General Information About Plant Patents

This booklet provides general information about plant patents. [10 pages] (October 1, 2001) See an electronic version of General Information About 35 U.S.C. 161 Plant Patents at the USPTO Web site. This product is available free of charge.

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General Information Concerning Patents

This booklet provides general information about patents and the operations of the US Patent and Trademark Office. [31 pages] (2003) This product is available free of charge.

See an electronic version of General Information Concerning Patents (excerpted from the General Information Concerning Patents print brochure) at the USPTO Web site.

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General Requirements for Admission to the Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the US Patent and Trademark Office

A register of attorneys and agents entitled to represent applicants for patent is maintained by the US Patent and Trademark Office. (The regulations governing the recognition of individuals to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in patent cases are set forth in 37 CFR §§ 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7.)

This booklet describes the requirements for registration as an attorney or agent. It includes the Application for Registration to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, requirements for admission to the examination, a description of the exam content, the deadline for filing, and a list of the cities where the exam is given. The Office of Enrollment and Discipline's Web page displays the exam information and has a link to download the General Requirements Bulletin .

The Application for Registration to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, form number PTO/SB/158 , is also available in Adobe PDF format from the: Forms page. This product is available free of charge.

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The previous three examinations are available for study. You may purchase these exams by mail only for $15.00 each. Enclose a check made payable to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks drawn on a US bank in US dollars. Send your request to the address given below.

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Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office
PO Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

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Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application

This booklet covers the application process and provides a basic overview of design patents for potential applicants to determine whether their invention would benefit from design patent protection. See an electronic version of the Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application (excerpted from the Guide to Filing A Design Patent Application print brochure) at the USPTO Web site. This product is available free of charge.

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Guide to Filing a Utility Patent Application

This guide is designed to assist an individual in filing a non-provisional utility patent application. Required parts of the application are discussed. Revised March 1998. See an electronic version of the Guide to Filing A Non-Provisional (Utility) Patent Application (excerpted from the Guide to Filing A Utility Patent Application print brochure) at the USPTO Web site. This product is available free of charge. 

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Index of Patents Issued From the United States Patent and Trademark Office

This two-part publication summarizes, for a given calendar year, the classification and inventor/assignee information at the time of issue for Utility, Design, Reissue, and Plant Patents; Reexamination Certificates; and Statutory Invention Registrations published weekly in the Official Gazette - Patents. Part I, List of Patentees comprises an alphabetical listing of every patentee or assignee recorded at the time the patent document was issued. Part II, Index to Subjects of Inventions comprises a listing of all patents for the year according to US Patent Classification System class and subclass designation at the time the patent document was issued. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office (GPO). (Also called the Annual Index of Patents.)

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Index to the US Patent Classification System

The Index to the US Patent Classification System, also known as the Classification or Class. Index File, is an alphabetical list of subject headings which refer to specific classes and subclasses of the US Patent Classification System (i.e., technology categories). There are approximately 67,000 terms contained in this index.

An electronic version of the Classification Index may be viewed on the USPTO Web site.

DVD-ROM

A searchable file of the index is available on Patents ASSIST.

Annual Subscription

This file is available as an annual subscription. Updated every two months.

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Available from the US Government Online Bookstore. This index is included with a subscription to the Manual of Classification.

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Inventor Labels

Inventor labels containing full street addresses (current at time of grant) can be generated for inventors of US patents which were unassigned at time of grant. Labels can be limited to a subset of those inventors based on criteria such as the year of grant, the zip code of inventor residence, or the US Patent classification. Inventor Labels may be ordered in several formats. For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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