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• NAFTA— 715.07(c)
• Name ( See also Applicant and Inventor)
  • Change— 602.01(c) ; 602.08(b)
    • Correction— 602.01(c) ; 602.08(b)
    • Order— 602.01(c) ; 602.08(b)
    • Petition— 605.04(c) ; 602.01(c)(3)
    • Translation, typographical error— 602.01(c) ; 602 ; 602.08(b)
  • Change, file sent to Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP))— 602.08(b)
  • Full first or middle required— 602.08(b)
  • Order— 602.08(b) ; 602.01(c)
  • Signature ( See Signature)
  • Uniformity with signature— 602.08(b)
• Names used in trade— 608.01(v)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)— 115 ; 150 ; 151
• National application— 201
• National security, application affecting— 115 ; 120 ; 121 ; 130 ; 140
• National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371)— 201.01 ; 1893 – 1896
  • Compared with national application— 1896
  • Continuation or continuation-in-part— 1895 ; 1895.01 ; 1896
  • Drawings— 1893.03(f)
  • Filing date— 1893.03(b)
  • Information disclosure statement— 609.03 ; 1893.03(g)
  • Order of examination— 708 ; 1893.03
  • Petitions related to— 1002.02(p)
  • Priority— 1893.03(c)
  • Unity of invention— 1893.03(d)
• Naturally occurring article— 2104 ; 2106.04(b)
• Negative limitation— 2173.05(i)
• Negotiation authority— 713.05
• New application (definition)— 203.01
  • Assignment to examiner for examination— 909.01(b) ; 909.02(b)
  • Assignment to examiner in TC for examination— 909.01 ; 909.02
  • Examiner review for completeness— 702
  • Transfer— 909.01(d) ; 909.02(d)
• New examiner, action by— 707.01
• New ground of rejection by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board— 706.07(h) ; 1214.01
• New ground of rejection on appeal— 1207.03
• New matter— 608.04(a) ; 2163.06
  • Amendment of disclosure— 608.04 ; 1481 ; 2163.03 ; 2163.04 ; 2163.07
  • Claim— 608.04 ; 608.04(a) ; 2163.03
    • Appealable— 608.04(c)
  • Claim terminology— 608.01(o)
  • Continued prosecution application (CPA)— 201.06(d)
  • Continuing application— 201.07 ; 1481.03 ; 2163.03
  • Design application— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.01(a) ; 1504.04
  • Disclosure— 608.04 ; 2163.06
  • Divisional application— 201.06
  • Drawing— 608.04 ; 608.04(a)
  • Inherent characteristics— 608.04(a) ; 2163.07(a)
  • Objection— 608.04(a) ; 2163.07
  • Petitionable— 608.04(c) ; 2163.06
  • Preliminary amendment— 608.04(b) ; 714.01(e)
  • Priority— 2163.03 ; 2163.05
  • Reissue application— 1402 ; 1411.02 ; 1453 ; 1457
  • Rejection— 608.04 ; 608.04(a) ; 2163.06
  • Specification, petitionable— 608.04(c)
  • Substitute specification— 608.01(q)
  • Trademark definition— 608.01(v)
  • When entered— 714.19 ; 714.20
• NIRC ( See Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469)
• Nonanalogous art— 904.01(c) ; 1302.14 ; 2131.05 ; 2141.01(a)
  • Design applications— 1504.02 ; 1504.03
• Nonelected invention
  • Claims to
    • Added— 821.03
    • Canceled— 821.01 ; 821.02
    • Eligible for rejoinder— 821
    • Withdrawn— 821.01 ; 821.02
• Nonelected species
  • Claims to
    • Canceled— 821.01 ; 821.02
    • Eligible for rejoinder— 821
    • Withdrawn— 821.01 ; 821.02
• Non-English oath or declaration— 602.06
• Nonnaturally occurring manufacture or composition of matter— 2105
• Nonpatent literature— 901.06
• Nonprofit organization, claiming status as— 509.03
• Nonprofit organizations— 509.02
• Nonprovisional application ( See also Application)— 506 ; 601
• Nonpublication request, Application— 1122
• Nonpublication Request Under 35 USC 122(b)(2)(B)(i), form PTO/SB/35
  • Cited— 1122
  • Reproduced— 1135
• Nonreceipt of Office letter— 711.03(c)
• Nonsigning inventor’s rights— 409.03(i)
• Nonstatutory subject matter— 2104 – 2107.01
• Not fully responsive amendment— 714.02 ; 2266.01
• Notary jurisdiction— 602
• Notary jurisdiction, military officer— 602
• Notary jurisdiction, venue agreement— 602
• Notary seal— 602
• Notation on file wrapper/history
  • Foreign application— 202
  • Parent application— 202 ; 211 ; 202
• Notice, citation— 707.06
• Notice of allowability— 717.01(f) ; 1302.03
• Notice of allowance ( See also Allowance and issue and Form letters and forms: Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due PTOL-85)— 1303
  • Assigned application— 307 ; 308
  • Deceased inventor— 1303.03
  • Reissue application— 1441.01 ; 1444 ; 1456 ; 1457 ; 1481.01 ; 1481.03
  • Secrecy order application— 115 ; 130
  • Undelivered— 1303.02
• Notice of appeal— 1204
  • Ex parte reexamination— 2273
• Notice of Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette— 2291
• Notice of Ex Parte Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette— 2229
• Notice of foreign filing after nonpublication request— 1124
• Notice of informal patent application form— 707.07(a)
• Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469— 2234 ; 2250 ; 2250.01 ; 2256 ; 2262 ; 2266 ; 2273 ; 2274 ; 2283 ; 2285 ; 2287 ; 2287.01 ; 2288 ; 2289 ; 2296
• Notice of New or Revised Pre-Grant Publication— 1127
• Notice of Non-Compliant amendment— 714 ; 714.01(e) ; 714.03
• Notice of Pre-Grant Publication— 1127
• Notice of references cited form (PTO-892)— 609.02 ; 609.03 ; 609.04(a) ; 609.05(a) ; 609.05(c) ; 609.06 ; 707.05 ; 707.05(a) – 707.05(g)
• Notices ( See also Publication)— ; 707.06
• Notices, maintenance fees— 2501 ; 2575
• Nuclear material application— 2104.01
• Nucleotide sequences ( See also Biotechnology and Sequence rules)— 803.04 ; 1823.02 ; 1848 ; 1850 ; 1877 ; 2400
  • Publication on web for PG-Pubs— 1121
  • Restriction practice— 803.04 ; 1850 ; 2412.07 ; 2434
• Nullification of double patenting rejection— 804.01
• Number, Application— 503 ; 506
• Number, Drawing reference character— 608.01(g)
• Number, Serial— 503 ; 506
• Numbering paragraphs of letter— 707.07(k)

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