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• Tables submitted on compact disc— 608.05(b)
• Technical documents— 901.06(a)
• Technical rejections— 706.03
• Technology Center Director ( See Director of Technology Center)
• Technology Center Working Group 3640 (security group)— 121 ; 130 ; 1002.02(c)(1)
• Telephone call, multiplicity rejection— 2173.05(n)
• Telephone numbers— 1730
  • Attorney— 408 ; 713.01 ; 714.01
  • Examiner— 707.08
  • General information— 1730
• Telephoning of attorney to examiner— 408 ; 713.01
• Term, Patent— 707.05 ; 2701
  • Adjustment of— 2701 ; 2710 ; 2730 ; 2731 ; 2732 ; 2733 ; 2734 ; 2735 ; 2736
    • Determination of— 2733
    • Due care showing— 2734
    • Grounds for— 2730
    • Period of— 2731
    • Reductions to— 2732
    • Request for reconsideration— 2735
    • Third party papers— 2736
  • Continued prosecution application— 2701
  • Deposit of biological material— 2408
  • Design— 1502.01 ; 1505
  • Divisional— 201.06
  • Extension under 35 U.S.C. 156
    • FDA regulatory review and— 2750 – 2758
      • Deadline— 2754.01 – 2754.03
      • Duty of disclosure and— 2762
      • Interim extension— 2755.01 ; 2755.02
      • Specific Products
        • Animal drugs— 2750 ; 2751 ; 2758
        • Antibiotic drugs— 2751 ; 2758
        • Color additives …— 2750 ; 2751 ; 2754.01 ; 2758
        • Food additives— 2750 ; 2751 ; 2754.01 ; 2758
        • Medical devices— 2750 ; 2751 ; 2753 ; 2758
        • Veterinary Biological Products— 2750 ; 2751 ; 2756 ; 2758
      • Third party papers— 2736
      • Withdrawal— 2761 ; 2764
    • USPTO delays and— 2710
  • Foreign— 901.05
  • Transitional practice— 706.07(g) ; 803.03
  • Utility— 2701
• Terminal disclaimer ( See also Disclaimer)— 1490
  • Avoiding double patenting rejection— 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l)(3) ; 804.02 ; 806.04(i) ; 1490
  • Certificate of correction and— 2701 ; 2720
  • Continued Prosecution Application (CPA)— 1490
  • Continuing applications— 1490
  • Copending applications procedure— 1490
  • Informal memo— 1490
  • Request for Continued Examination (RCE)— 1490
  • Reissue— 1410.01 ; 1451 ; 1490
  • Required for revival— 711.03(c)
  • Routing— 1490
  • Signature in— 402 ; 1490
  • Situations where not applicable— 804.03
  • Withdrawal of— 1490
• Terminology in application— 608.01(g) ; 608.01(o) ; 706.03(d) ; 1302.01
• Termination of proceedings— 201.11 ; 711.02(c)
  • Ex parte reexamination— 2294
  • Inter partes reexamination— 2694
• TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System)— 1703
• Test comments— 707.07(l)
• Testamentary, Letters ( See also Administrator or executor)— 409.01(b)
• Testimony, examiner— 1701.01
• Testimony, public use proceeding— 720.04
• Tests, comparative ( See Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132))
• Third action cases— 707.02
• Third party reply in inter partes reexamination ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
• Third party requestor ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Response by third party)
• Third party submissions/inquiries/correspondence in published applications— 1134 ; 1134.01
• Time and Activity Report— 1704 ; 1705
• Time for claiming benefit of earlier application— 201.11
• Time for deciding Director initiated reexamination— 2211 ; 2239
• Time for deciding reexamination request— 2241
• Time for filing papers, right of priority— 201.14(a)
• Time for filing petitions— 1002
• Time for requesting reexamination
  • Ex parte— 2210 ; 2211
  • Inter partes— 2611
• Time for reply ( See also Period for reply)— 702.01 ; 710
• Time for reply to action in reexamination
  • Ex parte— 2263
  • Inter partes— 2662
• Time limit— 710.02 ; 710.02(c)
  • For making suggested claims— 710.02(c)
  • International preliminary examination report (IPER)— 1879.01 ; 1879.01(a)
  • International search report (ISR)— 1843.05
  • Period for reply— 710
  • Permanent ink copy— 714.07
  • Prior art filing— 2204
  • Reply to final rejection— 706.07(f)
  • Restriction requirement— 811
  • Rewrite claims following Board decision— 1214.06
  • Shortened statutory period compared to— 710.02 ; 710.02(b) ; 710.02(d)
  • Statutory period— 710.01 ; 710.01(a)
  • Transfer of application— 903.08(d)
  • Two periods running— 710.04
• Time period for owner’s statement— 2249
• Time reporting— 2238 ; 2638 ; 2671.03
• Time to pay maintenance fees— 2506
• Timely submission of protest— 1901.04
• Title conveyed by assignment— 201.12 ; 300
• Title documents, handling— 317
• Title of invention— 606 ; 1893.03(e)(1)
  • Change by examiner— 2660.02 ; 2686.03
  • Design application— 1503.01 ; 1504.01(a)
    • Amendment of— 1503.01
    • Use of Trademarks in— 1512
  • International application— 1821
  • Plant patent application— 1610
  • Reviewed at issue— 606.01 ; 1302.01
• Title report— 303 ; 320 ; 2287
• Titles of USPTO Officials—
• Title with signature— 605.04(e)
• Trade secret material— 724 – 724.05
  • Completeness of file wrapper— 724.01
  • Materials submitted covered by 35 U.S.C. 122— 724.04(a)
  • Method of submitting— 724.02
  • Office treatment and handling— 724.04 ; 724.06
    • After publication— 724.04(a)
  • Petition to expunge materials— 724.05
  • Reexamination under 37 CFR 1.11(d)— 724.04(c)
  • Reissue under 37 CFR 1.11(b)— 724.04(b)
  • Types of— 724.03
• Trade secret submission label— 724.02
• Trademark and trade name— 608.01(v) ; 706.03(d) ; 2173.05(u) ; I
  • Design patent, relationship to— 1512
  • Misuse in patent specification— 608.01(v)
• Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure—
• Trademarks, Partial list of— I
• Transfer of application
  • After amendment— 903.08(c)
  • After classification decision— 903.08(g)
  • Allowable application— 903.07(b) ; 1305
  • Decision of classification examiner— 903.08(f)
  • Divisible inventions— 812
  • Interference— 2304.01(b)
  • New— 903.08(a)
  • Notification of applicant— 903.08
  • Outside Technology Center— 903.08(d)
  • Primary examiner’s authority— 903.08
  • Procedure— 903.08(a) ; 903.08(d)
  • Secrecy order application— 130
  • Submitted to classification examiner— 903.08(d)
  • Within Technology Center— 903.08(d)
• Transfer of class or subclass— 903.05
• Transfer of drawing— 608.02(i)
• Transfer of reexamination
  • Ex parte— 2237
  • Inter partes— 2637
• Transfer of rights to patent or application— 509.02
• Transfer of specification prohibited— 608.01(t)
• Transfer of U.S. patent— 903.05
• Transitional application ( See also Application)
  • After final practice— 706.07(g)
  • Generic claim allowable— 803.03(b)
  • Linking claim allowable— 803.03(a)
  • Patent term— 2701
  • Restriction practice— 803.03
• Transitional phrases— 2111.03
  • “Characterized by”— 2111.03
  • “Composed of”— 2111.03
  • “Comprising”— 2111.03 ; 2173.05(h)
  • “Consisting essentially of”— 2111.03
  • “Consisting of”— 2111.03 ; 2173.05(h)
  • “Containing”— 2111.03
• Translation, foreign application or foreign priority document— 201.15
• Translations index in STIC— 901.06(a)
• Translators in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office— 901.05(d) ; 901.06(a)
• Transmission, certificate of ( See Certificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8))
• Transmittal Fee, PCT— 1827
• Traverse, answer all matters— 707.07(f)
• Traverse, division or species requirement— 818 ; 818.03 – 818.03(d) ; 821.01 ; 821.02
• Traverse, rejection of linking claim— 818.03(d)
• Treaties
  • Benelux Designs Convention ( See also Design application)— 201.13 ; 1504.10
  • Budapest Treaty ( See also Biotechnology and Microorganisms)— 901.05(b) ; 2402 ; 2404.01 ; 2405 ; 2408 ; 2409 ; 2410.01 ; 2410.02 ; 2411.01
  • European Community Design— 1504.10
  • European Patent Convention— 901.05 ; 1817 ; 1840.01 ; 1865.01
  • GATT— 2138.02
  • Hague Agreement ( See also Design application)— 201.13 ; 1504.10
  • Hague Convention— 409.01(b) ; 602.04(a) ; 604.04
  • Inter-American Convention— 201.13
  • Libreville Agreement— 201.13
  • NAFTA— 201.04(b) ; 715 ; 715.07(c) ; 2138.02
  • Paris Convention— 201.13 ; P
  • Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)— 1800 ; AI ; T
  • Strasbourg Agreement— 903.09
  • UPOV Convention ( See also Plant patent)— 1612 ; 1613
  • Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA)— 201.04(b) ; 715 ; 715.07(c) ; 2701 ; 2132
• TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property)— 1801
• Tubers— 1601
• Twenty year term ( See Term, Patent)
• Two month delay period in reissues— 1441
• Two periods for reply running— 710.04
• Type font— 608.01 ; 1504.01(a)

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