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- Machine, process or product ...806.05(e) 806.05(f) , 806.05(g)
- Mail (See also Mail Stop and Correspondence )
- Address ...501
- Depositing correspondence ...502
- Distribution ...501
- Express ...502 , 513 , 711.03(c)
- Identification ...502 , 503
- Receipt and handling ...Chapter 500
- Undelivered ...707.13 , 1303.02
- Zip code ...502
- Mail date as filing date ...513
- Mail room date stamp ...608.02(o)
- Mail stop ...501
- Mail Stop 8 (Solicitor) ...501 , 1216 , 1216.01
- Mail Stop 10 ...1232
- Mail Stop 16 (Refunds) ...509.03
- Mail Stop AF ...714.13
- Mail Stop Assignment Recordation ...501 , 302.08
- Mail Stop Conversion ...601.01(c)
- Mail Stop DD ...1706
- Mail Stop Document Services ...103 , 501 , 1430 , 1470 2222 , 2232 , 2501 , 2622 , 2632
- Mail Stop EBC ...403
- Mail Stop
Ex Parte Reexam ...501 , 2222 , 2224 2226 , 2231- Mail Stop Expedited Design ...1504.30
- Mail Stop Express Abandonment ...1002.02(r) , 1125
- Mail Stop INTERFERENCE ...501
- Mail Stop
Inter Partes Reexam ...501 , 2622 , 2624 , 2631- Mail Stop Issue Fee ...502 , 1306 , 1306.02
- Mail Stop L&R ...120
- Mail Stop M Correspondence ...501 , 2510
- Mail Stop MPEP ...Foreword
- Mail Stop OED ...402 , 407
- Mail Stop Patent Ext. ...501 , 1002.02(b) , 2754 , 2754
- Mail Stop PCT ...501 , 1805 , 1808 , 1821 , 1823.02 , 1865
- Mail Stop Petitions ...720 , 1002.02(b) , 1308 1901.03 , 2580 , 2590 , 2720
- Mail Stop PGPUB ...1126
- Mail Stop PGPUB DRAWINGS ...507
- Mail Stop Reissue ...1410
- Mail Stop Sequence ...2422.09 , 2429
- Mailing action ...707.12
- Mailing, Certificate of (See
Certificate of mailing or transmission )- Maintenance Fee Branch ...1501
- Maintenance fees (See also Fee ; Refunds ) ...1730 Chapter 2500
- Attorney or agent
- Change of correspondence address ...2501 , 2542
- Credit card used for payment of ...2510 , 2522
- Due dates for payment ...2506
- Duplicate Payment ...2532
- Facsimile submission ...2510
- Fee address ...2540
- Fee amounts ...2501 , 2520
- Forms ...2595
- Information available from Maintenance Fee Branch ...1730
- Information required with payment ...2515 , 2530
- Insufficient ...2531
- Internet submission ...2510
- Intervening rights in reinstated patents ...2591
- Late ...2531
- Mailing address for maintenance fee documents ... 501 , 2510
- Mailing address for payments ...501
- Maintenance Fee Branch ...2501
- Method of payment ...2522
- Notices - Expiration, Receipt, Reminder ...2575
- Obligation to pay while reissue is pending ...1415.01
- Overpayment ...2550
- Patents subject to payment of ...2504
- Payment informalities ...2530
- Petition to accept ...2515 , 2531 , 2590
- Reexamination ...2506
- Refusal to accept and record payments,Review of ...2580
- Reinstatement, delayed payment ...2590
- Reissue patents ...1415.01 , 1443 , 2504 , 2506 , 2520
- Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, due on ...2504 , 2506
- Small entity status requirements ...2550
- Special Acceptance ...2530
- Status requests ...1730 , 2570
- Mandatory Classification ...903.07
- Manual, authority of ...foreword
- Manual, subscription address ...title page
- Manual of Classification ...Introduction , 902.01
- Manuscript decision ...707.06
- Margin, application papers ...608.01
- Mark of applicant ...605.04(d)
- Marking in application, erasing at allowance ...1302.01
- Marking, Security ...121
- Markush claim ...803.02 , 2173.05(h) , 2173.05(o)
- Master classification file (MCF) ...902.03(a)
- Material mistake by Office in published PG-Pub ...1130
- Materiality of information regarding patentability (See Duty of disclosure )
- Mathematical algorithms ...706.03(a) , , 2106 , 2106.02
- Matter not in original disclosure ...608.04(a)
- Means ...2181
- Broadest reasonable interpretation ...2181
- Equivalent compared to Doctrine ofEquivalents ...2186
- Obviousness ...2183
Prima facie case of equivalence ...2183 , 2184- Related issues under 35 U.S.C. 112, firstor second paragraphs ...2181 , 2185
- Scope of the identification of prior art ...2182
- Single means claim ...2164.08(a) , 2181
- Means plus function limitations ...706.02(m) , 2106 2111.01 , 2114 , 2181 to 2186
- Mechanical search ...719.05
- Memorandum, citation ...707.06
- Merger of
ex parte reexamination and reissue ...2285- Merger of inter partes reexamination and reissue ...2686.03
- Merits, Appeal to Board of Patent Appealsand Interferences ...Introduction
- Method of making and apparatus or product ...806.05(e) 806.05(f)
- Metric (S.I.) system usage ...608.01
- Microorganisms (See Biotechnology )
- Microorganisms, deposit of ...1823.01 , 2402 to 2411.05
- Microorganisms, patentability of ...706.03(a) 2105 , 2164.06
- Militarily Critical Technology List (MCTL) ...120
- Military officer notary ...604.03(a)
- Minor, inventor ...409
- Misjoinder, Effect on patent ...805
- Misjoinder of inventors ...201.03 , 1402 , 1412.04 , 1481
- Mistake (See Correction of patent ; Errors )
- Mistake by Office in Pre-Grant Publication ...1130
- Mode, Best (See Best Mode )
- Mode of operation ...608.01(h)
- Model ...608.03
- Model, return ...608.03(a)
- Model at interview ...713.08
- Model filed in priority country ...201.14(b)
- Months, foreign language names ...901.05(a)
- Months, foreign language names ...901.05(a)
- Motions in interferences (See Interference :
Motions )- Multiple dependent claims
- Multiple papers on same issue in protest ...1901.07(a)
- Multiplicity of claims ...408 , 707.07(g) 714.16 , 2173.05(h) , 2173.05(n)
- Multiplicity of species ...806.01 , 808.01(a)
- Munitions Lists of the International Traffic Arms Regulation (ITAR) ...120
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