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

• 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)
    • of EFS-Web transmissions— 502.05
  • 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 ; 512 ; 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 – 409.01(f)
• Deceased inventor
  • Allowance not withdrawn— 1303.03
  • Legal representative as applicant— 409.01(a) ; 1820
    • Proof of authority of— 409.01(b)
  • Legal representative refuses to sign— 409.03(c)
• Deceptive intent ( See also Fraud and 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— 2277
    • Inter partesreexamination— 2681 ; 2682
    • Reconsideration of— 1214.03
    • Treatment of— 1721
  • Citation— 707.06
  • Ex-parte reexamination rehearing request— 2240
  • Governs examiner’s action—
  • Listed— II
  • Ordering ex-parte reexamination— 2246
  • Ordering inter partes reexamination ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Decision on the request for reexamination)
  • Public availability— 103
  • Publication of— 707.06
• Declaration ( See also Oath)— 602
  • 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
  • In reissue application— 1414
• 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
  • 30-3A cited— 510
  • 30-3B cited— 510
• Dependent claim— 608.01(n)
  • Objected to when base claim is canceled— 608.01(n) ; 707.07(j)
  • Reissue— 1455
  • Treatment in inter 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— 1827.01 ; 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
    • Mailing address— 501
• Deposit Account Division— 509.01
• Deposit of microorganisms ( See also Biotechnology)— 1605 ; 1823.01 ; 2402 – 2411.05
• Deposit of correspondence— 502
• Depositions
  • Evidence— 1901.02 ; 2013
  • Of examiner— 1701.01
• Deposit rules ( See also Biotechnology)— 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
    • Direct self-replication— 2403.01
    • Indirect 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
    • Implication, presumption— 2404 ; 2404.03
    • Requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112— 2164.06 ; 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
    • Budapest Treaty term— 2408
    • Enforceable life of patent— 2408
  • Time for making original deposit— 2406
    • Assurance regarding deposit before paymentof 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) ; 1202
• 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— 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
    • Broken lines— 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
    • Color— 1503.02
    • Trademarks— 1512
  • EFS-Web— 502.05
  • 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— 501 ; 1002.02(c)(3) ; 1504.30
    • Reissue— 1457
  • Expert testimony— 1504.03
  • Feature emphasized— 1503.01
  • Fee, filing— 607
    • Reissue— 1457
  • Fee, issue— 1306
  • Font, type— 1504.01(a)
  • Foreign priority— 201.13 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.10
    • German application— 201.14(b)
    • More than six months before U.S. filing— 1504.02
  • Functionality— 1504.01(c)
    • Obviousness and— 1504.03
  • 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 (ODP)— 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) – 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
    • Reissue— 1457
  • 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
    • Use of Copyrights in— 1512
    • Use of Trademarks in— 1512
  • 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)
    • Amendment of— 1503.01
    • Use of Trademarks in— 1512
  • 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) ; 1207.01 ; 1207.02 ; 1207.03 ; 1207.05 ; 1208 ; 1214.04 ; 1308 ; 1308.01 ; 1901.06 ; 2248 ; 2249 ; 2265 ; 2274 ; 2283 – 2286 ; 2648 ; 2667 ; 2682 ; 2686.01
  • Functions— 1002.02(c) ; 1003
  • TC 1600— 1002.02(c)(2)
  • TC 2900— 1002.02(c)(3)
  • TC 3640— 710 ; 1002.02(c)(1)
• Director of the USPTO
  • Authority and functions— 706.03(b) ; 708.01 ; 709 ; 711.02 ; 714 ; 719.01 ; 1001 ; 1002 ; 2203 ; 2242 ; 2284
    • Publication of confidential decisions— 103
    • Withdrawal from issue— 1308
  • Decisions—
  • Mailing address— 501
  • Notices ( See also Publication)— ; 707.06
  • Orders ( See also Publication)— ; 707.06
• Director initiated reexamination— 2212 ; 2239
• Disbarred attorney ( See Attorney or agent: Suspended or excluded)
• Disciplinary proceedings— 402
  • Mailing address— 501
• Disclaimer ( See also Terminal disclaimer)
  • Co-author of publication— 715.01(c)
  • Copy required in reexamination
    • Ex parte— 2214
    • Inter partes— 2614
  • 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 and 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) ; 2161.01
  • Correspondence with claims— 2163.05 ; 2173.03
  • Design application— 1503 ; 1503.01
  • Detailed description— 608.01(g)
  • Duty of— 2000
  • Enablement ( See also Enablement)— 2164
  • Foreign application— 201.15
  • Implicit— 2144.01
  • Incomplete— 608.01(p) ; 706.03(c) ; 2161 – 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
• 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 partesreexamination 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 and Nucleotide sequences)— 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
  • Electronic ( See also Electronic publications)— 707.05(e)
• 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— 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 (ODP)— 804
    • Design application— 1504.06
  • 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
    • In a reissue application— 1451
• 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
    • Incorporated into PG-Pub— 1120 ; 1121
    • Reversed figure numbers— 1302.04
  • Design application— 1503 ; 1503.01 ; 1503.02 ; 1504.04
  • Disclosure— 608
  • Divisional application— 608.02 ; 608.02(i)
  • EFS-Web— 502.05
  • Examiner determines completeness— 608.02(e)
  • Illustrates claim— 608.02(e)
  • Informal— 507 ; 608.02(b)
  • Interference prints— 608.02(m)
  • International application— 1825
  • Kept in application— 608.02(c)
  • Lost— 1302.05(a)
  • 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— 502.05 ; 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
    • No longer transferred from original patent— 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) (Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP))— 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)
• 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— 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
    • Ex parte— 2014 ; 2280
    • Inter partes— 2003.01 ; 2684
  • 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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