 ; 803 ; 806.05
- Apparatus and product made— 806.05(g)
- Distinct processes— 806.05(j)
- Distinct products— 806.05(j)
- Process and apparatus for its practice— 806.05(e)
- Process and product made— 806.05(f)
Divisional application— 201.06 ; 601.01(a)
- Abandonment of prior nonprovisional application— 201.06(c)
- Assignment carried from parent application— 306
- Change of attorney/correspondence address— 201.06(c)
- Continued prosecution application (CPA)— 201.06(d)
- Copendency— 211.01(b)
- Design application— 201.06 ; 1504.20
- Drawing, Transfer of— 608.02(i)
- Effective date— 211
- Examination— 201.06(c)
- Extensions of time— 201.06(c)
- Filed by assignee— 324 ; 325
- File wrapper continuation (FWC)— 201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation— 202 ; 1302.04
- Incorporation by reference— 201.06(c)
- Inspection of parent application— 103
- Inventor, at least one in common— 211.01
- Inventorship— 201.06(c)
- New matter— 201.06
- Oath— 201.06(c) ; 602.05
- Patented, Opens parent application to inspection— 103
- Reference to parent application— 211.02 ; 1302.04
- Reissue— 1402 ; 1410.01 ; 1410.02 ; 1414 ; 1415.01 ; 1441 ; 1450 ; 1451 ; 1460 ; 1481.03
- Rule 1.53(b)— 201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d)— 201.06(d)
- Rule 1.60, Former— 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62, Former— 201.06(b)
- Signature— 201.06(d)
- Small or micro entity status— 201.06(c)
- Specification and drawings— 201.06(c)
- Substitute statement under 37 CFR 1.64— 201.06(c)
- Time for filing— 211.03
- Written description requirement— 211.05
DNA ( See also Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences)— 2400
- Enablement— 2164.08
- Searching— 901.06(a)
Docket report— 1704
Doctrine of collateral estoppel ( See Estoppel)
Doctrine of dedication to the public— 715
Doctrine of equivalents— 2138.05 ; 2173.05(b) ; 2186
Doctrine of segregable parts— 1504.05
Doctrine of unclean hands— 2010
Document, Disclosure— 1706
- Electronic ( See also Electronic publications)— 707.05(e)
DoD Directive 5230.25— 120
DoD Security Agreement— 120
Domestic benefit
- Claiming in continued prosecution application— 201.06(d) ; 1302.04
- Claiming in ex parte reexamination— 2258.02
- Claiming in reissue application— 1402 ; 1405 ; 1410
- Correction in a patent— 1481.03
- Entitlement to— 211.05
- Formal requirements— 210 ; 211.05 ; 2136 ; 2139.01 ; 2152.01
- Incorporation by reference to earlier application— 201.06(c) ; 217 ; 608.01(p)
- International application— 211.01(c) ; 211.01(d)
  - Corrected by certificate of correction— 1481
- Patent printing— 1302.09
- Petition for unintentionally delayed claim to benefit of prior U.S. application— 211.04 ; 214.02
- Prior to U.S. application— 211 – 211.05
  - Corrected by Certificate of Correction— 211.02(a) ; 1481
  - Design application— 1504.20
  - In ex parte reexamination— 2258.02
  - Provisional application— 211.01(a) ; 2139.01 ; 2152.01
- Time for filing— 211.03
Domestic representative— 302.04
Double correspondence— 403
Double inclusion in claim— 2173.05(o)
Double patenting— 800
- Avoiding rejection— 804.02 ; 2146.03 ; 2146.03(a)
- Basis— 804
- Between one or more applications and a published application that has not been abandoned— 804
- Between a patent and a reissue application or a patent under reexamination— 804
- Claimed subject matter— 806.01
- Commonly owned cases, treatment— 717.02(c) ; 804.03
- Copending applications— 804 ; 2127 ; 2136.01 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2148 ; 2152.07 ; 2154.01(d) ; 2158.01
- Definition— 804
- Design applications/patents— 804 ; 1504.06
- Different inventive entities— 804.03 ; 2109 ; 2136.01 ; 2136.04 ; 2146.02 ; 2146.03 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2152.07 ; 2154.01(d)
- Distinct and independent inventions— 804.01
- Domination— 804
- Impact of patent term extension— 804.05
- International applications— 804
- Obviousness type (ODP)— 804
  - Design application— 1504.06
- Plant applications— 1601
- Reexamination— 804 ; 2217 ; 2258
- Rejection— 804
  - Nonstatutory— 804
  - Obvious— 804
  - Prohibition, 35 U.S.C. 121— 804.01 ; 821.04(b)
  - Provisional— 804 ; 2136.01 ; 2139.03 ; 2146.03 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2148 ; 2152.07 ; 2154.01(d) ; 2158.01
  - Specification, use of— 804
  - Statutory— 804 ; 804.03
- Rejection nullification— 804.01
- Restriction previously required— 804.04 ; 1003
- Same assignee— 804.03 ; 822 ; 2136.01 ; 2141.01 ; 2146 – 2146.03(a) ; 2148 ; 2152.06 ; 2154.02(c) ; 2158 ; 2158.01
- Same inventor— 806.04(h) ; 806.04(i) ; 806.05 ; 822
- Species and genus— 806.04(h) ; 806.04(i)
- Subject matter not patentably distinct— 804
- Subject to joint research agreement— 804 ; 804.02 ; 804.03
- Submissions to TC director— 804.04
- Terminal disclaimer effect— 804 ; 804.02 ; 1451 ; 1490 ; 2146.03(a)
  - In a reissue application— 1451
Drawings— 507 ; 608.02
- Amendment— 608.02(p) ; 714 ; 1302.04
  - In ex parte reexamination— 2250.01
  - In reissue application— 1413 ; 1453
  - Prior to publication of PG-Pub— 1121
- Amendment, Disposition of orders for— 608.02(x)
- Amendment support by claim present on filing date— 608.04(a)
- Annotated sheets— 608.02(v) ; 608.02(w)
- Brief description— 608.01(f)
- Canceled figure— 608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet— 608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet, patent— 608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet, transfer— 608.02(i)
- Color— 608.01(f) ; 608.02 ; 1503.02
- Colored plant— 1606
- Complete illustration— 608.02(d)
- Completeness— 608.02(e)
- Computer lists— 608.05
- Consistency— 608.02(e)
- Content of— 608.02(d)
- Correction ( See also Correction of drawing)— 608.02(p) ; 1302.05
  - Incorporated into PG-Pub— 1120 ; 1121
  - Reversed figure numbers— 1302.04
- Design application— 1503 ; 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Disclosure— 608
- Divisional application— 608.02 ; 608.02(i)
- EFS-Web— 502.05
- Examiner determines completeness— 608.02(e)
- Illustrates claim— 608.02(e)
- Informal— 507
- International application— 1825
- Kept in application— 608.02(c)
- Location— 608.02(c)
- Modification illustrated— 608.02(f)
- Marked-up copy— 608.02(b) ; 608.02(v) ; 608.02(w)
- Necessary for filing date— 506 ; 608.02 ; 702
- New drawings required— 608.02(a)
- New, handling— 608.02(a)
- New matter— 608.04 ; 608.04(a)
- New, when required— 608.02(a)
- Not received— 608.02(h) ; 1825
- Not required— 608.02
- Not returned— 608.02(y)
- Objection— 608.02 ; 608.02(a) ; 608.02(b) ; 608.02(d) – 608.02(f) ; 608.04(a) ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Official Gazette figure— 1302.09
- Omitted drawings— 601.01(g)
- Patented file— 901.01(a)
- Petition to transfer from another application— 608.02(i)
- Photographs— 502.05 ; 507 ; 608.01(f) ; 608.02 ; 1503.02
- Plant application— 1603 ; 1606
- Prior art— 608.02(g) ; 2125
- Provisional application— 601
- Reference characters— 608.02 ; 608.02(e)
- Reference characters, change— 608.02(w)
- Reissue application— 1411 ; 1413
  - No longer transferred from original patent— 1413
- Replacement drawings for publication in PG-Pub— 1121
- Replacement— 608.02(h) ; 1302.05
- Reversed figure numbers— 1302.04
- Review by Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP)— 507
- Required by examiner— 608.02
- Requirements— 608.02
- Return— 608.02(y)
- Section lines— 608.01 ; 608.02(w)
- Security markings— 121
- Sequences— 2412.04 ; 2412.06
- Substitute— 502 ; 608.02 ; 608.02(h)
- Sufficiency, determined by examiner— 608.02(e)
- Symbols— 608.02
- Trademarks— 1512
- Unacceptable for publication— 608.02 ; 608.02(b)
Drawing correction— 507 ; 608.02(p)
- Annotated sheets— 608.02(v) ; 608.02(w)
- Approval by examiner— 608.02(x)
- Marked-up copy— 608.02(b) ; 608.02(v) ; 608.02(w)
- New matter— 608.04
- Order for— 608.02(x)
- PG-Pub— 1120 ; 1121
- Replacement sheets— 502 ; 608.02(h) ; 1302.05
- Required— 507 ; 707.07(a)
Due Care Showing— 2734
Duplicate claims— 608.01(m)
Duplicate foreign patents— 903.03
Duplicate papers for plant applications— 1603 ; 1605 ; 1606 ; 1609
Duty of candor and good faith— 2001 ; 2001.03 ; 2001.04 ; 2733 ; 2762
- Compared to duty to disclose material information— 2001.04
- inconsistent information between agencies— 2001.04
- Information disclosure— 609
- Reexamination— 2280
Duty of disclosure— 2000
- After patent grant— 2003.01
- Aids to compliance— 2004
- By whom— 2002 ; 2002.01
- Checklist— 2004
- Compared to requirement for information— 704.12(a) ; 2005
- Compliance with— 2004
- Continuing applications— 2001.04 ; 2004
- Copending applications— 2001.06(b) ; 2004
- Copied claims— 2001.06(d)
- Duration of— 2001.04 ; 2003.01
- Foreign applications— 2001.06(a)
- Information material to patentability— 2001.04 ; 2001.05 ; 2001.06(e)
- Litigation information and/or Trial Proceedings— 2001.06(c)
- Materiality— 2000 ; 2001.04 ; 2001.05
- Questionnaire— 2004
- Reexamination
  - Ex parte— 2014 ; 2280
- Regulatory review— 2001.06(e) ; 2004 ; 2015
- Reissue application— 1406 ; 1418 ; 1448 ; 2001.06(c) ; 2003
- Related application
  - Foreign— 2001.06(a)
  - U.S.— 2001.06(b)
- Sources of information— 2001.06
- Timing— 2003 ; 2003.01
- To whom owed— 2001.03
- Violation of— 2010
  - Claims invalidated— 2016
  - Protest— 2013
  - Reexamination— 2014
  - Reissue— 2012
  - Rejection of claims in reissue application— 1448
- Who has— 2001.01
- Duty of Reasonable inquiry— 2001 ; 2001.06(e)

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