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
- Ranges
- Ratification of papers filed
- Real party in interest— 1205 ; 1207.02
- Reasons for allowance—
1302.14
- Amendments after final rejection— 714.13
- Appeal record— 1213.02
- Applicant’s comments on— 1302.14
- Claim narrowing— 1302.14
- Comments on, ex parte reexamination— 2287
- Comments on, inter partes reexamination— 2687.01
- Estoppel effect— 1302.14
- Failure of applicant to comment on— 1302.14
- Patent Cooperation Treaty application— 1845.01 ; 1878.01
- Presumption of acquiescence by applicant— 1302.14
- Public use proceedings— 720.05
- Reexamination
- Rebuttal brief in
inter partes reexamination appeal—
2678
;
2679
- Refused entry— 2679
- Recapture
- Claimed subject matter— 706.02(l)(1) ; 1412.02
- Matter in reissue— 1412.02
- Of patent rights
- Receipt of mail and papers— 500
- Receiving Office PCT procedure—
1801
- International Bureau— 1805
- Reciprocal privileges, foreign priority— 201.13
- Reciprocal security agreements— 120
- Reclassification
- Recombinant DNA (
See also
DNA and
Biotechnology)
- Special status— 708.02
- Reconsideration in ex parte reexamination— 2269
- Reconsideration of abandonment— 711.03 ; 711.03(c)
- Record of interview— 713.01 ; 713.04
- Record room ( See File Information Unit (Record Room))
- Record system for reexamination
- Recording assignment— 301 ; 302 ; 317
- Recording change of business name— 314
- Recording government interests— 302 ; 302.07
- Recording of joint research agreement— 302 ; 302.07
- Recording license agreement— 313
- Recording of other documents— 313 – 317
- Recording security interest— 313
- Redacted publication of an application— 502.05 ; 1132
- Reduction to practice— 715.07 ; 2133.03(c) ; 2138.01 ; 2138.05
- Reexamination,
Ex parte—
2200
- Access to file— 103 ; 724.04(c) ; 2209 ; 2232
- Action following Board decision— 2278
- Address of patent owner— 2222
- Admissions— 2217 ; 2258
- Affidavits— 2216 ; 2217 ; 2258 ; 2265
- After final practice— 2272
- Amendment— 714 ; 2234 ; 2250 ; 2295
- Ancillary issues— 2217 ; 2258
- Appeal— 2273
- Appeal brief— 2274
- Appeals to courts— 1216 ; 1216.01 ; 2279
- Application file location— 2635
- Assignment— 301
- Attorney or agent—
2213
- Name on certificate— 2287
- Basic characteristics— 2209
- Certificate of— 2288 ; 2294
- Certificate attached to patent copy— 2292
- Certificate distribution— 2292
- Certificate format— 2290
- Certificate of mailing or transmission— 2224
- Certificate of prior reexamination in later request— 2214 ; 2219 ; 2619
- Certificate of service— 2220
- Certified copy— 2232
- Citation of prior art—
2202
- After first office action— 2271
- Claim for Official Gazette— 2287
- Claim, multiple dependent, preparation for publishing— 2287
- Claim numbering— 2250
- Claims considered— 2243 ; 2258
- Claims invalid/unenforceable— 2286
- Claims presented for interference— 2283 ; 2304.02
- Clerical handling— 2270
- Collateral estoppel— 2259
- Comments on “Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation”— 2287
- Conclusion— 2287
- Concurrent proceedings— 2282 – 2686
- Conduct of proceedings— 2254
- Consideration of responses— 2252 ; 2253
- Consolidated proceedings— 2283
- Constructive notice to patent owner— 2230
- Content of request— 2214
- Copending proceedings— 2283 – 2686
- Copy of patent in request— 2219
- Copying of file— 2232
- Correction of inventorship— 2250.02 ; 2258
- Correction of request— 2231
- Correspondence— 2224
- Criteria for deciding request— 2242
- Decision of Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences— 2277
- Decision on request— 2240
- Decision ordering reexamination— 2246
- Decision processing— 2245
- Defective submission— 2266.02
- Denied— 2240 ; 2247 ; 2247.01
- Dependent claim treatment— 2260.01
- Director’s initiative— 2239
- Domestic priority— 2258
- Double correspondence— 2224
- Double patenting— 804 ; 2258
- Drawing correction— 2250.01
- Duty of disclosure— 2003.01 ; 2280
- Electronic copy— 2209 ; 2232
- Entry of amendments— 2234 ; 2270
- Entry of court decisions in patent file— 2207
- Examiner—
2236
;
2248
;
2255
- Deposition— 1701.01
- Examiner’s amendment— 2287
- Examiner’s answer— 2275
- Expiration of patent— 2211 ; 2250
- Explanation of prior art— 2217
- Extension of time— 2265
- Failure to timely reply to Office action— 2266
- Fees— 2215 ; 2233 ; 2283 ; 2285
- Final action— 706.07(a) ; 2265 ; 2271
- Flowchart— 2201
- Foreign priority— 2258
- Forms— 2296
- Granted— 2246 ; 2247.01
- Grounds of rejection— 2217
- Identity of requester— 2212
- Inappropriate papers—
2267
- Return of papers— 2267
- Incomplete reques
- t— 2227
- Informal submission— 2266.02
- Initial processing— 2226
- Inquiries from persons other than the Patent Owner— 2212.01
- Interference copending— 2284
- Intervening rights— 2293
- Interviews in— 2281
- Introduction— 2201
- Listing of prior art— 2257
- Litigation copending— 2286
- Litigation review— 2240 ; 2287
- Mailing of Office actions— 2264
- Merger— 2283 ; 2686.01
- Merger with reissue proceedings— 1449.01
- Multiple dependent claim handling, preparation for publishing— 2287
- New matter— 2270
- NIRC ) ( See Form letters and forms: Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL-469)
- Notification of Concurrent Proceedings— 2285
- Of a reexamination— 2295
- Office action— 2260 ; 2262
- Official Gazette
- “Old art” (i.e., previously considered/cited)— 2242 ; 2258.01
- Oral hearing— 2276
- Orders for copies of— 2232
- Patent copy in request— 2219
- Patent owner’s address— 2222
- Patent owner’s statement— 2249
- Patent owner’s statement of interview— 2281
- Patentability review conference— 2271 ; 2271.01 ; 2287
- Petition—
1002.02(b)
- Correct inventorship— 2250.02
- Denial of request— 1002.02(c) ; 2246 ; 2265
- For entry of late papers (revival of terminated proceedings)— 2268
- Merge proceedings— 2283 ; 2285
- Reconsideration— 2268
- Stay proceedings pending interference— 2284
- Stay proceedings pending reissue— 2285
- Unintentional delay— 2268
- Vacate order granting request— 2246
- Waive time provisions— 2265
- Power of attorney, withdrawal— 2223
- Preprocessing staff— 2226 ; 2229 ; 2232 ; 2239
- Printing of certificate— 2288
- Prior art— 2218
- Prior art considered— 2244 ; 2256
- Prior art previously cited/considered— 2242 ; 2258.01
- Proceedings— 2209
- Processing in Central Reexamination Unit and Technology Center—
2233
;
2245
- Clerical handling— 2270
- Project code— 2238
- Public access— 103 ; 2232
- Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS)— 2289
- Quality review— 2289
- Reasons for patentability and/or confirmation— 2262 ; 2287
- Reconsideration of Office action— 2269
- Record system— 2235
- Refund if request denied— 2247 ; 2248
- Reissue copending— 1449.01 ; 2285
- Rejections—
2242
;
2258
- Using “old art”— 2258.01
- Reminders— 2287
- Reply by third party requester—
2251
;
2253
- Period for reply cannot be extended— 2265
- Reports— 2235
- Representative of requester— 2213
- Request—
2210
- After reissue patent issues— 2240 ; 2258 ; 2285
- After first reexamination certificate issues— 2294
- Content— 2214
- Correction processing— 2231
- Decision— 2240 ; 2244
- Decision criteria— 2242
- Denied—
2247
;
2247.01
- After reissue patent issues— 2240
- During interference— 2284
- Facsimile submission not permitted— 502.01
- Filing address— 2224
- Granted— 2246 ; 2247.01
- Guidelines— 2242
- “Old art” (previously considered art) involved— 2242 ; 2258.01
- Response to Office action— 2266
- Restriction improper— 2258
- Review— 2289
- Sample letter requesting reexamination— 2214
- Scope— 2258
- Search— 2244 ; 2258.01
- Second or subsequent request— 2240 ; 2283
- Service by patent owner on requestor of patent owner statement— 2249
- Service of papers— 2220 ; 2266 ; 2266.02 ; 2266.03
- Special status for action— 2261
- Statement applying prior art— 2217
- Statement by owner— 2249
- Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation— 2287
- Statutory basis— 2201
- Stay— 2283
- Submission defective or informal—
2266.02
- After final— 2272
- Submission not fully responsive—
2266.01
- After final— 2272
- Substantial new question of patentability— 2201 ; 2216 ; 2240 ; 2242 ; 2244 ; 2246
- “Sufficient cause” for extension of time— 2265
- Suspension— 2283
- Terminated— 2294
- Terminated files— 2294
- Tickler reports— 2235
- Time for request decision— 2241
- Time for requesting— 2211
- Time for response to actions— 2263
- Time reporting— 2238
- Title report— 320 ; 2287
- Transfer— 2237
- Translation required— 2218
- Untimely filed paper prior to order— 2225
- Untimely filed papers— 2267
- Untimely responses— 2252
- Use of transmittal form (PTOL-465)— 2264
- Vacated— 2294
- Vacated, claims invalid/unenforceable— 2286
- Who may file request for— 2212
- Withdrawal of attorney during— 402.06 ; 2223
- Withdrawal of power of attorney— 2223
- Reexamination,
Inter partes (
See also
Reexamination, Ex Parte
)—
2600
- Access by public— 103 ; 724.04(c) ; 2609 ; 2632
- Action closing prosecution (ACP)— 2660 ; 2666.05 ; 2666.10 ; 2667 ; 2660 ; 2666.05 ; 2671.03 ; 2673.02 ; 2682
- Admissions— 2617
- Affidavits— 2616 ; 2617 ; 2658 ; 2666 ; 2675 ; 2677
- Amendment by patent owner
- After a new ground of rejection is issued by the Board— 2682
- After Action Closing Prosecution (ACP)— 2671 ; 2672 ; 2673
- After expiration of the patent— 2666.01
- After Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC)— 2687.01
- After Right of Appeal Notice (RAN)— 2673 ; 2673.02 ; 2675
- Claims— 2666.01
- Defective— 2666.50 ; 2666.60 ; 2667
- Dependent claim— 2660.03
- Drawings— 2666.02
- Entry— 2670
- In a merged reexamination proceedings— 2670 ; 2686.01 ; 2686.03
- Of a reissued patent— 2686.03
- Title— 2660.02
- To provoke an interference— 2686.02
- Unsigned— 2666.50
- Appeal (i.e., Appellant) Brief— 2675
- Appeal Conference— 2676 ; 2677
- Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences—
2674
–
2680
- Flowchart— 2601.01
- Appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit— 2682 ; 2683
- Appeal to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia not available— 2683
- Appellant defined— 2674
- Assignment to examiner— 2636 ; 2648 ; 2655
- Certificate of inter partes reexamination— 2688 ; 2690 ; 2694
- Certificate of service—
2620
;
2666.06
- Avoid duplicate filing fee— 2620
- Certificate of mailing or transmission— 2624 ; 2665 ; 2666 ; 2666.05
- Certificate of prior reexamination in later request— 2214 ; 2219 ; 2619
- Certification as to statutory estoppel— 2612 ; 2614
- Clerical handling— 2670
- Collateral estoppel— 2659
- Comments on Statement of Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation— 2687.01
- Comments by third party ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
- Concurrent proceedings— 2282 ; 2686
- Constructive notice of— 2630 ; 2654
- Copending proceedings— 2282 ; 2686
- Copies of the prior art with request— 2618
- Copy of printed patent with request—
2619
- Double column format— 2614
- Copying of the file by the public— 2632
- Correction of inventorship— 2658 ; 2666.03
- Correspondence— 2624
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit— 2682 ; 2683
- Court ordered— 2686.04
- Cross appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals— 2674
- Cross appeal to the Federal Circuit— 2683
- Decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences— 2681 ; 2682
- Decision on the request for inter partes reexamination— 2640 ; 2641
- Dependent claim treatment— 2660.03
- Design applications— 2611
- Determining if a reexamination was filed for a patent— 2632.01
- Domestic priority— 2658
- Drawings— 2666.02
- Duty of disclosure— 2003.01 ; 2684
- Electronic copy— 2609 ; 2632
- Enlarging claim scope prohibited— 2658 ; 2666.01
- Estoppel, Collateral— 2659
- Estoppel, Statutory— 2601 ; 2612 ; 2614
- Examination scope— 2658 ; 2671.01 ; 2671.02
- Examiner consultation with a Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA)
- Examiner’s Amendment
- Examiner’s Answer— 2677
- Expedited Right of Appeal Notice— 2671 ; 2673.02
- “Express Mail” procedure— 2624 ; 2665 ; 2666 ; 2666.05
- Extensions of time— 2665
- Facsimile transmission, correspondence by— 2624
- Fees— 2634
- Final Board decision— 2681 ; 2682
- Filing date— 2627
- Flowcharts— 2601.01
- Foreign priority— 2658
- Forms listed— 2696
- Fraud— 2684
- Improper comments— 2667
- Inappropriate papers— 2667
- Incorporation by reference in Examiner’s Answer— 2677
- Interference copending— 2686 ; 2686.02
- Intervening rights— 2693
- Interviews in a merged reexamination/reissue— 2686.03
- Interviews not permitted— 2666.30 ; 2685 ; 2687
- Litigation concurrent— 2640 ; 2681 ; 2686 ; 2686.04
- Litigation search— 2686.04
- Litigation stayed— 2686.04
- Merger of multiple requests for reexamination— 2686.01
- Merger of reissue and inter partes reexamination— 2686.03
- Multiple requests for reexamination filed— 2640 ; 2686 ; 2686.01 ; 2695
- New grounds for rejection— 2671.01
- New matter— 2671.01 ; 2671.02
- NIRC ( See Form letters and forms: Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate (NIRC) PTOL 2068)
- Non-final Board decision— 2681
- Non-responsive reply by patent owner/third party— 2666.30 ; 2666.50
- Notice of appeal—
2662
;
2674
;
2674.01
- Premature— 2667
- Notice of cross appeal— 2662 ; 2674 ; 2674.01
- Notice of Inter Partes Request for Reexamination in the Official Gazette— 2627 ; 2629
- Notice of Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate Issuance in the Official Gazette— 2688 ; 2691
- Office action— 2660 ; 2671
- Oral hearing—
2662
;
2675
;
2677
;
2680
- Open to public— 2680
- Order granting
inter partes reexamination—
2646
;
2660
- Returned as undelivered— 2654
- Oversight— 2689
- Patent copy with request—
2619
- Double column format— 2614
- Panel Review— 2671.03
- Petition—
1002.02(b)
- Board decision— 2681
- Consideration of submissions after NIRC— 2687.01
- Correct inventorship— 2658 ; 2666.03
- Denial of request for inter partes reexamination— 1002.02(c) ; 2647 ; 2648
- Entry of late papers for revival of reexamination proceeding— 2668
- Enter an amendment after RAN— 2672 ; 2673.02 ; 2675
- For an interview in a merged reexamination/reissue— 2686.03
- Merge inter partes reexamination and reissue— 1002.02(b) ; 2667 ; 2686.03
- Premature Action Closing Prosecution— 2672
- Reopen prosecution after Board decision— 2682
- Suspend second or subsequent requests— 2640
- Stay reexamination— 2667 ; 2686.02 ; 2686.03
- Unintentional delay— 2668
- Vacate order granting inter partes reexamination— 2646
- Waive time provisions— 2648 ; 2668 ; 2672
- Premature response/comments— 2625 ; 2667
- Prior art citation—
2602
;
2646
;
2654
;
2656
;
2657
- After the order to reexamine— 2602 ; 2667
- After a Notice of Intent to Issue Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate issues— 2687.01
- Before the first Office action— 2625
- Before the order to reexamine— 2602 ; 2654
- By another requestor— 2656
- By the patent owner— 2656
- Storage area— 2667
- With the Request— 2656
- With third party’s comments— 2666.05 ; 2667
- Prior art copies with request— 2618
- Processing— 2670
- Proof of service ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Service of papers)
- Public access— 103 ; 2609 ; 2632
- Publication— 2687
- Publication of Board decision— 2681
- RAN ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Right of Appeal Notice (RAN))
- Real party in interest identification— 2612 ; 2614 ; 2677
- Reasons for Patentability and/or Confirmation— 2687
- Rebuttal Brief—
2678
;
2679
- Refused entry— 2679
- Records— 2635
- Reissue copending— 1449.01 ; 2643 ; 2686 ; 2686.03
- Reissue previously issued— 2640 ; 2686
- Remand by the Board of Appeals— 2681 ; 2682
- Reopening prosecution after an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP)— 2673 ; 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after a Board decision— 2682
- Representative of requestor— 2613
- Request for extension of time— 2665
- Request for reconsideration by patent owner— 2666
- Request for
inter partes reexamination
- Claims considered— 2643
- Challenge accuracy of certificate— 2612
- Content— 2614
- Denied— 2640 ; 2647
- Facsimile transmission not permitted— 502.01 ; 2624
- Filed after reissue issued— 2658
- Filed while interference pending— 2686.02
- Filing address— 2624
- Granted— 2640
- Incomplete— 2627
- Prior art cited with— 2618
- Second or subsequent filed— 2640 ; 2686.01
- Statement applying the prior art— 2617
- Time for filing— 2611
- Request for Rehearing by the Board— 2682 ; 2683
- Res judicata— 2659
- Respondent Brief— 2675.01
- Respondent defined— 2674
- Response by patent owner—
2666
- After Action Closing Prosecution— 2671 ; 2672
- Defective— 2666.30 ; 2666.40 ; 2667
- Improper comments— 2667
- Late ( See also Reexamination, Inter partes: Time periods for response)— 2667 ; 2668
- No proof of service— 2667
- No response filed— 2666.10 ; 2671 ; 2671.01 ; 2671.02
- Not fully responsive— 2666.30 ; 2671
- Person not of record— 2666.50
- Premature— 2625 ; 2667
- To Notice of Defective Paper— 2666.40 ; 2666.60
- To Office action— 2666 ; 2666.30
- Too long— 2667
- Unsigned— 2666.50 ; 2667
- Response by third party
- After Action Closing Prosecution— 2671 ; 2672
- After patent owner corrects defect— 2666.40
- Comments regarding response by patent owner— 2666.05 ; 2666.20 ; 2666.30
- Defective— 2666.50 ; 2667
- Improper comments— 2666.05 ; 2667 ; 2671
- Late ( See also Reexamination, Inter partes: Time periods for response)— 2667 ; 2668
- No proof of service— 2667
- No response filed— 2666.20 ; 2671
- Other than third party requester— 2667
- Period for response— 2666.05 ; 2666.20
- Person not of record— 2666.50
- Premature comments— 2625 ; 2667
- Premature appeal— 2667
- Prior art submission with— 2666.05 ; 2667
- Too long— 2667
- Unsigned— 2666.50 ; 2667
- Review— 2689
- Right of Appeal Notice (RAN)—
2666.05
;
2666.10
;
2667
;
2671
–
2674
;
2677
- Content— 2673.02
- Scanning— 2632
- Scope of examination— 2658 ; 2671.01 ; 2671.02
- Service of papers— 2666.06
- Special Status— 2661
- Statement applying the prior art— 2617
- Statutory estoppel— 2601 ; 2612 ; 2614
- Stayed pending litigation outcome— 2686.04
- Stayed pending reissue outcome— 2686.03
- Submissions prior to the first Office action— 2625
- Substantial new question of patentability— 2614 ; 2616 ; 2617 ; 2640 ; 2246 ; 2642 – 2647 ; 2648 ; 2658 ; 2686.01 ; 2686.04
- ‘Sufficient cause’ for extension of time— 2665
- Suspension of requests for inter partes reexamination— 2640 ; 2686.01
- Terminated— 2694
- Third party requestor ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
- Time for requesting inter partes reexamination— 2611
- Time periods after appeal for filing:
- Time periods during appeal for filing:
- Appeal (i.e., Appellant) Brief— 2675
- Corrected/Supplemental Appellant Brief— 2675 ; 2675.02
- Corrected/Supplemental Respondent Brief— 2675.01 ; 2675.02
- Corrected/Supplemental Rebuttal Brief— 2679
- Notice of Appeal— 2674
- Notice of Cross Appeal— 2674 ; 2674.01
- Rebuttal Brief— 2678
- Request for Oral Hearing— 2680
- Respondent Brief— 2675.01
- Time periods for response— 2662
- Time reporting by Office personnel—
2638
- For a Panel Review— 2671.03
- Title— 2660.02
- Transfer— 2637
- Unpublished legal opinions— 2677
- Reexamination Legal Advisor (RLA)— 2632 ; 2633 ; 2640 ; 2641 ; 2647.02 ; 2664 ; 2670 ; 2675 ; 2679 ; 2686.01 ; 2686.04 ; 2689
- Reexamination Processing System (REPS)— 103 ; 2632
- Reference (
See also
Prior art)
- A.I. Series patent— 901.04
- A.P.C. publication— 901.06(c)
- Abandoned application— 901.02 ; 2127
- Abbreviatures— 901.06(d)
- Abstracts— 706.02 ; 901.06(d)
- Additional— 707.05(d)
- Admissions— 2129
- Analogous art— 904.01(c) ; 2141.01(a) ; 2143.01 ; 2145
- Antedating ( See Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131))
- Applications, domestic and foreign— 2127
- Applying reference under 35 U.S.C. 102(e)— 706.02(f)(1)
- Arrangement in Examiner’s Search files— 901.07
- As evidence of inherency— 2131.01
- As evidence in multiple reference, 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection— 2131.01
- Assigned application as— 804.03
- Availability— 2128
- Between applicant’s priority date and U.S. filing date— 201.15 ; 706.02(b)
- Borrowing from Technology Center— 901.08
- Citation— 707.05 – 707.05(g) ; 901.04 ; 901.05(a)
- Claims foreign date— 715.01
- Combination of references— 706.02(j)
- Copending— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 709.01
- Copies— 707.05(a)
- Cross, how cited— 707.05(e)
- Cross reference addition— 905.02
- Date, determination of— 707.05(f) ; 2124 ; 2126 ; 2128 – 2128.02
- Date, exception to the rule— 2124
- Declassified printed matter— 707.05(f)
- Defensive publications— 901.06(d)
- Design application— 707.05(a)
- Disclosure, broad— 2123
- Disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c)— 706.02(l)(1) ; 706.02(l)(3)
- Drawings as prior art— 2125
- Effects of international application publication— 1857 ; 1857.01
- Effective date
- Electronic publications— 707.05(e) ; 904.02(c) ; 2128
- Enabled disclosure— 2131.01
- Enabling, plant genetics— 2121.03
- Enabling, compounds and compositions— 2121.02
- Enabling, apparatus and articles— 2121.04
- Equivalents— 904.01(b)
- Every element rule for anticipation— 2131
- Evidencing the meaning of a term used in the primary reference— 2131.01
- Foreign patent— 706.02 ; 707.05(e) ; 901.05(a) ; 901.05(b)
- Forfeited application— 901.02
- From interference— 1302.12
- Incorrect citation— 707.05(g) ; 710.06 ; 1302.12
- Inoperability— 716
- Internal documents, confidential— 2128.01
- Intervening— 201.15 ; 706.02(b)
- Joint patent to applicant and another— 715.01(a) ; 715.01(c)
- Listing at allowance— 1302.12 ; 1455
- Lost counts in interference— 2138.01
- Multiple reference rejections under 35 USC 102— 2131.01
- Newly discovered after allowance— 1308.01
- Nonanalogous art ( See also Reference: Analogous art)— 2131.05 ; 2141.01(a)
- None cited by examiner— 707.05 ; 707.05(a)
- Operability— 2121
- Ordering official cross— 903.06
- Overcome
- Under Rule 1.130— 718
- Under Rule 1.131 ( See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131))— 706.02(a) ; 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 715 ; 1302.14 ; 2132.01 ; 2133.02
- Under Rule 1.132— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 716 ; 2132.01
- Overcoming under 35 U.S.C. 119— 201.15
- Paper, orally presented— 2128.01
- Patent— 901.04 ; 2126
- Patent, date available— 2126.01
- Patent, Foreign ( See Foreign patent)
- Patent, official number lacking— 901.04
- Patent claiming same invention— 715.05 ; 2301.03
- Pending application ( See also Application)— 901.03
- Publication of applicant’s invention— 715.01(a) ; 715.01(c) ; 2132.01 ; 2133.01
- Publication, date available— 2128.02
- Publication, printed— 2128
- Publications— 706.02 ; 707.05(e) ; 901.06 ; 2131.01 ; 2132.01 ; 2133.01
- Published abstracts of application— 706.02 ; 711.06(a) ; 2131.01 ; 2133.01
- Rejection over broad disclosure instead of preferred embodiments— 2123
- Replacement of missing— 901.09
- Same assignee— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 709.01 ; 715.01(b)
- Selection of pertinent— 904.02
- Statutory bar— 706.02(a) ; 201.13 ; 2133.02
- Statutory section to use— 706.02(a)
- Supply procedure— 707.05(a) ; 707.05(g) ; 710.06
- Swearing back ( See also Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131))— 706.02(k) ; 715 ; 2132.01 ; 2133.02
- Thesis— 2128.01
- Utility— 2122
- “Well known in the art,” supported by— 2144.03
- Reference characters— 608.01(g)
- Reference to foreign application— 202.03 ; 202.04 ; 901.03
- Reference to prior patent— 608.01(p) ; 608.01(r) ; 901.03
- Refile application ( See also Application and Substitute application)— 201.10
- Refunds (
See also
Fee and
Deposit account)—
509
;
607.02
- Additional invention or species— 803.03(a) ; 803.03(b)
- Canceled claims— 506
- Correspondence address— 509.03 ; 2540 ; 2542
- Filing fee— 201.04(b) ; 503 ; 506 ; 601.01(a)
- International applications— 1002.02(p) ; 1827.01 ; 1850 ; 1864
- International search fee— 707 ; 1827.01 ; 1852 ; 1859
- Issue fee— 1308.01 ; 1308.03
- Maintenance fee— 2520 ; 2540 ; 2542 ; 2550 ; 2590
- Oral hearing— 1209
- Publication fee— 1126
- Reexamination
- Refund Section, Office of Finance— 509.03 ; 607.02
- Petition fee— 506.02
- Small entity fee— 509.03 ; 2550
- Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)— 1109
- Refusal to publish SIR— 1105
- Registration, Attorney or agent— 402 ; 1702
- Regulations, Technology Center (TC) facilities— 510
- Regulations, public search room— 510
- Rehearing by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences— 1002.02(j) ; 1214.01 ; 1214.03 ; 1214.04
- Reissue application—
1401
–
1470
- Absolute intervening rights— 1460
- Access to— 103 ; 724.04(b) ; 1430 ; 1470
- Acknowledgment of protest— 1901.05
- Additional information required— 1442.01 ; 1442.04
- Adjudication of original patent— 1442.01
- Allowance— 1455
- Amendment— 714 ; 1411 ; 1453
- Amends or corrects original patent— 1400.01 ; 1402
- Appeal brief— 1454
- Assignee consent— 1410.01 ; 1443 ; 1451
- Broadened— 706.03(x) ; 1412.03
- Cannot be used to remove terminal disclaimer— 1490
- Certificate of correction— 1411.01 ; 1412.04 ; 1443 ; 1480 – 1485
- Claim
- Collateral estoppel— 2112.01
- Consent by assignee— 1410.01 ; 1443 ; 1451
- Content— 1410
- Continuation— 1410.01 ; 1414 ; 1451
- Copending application reference— 1402
- Copending ex parte reexamination proceedings— 2285
- Copending inter partes reexamination proceedings— 2686.03
- Correct inadequacies— 1402
- Court decision involving original patent— 1442.01
- Court ordered— 1442.05
- Cross noting— 1451 ; 1455
- Deceptive intention— 1414
- Declaration— 1410.01 ; 1414 ; 1414.01 ; 1444
- Defective oath, ground for rejection— 706.03(x) ; 1414
- Dependent claim— 1455
- Design— 1457
- Diligence— 1403
- Disclaimer— 1411.01 ; 1450
- Divisional— 1002.02(b) ; 1410.01 ; 1412.01 ; 1414 ; 1450 ; 1451 ; 1457
- Domestic priority, delayed claim— 201.11
- Double patenting— 1451
- Drawings— 1413 ; 1414 ; 1453
- Duty of disclosure— 1406 ; 1418 ; 1448 ; 2001.06(c) ; 2003
- EFS-Web filing of— 502.05 ; 1410
- Election of species— 1450
- Equitable intervening rights— 1460
- Error correction after allowance— 1414.01 ; 1444
- Error in original patent— 1401 ; 1402 ; 1414 ; 1414.01
- Examination—
1440
;
1443
;
1445
- Review of Oath/Declaration— 1444
- Examiner Reissue Guide and Checklist— 1443
- Expedited examination—
708.01
;
1441
;
1442
;
1442.03
- Design— 1457
- Expired patent— 1415.01
- Filing fee— 1415
- Final Office action— 1443
- Foreign priority claim— 201.14 ; 201.16 ; 201.14(b) ; 1402 ; 1417
- Format— 1410 ; 1411 ; 1411.01
- Fraud— 1448 ; 2012
- Grounds for filing— 1402
- Inequitable conduct— 1448 ; 2010
- Information disclosure statement— 2003
- Initial examiner review— 1443
- Inoperative or invalid, Oath requirement— 1414
- Inspection— 103
- Interference— 1449.02
- Interference on original patent concurrent with— 1449.01
- Intervening rights— 1460
- Inventorship error— 1402 ; 1412.04
- List of references— 1455
- Litigation involved—
1404
;
1442.01
–
1442.05
;
1443
- Marking envelope— 1404
- Litigation protest— 1901.03
- Maintenance fees on original patent— 1415.01
- Merger of reissue applications after restriction— 1450
- Merger of reissue application with ex parte reexamination— 2285
- Merger of reissue application with inter partes reexamination— 2686.03
- Multiple filings— 1451
- New matter— 1411.02
- Numbering of claims— 1451 ; 1453
- Notice in original file— 202.05
- Oath— 1414 ; 1414.01 ; 1444
- Offer to surrender patent (not required)— 1416
- Official Gazette
- Omission of feature— 1411.02
- Open to public— 103 ; 1430 ; 1470
- Ordering copies of papers in file— 1430
- Ownership— 201.12 ; 1410.01 ; 1443
- Patent series— 901.04
- Patent term, affect on— 1405
- Petition to merge reissue and ex parte reexamination— 1002.02(b) ; 2285
- Petition to merge reissue and inter partes reexamination— 1002.02(b) ; 2686.03
- Petition to stay reissue pending ex parte reexamination— 2285
- Petition to stay reissue pending inter partes reexamination— 2686.03
- Print of drawing— 608.02 ; 608.02(m)
- Prior art consideration— 1402
- Prior art statement— 1418
- Priority correction— 201.14(b) ; 201.16 ; 1402 ; 1405 ; 1417
- Protest— 1441.01 ; 1443 ; 1901
- Protest filed in reissue where patent is in interference— 1443 ; 1449
- Public access— 103 ; 1430 ; 1470
- Recapture of matter— 706.02(l)(1) ; 1412.02
- Reexamination proceedings copending— 1449.01
- Rejection— 706.03(x)
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE)— 1451
- Requirement for information— 1442.04
- Restriction—
1450
;
1451
- Design— 1457
- Return of original patent— 1416
- Review— 1456
- Same invention as original patent— 1412.01
- Special for examination—
708.01
;
1441
;
1442
;
1442.03
- Design— 1557
- Specification— 1410 ; 1411 ; 1411.01 ; 1453 ; 1455
- Status— 1430 ; 1470
- Statutory basis— 1401
- Statutory disclaimer— 1490
- Stayed pending ex parte reexamination— 2686.03
- Stayed pending inter partes reexamination— 2686.03
- Submission of papers in— 1404
- Suit on original patent— 1442.01
- Surrendered patent returned to applicant— 1416
- Suspension— 1450
- Terminal disclaimer— 1410.01 ; 1411 ; 1451 ; 1490
- Transfer of original drawing (prior practice)— 608.02(i) ; 1413
- Treatment of protest— 1901.06
- Twice reissued— 1411
- Two month delay period— 1441 ; 1441.01
- Rejected application— 203.02
- Rejection (
See also
Anticipation rejection,
Indefinite claim, and
Obviousness)—
706
- Abandonment of invention— 706.02(d) ; 706.03(s)
- Admission by applicant— 706.02(c) ; 2133.03(c)
- After allowance of application— 706.04 ; 706.05 ; 1308.01
- After allowance of claim— 706.04
- After allowance, primary examiner review of— 1004
- After appeal, new rejection— 1207.03
- After termination of interference— 2308
- Against public policy— 706.03(a)
- Aggregation— 2173.05(k)
- All valid grounds— 707.07(g)
- Allowed claim by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences— 1213.02
- Alternative phrases— 2173.05(h)
- Anticipation ( See also Anticipation rejection)— 706.02(a) ; 707.07(d) ; 2131 ; 2132 ; 2133 ; 2136
- Art ( See also Prior art)— 706.02
- Assigned applications, Same applicant— 804.03
- Atomic Energy Act— 706.03(b)
- Backup rejections— 706.02
- Bar, Statutory—
706.02(a)
;
2133
–
2133.03(e)(7)
- Overcoming— 706.02(b)
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences introduces— 1214.01
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences statement on allowed claim— 1213.02
- Breadth— 2173.04
- Broadening in reissue application— 1412.03
- Broader than the disclosure— 2173.03
- Chemical practice
- Markush— 2173.05(h) ; 2173.05(o)
- Undue breadth— 2163.05 ; 2173.04 ; 2173.05(h)
- Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent— 706.06
- Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent, failure to reply— 706.03(u)
- Claims— 706
- Combination of references— 706.02(j) ; 707.07(d) ; 2131.01
- Common knowledge— 2144.03
- Commonly assigned— 706.02(k) ; 2146
- Computer programming cases— 2106 ; 2161.01
- Conflicting applications— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 709.01 ; 715.01(b) ; 804 ; 804.01 ; 804.02 ; 822 ; 822.01
- Contrasted to objection— 706.01
- Copending applications, different inventive entities— 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3)
- Cumulative— 706.02 ; 707.07(d)
- Dedication— 715 ; 1490
- Defective reissue oath— 706.03(x) ; 1444
- Dependent claim— 608.01(n)
- Derivation of invention— 2137
- Disclaimer— 706.02(k) ; 710.02(d)
- Double patenting ( See Double patenting)
- Duplicate claims— 706.03(k)
- Estoppel, defensive publication— 711.06
- Estoppel, interference— 2308.03
- Final ( See also Final rejection)— 706.07 – 706.07(f)
- Foreign application, statutory bar— 706.02(e)
- Form paragraphs used— 706.02(i) ; 706.02(m)
- Form used— 707
- Fraud upon public— 706.03(a)
- Frivolous invention— 706.03(a)
- Full anticipation, expression recommended— 706.02(i) ; 707.07(d)
- Function of machine— 2173.05(v)
- Functional claim— 2114 ; 2173.05(g)
- Functional equivalents— 2144.06
- Generic claim— 715.02 ; 806.04 ; 809.02(a)
- Genus and species— 806.04(h) ; 806.04(i) ; 2131.02 ; 2144.08
- Ground clearly stated— 706.02(j) ; 707.07(d)
- Inaccurate— 2173.03
- Incomplete— 706.03(c) ; 707.07(j)
- Indefinite— 706.03(d)
- Inoperativeness— 2164.08(b)
- Insufficient disclosure— 706.03(c)
- Insufficient disclosure, trademark— 608.01(v)
- Interference, estoppel— 2308.03
- Interference terminated— 706.03(v) ; 2308
- International publication as prior art— 706.02(a) ; 1857.01 ; 2136.03
- Judicial notice— 2144.03
- Language used— 706.02(j) ; 707.07(d)
- Linking claim— 806.04 ; 806.05(c) ; 809 ; 809.03
- Markush, improper— 2173.05(h) ; 2173.05(o)
- Multiplicity— 2173.05(n)
- Negative limitation— 2173.05(i)
- New, after appeal— 1207.03
- New, after final rejection— 706.07(e)
- New matter— 706.03(o) ; 2163.06
- Nonelected invention— 706.03(m)
- Nonstatutory claim— 706.03(a) ; 2107
- Nonstatutory subject matter— 706.03(a)
- Not based on prior art— 706.03
- Not inventor— 706.02(g)
- Not readable on disclosure— 2173.03
- Oath, defective reissue— 706.03(x) ; 1444
- Objection distinguished— 706.01
- Obviousness ( See also Obviousness)— 706.02 ; 706.02(j) ; 707.07(d)
- Official notice— 2144.03
- Old combination— 2173.05(j)
- Omnibus claim— 706.03(d) ; 2173.05(r)
- Omnibus rejection— 707.07(d)
- Overcoming 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection— 706.02(b)
- Overlapping applications— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 709.01 ; 715.01(b) ; 804 ; 804.01 ; 804.02 ; 822 ; 822.01
- Perpetual motion— 706.03(a)
- Personal remarks avoided— 707.07(d)
- Previously allowed claim— 706.04 ; 1004
- Prima facie case of obviousness— 706.02(j)
- Printed matter— 706.03(a)
- Prior art— 706.02
- Prior art between applicant’s foreign priority date and U.S. filing date— 201.15 ; 706.02(b)
- Product by process— 2113 ; 2173.05(p)
- Product of nature— 706.03(a)
- Prolix— 2173.05(m)
- Provisional rejection— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l)(3)
- Public sale ( See also On sale)— 706.02(c)
- Public use ( See also Public use)— 706.02(c)
- Public use proceeding— 706.03(v) ; 720.05
- Ranges— 706.03(c) ; 2131.03 ; 2144.05
- Recapture in reissue application— 1412.02
- Reissue application
- Res judicata— 706.03(w)
- Scientific principle— 706.03(a)
- Secondary considerations— 2131.04
- Single means claim— 2164.08(a)
- Species and genus— 806.04(h) ; 806.04(i) ; 2131.02 ; 2144.08
- Statement of— 707.07(d)
- Statutory bar— 706.02(a) ; 2133 – 2133.03(e)(7)
- Suggested claims not made— 706.03(u)
- Technical— 706.03
- Trademark or trade name— 608.01(v)
- Undue breadth— 2163.05 ; 2173.04
- Utility— 706.03(a) ; 2107
- Vague— 706.03(d)
- Well known in the art— 2144.03
- Rejoinder— 806.05(c) ; 806.05(f) ; 806.05(h) ; 806.05(i) ; 809 ; 812.01 ; 821 ; 821.01 ; 821.02 ; 821.04 ; 821.04(a) ; 821.04(b) ; 1302.04(h)
- Remailing Office action— 707.13 ; 710.06
- Remand by Board
- Removal of application from Office— 101
- Renumbering claims— 1302.01
- Reopening after allowance— 1308.01
- Reopening after court decision— 1216.01
- Reopening prosecution after Action Closing Prosecution in inter partes reexamination— 2673 ; 2673.01
- Reopening prosecution after Board decision in inter partes reexamination— 2682
- Replenishment of deposit accounts ( See Deposit account: Replenishment)
- Reply (
See also
Amendment and
Period for reply)
- After abandonment— 714.17
- After Board decision— 1214.01 ; 1214.06
- After final rejection— 714.12 ; 714.13
- Attorney arguments— 716.01(c) ; 2145
- By patent owner in inter partes reexamination ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by patent owner)
- By third party in inter partes reexamination ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
- Complete— 714.02 – 714.04
- Copying claim from patent not a reply— 711.02(b)
- Election requirement— 809.02(a) ; 818.03(a) ; 818.03(b) ; 818.03(c)
- Formal matters— 714.02
- Incomplete— 710.02(c) ; 711.02 ; 711.02(a) ; 711.03(a) ; 714.02 – 714.05 ; 2266.01
- In ex parte reexamination— 2266
- Incomplete, election of species lacking— 809.02(a) ; 818.03(b)
- Incomplete, proceedings not stayed by petition— 1002
- Incomplete, time for completing— 710.02(c) ; 711 ; 714.03 ; 2266.01
- Late— 711 ; 711.02
- Late, excused— 710.02(d)
- Patentability pointed out— 706.02(b) ; 714.02 ; 714.04
- Restart period for— 710.06
- Restoration of canceled matter— 608.01(s)
- Restriction requirement— 818 – 819
- Signed by all applicants— 714.01(a)
- Statutory period— 710.01
- Reply brief— 1208
- Representative capacity— 402 ; 405 ; 714.01(c)
- Representative of foreign assignee— 302.04
- Representative of inventor or owner— 400
- Representative of requester— 2213
- Representatives of out-of-town attorneys— 408
- Republication of PG-Pub— 502.05 ; 1130
- Request for Continued Examination (RCE)— 706.07(h)
- Request for ex parte reexamination
- Request for inter partes reexamination ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Request and Reexamination, Inter partes: Decision on the request for reexamination)
- Request form (PCT/RO/101)— 1812 ; 1821 ; 1844 ; 1844.01
- Request for patentability report— 705.01(e) ; 1003
- Request for reconsideration of patent term adjustment— 1002.02(b)
- Request for rehearing of Board decision— 1002.02(b) ; 1214.01 ; 1214.03 ; 1214.04
- Request for reinstatement of period of patent term adjustment— 1002.02(b)
- Request for Statutory Invention Registration (PTO/SB/94) reproduced— 1101
- Request to convert provisional application to nonprovisional application— 1002.02(b)
- Request to issue patent in name of assignee after issue fee paid— 1002.02(r)
- Requirement for information—
704.10
–
704.14(d)
;
706.02(c)
;
710.02(d)
;
1901.06
;
2122
;
2123
- After the first action on the merits— 704.11(b)
- Consideration of information submitted— 704.14(b) ; 707.05(b)
- Format of requirement— 704.14(a)
- Relation to duty of disclosure— 704.12(a) ; 2005
- Relationship to information disclosure statements …— 704.14(d)
- Reply to— 704.12
- Scope of requirement— 704.11
- What information may be required— 704.11 ; 704.11(a)
- When requirement may be made— 704.11(b)
- Requirements must be repeated— 707.07(e)
- Requisites of the application— 702
- Res judicata— 706.03(w) ; 707.07(g) ; 2259 ; 2659
- Rescission of nonpublication request— 1123 ; 1124
- Rescission of Previous Nonpublication Request (35 U.S.C. 122(b)(2)(B)(ii)) and if Applicable, Notice of Foreign Filing (35 U.S.C. (b)(B)(iii)) form PTO/SB/36
- Reservation clause in application— 608.01(e) ; 608.01(t)
- Residence, Applicant’s— 605.02 ; 719.02(b)
- Resignation of examiner, old cases special— 708.03
- Respondent Brief in appeal of inter partes reexamination— 2675.01 ; 2675.02
- Response ( See Reply)
- Restriction (
See also
Election and
Election of species)—
800
- Action, examiner’s— 814 – 817
- Action after, special— 708.01
- Action on the merits— 810
- Apparatus and process or product— 806.05(e) – 806.05(g)
- Application referred to second examiner— 815
- Basis— 802
- Burden, without serious— 803
- Claimed subject matter— 806.01
- Claims to divisible inventions added before action— 818.02(a)
- Combination and subcombination— 806.05(a) ; 806.05(c)
- Continuation— 819
- Design application— 1504.05
- Definition— 802.02
- Distinct invention— 802.01 ; 806 ; 806.05
- Distinct processes— 806.05(j)
- Distinct products— 806.05(j)
- Election other than express— 818.02
- Election fixed by action on claim— 818.01
- Final requirement— 821.01
- Grouped in parent application— 811.04
- Improper— 803 ; 806 ; 808.02
- Independent embodiments— 802.01 ; 806.04(b) ; 806.06
- Independent inventions— 802.01 ; 803 ; 806 ; 806.06 ; 808.01(a)
- Intermediate-final product— 806.04(b) ; 806.05(j)
- Introduction— 801
- Linking claim— 806.04 ; 806.05(c) ; 809 ; 809.03 ; 821.04(a)
- Linking claim, traverse of rejection— 818.03(d)
- Markush type claims— 803 ; 803.02
- Nonelected claims, treatment of— 821 – 821.03
- Nonelected invention— 706.03(m) ; 821.04(a)
- Nucleotide sequences— 803.04 ; 2434
- Patentability over prior art— 809 ; 809.03
- Patentability report, effect— 807
- Petition from requirement— 818.03(c)
- Process and product or apparatus— 806.05(e) ; 806.05(g)
- Product and process of using— 806.05(h)
- Product, process of making and using— 806.05(i)
- Reasons for holding of independence or distinctness— 808.01
- Reissue application— 1450 ; 1451
- Rejection of nonelected claims— 821 – 821.03
- Rejoinder— 806.05(c) ; 806.05(f) ; 806.05(h) ; 806.05(i) ; 809 ; 812.01 ; 821 ; 821.01 ; 821.02 ; 821.04 ; 821.04(a) ; 821.04(b) ; 1302.04(h)
- Requirement—
812
;
814
–
817
- Additional— 811.02
- After election— 818
- By group where examinable— 812
- Clear and detailed record— 814
- Completeness— 815
- Concluding paragraph— 817 ; 818.03(b)
- Consult other group— 812.01 ; 815
- Final— 810 ; 818.03
- First action— 811
- Patentability— 810
- Petition from— 818.03(c)
- Reasons for insisting upon— 808 ; 808.02
- Rejection on double patenting following— 804.01
- Repeated after withdrawal— 811.03
- Reply to— 818 – 818.03(d)
- Submission to TC director— 804.04
- Second requirement— 811.02
- Sequences— 803.04 ; 2434
- Single claim— 803
- Single embodiment— 806.03
- Species of unclaimed genus— 808.01(a)
- Subcombination, Combination— 806.05(a) ; 806.05(c)
- When made— 811 ; 811.02
- Withdrawal— 819
- Subcombinations usable together— 806.05(d) ; 806.05(j)
- Telephone— 812.01
- Transitional application— 803.03
- Traverse of requirement— 818 ; 818.03(c) ; 821.01
- Restrictions on employees of Office— 309 ; 409
- Restrictions on former employees of Office— 1702
- Retroactive foreign filing license— 140
- Return of Papers
- Returned Office action— 707.13
- Review at allowance— 1302.01
- Review for national security— 115
- Review for Government property rights— 115
- Revised statutes ( See Statutes)
- Revival of abandoned application— 711.03 ; 711.03(c) ; 1002.02(b)
- Revocation of agent under PCT— 1808
- Revocation of power of attorney—
402.05
;
402.07
- After Allowance— 2501
- Rewritten specification— 608.01(q)
- Right of Appeal Notice (RAN)—
2666.05
;
2666.10
;
2667
;
2671
–
2674
;
2677
- Content— 2673.02
- Right of priority ( See also Foreign application)
- Right to exclude others— 509.02 ; 1111 ; 1601 ; 2162
- Rights, Transfer of patent or application— 509.02
- RNA ( See Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences)
- Roster of attorneys or agents— 601.03 ; 1730 ; 2205 ; 2220
- Rules, 21 CFR 60.3(b)— 2751
- Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations)—
;
R
- 10 CFR 810 Cited— 140
- 21 CFR 312.80-312.88 Cited— 2107.03
- 37 CFR:
- 1.1 Reproduced— 501
- 1.2 Reproduced— 713.04 ; 2002.02
- 1.3 Reproduced— 714.25
- 1.4 Reproduced— 501 ; 502.02 ; 502.04 ; 509.03 ; 2002.02
- 1.5 Reproduced— 502
- 1.6 Reproduced— 502 ; 502.01 ; 505 ; 513
- 1.7 Reproduced— 710.05
- 1.8 Reproduced— 512
- 1.9 Reproduced— 201 ; 201.04(b) ; 1893
- 1.10 Reproduced— 511 ; 513
- 1.11 Reproduced— 103 ; 1430 ; 1879.04
- 1.12 Reproduced— 301.01
- 1.14 Reproduced— 101 ; 102 ; 103 ; 104 ; 110 ; 150 ; 1128 ; 1879.04
- 1.20 Reproduced— 2250.03 ; 2666.04
- 1.22 Reproduced— 509
- 1.23 Reproduced— 509
- 1.25 Reproduced— 509.01
- 1.26 Reproduced— 509 ; 607.02
- 1.27 Reproduced— 509.02 ; 509.03
- 1.28 Reproduced— 509.03
- 1.31 Reproduced— 401
- 1.32 Reproduced— 402
- 1.33 Reproduced— 403 ; 601.03 ; 714.01(a) ; 2222 ; 2622
- 1.34 Reproduced— 402
- 1.36 Reproduced— 402.05
- 1.41 Reproduced— 605
- 1.42 Reproduced— 409.01(a)
- 1.43 Reproduced— 409.02
- 1.45 Reproduced— 605 ; 605.07
- 1.47 Reproduced— 409.03
- 1.48 Reproduced— 201.03
- 1.51 Reproduced— 601
- 1.52 Reproduced— 608.01 ; 608.05 ; 2250
- 1.53 Reproduced— 201.04(b) ; 201.06(c) ; 201.06(d) ; 506 ; 601.01 ; 601.01(c)
- 1.54 Reproduced— 503
- 1.55 Reproduced— 201.13 ; 201.13(a)
- 1.56 Reproduced— 2001 ; 2001.01 ; 2001.04 ; 2001.05 ; 2002
- 1.57 Reproduced— 201.17 ; 608.01(p)
- 1.58 Reproduced— 608.01 ; 608.05(b)
- 1.59 Reproduced— 724.06
- 1.63 Reproduced— 201.06(c) ; 602
- 1.64 Reproduced— 605.04(a)
- 1.66 Reproduced— 602.04(a) ; 604
- 1.67 Reproduced— 603
- 1.68 Reproduced— 602
- 1.69 Reproduced— 602.06 ; 2004
- 1.71 Reproduced— 608.01 ; 608.01(v)
- 1.72 Reproduced— 606 ; 608.01(b)
- 1.73 Reproduced— 608.01(d)
- 1.74 Reproduced— 608.01(f)
- 1.75 Reproduced— 608.01(i) ; 608.01(n) ; 2173.05(n)
- 1.76 Reproduced— 601.05
- 1.77 Reproduced— 608.01(a) ; 608.05
- 1.78 in effect on November 29, 2000, Reproduced— 201.11 ; 804.03 ; 822.01
- 1.79 Reproduced— 608.01(e)
- 1.81 Reproduced— 608.02
- 1.83 Reproduced— 608.02(d)
- 1.84 Reproduced— 608.01(f) ; 608.01(v) ; 608.02 ; 1606
- 1.85 Reproduced— 608.02(b) ; 608.02(p)
- 1.91 Reproduced— 608.03
- 1.93 Reproduced— 608.03
- 1.94 Reproduced— 608.03(a)
- 1.95 Reproduced— 608.03(a)
- 1.96 Reproduced— 608.05(a)
- 1.97 Reproduced— 609
- 1.98 Reproduced— 609
- 1.99 Reproduced— 1134.01
- 1.102 Reproduced— 708.01 ; 708.02
- 1.103 Reproduced— 709
- 1.104 Reproduced— 706 ; 707 ; 707.05 ; 707.07 ; 1302.14 ; 1852 ; 2260 ; 2660
- 1.105 Reproduced— 704.10
- 1.111 Reproduced— 201.04(b) ; 714.02 ; 714.03(a) ; 2266 ; 2666
- 1.112 Reproduced— 706
- 1.113 Reproduced— 706.07
- 1.114 Reproduced— 706.07(h)
- 1.115 Reproduced— 714.01(e)
- 1.116 Reproduced— 714.12
- 1.121 Reproduced— 608.02(p) ; 608.04 ; 714 ; 1453 ; 2234 ; 2250 ; 2666.01
- 1.125 Reproduced— 608.01(q)
- 1.126 Reproduced— 608.01(j)
- 1.129 Reproduced— 706.07(g) ; 803.03
- 1.130 Reproduced— 718 ; 804.03
- 1.131 Reproduced— 715
- 1.132 Reproduced— 716
- 1.133 Reproduced— 713.01 ; 713.04
- 1.135 Reproduced— 710.01 ; 711 ; 711.03(c) ; 714.03
- 1.136 Reproduced— 710.02 ; 710.02(e)
- 1.137 Reproduced— 711.03(c) ; 1124 ; 2268 ; 2668
- 1.138 Reproduced— 711 ; 1125
- 1.141 Reproduced— 802 ; 806.05(i)
- 1.142 Reproduced— 802
- 1.143 Reproduced— 818.03
- 1.144 Reproduced— 818.03(c)
- 1.145 Reproduced— 821.03
- 1.146 Reproduced— 806.04
- 1.151 Reproduced— 1501
- 1.152 Reproduced— 1503.02
- 1.153 Reproduced— 1503.01
- 1.154 Reproduced— 1503.01
- 1.155 Reproduced— 1504.30
- 1.161 Reproduced— 1602
- 1.162 Reproduced— 1604 ; 1605
- 1.163 Reproduced— 1603 ; 1605
- 1.164 Reproduced— 1605
- 1.165 Reproduced— 1606
- 1.166 Reproduced— 1607
- 1.167 Reproduced— 1608
- 1.171 Reproduced— 1410
- 1.172 Reproduced— 1410.01
- 1.173 Reproduced— 1410 ; 1411 ; 1413 ; 1453
- 1.175 Reproduced— 1414
- 1.176 Reproduced— 1440 ; 1450 ; 2686.03
- 1.177 Reproduced— 1451
- 1.178 Reproduced— 1416 ; 1418 ; 1442.04
- 1.181 Reproduced— 711.03(c) ; 1002
- 1.182 Reproduced— 1002
- 1.183 Reproduced— 1002
- 1.197 Reproduced— 1214.06
- 1.198 Reproduced— 1214.07
- 1.211 Reproduced— 1120 ; 1126
- 1.213 Reproduced— 1122 ; 1123 ; 1124
- 1.215 Reproduced— 1121
- 1.217 Reproduced— 1132
- 1.219 Reproduced— 1129
- 1.221 Reproduced— 1130 ; 1133
- 1.248 Reproduced— 1901
- 1.251 Reproduced— 508.04
- 1.291 Reproduced— 1901
- 1.292 Reproduced— 720
- 1.293 Reproduced— 1101
- 1.294 Reproduced— 1103
- 1.295 Reproduced— 1105
- 1.296 Reproduced— 1109
- 1.297 Reproduced— 1111
- 1.301 Reproduced— 1216
- 1.302 Reproduced— 1216.01
- 1.303 Reproduced— 1216
- 1.304 Reproduced— 1216
- 1.311 Reproduced— 1303
- 1.312 Reproduced— 714.16
- 1.313 Reproduced— 1308
- 1.314 Reproduced— 1306.01
- 1.321 Reproduced— 1490
- 1.322 Reproduced— 1480
- 1.323 Reproduced— 1481
- 1.324 Reproduced— 1481.02
- 1.335 Reproduced— 311
- 1.362 Reproduced— 2504
- 1.363 Reproduced— 2540
- 1.366 Reproduced— 2515
- 1.377 Reproduced— 2580
- 1.378 Reproduced— 2590
- 1.413 Reproduced— 1840
- 1.414 Reproduced— 1893.01(a)
- 1.415 Reproduced— 1853
- 1.416 Reproduced— 1862
- 1.422 Reproduced— 1820
- 1.431 Reproduced— 1810
- 1.432 Reproduced— 1817.01 ; 1817.01(a)
- 1.434 Reproduced— 1821
- 1.435 Reproduced— 1823
- 1.436 Reproduced— 1824
- 1.437 Reproduced— 1825
- 1.438 Reproduced— 1826
- 1.446 Reproduced— 1827.01
- 1.451 Reproduced— 201.13(b)
- 1.455 Reproduced— 402.09 ; 1807 ; 1808
- 1.475 Reproduced— 1850
- 1.477 Reproduced— 1850
- 1.480 Reproduced— 1864
- 1.481 Reproduced— 1867
- 1.484 Reproduced— 1878
- 1.484, former Reproduced— 1878.01
- 1.485 Reproduced— 1864.01 ; 1878.02
- 1.488 Reproduced— 1875
- 1.489 Reproduced— 1875.02
- 1.491 Reproduced— 1893.01
- 1.495 Reproduced— 709 ; 1893.01(a)
- 1.496 Reproduced— 1893.03
- 1.497 Reproduced— 1893.01(e)
- 1.499 Reproduced— 1893.03(d)
- 1.501 Reproduced— 2202 ; 2602
- 1.502 Reproduced— 2202
- 1.510 Reproduced— 2210 ; 2212 ; 2213 ; 2214 ; 2215 ; 2227 ; 2266.03
- 1.515 Reproduced— 2240 ; 2248
- 1.520 Reproduced— 2239
- 1.525 Reproduced— 2246
- 1.530 Reproduced— 2234 ; 2249 ; 2250 ; 2250.01 ; 2250.02 ; 2666.01 ; 2666.02
- 1.535 Reproduced— 2251
- 1.540 Reproduced— 2252
- 1.550 Reproduced— 2254 ; 2265 ; 2266 ; 2266.03
- 1.552 Reproduced— 2258
- 1.555 Reproduced— 2280
- 1.560 Reproduced— 2281
- 1.565 Reproduced— 2282 ; 2283 ; 2284 ; 2285 ; 2286
- 1.570 Reproduced— 2288
- 1.701 Reproduced— 2720
- 1.702 Reproduced— 2730
- 1.703 Reproduced— 2730 ; 2731
- 1.704 Reproduced— 2730 ; 2732
- 1.705 Reproduced— 2730 ; 2733 ; 2734 ; 2735 ; 2736
- 1.710 Reproduced— 2751
- 1.720 Reproduced— 2751
- 1.730 Reproduced— 2752
- 1.740 Reproduced— 2753 ; 2754
- 1.741 Reproduced— 2754
- 1.750 Reproduced— 2755
- 1.760 Reproduced— 2755.01
- 1.765 Reproduced— 2762 ; 2763
- 1.770 Reproduced— 2764
- 1.780 Reproduced— 2759
- 1.785 Reproduced— 2761
- 1.790 Reproduced— 2755.02
- 1.791 Reproduced— 2755.02
- 1.801 Reproduced— 2403
- 1.802 Reproduced— 2404
- 1.803 Reproduced— 2405
- 1.804 Reproduced— 2406
- 1.805 Reproduced— 2407
- 1.806 Reproduced— 2408
- 1.807 Reproduced— 2409
- 1.808 Reproduced— 2410
- 1.809 Reproduced— 2411
- 1.821 Reproduced— 2422
- 1.822 Reproduced— 2423
- 1.823 Reproduced— 2424
- 1.824 Reproduced— 2425
- 1.825 Reproduced— 2426
- 1.902 Reproduced— 2202 ; 2602 ; 2625
- 1.903 Reproduced— 2666.06
- 1.906 Reproduced— 2658
- 1.907 Reproduced— 2612 ; 2686.04
- 1.913 Reproduced— 2610 ; 2612
- 1.915 Reproduced— 2610 ; 2613 ; 2614 ; 2615 ; 2627 ; 2666.06
- 1.919 Reproduced— 2615 ; 2627
- 1.923 Reproduced— 2640
- 1.925 Reproduced— 2640
- 1.927 Reproduced— 2640 ; 2648
- 1.931 Reproduced— 2646
- 1.933 Reproduced— 2684
- 1.935 Reproduced— 2660
- 1.937 Reproduced— 2654 ; 2686.03
- 1.939 Reproduced— 2625 ; 2667
- 1.941 Reproduced— 2666.01 ; 2666.02
- 1.945 Reproduced— 2666
- 1.947 Reproduced— 2666.05
- 1.948 Reproduced— 2666.05
- 1.949 Reproduced— 2671.01 ; 2671.02
- 1.951 Reproduced— 2672
- 1.953 Reproduced— 2673.02
- 1.955 Reproduced— 2685
- 1.956 Reproduced— 2665
- 1.957 Reproduced— 2666.10 ; 2666.20 ; 2666.30
- 1.959 Reproduced— 2674
- 1.981 Reproduced— 2682
- 1.983 Reproduced— 2683
- 1.985 Reproduced— 2686
- 1.987 Reproduced— 2686.04
- 1.989 Reproduced— 2686.01
- 1.991 Reproduced— 2686.03
- 1.993 Reproduced— 2686.02
- 1.995 Reproduced— 2686.03
- 1.997 Reproduced— 2686.03 ; 2688
- 3.1 Reproduced— 301
- 3.11 Reproduced— 302
- 3.21 Reproduced— 302.03
- 3.24 Reproduced— 302.01
- 3.26 Reproduced— 302.02
- 3.27 Reproduced— 302.08
- 3.28 Reproduced— 302.07
- 3.31 Reproduced— 302.07
- 3.34 Reproduced— 323.01
- 3.41 Reproduced— 302.06
- 3.51 Reproduced— 317.01
- 3.54 Reproduced— 317.03
- 3.56 Reproduced— 317.03
- 3.58 Reproduced— 302
- 3.61 Reproduced— 302.04
- 3.71 Reproduced— 324 ; 402.07
- 3.73 Reproduced— 324 ; 1410.01
- 3.81 Reproduced— 307
- 5.1 Reproduced— 120
- 5.2 Reproduced— 120
- 5.3 Reproduced— 120 ; 2306
- 5.4 Reproduced— 120
- 5.5 Reproduced— 120
- 5.11 Reproduced— 140
- 5.12 Reproduced— 140
- 5.13 Reproduced— 140
- 5.14 Reproduced— 140
- 5.15 Reproduced— 140
- 5.18 Reproduced— 140
- 5.19 Reproduced— 140
- 5.20 Reproduced— 140
- 5.25 Reproduced— 140
- 10.11 Reproduced— 402
- 10.18 Reproduced— 402 ; 410
- 11.9 Reproduced— 402.01 ; 402.09
- 11.10 Reproduced— 1702
- 11.18 Reproduced— 509.03
- 41.2 Reproduced— 2301.02
- 41.6 Reproduced— 1213.03
- 41.11 Reproduced— 2307.01
- 41.31 Reproduced— 1204
- 41.33 Reproduced— 1206
- 41.37 Reproduced— 1205
- 41.39 Reproduced— 1207 ; 2275
- 41.41 Reproduced— 1208
- 41.43 Reproduced— 1207.05 ; 1208
- 41.50 Reproduced— 1207.05
- 41.52 Reproduced— 1214.03
- 41.54 Reproduced— 1214
- 41.61 Reproduced— 2674 ; 2674.01
- 41.66 Reproduced— 2675 ; 2675.01 ; 2678
- 41.67 Reproduced— 2675 ; 2675.02
- 41.68 Reproduced— 2675.01 ; 3675.02
- 41.69 Reproduced— 2677
- 41.71 Reproduced— 2678
- 41.73 Reproduced— 2680
- 41.77 Reproduced— 2681
- 41.79 Reproduced— 2682
- 41.8 Reproduced— 2284 ; 2686.02
- 41.81 Reproduced— 2682
- 41.100 Reproduced— 2301.02
- 41.102 Reproduced— 2284 ; 2303 ; 2686.02
- 41.103 Reproduced— 2284 ; 2307 ; 2686.02
- 41.109 Reproduced— 2307.02
- 41.127 Reproduced— 2308
- 41.200 Reproduced— 2301.02
- 41.201 Reproduced— 2301.02
- 41.202 Reproduced— 2304.02 ; 2304.02(a) ; 2304.02(b) ; 2304.02(c) ; 2304.02(d) ; 2304.03 ; 2305
- 41.203 Reproduced— 2301.03
- 41.206 Reproduced— 2304.05
- 102.4 Reproduced— 103
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