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

• PAIR— 102 ; 104 ; 203.08 ; 1121 ; 1128 ; 1730 ; 2206 ; 2209 ; 2257 ; 2290
  • Customer number practice— 403
• PALM— 101 ; 102 ; 711.04(b) ; 1704 ; 1705 ; 1845.02 ; 1893 ; 1893.03(a) ; 1893.03(b) ; 1895.01
  • Application location— 2235
  • Application records and reports— 1704
  • Application status— 102
  • Examiner Docket, Time, and Activity Reports— 1704 ; 1705
  • “Flag” in reissue application— 1456
• Panel Review in ex parte Reexamination— 2236 ; 2246 ; 2247 ; 2262 ; 2271 ; 2271.01 ; 2275 ; 2281 ; 2287 ; 2289
• Paper, easily erasable— 608.01 ; 714.07
• Paper number— 714.18 ; 714.21
• Paper size ( See also A4 size paper)
  • Application papers— 608.01
  • Drawings— 608.02
  • Photographs— 608.02
  • Substitute drawings— 608.02(h)
• Papers ( See also Return of Papers)
  • Depositing— 502
  • Distribution— 508
  • File wrapper— 719.01
  • Identification— 502 ; 503
  • Receipt and handling— 500
  • Received after patenting or abandonment— 508.02
  • Signature required— 402
  • Submitted in reissue litigation— 1404
• Parent application data, Cross-noting— 202 ; 211
• Parent application review— 707.05 ; 719.05 ; 904 ; 2001.06(b)
• Paris Convention ( See also Treaties)— 213.01
  • Article 4 Cited— 213.01 ; 213.03 ; 213.06 ; 215.03
• Partial signatory authority— 1005
• Patent
  • 1836 (present) series— 901.04
  • A.I. series— 901.04
  • Allowance and issue— 1300
  • Application publication— 1120 – 1135
  • Arrangement in Examiner’s Search Files— 901.07
  • Assignment— 301
  • Citation handling— 1920 ; 2206
  • Citation of prior art in— 1920 ; 2202
  • Claim copied ( See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
  • Classification change— 903.05
  • Classification indices— 902.03 ; 902.03(a)
  • Classification Home Page on the Internet— 902.03(a)
  • Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet— 902.03(b)
  • Copy in ex parte reexamination request— 2219
    • Double column format— 2214 ; 2219
  • Copy Orders— 1730
  • Correction of— 1400
  • Definition— ; 2135.01
  • Design— 1500
  • Design series— 901.04
  • Design vs Utility— 1502.01
  • Effective date— 715 ; 715.01 ; 2120.01 ; 2126 ; 2133.01 ; 2136.03 ; 2139.02 ; 2152.02(a) ; 2152.05 ; 2154.01(b)
  • Extension ( See Term, Patent)
  • File reconstruction— 508.04
  • Files— 901.01(a)
  • Foreign ( See Foreign patent)
  • Issue— 1300
  • Issue Notification form— 1306.03
  • Interference— 2304 – 2304.05
  • Inventorship— 2109 ; 2157
  • Jurisdiction— 1305
  • Law, opinions not given— 713.02
  • Laws ( See Statutes)
  • Licensing— 301
  • Litigation relating to reissue— 1442.04
  • Ordering electronic copy of sequence listing— 2419.02 ; 2419.03 ; 2435
  • Ordering soft copy— 905.02
  • Owner, appeal by— 1204
  • Owner, service of citation on— 2208
  • Owner’s address in reexamination— 2222
  • Ownership— 301
  • Plant series— 901.04 ; 1600
  • Post-issuance information updating— 2501
  • Prior art citation in— 2003.01
  • Printing priority— 1309
  • Publication of application— 1120 – 1135
  • Reconstruction of file— 508.04
  • Reference ( See Reference)
  • Reissue series— 901.04
  • Reissued, effect of— 1460
  • Right to exclude others— 509.02 ; 1111 ; 1601 ; 2162 ; 2173.02
  • Rules ( See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations))
  • Simultaneous issue— 1306.02
  • Statutory subject matter— 2104 – 2107.03
  • Surrender of original in reissue (not required)— 1416
  • Statutes ( See Statutes)
  • System, Constitutional basis for—
  • Term adjustment— 2710 – 2736
  • Terms ( See Term, Patent)
  • Transfer— 903.05
  • Transfer of rights in— 509.02
  • Type, Design vs utility— 1502.01
  • Utility series— 901.04 ; 1502.01
  • Utility vs design— 1502.01
  • X series— 901.04
• Patent and Trademark Assignment System— 302.09 ; 302.10
• Patent and Trademark Copy Fulfillment Branch— 103 ; 104 ; 301 ; 501 ; 502.01 ; 711.04 ; 1730 ; 2209 ; 2232 ; 2435 ; 2803.02
• Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO)
  • Address— 501 ; 502
  • Business hours— 510
  • Employees, property interest in patent— 309
  • Employees, unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventors— 409
  • Matters decided by various officials— 1000
  • Publications—
    • Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office— 401
    • Development and Use of U.S. Patent Classification Systems— 903.02
    • Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( See Official Gazette (O.G. ) )
  • Receipt and handling of mail— 500
  • Telephone numbers— 1730
  • Web site— 1730
• Patent Appeal Center— 1203
• Patent Assistance Center ( See Inventors Assistance Center)
• Patent attorney or agent ( See Attorney or agent)
• Patent classification in USPC ( See also Classification and Prior Art)— 900
  • Classes— 707.05(e) ; 902.01 ; 902.02 ; 903.02(b)
  • Cross references— 903.07 ; 903.07(a)
  • Digests— 903.07
  • Issue slip— 903.07
  • Manual of Classification for USPC— ; 902.01
  • Post classifier ( See Post classifier)
  • Shoes— 901.05(c) ; 901.07 ; 905.04
  • Statutory authority— 903.01
  • Subclasses— 707.05(e) ; 902.01 ; 902.02
• Patent Center— 102 ; 103 ; 203.08 ; 707 ; 707.05(a) ; 707.08
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) ( See also International application and Treaties)— 1800 ; T
  • Administrative Instructions— AI
  • Agent— 1807
  • Amendment before the designated office— 1893.01(a)(2) ; 1893.01(a)(3)
  • Amendment of claims before the International Bureau— 1853
  • Applicant— 1806 ; 1821
  • Applicant for United States Receiving Office— 1805 ; 1810 ; 1820
  • Basic flow timeline— 1842
  • Classification of subject matter— 1844.01 ; 1879
  • Common representative— 1807
  • Concepts, major— 1801
  • Country codes— 1851
  • Definitions— 1802
  • Design patents— 1501.01; 1503.01
  • Designated office— 1893.01(a)
  • Designation of states— 1821
  • Fees— 1827 ; 1893.01(c)
  • Filing date requirements— 502.05 ; 1810
  • Foreign patent citation codes— 1851
  • Forms
    • IB/307— 1893.03(e)
    • IB/308— 1893.01(a)(1)
    • PCT/DO/EO/903— 1893.01(a)(3) ; 1893.03(a) ; 1893.03(b) ; 1893.03(e) ; 1893.03(g) ; 1895.01
    • PCT/DO/EO/905— 905 ; 1893.01(a)(1) ; 1893.01(d) ; 1893.01(e) ; 1893.03(b)
    • PCT/ISA/203— 1843.04
    • PCT/ISA/206— 1850
    • PCT/ISA/210— 1843.04 ; 1844 ; 1844.01 ; 1845.01 ; 1845.02 ; 1893.03(e)
    • PCT/ISA/217— 1836 ; 1844.01
    • PCT/ISA/220— 1844 ; 1845.02
    • PCT/ISA/237— 1843.04 ; 1844 ; 1845.01 ; 1845.02
    • PCT/IPEA/401— 1864 ; 1865
    • PCT/IPEA/405— 1875 ; 1875.01
    • PCT/IPEA/408— 1860 ; 1874 ; 1876 ; 1878 ; 1879
    • PCT/IPEA/409— 1871 ; 1874 ; 1878 ; 1878.01(a) ; 1879 ; 1893.03(e)
    • PCT/IPEA/410— 1864.04
    • PCT/IPEA/411— 1876
    • PCT/IPEA/412— 1836 ; 1876.01
    • PCT/IPEA/416— 1879 ; 1879.02
    • PCT/IPEA/420— 1875.02
    • PCT/IPEA/428— 1878.02
    • PCT/RO/101— 1801 ; 1812 ; 1821 ; 1828 ; 1844.01
    • PCT/RO/117— 1893.03(e)
    • PCT/RO/136— 1893.03(e)
    • PTO-1382— 1830 ; 1832
    • PTO-1390— 1893.01(a)(2) ; 1893.03(a)
    • USPTO/299— 1850
    • USPTO/499— 1875 ; 1875.01
  • Gazette— 1801 ; 1821 ; 1823.01 ; 1857 ; 1879.02
  • Help Desk— 1730
  • Information sources— 1730
  • International Bureau— 1801
  • International Patent Legal Administration— 103 ; 602.01(c)(3) ; 1730
  • International preliminary examination— 1860
  • International preliminary examination report— 1879
  • International preliminary report on patentability— 1801 ; 1845 ; 1879.03 ; 1893.03(e)
  • International publication— 1857
    • Prior art effect— 2136.03 ; 2154.01(a)
  • International search report— 1844
  • International searching authority— 1840
  • Member countries— 1817
  • National procedure— 1893
  • National stage ( See National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371))
  • Numbering of sheets— 1812 ; 1893.03(a) ; 1895.01
  • Priority— 213 ; 1828 ; 1893.03(c) ; 1895
    • Restoration of— 1828.01
  • Priority document— 213 ; 1828
  • Publication— 1857
  • Receiving office— 1801
  • Receiving office procedure— 1801
  • Record copy transmittal— 1801
  • Reply to invitation concerning lack of unity of invention— 1850 ; 1875.02 ; 1893.03(d)
  • Reply to written opinion— 1878.02
  • Representation before the designated office— 402
  • Revocation of agent— 1808
  • Schedule of fees— 1827
  • Search report— 707.05 ; 1302.14 ; 1844
  • Secrecy order— 120 ; 1832
  • Sequence listings— 1823.02 ; 1848 ; 2414.05 ; 2422.03(a)
    • Transmitted via EFS-Web— 502.05 ; 2422.03(a)
  • Signature missing— 1820
  • Unity of invention— 823 ; 1850 ; 1875 ; 1893.03(d)
  • Written opinion, preparation— 1845 ; 1878
  • Written opinion, time to reply to— 1845.01 ; 1878
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Administrative Instructions— Appendix AI
  • 105 Reproduced— 1834
  • 204 Reproduced— 1823
  • 205 Reproduced— 1824 ; 1853
  • 208 Reproduced— 1823.02
  • 209 Reproduced— 1823
  • 404 Reproduced— 1857
  • 502 Reproduced— 1850
  • 513 Reproduced— 1848
  • 603 Reproduced— 1875.02
  • 604 Reproduced— 1879
  • 605 Reproduced— 1872
  • 606 Reproduced— 1880
  • 607 Reproduced— 1876
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Articles— T
  • 3 Reproduced— 1812
  • 5 Reproduced— 1823
  • 6 Reproduced— 1824
  • 7 Reproduced— 1825
  • 11 Reproduced— 1810 ; 1893.03(b)
  • 17 Reproduced— 1843
  • 18 Reproduced— 1844
  • 19 Reproduced— 1853
  • 21 Reproduced— 1857
  • 29 Reproduced— 1857
  • 30 Reproduced— 110
  • 31 Reproduced— 1864.02 ; 1864.03 ; 1865 ; 1869
  • 32 Reproduced— 1862
  • 33 Reproduced— 1878.01(a) ; 1878.01(a)(1) ; 1878.01(a)(3)
  • 34 Reproduced— 1862 ; 1864.01 ; 1874 ; 1875 ; 1878 ; 1878.02
  • 35 Reproduced— 1879
  • 36 Reproduced— 1879.02 ; 1879.03
  • 37 Reproduced— 1880
  • 38 Reproduced— 1879.04
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Rules
  • 4.3 Reproduced— 1844.01
  • 4.9 Reproduced— 1821
  • 4.11 Reproduced— 1828.02
  • 4.12 Reproduced— 1819
  • 4.15 Reproduced— 1820
  • 5.1 Reproduced— 1823
  • 5.2 Reproduced— 1823.02
  • 6 Reproduced— 1824
  • 7 Reproduced— 1825
  • 8 Reproduced— 1826
  • 8.1 Reproduced— 1826 ; 1844.01
  • 8.2 Reproduced— 1826 ; 1844.01
  • 11.5 Reproduced— 1825
  • 11.6 Reproduced— 1825
  • 11.11 Reproduced— 1825
  • 11.13 Reproduced— 1825
  • 12 bis Reproduced— 1819
  • 13 Reproduced— 1850
  • 13bis Reproduced— 1823.01
  • 13terReproduced— 1823.02
  • 17 Reproduced— 213.06
  • 33 Reproduced— 1843.01
  • 37 Reproduced— 1844.01
  • 38 Reproduced— 1844.01
  • 39 Reproduced— 1843.02
  • 40 Reproduced— 1850
  • 41 Reproduced— 1852
  • 43 bis Reproduced— 1843 ; 1845
  • 46 Reproduced— 1853
  • 54 Reproduced— 1864.02
  • 60 Reproduced— 1868
  • 61.2 Reproduced— 1881
  • 61.3 Reproduced— 1881
  • 62 Reproduced— 1871
  • 62 bis Reproduced— 1871
  • 64 Reproduced— 1878.01(a)
  • 65 Reproduced— 1878.01(a)(2)
  • 66.1 Reproduced— 1843.02
  • 66.1 bis Reproduced— 1878
  • 66.1 ter Reproduced— 1878
  • 66.3 Reproduced— 1878.02
  • 66.4 Reproduced— 1878
  • 66.4 bis Reproduced— 1878.02
  • 66.5 Reproduced— 1878.02
  • 66.6 Reproduced— 1878.02
  • 66.7 Reproduced— 1870
  • 66.8 Reproduced— 1864.01 ; 1878.02
  • 69 Reproduced— 1879.01
  • 70.17 Reproduced— 1879.03
  • 71 Reproduced— 1879.02
  • 72 Reproduced— 1879.03
  • 82 Reproduced— 1834.02
  • 90.4 Reproduced— 1807
  • 90.5 Reproduced— 1807
  • 90.6 Reproduced— 1808
  • 90 bis.1 Reproduced— 1859
  • 90 bis.2 Reproduced— 1859
  • 90 bis.3 Reproduced— 1859
  • 90 bis.4 Reproduced— 1880
  • 90 bis.5 Reproduced— 1859
  • 90 bis.6 Reproduced— 1859
  • 90 bis.7 Reproduced— 1859
  • 91 Reproduced— 1836
  • 92 Reproduced— 1834
• Patent application publication ( See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
• Patent Data Portal (PDP)— 101 ; 102 ; 711.01 ; 711.03(c) ; 711.04(b) ; 1456 ; 1704 ; 1705 ; 1845.02 ; 1893 ; 1893.03(a) ; 1893.03(b) ; 1895.01 ; 2227 ; 2232.01 ; 2235 ; 2246 ; 2287
  • Application location— 2235
  • Application records and reports— 1704
  • Application status— 102
  • Examiner Docket, Time, and Activity Reports— 1704 ; 1705
  • "Flag" in reissue application— 1456
• Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program— 708.02(c)
• Patent search facility— 103
  • Hours— 510 ; 1730
  • Regulations for public use— 510
• Patent Law Treaty— 702
• Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 (PLTIA)— 702 ; 804.02
• Patent term extension/adjustments ( See also Term,Patent)— 1303 ; 2211 ; 2250 ; 2700
• Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ( See also Appeal and Interference)— 707.06 ; 707.07(f) ; 708.01 ; 708.02(a) ; 708.02(b) ; 710.02 ; 710.02(d) ; 710.02(e) ; 711.02(b) ; 711.02(c) ; 711.03(c) ; 711.04(a) ; 715.08 ; 715.09 ; 717.01(e) ; 717.01(f) ; 719.05 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 2190 ; 2201 ; 2242 ; 2246 ; 2258 ; 2261 ; 2265 ; 2273 – 2279 ; 2282 ; 2284 ; 2285 ; 2286 ; 2286.01 ; 2287 ; 2301
  • Appeal from— 1216 – 1216.02
    • In ex parte reexamination— 2279
  • Constitution and duties— 1202
  • Decision
    • Dissemination of— 1720
    • Generally— 1213
    • Publication of— 1213.03
    • Treatment of— 1721
  • Duty of disclosure to— 2001.03 ; 2001.04
  • Hearing— 1209
  • Interference
    • Declaration of— 2301
    • Return of Jurisdiction to Examiner— 2308
  • Jurisdiction— 706.01 ; 706.07(c) ; 1210 ; 2301 ; 2308
  • May require appellant to address matter— 1212
  • New ground of rejection by— 1214.01
  • Petitions— 1002.02(g) ; 1002.02(j)
  • Rehearing by— 1002.02(f) ; 1214.01 ; 1214.03
  • Service Branch— 104
  • Statement of allowability by— 1213.01
• Patentability ( See also Reasons for Allowance and Rejection)— 2100
• Patentability report— 705
  • Appeal— 705.01(a)
  • Count— 705.01(c)
  • Date status— 705.01(c)
  • Dispute between examiners— 705.01(a)
  • Final action— 705.01(a)
  • Improper— 705.01(e)
  • Initiate— 705.01
  • Interviews— 705.01(f) ; 713.01
  • Limitation as to use— 705.01(e)
  • Practice used only in extraordinary situations— 705
  • Purpose— 705.01(e)
  • Recording— 705.01(c)
  • Restriction, Effect on— 807
  • Search— 705.01(a) ; 705.01(b)
  • Sequence of examination— 705.01(b)
  • Submitted to TC Director— 705.01 ; 1003
  • Transfer of jurisdiction of application on appeal— 705.01(a)
• Patentability statement— 1302.14
• Patentable novelty, pointed out— 714.04
• Patentable subject matter— 2104 – 2106.07(c)
  • Abstract idea— 2106.04(a) – 2106.04(a)(1)
  • Clarifying the record— 2106.07
  • Computer programs— 2106
  • Disclosed but not claimed— 706
  • Eligibility— 2106 – 2106.07(c)
    • Step 1— 2106.03
    • Step 2— 2106.04
  • Evaluating applicant's response— 2106.07(b) ; 2106.07(c)
  • Field of use— 2106.05(h)
  • Formulating a rejection— 2106.07 ; 2106.07(a)
  • Improvements to functioning of a computer— 2106.05(a)
  • Insignificant extra-solution activity— 2106.05(g)
  • Law of nature— 2106
  • Living subject matter— 1601 ; 2105
  • Markedly different analysis— 2106.04(c)
  • Mathematical algorithms— 2106
  • Mere instructions— 2106.05(f)
  • Other meaningful limitations— 2106.05(e)
  • Particular machine— 2106.05(a)
  • Particular transformation— 2106.05(c)
  • Plants— 1601 ; 2105
  • Requirements of 35 U.S.C. 101— 2014
• Significantly more— 2106.05
• Streamline analysis— 2106.06 – 2106.06(b)
• Well-understood, routine, conventional— 2106.05(d)
• Patented file— 901.01(a)
• Patented file, ordering— 711.04(b)
• “PatentIn” computer program ( See also Sequence rules)— 1730 ; 2430
• Patents of addition, foreign— 901.05(b)
• Payment of fees— 509
• Payor number ( See Customer numbers)
• PCT ( See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT))
• Pending application as prior art ( See also Application publication)— 901.03 ; 2120.01 ; 2132 ; 2133 ; 2136.01 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2152.02 ; 2154.01(d)
• Pending application preserved in confidence— 101
• Pending applications as references ( See also Application Publication)— 901.03 ; 2120.01 ; 2132 ; 2133 ; 2136 ; 2136.01 ; 2146.03(a) ; 2152.02 ; 2154.01(d)
• Period for reply— 710
  • After Board decision— 1214.01
  • After final— 706.07(f)
    • In transitional application— 706.07(g)
  • After interference— 710.02(b)
  • Amendment after— 714.17
  • Claim copied from patent— 710.04(a)
  • Claims all allowed— 707.07(a) ; 710.02(b) ; 714.14
  • Computed— 710.01(a) ; 710.05
  • Copying claim from patent does not extend statutory period— 710.04(a)
  • Correction of citation— 707.05(g) ; 710.06
  • Date of receipt of amendment— 710.01(a) ; 710.05
  • Defective Office action— 707.05(g) ; 710.06
  • Difference between shortened statutory period and time limit— 710.02(d)
  • Extension— 710.02(d) ; 710.02(e)
  • Extension of time to commence civil action— 1002.02(k)(1)
  • Extension of time to file notice of appeal at CAFC— 1002.02(k)(1)
  • Full statutory period for reply— 130
  • Holiday, Saturday, or Sunday expiration of time— 505 ; 513 ; 710.05 ; 710.01(a)
  • Incomplete reply— 710.02(c) ; 711.02(a) ; 714.03 ; 2266.01
  • Less than six months— 710.02 ; 710.02(b) ; 710.02(c) ; 710.02(d) ; 710.02(e)
  • Miscellaneous factors— 710.06
  • Petition— 1002
  • Pilot programs, some— 710.02(b)
  • Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts— 150
  • Remailing— 707.13 ; 710.06
  • Restarting— 710.06
  • Saturday, Expiration of time— 505 ; 710.01(a) ; 710.05
  • Secrecy order application— 130
  • Shortened, Extension— 710.02(d) ; 710.02(e)
  • Shortened statutory period— 710.02 ; 710.02(b) ; 710.02(e)
  • Shortened statutory period, Distinguished from time limit— 710.02(d)
  • Shortened statutory period, When used— 710.02(b)
  • Statutory period— 710.01
    • How computed— 710.01(a)
  • Suggesting claims— 710.02(c)
  • Sunday, Expiration of time— 505 ; 710.01(a) ; 710.05
  • Supplemental action— 710.06
  • Time computation— 710.01(a) ; 710.05
  • Time limit action— 710.02
  • Time limit action, When used— 710.02(c)
  • Two periods running— 710.04 ; 710.04(a)
  • Withdrawal of attorney or agent during— 402.06
• Periodicals— 901.06 ; 901.06(a)
• Period of enforceability— 2204 ; 2211 ; 2808
• Permanent ink— 608.01 ; 714.07
• Perpetual motion— 608.03 ; 707.07(g) ; 2014 ; 2107.01
• Persons who may cite prior art relating to an issued patent— 2203
• Pertinent prior art— 904.02
• Petition
  • Abandonment holding— 711.02 ; 711.03(c) ; 711.03(d) ; 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(p) ; 1002.02(r)
  • Abandonment holding, examiner’s statement— 711.03(d)
  • Abandonment holding for failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing— 1124
  • Accept color drawings or photographs— 507 ; 1002.02(d) ; 1503.02
  • Accepting late issue fee— 711.03(c)
  • Accept omitted pages— 1002.02(p)
  • Access to application— 103 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(p)
  • Access to interference agreement— 1002.02(f)
  • Access to interference application— 1002.02(f)
  • Add inventor in provisional application— 1002.02(q)
  • Admit model— 1002.02(c)
  • Attorney withdrawal— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(p) ; 1002.02(q)
  • Biotechnology processes under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 103(b)— 2147
  • Board involved— 1002.02(f) ; 1002.02(g) ; 1002.02(j)
  • Certificate of Correction— 1002.02(d) ; 1002.02(l)
  • Change in inventorship— 1002.02(d) ; 1002.02(l) ; 1002.02(p) ; 1002.02(q) ; 1004 ; 1481.02
  • Change inventor’s name— 602.01(c) ; 602.08(b)
  • Change in order of inventors names— 602.01(c)
  • Color drawings or photographs— 507 ; 1002.02(d) ; 1503.02
  • Common ownership situation— 2146.02 ; 2146.03(a)
  • Concurrent ex parte and inter partes prosecution— 1002.02(g)
  • Converting a 111(a) application to a 371 application— 1002.02(p)
  • Converting a 371 application to 111(a) application— 1002.02(p)
  • Converting a nonprovisional to provisional— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(p) ; 1002.02(q)
  • Correct filing date— 506.02 ; 513 ; 601.01(b) ; 1002.02(b)
  • Correction of inventorship— 201.03 ; 1002.02(l) ; 1002.02(p) ; 1002.02(q) ; 1004 ; 1402 ; 1410.01 ; 1412.04 ; 1412.05 ; 1481.02
    • In ex parte reexamination— 2250.02
  • Counter terrorism inventions— 708.02 ; 1002.02(s)
  • Decided by
    • Assigned Staff in the Office of Petitions, Office of Patent Legal Administration and MPEP— 1002.02(b)
    • Central Reexamination Unit— 1002.02(c)(4)
    • Certificates of Correction Branch— 1002.02(l)
    • Deputy Comissioner who oversees Office of Petitions— 1002.02(b)
    • Deputy Director of the USPTO— 1002.02(o)
    • Director of International Patent Legal Administration— 1002.02(p)
    • Director of Office of Data Management— 1002.02(r)
    • Director of Office of Patent Application Processing— 1002.02(g)
    • General Counsel— 1002.02(k)(1)
    • General Law— 1002.02(k)(2)
    • Office of Enrollment and Discipline— 1002.02(m)
    • Patent Trial and Appeal Board— 1002.02(f) ; 1002.02(g) ; 1002.02(j)
    • Solicitor— 1002.02(k)(3)
    • Supervisory Patent Examiners— 1002.02(d)
    • Technology Center Directors— 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(c)(1) ; 1002.02(s)
  • Defer issuance— 502 ; 502.01 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1306.01
  • Delay, Late filing— 1002
  • Delegation of Director’s authority— 1001.01 ; 1002.02
  • Denial— 1002.02
  • Denial of request for reexamination— 1002.02(c)
    • Ex parte— 2240 ; 2246 ; 2247 ; 2247.01 ; 2248 ; 2255 ; 2265
  • Director’s duties— ; 1002
  • Dismissed— 1002.02
  • Dismissed without prejudice— 1002.02
  • Divisional reissue— 1002.02(b)
  • Entry of amendment— 1002.02(d)
  • Entry of late paper for revival of ex parte reexamination— 1002.02(b) ; 2268
  • Expedited examination of design applications— 501 ; 1002.02(c)(3)
  • Express abandonment after payment of issue fee— 1002.02(b)
  • Express abandonment to avoid pre-grant publication— 502 ; 1125 ; 1135
    • Facsimile submission— 502.01
  • Expunge papers from file— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(c)(4)
  • Expunge information— 724.05 ; 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(j)
  • Extension of time— 710.02(e) ; 714.17 ; 1002.02(q)
    • Application before Office of Patent Legal Administration— 1002.02(b)
    • Application before Office of Petition— 1002.02(b)
  • Filing date— 506.02 ; 513 ; 601.01(b) ; 601.01(d) ; 601.01(f) ; 601.01(g) ; 1002.02(b)
  • Final rejection— 1002.02(c)
  • Foreign filing license— 140 ; 1002.02(c)(1)
    • Facsimile submission— 502.01
  • Inspection— 103
  • Interference— 1002.02(g)
  • Late domestic benefit claim— 1002.02(b) ; 1402 ; 1481.03
  • Late foreign priority claim— 1002.02(b) ; 1402 ; 1417 ; 1481.03
  • Maintenance fees, accept and record— 1002.02(b) ; 2580
  • Maintenance fees, delayed payment/reinstatement— 711.03(c) ; 1002.02(b) ; 2515 ; 2531 ; 2590
  • Make special ( See also Special application)— 708.02 ; 1002.02(s) ; 1504.30
  • Matter subject to— ; 706.01 ; 1002
  • Merge reexaminations— 1002.02(b) ; 2283
  • Merge reissue and ex parte reexamination— 1002.02(b) ; 2285
  • Modification of secrecy order— 120
  • New matter— 608.04(c) ; 1002.02(c)
  • Nonsigning inventor— 409.03 ; 409.03(d) ; 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(p)
  • Objection by examiner— 1002.02(c)
  • Patent term extension— 1002.02(b) ; 2720 ; 2751 – 2754
  • Period for filing— 1002
  • Premature final rejection— 706.07(c) ; 1002.02(c)
  • Preliminary amendment as part of original disclosure— 608.04(b)
  • Procedure— 1002.01
  • Public use proceedings— 720
  • Reconsideration of denied petition ( ex parte reexamination)— 2248 ; 2268
  • Rescission of secrecy order— 120, 1002.02(c)(1)
  • Refused assignment— 313 ; 317
  • Refusal to enter amendment— 1002.02(c)
  • Refusal to issue Certificate of Correction— 1002.02(c)
  • Registration to practice— 1002.02(m)
  • Reinstate rejection after Board decision— 1002.02(c)
  • Reinstatement— 1002.02(m)
  • Relating to PCT international application and/or national stage application— 1002.02(p)
  • Relating to reexamination or reissue— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(c)(4)
  • Reopen prosecution after Board decision— 1002.02(c)
  • Requirement for information— 1002.02(c)
  • Resetting period for reply— 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(t)
  • Restriction requirement holding— 821.01 ; 1002.02(c)
  • Retroactive foreign filing license— 140
  • Return model— 1002.02(c)
  • Revival— 711.03(c) ; 1002.02(b) ; 1124
  • Revive PCT application— 1002.02(p)
  • Rule 1.48 (inventorship)— 201.03
  • Secrecy order— 1002.02(c)(1)
  • Sequence rules— 1002.02(c)
  • Special status— 708.02 ; 1002.02(s) ; 1504.30
  • Stay ex parte reexamination proceedings— 2283 ; 2284 ; 2285 ; 2286 ; 2286.01
  • Sufficiency of an affidavit— 1002.02(c)
  • Supervisory authority of Director of the USPTO— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c)
  • Suspend action – public safety or defense— 1002.02(c)(1)
  • Suspend rules— 1002.02(b)
  • Time for filing— 1002
  • Trademark related— 1002.02(i)
  • Transfer from another application— 608.02(i) ; 608.02(t)
  • Unintentional delay, withdraw abandonment— 711.03(c) ; 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c)(3) ; 1306
    • Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing— 1124
  • Unintentionally delayed claim for benefit of a U.S. application— 201.06(c) ; 211.04 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1417 ; 1481.03 ; 2258.02
  • Unintentionally delayed claim for foreign priority— 214.02 ; 216 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1402 ; 1481.03 ; 2258.02
  • Vacate order granting request for ex parte reexamination— 2246
  • Waive rules— 1002.02(b)
  • Waive time provisions in ex parte reexamination— 2265
  • Withdrawal from issue, after issue fee paid— 502 ; 502.01 ; 1002.02(b) ; 1308
  • Withdrawal from issue, issue fee not paid— 1002.02(c) ; 1308
  • Withdrawal of a terminal disclaimer— 1490
  • Withdrawal of abandonment— 1002.02(b)
  • Withdrawal of attorney— 1002.02(s)
    • In interference— 1002.02(i)
  • Withhold from issue, before issue fee paid— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(c)
• Petition for Express Abandonment to Avoid Publication Under 37 CFR 1.138(a) PTO/SB/24A
  • Cited— 1125
  • Reproduced— 1135
• Petition for Revival of an Application For Patent Abandoned for Failure to Notify the Office of a Foreign or International Filing PTO/SB/64a
  • Cited— 1124
  • Reproduced— 1135
• Petitionable matter— 706.01
• PG-Pub ( See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
• Pharmaceutical subject matter
  • Safety review by FDA— 2107.01 ; 2107.03
  • Utility— 2107.01
• Photograph as drawing— 507 ; 608.02 ; 1503.02
• Piecemeal prosecution— 707.07(g)
• Plant Breeder’s Rights— 1613
• Plant Convention, UPOV— 1612
• Plant patent— 1600
  • Action— 1610
  • Advertising— 1610
  • Affidavit— 1610
  • Agricultural Research Service (ARS)— 1608 ; 1609
  • Allowance— 1611
  • Application publication— 1120 – 1135
  • Asexual reproduction— 1601 ; 1605
  • Bacteria— 1601
  • Claim— 1605 ; 1610
  • Classification in USPC— 903.04
  • Color drawing— 1603 ; 1606
  • Color identified— 1605
  • Declaration— 1604
  • Definitions— 1601
  • Department of Agriculture— 1608 ; 1609
  • Deposit— 1605
  • Duplicate papers— 1603 ; 1605 ; 1609
  • Elements of application— 1603
  • Examination— 1608
  • Examiner’s amendment— 1610
  • Executive Order— 1609
  • Filing not permitted via EFS-Web— 502.05
  • Issue— 1611
  • Laudatory expressions— 1610
  • Method claim improper— 1605
  • Oath— 1604
  • Parts— 1603
  • Plant varieties excluded— 1601
  • Priority claim— 1613
  • Publication of application— 1120 – 1135
  • Report of Agricultural Research Service— 1608 ; 1609
  • Rules applicable— 1602
  • Signature— 1603
  • Specification— 1605 ; 1610
  • Specimens— 1607
  • Statutory basis— 1601
  • Term— 2701
  • Tubers— 1601
  • UPOV Convention— 1612
• Plant patent series— 901.04
• P.O. Box ( See Mail stop)
• Post classifier— 903.10; 906
• Post employment agreement of former Office employee— 1702
• Post Grant Review Certificate— 901.04
• Post Office, Depositing papers in— 502
• Post Office address ( See also Correspondence and Mail Stop)
  • Applicant— 409.03(e)
  • Attorney— 601.02
• Postal Service interruptions and emergencies— 511
• Postcard, self-addressed— 203.08 ; 503 ; 601.01(d) ; 601.01(f) ; 608.01 ; 1204 ; 1901 ; 1901.05
• Power of attorney— 402
  • Acting in a representative capacity— 402.04 ; 405 ; 713.05
  • Application in interference— 402.08
  • Application oath or declaration includes— 601.02
  • Application filed before 09/16/2012— 402.02(b)
  • Application filed after 09/16/2012— 402.02(a)
  • Assignee appoints— 402.07
  • Assignee revokes— 402.07
  • Associate attorney— 402.02
  • Attorney not of record— 402 ; 405 ; 714.01(c)
  • Change in plurality of applications or patents— 402
  • Coinventor— 403
  • Customer Number— 402 ; 403 ; 1807
  • Death of applicant— 409 – 409.01(b)
  • Death of principal attorney— 406
  • Design patent practitioner— 402 ; 403 ; 1502.02 ; 2911
  • Exception as to registration— 402.01 ; 402.09
  • General, for international application— 402.09 ; 1807
  • General requirement— 402.02(b)
  • Ineffective— 402
  • Joint applicant— 402.01
  • Limited recognition— 402.01
  • Naming representative— 402
  • Notice of revocation— 402.05
  • Post Office address— 601.02
  • Provisional application— 103
  • Registered practitioner— 402
  • Revocation— 402.05 ; 402.07 ; 402.08 ; 402.10
    • After Allowance— 2501 ; 2560
  • Secrecy order applications— 120
  • Signature requirement— 402.03
  • Unregistered attorney or agent— 402 ; 402.01
  • Withdrawal of attorney or agent— 402.06 ; 1808 ; 2560
  • Withdrawn in patent— 2223 ; 2560
• Power to inspect— 103 ; 104 ; 324 ; 325 ; 402 ; 713.05
• Power to inspect, approval— 104
• Power to inspect, suspended attorney— 105
• Practitioner ( See Attorney or agent)
• Practitioner’s names on patents— 1309
• Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub)— 1120 – 1135
  • Amendments prior to publication— 1121
  • Appendices not published— 1121
  • Application in a foreign language— 608.01
  • Assignee information published— 1121
  • Certification as to intent to file counterpart applications— 1122
  • Claim sets, multiple— 1121
  • Computer programs— 1121
  • Content— 1120 ; 1121
  • Conversion to provisional to avoid publication— 601.01(c)
  • Complete application required— 1120
  • Copies of published application files— 1128
  • Correction of errors in the PG-Pub— 1130
  • Correspondence regarding published application— 1134
  • Disparaging remarks not published— 1120
  • Drawings— 507 ; 1120 ; 1121
  • Early publication— 1129
  • Express abandonment to avoid publication— 502 ; 1125 ; 1135
    • Facsimile submission— 502.01
  • Fee, publication— 1126 ; 1133 ; 1303 ; 1306
  • Forms— 1135
  • Inappropriate nonpublication request— 1122
  • Material mistake by the Office— 1130
  • Nonpublication request— 1122
  • Notice of foreign filing— 1124
  • Notice of Publication— 1127
  • Notice of New or Revised Publication— 1127
  • Offensive language not published— 1120
  • Public access to published application— 103 ; 1128 ; 1132
  • Publication date, projected— 1120 ; 1122
  • Publication fee— 1126 ; 1133 ; 1303
  • RCEs not published— 1120
  • Redacted publication— 1132
  • Refund of publication fee— 1126
  • Replacement drawings prior to publication— 507 ; 1120 ; 1121
  • Republication— 1130
  • Request for early publication— 1129
  • Request for nonpublication— 1122
  • Request for redacted publication— 1132
  • Rescission of nonpublication request— 1123 ; 1124
  • Residence changed— 719.02
  • Sequences published on Internet— 1121
  • Status information of published application— 1128
  • Substitute specification required— 1120
  • Tables, large— 608.05 ; 608.05(b)
  • Third party inquiries— 1134
  • Voluntary publication— 1133
  • When published— 1120
  • Which applications— 1120
• Preamble, design application— 1503.01
• Preamble, effect of— 2111.02
• Preamble, Jepson claim— 2129
• Predicted tests in specification— 608.01(p)
• Preliminary amendment— 714.01(e)
  • Entry denied— 714.01(e)
  • Excess claims— 506 ; 714.01(e) ; 714.10
  • New matter— 608.04(b) ; 714.01(e)
  • Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714
• Preliminary handling of public use or on sale— 2133.03 – 2133.03(e)(7) ; 2152.02(c) ; 2152.02(d)
• Premature final rejection— 706.07(c)
• Presentation patents— 1730
• Primary examiner— 705.01(a) ; 706.04 ; 706.07(c) ; 706.07(d) ; 707.01 ; 707.09 ; 710.02(b) ; 710.02(e) ; 711.03(a) ; 713.01 ; 713.02 ; 713.10 ; 714.16 ; 714.16(d) ; 714.19 ; 715.08 ; 716 ; 717 ; 2236 ; 2248 ; 2265 ; 2271 ; 2271.01
  • Actions requiring personal attention— 705.01(a) ; 707.01 ; 707.09 ; 713.04 ; 714.16(d) ; 1004
  • Name on file wrapper— 1302.13
• Print of drawing ( See also Drawings)— 608.02
  • Additional— 608.02
  • Alteration— 608.02(w)
  • Colored— 608.02
  • Examiner’s notation on— 608.02
  • Kept in Technology Center— 608.02(c)
  • Marked-up— 608.02(b) ; 608.02(p) ; 608.02(t) ; 608.02(v)
  • Marking— 608.02
  • Returned drawing— 608.02(y)
• Printed matter— 2103 ; 2111.05 ; 2112.01
• Printer waiting— 708.01 ; 1305 ; 1309.02
• Printing practitioners names on patents— 1309
• Printing priority— 1309
• Prior art ( See also Reference)— 900
  • Admissions as— 2120.02 ; 2129
  • Analogous— 2141.01(a) ; 2143
  • Disqualification under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 103(c)— 2136.01 ; 2141.01 ; 2146 ; 2146.01 ; 2146.02 ; 2146.03 ; 2146.03(a)
  • Duty of disclosure of— 2001.04
  • Effects of international application publication— 1857 ; 1895.01
  • Equivalents— 2144.06 ; 2183
  • Electronic Information Disclosure Statement— 609.07
  • Filed on Saturday Sunday or a Federal holiday— 609.04(b)
  • Foreign application as— 2135.01 ; 2152.02
  • Information reasonably necessary for finding— 704.11
  • International application publication— 2136 – 2136.05 ; 2136.05(a) ; 2139.02 ; 2152.05 ; 2154.01(a) ; 2154.01(b)
  • Kind codes— 901.04(a)
  • Level of ordinary skill— 2141.03
  • Patents as— 2120.01 ; 2126 ; 2132 ; 2133 ; 2136 ; 2141 ; 2152 ; 2154 ; 2158
  • Publications under 35 U.S.C. 122(b)— 1895.01 ; 2136 ; 2136.03 ; 2152.02(b) ; 2154.01
  • Scope and content of— 2126.02 ; 2141.01
    • Means limitations— 2182
  • Search ( See also Search)— 900
  • Statutory Invention Registrations as— 901.02 ; 2136
  • Suitability of— 2144.07
  • Third party submissions— 609 ; 1134.01
  • Used in deciding request for reexamination— 2242
  • Well-known in the art— 2144.03
• Prior art copies in reexamination
  • Ex parte— 2218
• Prior art filed by protestor— 1901.02 ; 1901.03
• Prior art on drawing— 608.02(g) ; 2125
• Prior art and Section 301 submissions (37 CFR 1.501)
  • Ex parte— 2202
    • Content— 2205
    • Copies of prior art— 2205
    • English translations— 2205
    • Explanation of pertinence— 2205
    • Filing and handling— 2206
    • Sample letter— 2205
    • Service on patent owner— 2208
    • Time for filing— 2204
  • Inter partes— 2602
• Prior art statement— 609 ; 1893.03(g)
  • Provisional application— 609
  • Reissue application— 1406 ; 1410 ; 1418 ; 1455
• Prior art, statement applying (reexamination)— 2217
• Prior art used in determining reexamination request
  • Ex parte— 2244
• Prior examiner’s action— 704.01 ; 706.04 ; 713.01
• Prioritized examination
  • in new application (Track I)— 708.02(b)
  • in RCE (PE-RCE)— 708.02(b)
• Priority
  • Claiming in ex parte reexamination— 2258.02
  • Claiming in reissue application— 1402 ; 1405 ; 1410 ; 1417
  • Entitlement to— 216
  • Foreign application ( See also Foreign application)— 210 ; 213 – 217
    • Corrected by Certificate of Correction— 1481 ; 1481.03
    • Design applications— 1504.02 ; 1504.10
    • Ex parte reexamination— 2258.02
    • Incorporation by reference— 217 ; 608.01(p)
    • Proper identification— 214.04
  • Formal requirements— 210 ; 213 – 216
  • Incorporation by reference to earlier application— 201.06(c) ; 217 ; 608.01(p)
  • International application— 1828 ; 1893.03(c)
    • Corrected by Certificate of Correction— 1481
  • Inventor’s certificate— 213.05
  • Patent printing— 1302.09
  • Time charts— 2138.01
  • Time for filing— 211.03 ; 214.01
• Priority document ( See Foreign application)
• Priority Express Mail deposit— 513
• Priority Mail Express procedure in ex parte reexamination— 2224
• Priority Mail Express service— 502 ; 506.02 ; 511 ; 513 ; 711.03(c) ; 1216.01 ; 2510
• Priority practice ( See Foreign application)
• Private use ( See also Public use)— 2133.03(a) ; 2152.02(c)
• Pro Bono Program— 1201
• Proceedings, Termination of— 711.02(c)
• Process of making and product made— 806.05(f)
• Processing fee— 601.01 ; 601.01(c)
• Processing of reexamination in Technology Center
  • Ex parte— 2233
• Product and process of using— 806.05(h) ; 2173.05(p)
• Product by process— 2113 ; 2173.05(p)
• Product of human ingenuity— 2105
• Product of nature— 2104 ; 2105 ; 2106 ; 2106.04(b) ; 2106.04(c)
• Programs, Computer ( See Computer programs or software)
• Prolix claim— 2173.05(m)
• Proof, burden of— 2112 ; 2112.01 ; 2113 ; 2131 ; 2141 ; 2142 ; 2150 ; 2163.04 ; 2164.04 ; 2182 ; 2183 ; 2184
• Proof of authority of administrator or executor— 409.01(b)
• Proof of foreign filing— 214.04
• Proof of irreparable damage— 409.03(g)
• Proof of ownership, reissue application— 1410.02
• Proof of unavailability or refusal to sign— 409.03(d)
• Proper multiple dependent claim— 608.01(n)
• Property rights statement— 150
  • Contents of— 151
• Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts— 115 ; 150 ; 151
• Prophetic examples in the specification— 608.01(p) ; 2004 ; 2164.02
• Proprietary interest, Proof of— 409.03(f) ; 409.05
• Proprietary materials ( See Protective order material and Trade secret material)
• Pro se applicant ( See also Applicant and Inventor)
  • Appeal brief— 1205
  • Certificate of mailing— 512
  • Change of address— 601.03
  • Death— 409.01(b)
  • Duty of disclosure— 2002.01
  • Examination of application— 707.07(j)
  • Examiner’s action— 707
  • Interview— 713.01
  • Legal representation— 401
  • Telephone restriction practice— 812.01
• Prosecution
  • Closed, application allowable except for formal matters— 707.07(j) ; 710.02(b) ; 714.14
  • Closed, secrecy order cases— 130
• Prosecution after appeal— 1207.04
  • Piecemeal— 707.07(g)
  • Reopening after allowance— 1308.01
  • Reopening after Board decision— 1214.07
• Prosecution laches— 2190
• Prosecution of Secrecy Order application— 130
• Prosecution reopened after court decision— 1216.01
• Protective order material ( See also Trade secret material)— 724 – 724.06
  • Submission— 724.02
• Protest— 1900
  • Access by protestor— 1901.05 ; 1901.07
  • Acknowledgment of protest— 1901.05
  • Certificate of service— 1901.03
  • Comments of applicant— 1901.06
  • Complete— 1901.03
  • Copies of documents— 1901.03
  • Express consent of applicant required— 1134 ; 1901 ; 1901.04 ; 1901.06
  • Filed in reissue where patent is in interference— 1449 ; 1901.06
  • Handling— 1901.06
  • Improper protest— 1134 ; 1901.03
  • Information which can be relied on— 1901.02
  • Involving fraud, lack of good faith or candor, or violation of duty of disclosure— 1901.02 ; 1901.06 ; 2013
  • Multiple papers on same issue— 1901.07(a)
  • Reissue application— 1404 ; 1430 ; 1441 ; 1441.01 ; 1449 ; 1457 ; 1901.04
  • Reissue litigation— 1901.03 ; 1901.04
  • Requirement for information— 1901.06
  • Review of adverse decision— 1906
  • Service on patentee or applicant— 1901.03
  • TC Director’s attention required— 1003
  • Timeliness of protest— 1901.04
  • Trade secret information— 724 ; 1901.02
  • Treatment of— 1901.06
  • Unauthorized participation by patent owner— 1907
  • Under Rule 1.291— 1901
  • Who can file— 1901.01
• Protestor participation— 1901.07
• Provisional application— 201.04
  • Abandonment— 201.04 ; 211.01(a) ; 711.03(c)
  • Access— 103 ; 104
  • Assignment of— 302.03
  • Assignment of application claiming benefits of— 306.01
  • Benefit of— 201.04 ; 211.01(a)
    • Error in, as reissue grounds— 1402
  • Completeness— 506 ; 601.01(b)
  • Conversion to— 201.04 ; 601.01(c)
  • Correction of inventorship— 201.03
  • Cover sheet for— 201.04
  • Data, on file wrapper/history of— 202 ; 1302.09
  • Data, in specification of— 1302.04
  • Drawing— 608.02
  • Effective filing date— 601.01(b) ; 2139.01 ; 2152.01
  • EFS-Web filing of— 502.05
  • English language translation for benefit of date— 211.01
  • Filing receipt— 503
  • Guidelines for drafting— 601
  • Information disclosure statement— 609
  • Joint inventors in— 602.01
  • Last day of pendency— 201.04
  • Micro entity status— 509.04
  • Ordering of abandoned— 901.01(a)
  • Request to convert to nonprovisional— 1002.02(b) ; 1002.02(q)
  • Revival— 711.03(c)
  • Small entity status— 509.03
  • Specification— 601.01
• PTO employee restrictions, assignment— 309
• Public access to ex parte reexamination file— 2232
• Public domain ( See also Public use, On sale, and Disclaimer)— 2121.03 ; 2124.01 ; 2133.03 ; 2133.03(a) ; 2145
  • Dedication to public— 715 ; 1490
• Public inspection, Application file— 103 ; 1128
  • Ex parte reexamination— 103 ; 2232
  • Redacted application publication— 103 ; 1132
  • Reissue— 103 ; 1430 ; 1470
• Public inspection of assignments— 301.01 ; 1730
• Public Law ( See Statutes)
• Public policy— 2104 ; 2141.01 ; 2162
• Public Records Division— 103 ; 104 ; 301 ; 501 ; 502.01 ; 711.04 ; 1128 ; 1730 ; 2209 ; 2232 ; 2435 ; 2803.02
• Public right to inspect files— 103 ; 1128
  • In ex parte reexamination— 103 ; 2232
• Public sale ( See also On sale and Public use)— 2133.03 – 2133.03(e)(7) ; 2152.02(d)
• Public search facility ( See Patent search facility)
• Public searchers— 101
• Public use ( See also On sale)— 2120.02 ; 2133.03 ; 2133.03(a) ; 2139.02 ; 2152.02(d)
  • Affidavit or declaration— 715.10
  • Anticipation— 2133.03(a) ; 2152.02(c)
  • Commercial exploitation— 2133.03(e)(1) ; 2152.02(c)
  • Commercial use— 2133.03(a) ; 2152.02(c)
  • Completion of the invention— 2133.03 ; 2133.03(c) ; 2133.03(e)(1) ; 2133.03(e)(3)
  • Definition of— 2133.03(a) ; 2152.02(c)
  • Evidence— 2120.02 ; 2132 ; 2133.03 ; 2133.03(a)
  • Experimental use ( See also Experimental use)— 2133.03 ; 2133.03(e)
  • In this country— 2132 ; 2133.03(d) ; 2139.02
  • Intent to experiment— 2133.03(e)(2) ; 2133.03(e)(3)
  • Invention— 2133.03(c)
  • Policy considerations— 2133.03
  • Public knowledge or on display— 2133.03(a)
  • Secrecy— 2133.03(a)
  • Single use— 2133.03(a)
    • Control over invention— 2133.03(a) ; 2133.03(e)(5) ; 2133.03(e)(7)
  • Testing by third party— 2133.03(e)(5) ; 2133.03(e)(7)
  • Use with expectation of privacy— 2133.03(a)
  • Use by inventor or associates— 2133.03(a)
  • Use by independent third parties— 2133.03(a)
• Public use proceedings— 720
• Publication, Defensive— 711.06 ; 711.06(a) ; 1111
• Publication of Statutory Invention Registration— 1111
• Publication date— 2120.01
• Publication fee— 1126 ; 1133 ; 1303 ; 1306
• Publication of abstracts— 711.06 ; 711.06(a)
• Publication
  • Board decisions— 1213.03
  • Citing— 707.05(e) ; 901.06 ; 2120.01
  • Date of— 2120.01
  • Notices— ; 707.06 ; 1703
  • Official Gazette(O.G.)— 1703
  • Orders— ; 707.06 ; 1703
  • Own, as reference— 715.01(c) ; 2132.01 ; 2139.02 ; 2152.02(f) ; 2152.05 ; 2153.01(a) ; 2154.02
  • Pre-Grant ( See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
  • Prior art effect of international— 2120.01 ; 2136.03 ; 2154.01(a)
  • Rules changes— 1703
  • Under 35 U.S.C. 122(b) as references— 2136 ; 2136.03 ; 2154.01
  • Voluntary— 1133
• Publishing Division ( See Office of Patent Publications (Office of Data Management))
• Pulling abandonments— 711.04(a)

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