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
- Easily erasable paper— 608.01 ; 714.07
- Effective date of reference patent— 707.05(e) ; 715 ; 901.05(b) ; 2121.01 ; 2139.01 ; 2152.01
- Effective filing date
- Claimed invention— 804 ; 2152.01
- Continuing application— 211.02 ; 708 ; 804 ; 2139.01 ; 2152.01 ; 2159.03
- Continuation-in-part— 2133.01 ; 2135.01 ; 2159.03
- Foreign priority effect— 2139.01 ; 2152.01
- International convention ( See also Foreign application and Treaties)— 213.01
- Provisional application— 2139.01 ; 2152.01
- Publication— 715.01(c)
- Reissue application— 804 ; 1440
- Eighteen-month publication ( See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
- Election (
See also
Restriction and
Election of species)—
800
- Action on nonelected claims— 819
- After multiplicity rejection— 2173.05(n)
- After restriction— 818
- Between applications, Conflicting claims— 804 ; 822
- Constructive— 818.02(a) ; 818.02(c)
- Fixed by action on merits— 818.01 ; 818.02(a)
- Implied— 818.02(a) ; 818.02(c)
- Interference— 819
- Optional cancellation— 818.02(c)
- Original presentation— 818.02(a)
- Shift—
819
- Design application— 1504.05
- Treatment of nonelected claims—
803.02
;
821
–
821.03
- In reissue application— 1450
- With traverse— 818 ; 821.01
- Without traverse— 821.02
- Election of species
- Allowable generic claim lacking— 809.02(a)
- Basis— 806.04 ; 808.01(a)
- Canceling species claims— 818.02(c) ; 821.01 ; 821.02
- Design application— 1504.05
- Implied— 818.02(a) ; 818.02(c)
- Reissue application— 1450
- Requirement— 806.01 ; 809.02(a)
- Requirement, prior to search— 808.01(a)
- Species claims lacking— 806.01 ; 818.02(b)
- Electronic access to published applications— 1128
- Electronic databases—
707.05(e)
;
719.05
;
901.06(a)
;
902.03(e)
;
1730
- Chemical abstracts services— 901.05 ; 901.07
- Derwent’s World Patents Index (WPI)— 901.05 ; 901.07
- Dialog— 719.05 ; 901.07
- e- Official Gazette – Patents (eOG:P)— 1703
- International Patent Documentation Center (INPADOC)— 901.05 ; 901.07
- Lexis-Nexis— 719.05
- Official Gazette Notices— 1703
- Patent Grants Database— 1703 ; 1730
- Questel-Orbit— 719.05 ; 901.07
- SEARCH (PE2E)— 901.05(c) ; 902.03(e)
- TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System)— 1703 ; 1730
- Electronic Business Center (EBC)— 1730
- Electronic document— 707.05(e)
- Electronic filing system, USPTO Patent (Patent Center)—
502.05
;
503
;
708.02(a)
- Actions permitted by registered users— 502.05
- Actions permitted by unregistered users— 502.05
- Alternatives to using EFS-Web—
502.05
- During unscheduled outages (EFS-Web Contingency Option)— 502.05
- Certificate of Transmission— 512
- Document description codes— 502.05
- Document formats— 502.05
- Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt— 502.05
- Ex parte reexamination request and follow-on papers— 502.05 ; 2224
- Legal Framework— 708.02(b)
- Petition to accept unintentionally delayed payment of maintenance fee— 502.05 ; 711.03(c) ; 2590
- Pre-grant (eighteen month) publication submissions via— 502.05 ; 1121 ; 1129 ; 1130 ; 1132 ; 1133
- Reissue application and follow-on papers— 502.05 ; 1410
- Sequence listing submissions via— 215.02(b) ; 2422.03 ; 2422.03(a) ; 2422.04
- Electronic funds transfer to replenish deposit account— 509.01
- Electronic Information Disclosure Statement (eIDS)— 609.07
- Electronic mail— 502.03 ; 713 ; 713.01 ; 713.04 ; 713.05
- Electronic patent assignment system (EPAS)— 302.10 ; 502.01 ; 502.05
- Electronic Priority Document Exchange ( See also PDX)— 215.01 ; 215.02(a)
- Electronic Processing of Information Disclosure Statement— 609.08
- Electronic publications
- Employee number— 711.04(b)
- Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, property interest in patent— 309
- Enablement—
2164
;
2166
- Burden on the examiner— 2164.04
- Commensurate in scope with claims—
2164.08
- Critical feature not claimed— 2164.08(c)
- Inoperative subject matter— 2164.08(b)
- Single means claim— 2164.08(a)
- Compared to utility— 2164.07
- Design patent application— 1503.02 ; 1504.04
- Duty or disclosure of information relevant to— 2001.04
- Evidence of— 2164.05
- Examples of enablement issues— 2164.06 – 2164.06(c)
- Form paragraphs used to reject— 2166
- How to make the invention— 2164.01(b)
- How to use the invention— 2164.01(c)
- Quantity of experimentation— 2164.06
- Reduction to practice— 2164.02
- Relationship of predictability— 2164.03
- Specification must be enabling
- As of the filing date— 2164.05(a)
- To persons of ordinary skill— 2164.05(b)
- Test of enablement— 2164.01
- Undue experimentation factors— 2164.01(a)
- Working example— 2164.02
- 35 U.S.C. 112(f) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph limitations— 2181 ; 2185
- Energy, Department of— 115 ; 2104.01
- English language faulty, new specification— 608.01(q)
- English language required— 302.02 ; 608.01
- Enrollment and Discipline, Office of ( See Office of Enrollment and Discipline)
- Entity, micro, claiming status as ( See Micro entity status)
- Entity, small, claiming status as ( See Small entity status)
- Entry of amendment ( See also Amendment)— 714.18
- Environmental Quality Program— 708.02
- Equity (civil action)
- Equivalents in art— 904.01(b) ; 2144 ; 2144.06
- Erasable (specially coated) paper— 608.01
- Erasure in specification, before execution— 608.01
- Errors ( See also Correction of patent)
- Essential material— 608.01(p)
- Establishing right of assignee to take action in application— 324 ; 325
- Estoppel
- European Community Design treaty ( See Treaties)
- European Patent Convention ( See Treaties)
- European Patent Office (EPO)—
120
;
609
;
901.05
;
901.07
;
1801
;
1840
;
1840.01
;
1850
;
1860
;
1865
- Evidence, of public use or on sale— 2133.03 – 2133.03(b) ; 2152.02(c) ; 2152.02(d)
- Evidence submitted with protest— 1901.02
- Examination guidelines for AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103— 2150
- Examination guidelines for applying reference under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(e)— 2136 ; 2136.01
- Examination of application— 700
- Examiner
- Action— 707
- Action counted— 1705
- Affidavit— 2144.03
- Assignment of application for examination— 909.01(b) ; 909.02(b)
- Assignment of ex-parte reexamination— 2236
- Assistant— 707.01 ; 707.02
- Citing prior art in an issued patent inappropriate— 2203
- Classification ( See also Classification examiner)— 903
- Disposals— 1705
- Duty of candor and good faith to— 2001.03 ; 2001.04
- Employee number— 711.04(b) ; 905.05
- Expressing opinion of validity— 1701
- Name— 502 ; 707.09 ; 1302.13
- New action indicated by primary— 707.01
- Previous action by another examiner
- Primary
- Pursuit of bounties prohibited— 1701
- Reasons for allowance— 1302.14
- Resigns, old cases special— 708.03
- Suggestion of allowable claims— 707.07(j)
- Supervisory ( See Supervisory patent examiner)
- Telephoning attorney— 408 ; 1302.14
- Testimony as patent expert— 1701.01
- Time and Activity Report— 1704 ; 1705
- Time reporting for ex parte reexamination— 2238
- Treatment of protest— 1901.06
- Examiner docket, time, and activity recording— 1704 ; 1705
- Examiner Reissue Guide and Checklist— 1443 ; 1445
- Examiner’s action ( See also Action and Letter, Examiner’s)— 707
- Examiner’s amendment—
1302.04
- Abstract changed by— 608.01(b) ; 1302.01 ; 1302.04
- By initialing— 1302.04
- Claim, antecedent basis in description— 608.01(o)
- Claim lost in interference— 2308
- Claim, numbers identifying— 1302.01 ; 1302.04(g)
- Claims, nonelected invention, canceled— 821.01 ; 821.02
- Defensive publication— 711.06
- Deposit account charge— 1302.04 ; 1730
- Drawing correction— 608.02(w) ; 1302.04
- Extension of time required for— 706.07(f)
- Formal matters— 1302.01 ; 1302.04
- Image file wrapper applications— 1302.04
- Informalities corrected— 1302.04
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714 ; 1302.04
- No new matter— 608.01(o)
- Plant patent application practice— 1610
- Reexamination
- Reference citation corrected— 707.05(g)
- Title of application— 606.01
- Examiner’s Answer
- Examiner’s letter (
See also
Action)—
707
- Abandonment— 711.02
- Advisory action— 706.07(f) ; 714.13
- Amendment after final rejection— 714.13
- Arguments answered— 707.07(f)
- Cancellation of nonelected claim— 821.01 ; 821.02
- Claim allowable except as to form— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(j) ; 710.02(b) ; 714.15
- Claim summary— 707.07(i)
- Complete and clear— 707.07
- Copies of references— 707.05(a)
- Copy to applicant— 707.12
- Correction, period for reply— 707.05(g) ; 710.06
- Correction of citation— 707.05(g)
- Date stamped— 707.11
- Decisions, cited— 707.06
- Election of species required, concluding paragraph— 809.02(a)
- Examiner signature at end of letter— 707.09
- Examiner’s amendments— 706.07(f) ; 1302.04
- File wrapper entry— 707.10 ; 719.01
- Final rejection, clearly stated— 706.07
- Final rejection, concluding statement— 706.07
- Final rejection, patentability report— 705.01(a)
- Formal matters— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(e) ; 707.07(j) ; 714.02
- Informal application— 702.01
- Initialed by examiner— 707.08
- Language in rejecting— 707.07(d)
- Mailing— 707.12
- Memorandum cited— 707.06
- New drawing required— 608.02(b)
- New examiner, primary examiner indicates— 707.01
- Notices cited— 707.06
- Numbering of paragraphs— 707.07(k)
- Omnibus rejection— 2173.05(r) ; 2175
- Orders cited— 707.06
- Outstanding requirements— 707.07(e)
- Personal matter excluded— 707.07(d)
- Piecemeal prosecution— 707.07(g)
- Power of attorney invalid or lacking— 402
- Preliminary amendment in new case— 709 ; 714.01(e)
- Primary examiner’s attention required, list— 1004
- References, citation— 707.05 – 707.05(g) ; 901.04 ; 901.05(a)
- Refusing entry of amendment after Board decision— 1214.07
- Rejection of claim corresponding to claim of patent— 2302
- Remailing— 707.13 ; 710.06
- Requirement for information— 704.10 ; 2120.02 ; 2135 ; 2181
- Restriction requirement— 803 ; 817
- Returned— 707.13
- Reviewed by examiner— 707.08
- Shortened time for reply— 710.02
- Signature— 707.09 ; 707.10 ; 1302.13
- Statement of rejection— 707.07(d)
- Status letter reply— 203.08
- Statutory basis— 707.07(d)
- Summary— 707.07(i)
- Supplemental— 710.06
- Undelivered— 707.13
- Examiner’s search facilities, use regulations— 510
- Example, Comments on— 707.07(l)
- Example, Operative— 608.01(p) ; 2164.02
- Example, Prophetic, simulated or predicted— 608.01(p) ; 2164.02
- Excess number of claims for fee, after notice of allowance— 714.16(c)
- Excess number of claims over number of claims previously paid for— 607 ; 714.01(e) ; 714.10
- Excluded attorney or agent— 105 ; 407 ; 713.05 ; 714.19
- Execution of oath— 602.08(b)
- Executive Order
- Executor or administrator—
409.01(b)
- Allowance and issue— 409.01(b)
- Application by, after discharge— 409.01(b)
- Assigned application, inventor dies— 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate— 409.01(b) ; 410
- Foreign country— 409.01(b)
- Heir— 409.01 ; 409.01(a) ; 409.01(b)
- Intervention not required— 409.01(b)
- Joint inventors, inventor dies— 409.01(b)
- Exhibit— 608.03
- Exhibit, Affidavit under 37 CFR 1.131— 715.07 ; 715.07(d)
- Exhibit, during appeal— 1209
- Exhibit at interview— 713.08
- Exhibit, handling— 608.03(a)
- Ex parte questions— 713.06
- Experimental use (
See also
Public use)—
2133.03
;
2133.03(e)
;
2152.02(c)
;
2152.02(d)
- Commercial exploitation— 2133.03(e)(1) ; 2152.02(c) ; 2152.02(d)
- Completeness of the invention— 2133.03(e)(3)
- Factors indicative of— 2133.03(e)(4) ; 2133.03(e)(5)
- Intent to experiment— 2133.03(e)(2)
- Reduction to practice— 2133.03(e)(3)
- Testing by third party— 2133.03(e)(5) ; 2133.03(e)(7)
- Testing, developmental— 2133.03(e)(6)
- When experimental use ends— 2133.03(e)(3)
- Expert testimony— 1504.03
- Expiration date of patent ( See also Term, Patent)
- Export control of patent applications— 120
- Exposure of papers during interviews— 101 ; 713.07
- Expounding patent law— 713.02
- Express abandonment— 711 ; 711.01
- Expunge information in application file— 724.05 ; 724.06 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(c)(4) ; 2267 ; 2269
- Extension of shortened reply period— 710.02(e)
- Extension of time—
706.07(f)
;
710.02(e)
;
1002.02(c)
- For filing brief— 1203 ; 1205.01 ; 1206 ; 1208 ; 1215.04
- For filing continuing application— 201.06(c)
- Reexamination
- Ex parte— 1002.02(c) ; 2265
- Inter partes— 1002.02(c)(4)
- Request— 710.02(e) ; 1002.02(c)
- Extension, patent term ( See Term, Patent)
- Extraordinary situations
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