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  • Director of the USPTO
  • Director initiated reexamination ...2212 , 2239
  • Disbarred attorney (See Attorney or agent : Suspended or excluded )
  • Disciplinary proceedings ...402
  • Disclaimer (See also Terminal disclaimer )
  • Disclosure (See also Duty of disclosure ; Specification )
  • Disclosure document program ...1706
  • Discourtesy ...714.19 , 714.25
  • Dismissal of appeal ...1215.04
  • Disposals counted ...1705
  • Distinct, definition ...802.01
  • Distinct inventions ...802 , 802.01 , 803 , 806.05
  • Divisional application ...201.06 , 601.01(a)
  • DNA (See also Biotechnology ; Nucleotide sequences ) ...Chapter 2400
  • Docket report ...1704
  • Doctrine of collateral estoppel (See Estoppel )
  • Doctrine of dedication to the public ...715
  • Doctrine of equivalents ...2138.05 , 2173.05(b) , 2186
  • Doctrine of segregable parts ...1504.05
  • Doctrine of unclean hands ...2010
  • Document, Disclosure ...1706
  • DoD Directive 5230.25 ...120
  • DoD Security Agreement ...120
  • Domestic representative ...302.04
  • Double correspondence ...403 , 714.01(a)
  • Double inclusion in claim ...2173.05(o)
  • Double patenting ...Chapter 800
  • Drafting notation ...608.02 , 707.07(a) , 707.07(c)
  • Drafting stamp (no longer required) ...608.02(o)
  • Drawings ...507 , 608.02
  • Drawing correction ...507 , 608.02(p)
  • Dual correspondence ...403 , 714.01(d)
  • Due Care Showing ...2734
  • Duplicate amendments (See also Amendment ) ...719.01(a)
  • Duplicate claims ...706.03(k)
  • Duplicate foreign patents ...903.03
  • Duplicate papers for plant applications ...1603 , 1605 1606 , 1609
  • Duty of candor and good faith ...2001 , 2001.03 , 2733 , 2762
  • Duty of disclosure ...Chapter 2000
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