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- D-10 notice ...130 , 1304.01
- D-11 notice ...1103
- Damage, Proof of irreparable ...409.03(g)
- Databases (See Electronic databases )
- Date
- Amendment ...505 , 511 , 512 710.01(a) , 710.05 , 714.18
- Citation of foreign patent ...901.05(a) , 901.05(b)
- Convention ...201.13
- Filing ...201.11 , 502 , 503 , 505 , 506 506.02 , 1002.02(b)
- Filing, Refusal to accord ...506.02 , 2133
- Foreign application (priority) ...201.13 , 201.14 , 201.15
- Invention ...2137 , 2138
- Maintenance fees due ...2506
- Office action ...707.11
- Office stamp ...502 , 505 , 506 , 714.18
- Reference ...706.02 , 707.05(e) , 707.05(f) 715 , 715.01 , 715.01(c)
- Technology Center stamp ...714.18
- Date no longer entered on drawing ...608.02(o)
- Date of execution of oath ...602.05
- Date stamp, Technology Center ...714.18
- Death of attorney ...406
- Death of inventor (See also Administrator or executor ) ...409 to 409.01(f)
- Deceased inventor
- Allowance not withdrawn ...1303.03
- Legal representative as applicant ...409.01(a) , 1820
- Legal representative refuses to sign ...409.03(c)
- Deceptive intent (See also Fraud ; Inequitable conduct )
- Biotechnology process ...706.02(n)
- Foreign filing licenses ...140 , 706.03(s)
- Inventorship ...201.03
- Reissue ...1402 , 1414 , 2012
- Decision
- By Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ...1213 1302.14
- Dissemination of ...1720
Ex parte reexamination ...2277Inter partes reexamination ...2681 , 2682- Reconsideration of ...1214.03
- Treatment of ...1721
- Citation ...707.06
Ex parte reexamination rehearing request ...2240- Governs examiner’s action ...Introduction
- Listed ...Appendix II
- Ordering
ex parte reexamination ...2246- Orderinginter partes reexamination (See Reexamination,
Inter partes :Decision on the request for reexamination )- Public availability ...103
- Publication of ...707.06
- Declaration (See also Oath ) ...602
- After appeal ...1211.02
- Amendment ...602.01
- Attached to specification ...605.04(a)
- Change of inventorship ...201.03
- Copies, filing of ...602
- Copies from prior application ...201.06(c)
- Date of execution ...602.05
- Defective ...602.03
- Delayed filing ...506
- Executed before alterations made ...605.04(a)
- Facsimile transmission ...502.01 , 602
- Foreign priority applications listed ...201.14 201.14(c) , 202.04
- International application ...1820 , 1893.01 , 1893.01(a) 1893.01(a)(1) , 1893.01(a)(2) 1893.01(a)(3) , 1893.01(e) 1893.03(a) , 1893.03(b) 1893.03(g) , 1895 , 1896
- Inventor refuses to sign or cannot be found ...603
- Minor, by ...409
- Non-English ...602.06
- Plant patent application ...1604
- Refers to preliminary amendment ...601.01(a) , 602
- Reissue application ...706.03(x) , 1414 1414.01 , 1444 , 1455
- Signed before alteration ...605.04(a)
- Substitute ...602.02
- Declarations, conflicting ...201.03
- Declassified matter ...707.05(f)
- Dedication to the public ...715 , 1490
- Defective oath ...602.03
- Defects, correction of, in request for
ex parte reexamination ...2231- Defects, correction of in request for inter partes reexamination ...2231
- Defense, applications affecting ...115 , 120 , 130 , 140
- Defensive publication citation ...711.06(a)
- Defensive publication program ...711.06
- Deferral of examination ...709
- Definition of class ...902.02
- Delegation of Director’s authority ...1001.01 1002 , 1002.02
- Demonstration at interview ...713.08
- Denial of request for reexamination ...2247 , 2247.01
- ...2647 , 2647.01
- Department of Energy (DOE) ...115 , 140
- ...150 , 151 , 706.03(b)
- Department of Commerce, Organization Orders
- Dependent claim ...608.01(n)
- Objected to when base claim is canceled ...608.01(n) 707.07(j)
- Reissue ...1455
- Treatment ininter partes reexamination ...2660.03
- Dependent claim, objected to when improper ...608.01(n) 706.01
- Deposit account ...509.01
- Authorizations ...509.01 , 1302.04
- Extensions of time ...706.07(f)
- International applications ...1847 , 1850 , 1875.01
- Issue fee ...1303 , 1306 , 1308.01
- Maintenance fee ...2510 , 2515 , 2522
- Overdrawn ...509.01
- Petition fee ...711.03(c)
- Refunds ...509 , 607.02
- Replenishment ...509.01
- Deposit Account Division ...509.01
- Deposit of microorganisms (See also Biotechnology ) ...1605 , 1823.01 , 2402 to 2411.05
- Deposit of correspondence ...502
- Depositions
- Deposit rules (See also Biotechnology ) ...Chapter 2400
- Acceptable depository ...2405
- Background information ...2401
- Biological material, definition ...2403
- Biological material, made or isolated without undue experimentation ...2404.02
- Budapest Treaty (See also Treaties ) ...2402
- Budapest Treaty depositories ...2405
- Depositories, Current list of Budapest Treaty ...2405
- Effective date ...2401 , 2402
- Examination procedures ...2411
- After grant ...2411.04
- Application in condition for allowance except for deposit ...2411.03
- Certificate of correction ...2411.04
- Content of application regarding deposited material ...2411.05
- Need for 37 CFR 1.312 amendment ...2411.03
- Reissue ...2411.04
- Rejections based on deposit issue ...2411.01
- Responses from applicant ...2411.02
- Furnishing of samples ...2410
- Access to deposits ...2410.01
- Certification of accessibility of deposit ...2410.02
- Conditions of deposit ...2410.01
- Exception to removal of restrictions ...2410.01
- Restrictions removed upon grant ...2410.01
- Known and readily available biological material ...2404.01
- Budapest Treaty deposit ...2404.01
- Continuity of access ...2404.01
- Deposits certified as available ...2404.01
- Health, safety restrictions ...2404.01
- Indicia of ‘known and readily available’ ...2404.01
- Material capable of self-replication ...2403.01
- Need for a deposit ...2402 , 2404
- Plant material ...2403.02
- Plant Patent Act, Relation to ...2403.02
- Reference to deposit in application ...2404 , 2404.03
- Replacement or supplement of deposit ...2407
- After a patent has issued ...2407.02
- Exemption from replacement ...2407.05
- Failure to replace ...2407.03
- In a pending application/reexamination proceeding ...2407.01
- Reason for replacement ...2407.04
- Replacement not recognized ...2407.06
- Treatment of replacement, presumption of identity ...2407.04
- Seeds ...2403.02
- Term of deposit ...2408
- Time for making original deposit ...2406
- Assurance regarding deposit before payment of issue fee ...2406 , 2411.03
- Corroboration ...2406.02
- Description in application specification ...2406.01
- During application pendency ...2406
- Loss of U.S. filing date in other countries ...2406.03
- New matter ...2406.01
- Patent Cooperation Treaty applications ...1823.01 , 2406
- Post-issuance deposits ...2406
- Viability of deposit ...2409
- Viability statement ...2409
- 35 U.S.C. 112 requirements ...2402 , 2403 , 2404
- Deputy Director of Patents and Trademarks ...1002.02(o) , 1203
- Derogatory remark regarding prior art ...608.01(r)
- Description
- Basis for claim ...608.01(o) , 706.03(c) , 2161 , 2163
- Computer programming ...2161.01
- Detailed ...608.01(g)
- International application ...1823
- Design application ...Chapter 1500
- Analogous art ...1504.02 , 1504.03
- Anticipation ...1504.02
- Application, elements of ...1503
- Articles, design comprising multiple ...1504.01(b)
- ‘Average observer’ test ...1504.02
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Treaties ) ...201.13 , 1504.10
- Characteristic feature ...1503.01 , 1504.01(a)
- Claim ...1503 , 1503.01
- Combining references ...1504.03
- Commercial success ...1504.03
- Computer generated icons ...1504.01(a)
- Continuation application ...1504.20
- Continuation-in-part (CIP) application ...1504.20
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) ...1502.01
- Convention, International ...201.13 , 1504.10
- Copending applications ...1504.06 , 1504.20
- Copying, evidence of, to rebut obviousness ...1504.03
- Copyright, Relationship to ...1512
- Definition ...1502
- Description ...1503 , 1503.01
- Disclaimer ...1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
- Disclosure ...1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
- Divisional application ...201.06 , 1504.20
- Double patenting ...804 , 1504.06
- Drawing ...1503 , 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
- Embodiments, alternate or multiple ...1503.01 1504.01(b) , 1504.05
- Enablement ...1503.02 , 1504.04
- European Community Design treaty ...1504.10
- Examination ...1504 , 1504.01 , 1504.02 1504.03 , 1504.04
- Expedited Examination ...502 , 1002.02(c)(3) , 1504.30
- Expert testimony ...1504.03
- Feature emphasized ...1503.01
- Fee, filing ...607
- Fee, issue ...1306
- Font, type ...1504.01(a)
- Foreign priority ...201.13 , 1504.02 , 1504.10
- Functionality ...1504.01(c)
- Hague Agreement (See also Treaties ) ...201.13 , 1504.10
- Hidden end use ...1504.01(c)
- Hidden feature ...1504.02 , 1504.03 , 1504.04
- Icon, computer generated ...1504.01(a)
- Indefiniteness ...1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
- Library collections relating to ...901.06(a)
- Modification, description ...1503.01
- Multiple embodiments ...1504.05
- Multiple parts of article ...1504.01(b)
- New matter ...1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.01(a) , 1504.04
- Object, Design for ...1502
- Obviousness ...1504.03
- Obviousness-type double patenting ...1504.06
- Offensive subject matter ...1504.01(e)
- Ornamentality lacking ...1504.01(c)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty ...1501 , 1502.01
- Patentability ...1504.01 , 1504.01(a) to 1504.01(e) 1504.02 , 1504.03 , 1504.04
- Petition, Special Status ...708.02 , 1504.30
- Petition to accept color drawings
- or photographs ...608.02 , 1503.02
- Photographs ...1503.02 , 1504.04
- Preamble ...1503.01
- Priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 ...201.13 , 201.14(b) 1504.02 , 1504.10
- Priority under 35 U.S.C. 120 ...201.11 , 1504.20
- References supplied ...707.05(a) , 1513
- Quayle action ...1504
- Registration abroad ...1504.02 , 1504.10
- Reexamination,inter partes ...2611
- Reissue ...1457 , 1512
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE) ...1502.01
- Request for Expedited Examination ...1504.30
- Restriction ...1504.05
- Rules applicable ...1501
- Scope of claim ...1503.01 , 1504.04 1504.05 , 1504.06
- Search ...1504 , 1504.02 , 1504.03
- Secondary considerations ...1504.03
- Simulation ...1504.01(d)
- Specification ...1503.01
- Statutory bar, foreign application ...201.13 , 1504.02
- Statutory subject matter ...1502 , 1504.01
- Surface ornamentation ...1502 , 1502.01 , 1503.02 1504.01 , 1504.01(a) 1504.01(c) , 1504.03
- Surface treatment or indicia ...1503.02
- Term of ...1457 , 1502.01 , 1505
- Title ...1503.01 , 1504.01(a)
- Trademark, relationship to ...1512
- Type fonts ...1504.01(a)
- Utility patent, relationship to ...1502.01
- Visual characteristics ...1502
- Written description lacking ...1503.01 , 1503.02 1504.01(a) , 1504.04
- Design patent series (See also Patent ) ...901.04
- Designated office ...1801 , 1893.01(a)
- Designation fee - PCT ...1817.01(a)
- Designation of states ...1817.01 , 1817.01(a)
- Detailed description (See Specification )
- Determination of public use or on sale ...706.02(c) , 2133.03
- Determining if a Reexamination Was Filed for a Patent ...2632.01
- Digest (See Cross-reference :
Art collection )- Dictionary as a source for the ordinary and customary meaning of a claim term ...2111.01 , 2173.05(a)
- Diligence
- Charts for priority ...2138.01
- Filing application ...2138.06
- Filing reissue ...1403
- Interference practice ...2138.01
- Of actions during regulatory review ...2757.01
- Reasonable ...2138.06
- Shown in 37 CFR 1.131 affidavit ...715.07 , 715.07(a)
- To overcome a rejection ...2136.05
- Director of Technology Center ...402.06 , 708.02 714.13 , 714.25 , 715.08 720.01 , 804.04 , 1002.02 , 1002.02(c) 1206 , 1207 , 1208.01 , 1214.04 , 1308 1308.01 , 1901.06 , 2248 , 2249 , 2265 2274 , 2283 to 2286 , 2648 , 2667 , 2682 , 2686.01
Director of the USPTO
- Authority and functions ...706.03(b) , 708.01 , 709 711.02 , 714 , 719.01 , 1001 , 1002 , 2203 2242 , 2284
- Decisions ...Introduction
- Mailing address ...501
- Notices (See also Publication ) ...Introduction , 707.06
- Orders (See also Publication ) ...Introduction , 707.06
Director initiated reexamination ...2212 , 2239 Disbarred attorney (See Attorney or agent : Suspended or excluded )Disciplinary proceedings ...402 Disclaimer (See also Terminal disclaimer )
- Co-author of publication ...715.01(c)
- Copy required in reexamination
- Defensive publication ...711.06
- Design application ...1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
- Forms ...1490
- Processing ...1490
- Rejection ...706.02(k) , 710.02(d)
- Statutory ...1490
- Terminal ...706.02(k) , 804 , 804.02 , 1490
Disclosure (See also Duty of disclosure ; Specification )
- Abstract ...608.01(b)
- Amendment ...608.04 , 1302.02
- Amendment, Preliminary ...608.04(b)
- Best Mode (See also Best Mode ) ...608.01(h) , 2165
- Chemical compound ...608.01(p)
- Claimed ...901.03
- Common, parent and continuing applications ...201.11
- Completeness ...608.01(p) , 2164
- Computer programming cases ...2164.06(c) , 2106.01
- Correspondence with claims ...2163.05 , 2173.03
- Design application ...1503 , 1503.01
- Detailed description ...608.01(g)
- Document ...1706
- Duty of ...Chapter 2000
- Enablement (See also Enablement ) ...2164
- Foreign application ...201.15
- Implicit ...2144.01
- Incomplete ...608.01(p) , 706.03(c) , 2161 to 2165
- Incomprehensible ...702.01
- Incorporation by reference (See also Incorporation by reference ) ...201.17 , 608.01(p)
- Insufficient ...608.01(p) , 702.01 , 706.03(c)
- Later filed application ...608.01(p)
- Operability ...716.07 , 2164.08(b)
- Original claim ...608.01(l) , 2163.06
- Preliminary amendment ...608.04(b)
- Related applications ...608.01(p) , 1302.04
- Requirements for ...2161
- Reservation clause ...608.01(e)
- Restricted to claimed subject matter ...1302.01
- Secrecy order, Material subject to ...120
- Specification (See also Specification ) ...608.01
- Sufficiency for continuity ...201.11
- Sufficiency of ...716
- Support for claims ...2163.01
- Trade name ...608.01(v)
- Trademark ...608.01(v)
- Utility ...608.01(p) , 706.03(a)
- Written (See also Written description ) ...2163
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
- Apparatus and product made ...806.05(g)
- Distinct processes ...806.05(j)
- Distinct products ...806.05(j)
- Process and apparatus for its practice ...806.05(e)
- Process and product made ...806.05(f)
Divisional application ...201.06 , 601.01(a)
- Assignment carried from parent application ...201.12 306
- Continued prosecution application (CPA) ...201.06(d)
- Copendency ...201.11
- Design application ...201.06 , 1504.20
- Drawing, Transfer of ...608.02(i)
- Effective date ...201.11
- Filed by assignee ...324
- File wrapper continuation (FWC) ...201.06(b)
- File wrapper/history notation ...202.02 , 1302.04
- Inspection of parent application ...103
Inter partes reexamination of ...2611- Inventor, at least one in common ...201.11
- New matter ...201.06
- Oath ...201.06(c) , 602.05(a)
- Ownership carried from parent application ...201.12
- Patented, Opens parent application to inspection ...103
- Reference to parent application ...201.11 , 1302.04
- Reissue ...1414 , 1440 , 1450 , 1451
- Rule 1.53(b) ...201.06(c)
- Rule 1.53(d) ...201.06(d)
- Rule 1.60, Former ...201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62, Former ...201.06(b)
- Signature ...201.06(d)
- Time for filing ...201.11
- Written description requirement ...201.11
DNA (See also Biotechnology ; Nucleotide sequences ) ...Chapter 2400
- Enablement ...2164.08
- Searching ...901.06(a)
- Sequence listing ...2422 , 2424 , 2431
- Special status for recombinant ...708.02
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
- Avoiding rejection ...706.02(k) , 706.02(l)(3) , 804.02
- Basis ...804
- Between one or more applications and a published application that has not been abandoned ...804
- Claimed subject matter ...806.01
- Commonly owned cases, treatment ...804.03
- Copending applications ...706.02(k) , 804
- Definition ...804
- Design applications/patents ...804 , 1504.06
- Different inventive entities ...706.02(k) , 804.03
- Distinct and independent inventions ...804.01
- Domination ...804
- International applications ...804
- Obviousness type ...804
- Plant applications ...1601
- Reexamination ...804 , 2217 , 2258
- Rejection ...804
- Nonstatutory ...804
- Obvious ...804
- Prohibition, 35 U.S.C. 121 ...804.01 , 821.04(b)
- Provisional ...706.02(k) , 706.02(l)(3) , 804
- Specification, use of ...804
- Statutory ...804 , 804.03
- Rejection nullification ...804.01
- Restriction previously required ...804.04 , 1003
- Same assignee ...706.02(k) 804.03 , 822
- Same inventor ...806.04(h) , 806.04(i) , 806.05 822 , 822.01
- Species and genus ...806.04(h) , 806.04(i)
- Subject matter not patentably distinct ...804
- Subject to joint research agreement ...804 , 804.02 , 804.03
- Submissions to TC director ...804.04
- Terminal disclaimer effect ...706.02(k) 804 , 804.02 , 1451 , 1490
Drafting notation ...608.02 , 707.07(a) , 707.07(c) Drafting stamp (no longer required) ...608.02(o) Drawings ...507 , 608.02
- Amendment ...608.02(p) , 714 , 1302.04
- In
ex parte reexamination ...2250.01- In inter partes reexamination ...2666.02
- In reissue application ...1413
- Prior to publication of PG-Pub ...1121
- Amendment, Direction for ...608.02(q)
- Amendment, Disposition of orders for ...608.02(x)
- Amendment support by original claim ...608.04(a)
- Annotated sheets ...608.02(v) , 608.02(w)
- Brief description ...608.01(f)
- Canceled figure ...608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet ...608.02(t)
- Canceled sheet, patent ...608.02(i)
- Canceled sheet, transfer ...608.02(i)
- Color ...608.02 , 1503.02
- Colored plant ...1606
- Complete illustration ...608.02(d)
- Completeness ...608.02(e)
- Computer lists ...608.05
- Consistency ...608.02(e)
- Content of ...608.02(d)
- Correction (See also Correction of drawing ) ...608.02(p) 1302.05
- Date no longer entered on back ...608.02(o)
- Delivered to wrong Technology Center ...508.01
- Design application ...1503 , 1503.01 1503.02 , 1504.04
- Disclosure ...608
- Divisional application ...608.02 , 608.02(i)
- Drafting criticism included in first Office action ...707.07(a) , 707.07(c)
- Drafting notation ...608.02
- Drafting stamp no longer required ...608.02(o)
- Examiner determines completeness ...608.02(e)
- Illustrates claim ...608.02(e)
- Informal (no longer used) ...507 , 608.02(b)
- Interference prints ...608.02(m)
- International application ...1825
- Kept in application ...608.02(c)
- Lost ...1302.05(a)
- Mail section stamp no longer used ...608.02(o)
- Modification illustrated ...608.02(f)
- Marked-up copy ...608.02(v) , 608.02(w)
- Necessary for filing date ...506 , 608.02
- New drawings required ...608.02(a)
- New, handling ...608.02(a)
- New matter ...608.04 , 706.03(o)
- New, when required ...608.02(a)
- Not received ...608.02(h) , 1825
- Not required ...608.02
- Not returned ...608.02(y)
- Objection ...608 , 608.01 608.02 , 608.02(b) 706.03(o) , 1503.02 , 1504.04
Official Gazette figure 1302.09- Omitted drawings ...201.17 , 601.01(g)
- Patented file ...905.03
- Petition to transfer from another application ...608.02(i)
- Photographs ...608.02 , 1503.02
- Placement in file wrapper ...719.01(b)
- Plant application ...1603 , 1606
- Print (See also Print of drawing ) ...608.02(m) , 608.02(n)
- Prior art ...608.02(g) , 2125
- Provisional application ...608.02
- Reference characters ...608.02(e)
- Reference characters, change ...608.02(w)
- Reissue application ...1411 , 1413
- Removal from Technology Center ...608.02(c)
- Replacement drawings for publication in PG-Pub ...1121
- Replacement ...608.02(h) , 1302.05
- Reversed figure numbers ...1302.04
- Review by Office of Initial Patent Examination (OIPE) ...507
- Required by examiner ...608.02
- Requirements ...608.02
- Return ...608.02(y)
- Section lines ...608.02(f)
- Security markings ...121
- Substitute ...502 , 608.02(h)
- Sufficiency, determined by examiner ...608.02(e)
- Symbols ...608.02
- Trademarks ...1512
- Unacceptable ...608.02(b)
Drawing correction ...507 , 608.02(p)
- Annotated sheets ...608.02(v) , 608.02(w)
- Approval by examiner ...608.02(x)
- Marked-up copy ...608.02(v) , 608.02(w)
- New matter ...608.04
- Order for ...608.02(x)
- PG-Pub ...1120 , 1121
- Replacement sheets ...502 , 608.02(h) , 1302.05
- Required ...507 , 707.07(a) , 707.07(c)
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
- Compared to duty to disclose material information ...2001.04
- Information disclosure ...609
- Reexamination ...2280
Duty of disclosure ...Chapter 2000
- After patent grant ...2003.01
- Aids to compliance ...2004
- Checklist ...2004
- Compared to requirement for information ...704.12(a) 2005
- Compliance with ...2004
- Continuing applications ...2001.04 , 2004
- Copending applications ...2001.06(b) , 2004
- Copied claims ...2001.06(d)
- Duration of ...2001.04 , 2003.01
- Foreign applications ...2001.06(a)
- Information material to patentability ...2001.04 , 2001.05
- Litigation information ...2001.06(c)
- Questionnaire ...2004
- Reexamination
- Reissue application ...1406 , 1414 , 1418 , 1448 2001.06(c) , 2003
- Sources of information ...2001.06
- To whom owed ...2001.03
- Violation of ...2010
- Claims invalidated ...2016
- Protest ...2013
- Reexamination ...2014
- Reissue ...2012
- Rejection of claims in reissue application ...1448
- Who has ...2001.01
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