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- Machine, process or product— 806.05(e) ; 806.05(f) ; 806.05(g)
- Machine Translation— 901.05(d) ; 2120
- Mail ( See also Mail Stop)
- Mail date as filing date— 513
- Mail stop—
501
- Mail Stop 8 (Solicitor)— 501 ; 1216 ; 1216.01
- Mail Stop 10— 1232
- Mail Stop 16 (Refunds)— 509.03
- Mail Stop AF— 714.13
- Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services— 501 ; 302.08
- Mail Stop Conversion— 601.01(c)
- Mail Stop EBC— 403
- Mail Stop Ex Parte Reexam— 501 ; 2222 ; 2224 ; 2226 ; 2231 ; 2246 ; 2806
- Mail Stop Expedited Design— 1504.30
- Mail Stop Express Abandonment— 1002.02(r) ; 1125
- Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE— 501 ; 1002.02(b)
- Mail Stop Inter partes Reexam— 501
- Mail Stop Issue Fee— 502 ; 1306 ; 1306.02
- Mail Stop L&R— 120
- Mail Stop Maintenance Fee— 501 ; 2510
- Mail Stop MPEP—
- Mail Stop OED— 402 ; 407
- Mail Stop Patent Ext.— 2720
- Mail Stop Patent and Trademark Copy Fulfillment Branch— 501 ; 2232 ; 2803.02
- Mail Stop PCT— 501 ; 1808 ; 1821 ; 1864 ; 1865
- Mail Stop Petition— 1002.02(b) ; 1308 ; 1901.03 ; 2580 ; 2590
- Mail Stop PGPUB— 1126
- Mail Stop Post Issue— 2222 ; 2501 ; 2805
- Mail Stop Reissue— 1410
- Mail Stop Sequence (Box SEQUENCE)— 2413.03 ; 2429 ; 2433
- Mail Stop Supplemental Examination— 2806 ; 2812.03
- Mailing action—
707.12
- In ex parte reexamination— 2264
- Mailing, Certificate of ( See Certificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8))
- Maintenance Fee Branch—
2501
;
2515
;
2520
;
2540
- Contact information— 1730
- Maintenance fees (
See also
Fee and
Refunds)—
1730
;
2500
- Attorney or agent
- 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 ; 2515
- Fee address— 2540 ; 2542
- Fee amounts— 2501 ; 2520
- Forms— 2595
- Information available from Maintenance Fee Branch— 2501 ; 2570
- Information required with payment— 2515 ; 2530
- Insufficient— 2531
- Internet submission— 2510 ; 2522
- Intervening rights in reinstated patents— 2591
- Late— 2531
- Mailing address for maintenance fee documents— 501 ; 2501 ; 2510
- Mailing address for payments— 501 ; 2501 ; 2510
- Maintenance Fee Branch— 2501 ; 2515 ; 2520 ; 2540
- Method of payment— 2522
- Micro entity status requirement— 2550
- Notices – Expiration, Receipt, Reminder— 2575
- Obligation to pay while reissue is pending— 1415.01 ; 2504 ; 2506 ; 2515
- Overpayment— 2550
- Patents subject to payment of— 2504
- Payment informalities— 2530
- Petition to accept— 2515 ; 2530 ; 2531 ; 2550 ; 2590
- Reexamination— 2506
- Refusal to accept and record payments, Review of— 2580
- Reinstatement, delayed payment— 2590
- Reissue patents— 1415.01 ; 1443 ; 2504 ; 2506
- 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 ; 905.03(a)
- Manual of Classification for USPC— ; 902.01
- Manuscript decision— 707.06
- Margin, application papers— 608.01
- Mark of applicant— 602.08(b)
- Marking, Security— 121
- Markush claim— 803.02 ; 2117 ; 2173.05(h)
- Material mistake by Office in published PG-Pub— 1130
- Materiality of information regarding patentability ( See Duty of disclosure)
- Mathematical algorithms— 2014 ; 2106.04 ; 2106.04(a)(2) ; 2106.05(f) ; 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
- Scope of the identification of prior art— 2182
- Single means claim— 2164.08(a) ; 2173.05(g) ; 2181
- Means plus function limitations— 2106.03 ; 2111.01 ; 2114 ; 2181 – 2186 ; 2187
- Memorandum, citation— 707.06
- Merger of ex parte reexamination and reissue— 2285
- Merger of supplemental examination— 2821
- Method of making and apparatus or product— 806.05(e) ; 806.05(f)
- Metric (S.I.) system usage— 608.01
- Micro entity status
- Application filing limit— 509.04(a)
- Continued obligation to determine micro entity qualification— 509.04(d)
- Correcting errors in micro entity status— 509.04(f)
- Gross income basis— 509.04(a)
- Institution of higher education basis— 509.04(b)
- — 509.04(c)
- Previously filed patent application exclusion— 509.04(a)
- Notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status— 509.04(e)
- — 509.04
- — 509.04(a) ; 509.04(b)
- Microorganisms ( See Biotechnology)
- Microorganisms, deposit of— 1823.01 ; 2402 – 2411.05
- Microorganisms, patentability of— 2014 ; 2105 ; 2106.03 ; 2164.01(b) ; 2164.06(a)
- Militarily Critical Technology List (MCTL)— 120
- Military officer notary— 602.04
- Minor, inventor— 409
- Misjoinder, Effect on patent— 805
- Misjoinder of inventors— 602.01(c) ; 1402 ; 1412.04
- 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
- Motions in interferences ( See Interference: Motions)
- Multiple dependent claims
- Multiple papers on same issue in protest— 1901.07(a)
- Multiplicity of claims— 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
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