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• Icons and electronic images, computer-generated— 1504.01(a)
• Identification of papers— 502 ; 503
• Identification of priority application— 214.04
• Identity of inventors under 35 U.S.C. 119— 216
• Idiomatic English— 608.01(q)
• Illustration ( See Drawings)
• Image file wrapper
  • Artifact— 608.02 ; 608.02(c)
  • Paper scanning— 508
  • Power to inspect not accepted— 104
  • Public access— 103 ; 1730
• Implied election— 818.02 ; 818.02(a) ; 818.02(c)
• Improper joinder, effect on patent— 805
• Improper naming of inventors— 2109 ; 2137 ; 2157
• Improper multiple dependent claim— 608.01(n)
• Improvement (Jepson claim)— 2129
• Inaccurate claim— 2173.03
• Incoming-Mail Section ( See also Office of Patent Application Processing)— 501
• Incomplete amendments, time for completing— 710.02(c) ; 714.03
• Incomplete application— 506 ; 601.01(d) – 601.01(g)
  • Claims omitted— 601.01(e)
  • Definition— 203.06
  • Drawing— 506 ; 601.01(f)
  • Invalid oath— 602.03
  • Return of filing fee— 506
  • Using again— 608.01(t)
• Incomplete claim, rejection— 2166 ; 2172.01 ; 2175
• Incomplete protest— 1901.03
• Incomplete requests for ex parte reexamination— 2227
• Incomplete response— 711.03(a) ; 714.03
  • Time for completing— 710.02(c) ; 711 ; 714.03
• Incorporation by reference— 103 ; 201.06(c) ; 211.02 ; 211.02(a) ; 217 ; 601 ; 608.01(p) ; 2163.07 ; 2163.07(b) ; 2173.05(s)
  • Foreign priority application— 213.02 ; 217 ; 2163.07
  • Public access to incorporated application— 103
• Incorrect citation of reference— 707.05(g) ; 710.06
• Indefinite claim— 2171 – 2174 ; 2175 ; 2185
  • Alternative phrase— 2173.01 ; 2173.05(h)
  • Antecedent basis— 2173.05(e)
  • Breadth compared— 2173.04
  • Chemical Formula— 2173.05(t)
  • Comparing 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph with 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph— 2174 ; 2185
  • Design applications— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
  • Exemplary claim language— 2173.05(d)
  • International application— 1845.01 ; 1874
  • Multiplicity— 2173.05(n)
  • Must be considered— 2143.03
  • Nonelected claims— 821
  • Numerical ranges— 2173.05(c)
  • Practice compact prosecution— 2173.06
  • Prolix— 2173.05(m)
  • Reference to limitations in another claim— 2173.05(f)
  • Rejections— 2175
  • 35 U.S.C. 112(6) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph limitations— 2181 ; 2185
• Independent claim— 608.01(n)
• Independent, definition— 802.01
• Independent inventions— 802 ; 802.01 ; 803 ; 803.02 ; 806 ; 806.04(b) ; 806.06 ; 808.01(a)
• Independent inventor ( See also Applicant, Inventor, and Pro Se applicant )
  • Micro entity status— 509.04
  • Small entity status— 509.02
• Index of claims— 707.07(i) ; 719.04
• Index of patents, Classification, Numerical— 902.03(a)
• Index to the U.S. Patent Classification— 902.01(a)
• Industrial Security Manual (ISM)— 120
• Inequitable conduct ( See also Duty of disclosure, Violation of)— 2001.06(c) ; 2010
  • Best mode— 2165
  • Claims invalidated— 2016
  • Finding affects all claims— 2016
  • Protest— 1901 ; 1901.02 ; 1901.06 ; 2013
  • Reexamination— 2014
  • Reissue— 1448 ; 2012
• Informal application— 506 ; 702.01
  • Primary examiner’s attention required— 1004
  • Search— 702.01 ; 704.01
• Informal drawing (no longer applies)— 507 ; 608.02(b) ; 608.02(i)
• Informality, Action calling attention to— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(j) ; 710.02(b) ; 714.14
• Information Center ( See Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC))
• Information Disclosure Statements ( See also Prior art)— 201.06(d) ; 609 ; 1406 ; 1410 ; 1418 ; 1455
  • Electronic Processing of— 609.08
  • Relationship to requirement for information— 704.14(d)
• Information material to patentability ) ( See also Duty of disclosure)— 2001.04 ; 2001.05
  • Copending application— 2001.06(b)
  • Copied claims— 2001.06(d)
  • Foreign application— 2001.06(a)
  • Litigation— 2001.06(c)
  • Submitted to Food and Drug Administration— 2001.04
• Information reasonably necessary for finding prior art— 704.11
• Information submitted with protest— 1901.02
• Infringement action
  • Statute of limitations— 2204
• INID codes or numbers— 901.04 ; 901.05(b) ; 2290
• Initial data capture for printing— 1309
• Initial examiner review of reissue— 1443
• Ink
  • Permanent— 608.01 ; 714.07
• Inoperativeness— 2164.07 ; 2164.08(b)
  • Affidavit— 716.07
• INPADOC— 901 ; 901.06(a) ; 901.07
• Inquiries, Official and Congressional— 203.08(a)
• Inquiries regarding patent search, examination, or validity— 1701
• Inquiry as to status of application— 102 ; 203.08 ; 1809
  • Application published— 1128 ; 1134
• Insanity— 409.01(b)
• Inspection
  • Amendment— 714.05
  • Application— 103 ; 104
  • Application Assistance Unit— 103
  • Approval of power— 104
  • Assignment— 301.01
  • Authority to grant— 104
  • Authorization— 402 ; 409.03(i)
  • By assignee— 104 ; 106 ; 106.01
  • By excluded or suspended attorney or agent— 105
  • By inventor— 106
  • By licensee— 106.01
  • Control of, By assignee— 106
  • International application— 110
  • Patent file— 103
  • Petition— 103
  • Record room— 103
  • Reissue application— 103
  • Right of— 103 ; 104 ; 106
• Insufficient disclosure— 608.01(p) ; 2161 ; 2166
• Insufficient reply— 710.02(c) ; 711.02(a) ; 711.03(a) ; 714.03 ; 2266.01
• Int Cl (International Patent Classification)— 906
• Intellectual property compared— 1512
• Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-273)— 2120.01 ; 2136 ; 2146
• Intent to claim— 706
• Interference— 2300
  • Abandonment, suppression or concealment, notice— 2138 ; 2138.03
  • Access to files— 104 ; 2306 ; 2307.02
  • Action after— 2308
  • Action after ex-parte reexamination— 2284
  • Action suggesting claims— 2304.04
  • Administrative patent judge handles— 2301
  • Allowance of losing party’s application (Estoppel)— 2308.03
  • Applicant suggests interference with patent— 2304.02
  • Applications in different Technology Centers— 2304.01(b)
  • Basis of practice— 2138.01 ; 2301.03
  • Between application and patent— 2301.03
  • Between applications— 2301.03
  • Cancellation of losing party’s claims— 2308.03(a)
  • Claim of foreign priority— 2304.01(c)
  • Claim interpretation— 2301.03
  • Claim presented corresponding to patent claim— 2301.03 – 2304.05
  • Claims, added or amended— 2308.02
  • Claims, overlapping in two applications of same party— 2304.05
  • Claims, suggesting— 1003 ; 2304.04(b)
  • Claims corresponding to count support in specification— 2163.03
  • Common ownership— 2304.05
  • Conception— 2138.01 ; 2138.04
  • Concurrent with appeal— 2307.05
  • Copending ex parte reexamination— 2284
  • Copying claims, information relating to— 2001.06(d)
  • Count, defined— 2301.02 ; 2301.03 ; 2304.02(b)
  • Counts, formulation of— 2301.01 ; 2304.02(b)
  • Dates, difference in effective filing— 2303
    • TC Director’s attention required— 1003
  • Declaration— 2301
  • Definitions— 2301.02
  • Determining priority— 2138.01 ; 2304.02(c)
  • Diligence, reasonable— 2138.01 ; 2138.06
  • Disclaimer, statutory— 710.02(d) ; 2304.04(c)
  • Disposal credit— 1705
  • Election of invention not affected— 819
  • Entry of amendment filed in connection with motion— 2308.02
  • Estoppel— 715 ; 2138.01 ; 2308.03
  • Evidence— 2138.04 – 2138.06
  • Examination, Completion of— 2303 ; 2303.02
  • Examiner suggestion— 2304.04
  • Final disposal of claims— 2308.01
  • Fraud— 2010
  • Generic claims— 2304.04(b)
  • Identification of patent, corresponding claims presented— 2304.02(a)
  • Inequitable conduct— 2010
  • Inter partes questions not to be discussed ex parte— 2307.01
  • Interference Practice Specialist— 2301 ; 2302 ; 2303 ; 2304 ; 2304.04(a) ; 2304.04(b) ; 2307.04 ; 2308.03
  • Interference-in fact, no— 2308.03(b)
  • Interfering Subject Matter— 2301.03
  • Judicial review— 1216 ; 1216.01
  • Jurisdiction over interference— 2307 ; 2308
  • Limited applicability— 2301.04
  • Losing party, may obtain copy of opponent’s application— 2308.03(a)
  • Losing party, treatment of— 2308.03(a)
  • Lost counts— 715
  • Motions
    • Decision— 2308.02
    • Stay— 2284
    • Suspend— 2284
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration or Department of Energy Ownership— 2309
  • Order to show cause— 2305
  • Patent in different Technology Center— 2304.01(b)
  • Patent term adjustment— 2303 ; 2303.01 ; 2304.01(d)
  • Patentee suggestion— 2304.03
  • Petition refusal to initiate— 1002.02(c)
  • Power of attorney filed— 402.08
  • Preparation of papers by examiner— 2302
  • Priority time charts— 2138.01
  • Provoking
    • In ex parte reexamination— 2284
  • Reduction to practice— 2138.01 ; 2138.05
  • Reexamination
    • Ex parte, copending with interference— 2284
  • References pertinent to motions, made of record— 1302.12
  • Referring an Interference to the Board, Preliminaries to— 2304.01
  • Reissue application— 1449.02 ; 2303.02
  • Reissue application copending with interference on original patent— 1449.01
  • Related involved files— 2304.01(b)
    • Access to— 2307.02
    • Board action in— 2307.05
    • Suspension in— 2307.03
    • Translation of— 2304.01(c)
  • Reply to suggestion for claims— 710.02(c) ; 2304.04(b)
  • Requirements for interference— 2302
  • Requiring a claim— 2304.04(b)
  • Requiring a priority showing— 2305
  • Revocation of power of attorney— 402.08
  • Search— 1302.08 ; 2304.01(a)
  • Second Interference, no— 2308.03(c)
  • Secrecy order application— 130 ; 2304.01(a) ; 2306
  • Sorting claims— 2304.01(d)
  • Special dispatch— 708.01 ; 2301
  • Statutory basis— 708.01 ; 2301.01
  • Suggestion of interference, general— 2304
    • By examiner— 2304.04
    • By patentee— 2304.03
  • Suggestion of claims— 2304.02 – 2304.04(b)
  • Suggestion of claims, time limit— 710.02(c)
  • Suspension of action pending outcome of reexamination— 2284
  • Suspension of ex parte prosecution— 709 ; 709.01
  • Suspension of related applications— 2307.03
  • Terminated open to public— 103
  • Testimony— 715.07(b)
  • Transfer of application— 2304.01(b)
  • Winning party— 710.02(b) ; 2308
  • Written Description, Adequate— 2304.02(d)
• Interference practice specialist(s)— 2301 ; 2302 ; 2304 ; 2304.04(a) ; 2304.04(b) ; 2307.04 ; 2308.03
• Interlibrary loans— 901.06(a)
• Interlineation in specification before execution— 608.01
• Intermediate-final product— 806.04(b) ; 806.05(j)
• International application ( See also Foreign application and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT))
  • Abstract— 1826
  • Access— 101 ; 110
  • Agent— 1807 ; 1864.04
  • Amendment before the designated office— 1893.01(a)(2) ; 1893.01(a)(3)
  • Amendment of claims before International Bureau— 1853
  • Amino acid sequence— 1823.02 ; 2412.03(b) ; 2412.05(d) ; 2422 ; 2422.03(a)
  • Applicant— 1806 ; 1810
  • Assignment document— 301
  • Attorney— 1807
  • Attorney file reference number— 1821
  • Claims— 1824
  • Common representative— 402.09 ; 1807
  • Confidential status— 101 ; 110
  • Content— 1812
  • Continuation— 1828.02
  • Continuation of— 211.01(c) ; 1895
  • Continuation-in-part— 1828.02
  • Correspondence— 1834
  • Definition— 201
  • Deposit accounts— 509.01
  • Description— 1823
  • Designation of states— 1821
  • Drawings— 1825 ; 1893.03(f)
  • Drawings missing— 1825
  • Early national stage entry under 35 U.S.C. 371(f)— 1893.01 ; 1893.01(a)(2) ; 1893.03(b)
  • EFS-Web filing— 502.05
  • Elements— 1812
  • Errors, rectification of— 1836
  • Fees— 1827 ; 1893.01(c) ; 1896
  • Filing date— 1810
  • Foreign filing license— 1805 ; 1828.01 ; 1832
  • Formal requirements— 1810
  • Forms ( See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): Forms)
  • Home copy— 1801 ; 1879.04
  • International preliminary examination— 1860
  • International search— 1843
  • International searching authority— 1840 – 1840.06
  • Inventor— 1806 ; 1821 ; 1893.01(e)
  • Kinds of protection— 1821 ; 1828.02
  • Mail service— 1834 ; 1834.02
  • Member states— 1817
  • Microorganism deposit— 1823.01
  • National stage— 1893 – 1896
    • Submission via EFS-Web— 502.05
  • Numbering of sheets— 1812
  • Oath— 1893.01(e)
  • Parent to national application— 211.01(c) ; 1895
  • Power of attorney— 1807
  • Prior art effect— 2127 ; 2136.03 ; 2154.01(a)
  • Priority— 210 – 217 ; 1828
    • Restoration of— 1828.01
  • Priority document— 215 ; 1828
  • Publication— 1857
  • Record copy— 1801 ; 1827.01 ; 1828 ; 1832
  • Rectification of obvious errors— 1836
  • Refund of fees— 1827.01 ; 1850 ; 1852 ; 1875.02
  • Representation— 402.09
  • Request— 1821
  • Search copy— 1801 ; 1827.01 ; 1840 ; 1840.01
  • Search fee— 1827
  • Search report— 707.05 ; 1844
  • Secrecy order— 115 ; 120 ; 1832
  • Signature of applicant— 1820
  • Term, Adjustment of— 2730 ; 2731 ; 2732 ; 2734
  • Time limits— 1836 ; 1842 ; 1843.05 ; 1879.01
  • Title— 1821
  • Translation for U.S. national stage— 1893.01(d)
  • Transmittal fee— 1827
  • Transmittal letter— 1830
  • Unity of invention— 823 ; 1850 ; 1875 ; 1893.03(d)
  • Withdrawal— 1859 ; 1880
• International classification— 906
• International design application— 201.01 ; 211.01(d) ; 1501 ; 2900
  • Access— 102 ; 103
  • Claiming Priority— 213.07 ; 2901 ; 2909 ; 2909.01 ; 2909.03 ; 2920.05(d) ; 2920.05(e)
  • Contents of— 2909
  • Conversion— 2914
  • Corrections of— 2930
  • Correspondence address— 2909.01 ; 2912 ; 2920.03 ; 2920.06
  • Definition— 2902
  • Design patent practitioner— 2911
  • EFS-Web— 2905.01 ; 2909.02 ; 2909.02(a)
  • Examination— 2901 ; 2906 ; 2909 ; 2910 ; 2920 ; 2920.05 ; 2920.06 ; 2950
  • Fee Calculator— 2910
  • Fees— 2910
  • Filing date— 601.01(a) ; 2906 ; 2907 ; 2908
  • Grant of protection— 2901 ; 2940 ; 2950
  • Information disclosure statement— 609.04 ; 2909.03 ; 2920.05(a) ; 2920.05(f)
  • Juristic Entity— 714.01(c) ; 2920.01 ; 2920.05(a)
  • Naming of inventors— 604 ; 2909 ; 2920 ; 2920.01 ; 2920.04(c) ; 2920.05(b)
  • Non Publication of— 901.03
  • Processing of— 2920
  • Publication— 2901
  • Representation— 2911
  • Reproductions (drawings)— 2901 ; 2909 ; 2909.01 ; 2909.02 ; 2909.02(a) ; 2910 ; 2920.04(a) ; 2920.04(b) ; 2920.05(a) ; 2920.05(b) ; 2920.05(c)
  • Restriction— 2920.04(b) ; 2920.05 ; 2920.05(a) ; 2920.05(b)
  • Secrecy Order— 120
  • Time limits— 2913 ; 2914
  • Where to file— 2905
  • Who may file— 2904
• International patent classification— 719.05 ; 906
• International Patent Legal Administration— 102 ; 103 ; 110 ; 602.01(c)(3) ; 1730
• International searching authority— 1840
• International Trade Commission— 724
• International-type search— 707 ; 1852
• Internet— 502.03 ; 1730
  • Address— 1730
  • Database collections— 1730
  • Electronic mail— 502.03 ; 713 ; 713.01 ; 713.04
  • Kids Pages— 1730
  • “PatentIn” computer software ( See also Sequence rules)— 1730 ; 2430
  • Payment of maintenance fees by— 1730 ; 2510 ; 2522
  • Publication of Board Decisions— 1213.03
  • Publication of the Official Gazette— 1703
  • Searching— 904.02(c)
  • Usage Policy— 502.03 ; 904.02(c)
  • World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)— ; 1801 ; 1851
• Inter partes questions— 713.06
• Inter partes review— 901.04
• Interpretation of law, new— 1207.02
• Intervening rights
  • In reexamination
    • Ex parte— 2293
  • In reinstated patents— 2591
  • In reissue— 1460
• Intervention by assignee— 106 ; 324 ; 325
• Interviews— 713
  • Advance indication of issues to be discussed— 713.01
  • Allowed application— 713.05 ; 713.10
  • Appointment in advance— 713.01
  • Attorney not of record— 101 ; 402.03 ; 405 ; 408
  • Design patent practitioner— 405 ; 713.05
  • Authority to conduct— 713.05
  • Before filing— 713.02
  • Before filing amendment under 37 CFR 1.312— 713.10
  • Before first action— 706.07(b) ; 713.01 ; 713.02
  • Demonstration— 713.08
  • During working days only— 713.01
  • Electronic mail— 502.03 ; 713 ; 713.01 ; 713.04
  • Excluded or suspended attorney or agent— 105 ; 713.05
  • Exhibit— 713.08
  • Exposure of other cases during— 101 ; 713.07
  • Field of search— 713.02
  • Finally rejected application— 706.07(f) ; 713.09
  • How conducted— 713.01
  • Inter partes questions— 713.06
  • Interview summary form— 713.04 ; 2281
  • Local attorney— 713.03 ; 713.05
  • Made of record— 713.01 ; 713.04
  • Model— 713.08
  • Oral agreement not binding— 713.04
  • Patentability report cases— 713.01
  • Prior to first Office action— 706.07(b) ; 713.02
  • Prohibited— 713.05
  • Protestor participation— 1901.07
  • Question of patent validity— 1701
  • Record of substance required— 713.01 ; 713.04
  • Reexamination
    • Ex parte— 2281
  • Refused— 713.01 ; 713.02 ; 713.05 ; 713.10
  • Requested in continuing application— 706.07(b)
  • Requested in Office action— 707
  • Sounding out— 713.03
  • Special situations— 713.05
  • Substance made of record— 713.04 ; 714.13
  • Supplemental examination, prohibited in— 2814
  • Telephone— 101 ; 408 ; 713.01 ; 713.05 ; 812.01
  • Time allowed— 713.01
  • Video conference— 713.01 ; 713.04 ; 713.05
  • Video showing— 713.01
  • Where held— 713.01
• Invention ( See also Patent and Rejection)
  • Brief summary— 608.01(d)
  • Detailed description— 608.01(g)
  • Made in this country— 2138.02
  • Mode of operation— 608.01(h)
• Inventive entity, Different— 2109 ; 2136.01 ; 2136.04 ; 2146.02 – 2146.03(a) ; 2152.07 ; 2154.01(d)
• Inventive entity, Same(overlapping subject matter)— 804 ; 804.03 ; 822
• Inventor ( See also Applicant and Pro se applicant )— 602.01
  • Common, at least one— 211.01 ; 2109 ; 2136.01 ; 2139.03 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2154.01(b) ; 2154.01(d)
  • Continuing application— 201.06(c)
  • Correction ( See Correction of inventorship)
  • Deceased— 409 ; 409.01(a) ; 409.01(b) ; 1806
    • Execution of oath/declaration by legal representative— 602.08(b)
    • Government property rights statement— 151
  • Duty of disclosure by— 2001.01 ; 2002.01
  • Foreign priority— 210 ; 213 – 217 ; 2152.01
  • Full first or middle name required— 602.01(b) ; 602.08(b)
  • Heirs— 409.01(a) ; 409.01(b)
  • Improper naming— 2109 ; 2137 ; 2157
  • Initials as a given name— 602.08(b)
  • Insane— 409.01(b)
  • International application— 1806
  • Legally incapacitated— 409.01(b)
  • Micro entity status— 509.04
  • Name change— 602.01(c) ; 602.08b(b)
    • Correction— 201.05 ; 602.01(c) ; 602.08b(b)
    • Order— 602.01(c) ; 602.08b(b)
    • Petition— 602.01(c)(3)
    • Typographical, translation error— 602 ; 602.01(c) ; 602.08(b)
  • None available— 409 ; 409.02 ; 409.03(b) ; 602.08(b)
    • Proof— 409.03(a) ; 409.03(b) ; 409.03(d)
    • Proof of irreparable damage— 409.03(g)
    • Proof of proprietary interest— 409.03(f) ; 409.05
  • Order of— 602.01(c) ; 602.08b(b)
  • Pro se— 401 ; 707.07(j) ; 713.01
  • Refuses to sign— 402.03 ; 409.03 ; 409.03(d) ; 602.08(b)
    • Execution of oath— 602.01(c) ; 602.08(b) ; 604
  • Representative of— 400
  • Requirements— 2109 ; 2157
  • Residence— 602.08(b)
  • Rule 1.53(b)— 201.06(c)
  • Rule 1.53(d)— 201.06(d)
  • Self-prosecuted case— 707.07(j) ; 713.01
  • Small entity status— 509.02
  • Unavailable— 409 ; 409.02 ; 409.03 ; 602.08(b)
    • At least one joint inventor available— 409.03(a)
    • Last known address— 409.03(e)
    • Proof— 409.03(d)
    • Proof of irreparable damage— 409.03(g)
    • Proof of proprietary interest— 409.03(f) ; 409.05
• Inventor’s certificate
  • Priority benefit— 213.05
  • Rejection based on— 2135
• Inventors Assistance Center— 1730
• IPS (Interference Practice Specialist)— 2302
• Irreparable damage, Proof of— 409.03(g)
• Issue ( See Allowance and issue)
• Issue batch number (no longer used)— 1303.01
• Issue Classification Form/Sheet/Slip ( See also Form letters and forms)— 903.07 ; 906 ; 907 ; 1302.09 ; 1302.10 ; 1302.13
• Issue fee— 1306
  • After payment— 1306.03
  • Credit card payment— 1306
  • Deposit account— 1303 ; 1306
  • Failure to pay— 711.03(c) ; 1306
  • Late payment— 711.03(c)
  • Petition to accept late fee— 711.03(c)
  • Reissue application— 1415
  • Who may file— 1306
• Israel Patent Office (ILPO)— 1840 ; 1840.05 ; 1860 ; 1865
• Issue of patent— 1309
  • Deferred— 1306.01
  • Request for simultaneous issuance— 1306.02
• Issue of patent to applicant— 308
• Issue of patent to non-applicant assignee— 307
• Item of information in supplemental examination— 2809

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