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P

P.O. Box(See Mail stop )
PAIR 102 , 104 , 203.08 , 1121 , 1128 , 1730 , 2232 , 2632
PALM 101 , 102 , 508.01 , 508.03 , 711.04(b) 1845.02 , 1893 , 1893.03(a) , 1893.03(b) 1895.01 , 2232 , 2233 , 2235 , 2237 2289 , 2629 , 2632 , 2633 , 2635 , 2647.02 2648 , 2660 , 2664 , 2670 , 2687 , 2689

Application location 2635
Application records and reports 1704
Application status 102
Examiner Docket, Time, and Activity Reports 1705
'Flag' in reissue application 1456

Paper Correlating Office 508.03
Paper, easily erasable 608.01 , 714.05 , 714.07 , 714.19
Paper number 714.18 , 714.21
Paper number of print 719.01(b)
Paper size(See also A4 size paper )

Application papers 608.01
Drawings 608.02
Photographs 608.02
Substitute drawings 608.02(h)

Papers(See also Return of Papers )

Delivered to wrong Technology Center 508.01
Depositing 502
Distribution 508
File wrapper 719.01 , 719.01(a)
Identification 502 , 503
Receipt and handling Chapter 500
Received after patenting or abandonment 508.02
Signature required 402
Submitted in reissue litigation 1404
Unmatched 508.03

Parent application 201.04
Parent application data, Cross-noting 201.11 202.02
Parent application carries assignment
to some continuing applications 201.12
Parent application review 707.05 , 719.05 904 , 2001.06(b)
Paris Convention(See also Treaties ) 201.13 , App. P

Article 4 Cited 201.13 , 201.14(b)

Partial signatory authority 1005
Patent

1836 (present) series 901.04
A.I. series 901.04
Allowance and issue Chapter 1300
Application publication 1120 to 1135
Arrangement in Examiner's Search Files 901.07
Assignment 301
Borrowing from Examiner's Search Files 901.08
Citation handling 1920
Citation of prior art in 1920 , 2202
Claim copied(See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent )
Classification change 903.05
Classification indices 902.03 , 902.03(a)
Classification Home Page on the Internet 902.03(a)
Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet 902.03(b)
Classification Insight on USPTO LAN 902.03(c)
Copy in ex parte reexamination request 2219

Double column format 2214 , 2219

Copy in inter partes reexamination request 2619

Double column format 2614

Copy Orders 1730
Correction of Chapter 1400
Definition Introduction , 2135.01
Design Chapter 1500
Design series 901.04
Design vs. Utility 1502.01
Effective date 706.02(a) , 715 , 715.01 , 2133.01
Extension(See Term, Patent )
File reconstruction 508.04
Files 905.03
Foreign(See Foreign patent )
General Information About, booklet 703
Issue Chapter 1300
Issue Notification form 1306.03
Index 902.03(b)
Interference 2304 to 2304.05
Inventorship 2137.01
Jurisdiction 1305
Law, opinions not given 713.02
Laws(See Statutes )
Licensing 301
Litigation relating to reissue 1442.04
Ordering soft copy905.02
Owner, appeal by 1204
Owner, service of citation on 2208
Owner' s address in reexamination 2222 , 2622
Ownership 301
Plant series 901.04 , Chapter 1600
Post-issuance information updating 2501
Prior art citation in 2003.01
Printing priority 1309
Publication of application 1120 to 1135
Reconstruction of file 508.04
Reference(See Reference )
Reissue series 901.04
Reissued, effect of 1460
Right to exclude others 509.02 , 1111 1601 , 2162
Rules(See Rules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations) )
Simultaneous issue 1306.02
Statutory subject matter 706.03(a) , 2107 , 1601
Surrender of original in reissue (not required) 1416
Statutes(See Statutes )
System, Constitutional basis for Introduction
Term adjustment 2710 to 2736
Terms(See Term, Patent )
Transfer 903.05
Transfer of rights in 509.02
Type, Design vs. utility 1502.01
Utility series 901.04 , 1502.01
Utility vs. design 1502.01
X series 901.04

Patent and Trademark Assignment System 302.09
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO)

Address 501 , 502
Business hours 510
Employees, property interest in patent 309
Employees, unavailable to sign oath or declaration as inventors 409
Matters decided by various officials Chapter 1000
Publications Introduction

Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office 401 , 902.03(d) , 1706
Development and Use of Patent Classification
Systems 903.02
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office(See Official Gazette (O.G.) )

Receipt and handling of mail Chapter 500
Telephone numbers 1730
Web site 1730

Patent application publication(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
Patent Assistance Center(See Inventors Assistance Center )
Patent attorney or agent(See Attorney or agent )
Patent classification(See also Classification ; Prior Art ) Chapter 900

Classes 707.05(e) , 902.01 902.02 , 903.02(a) , 903.02(b)
Cross references 903.07 , 903.07(a)
Digests 903.07
Issue slip 903.07
Manual of Classification Introduction , 902.01
Master classification file (MCF) 902.03(a)
Orders 902.04
Post classifier(See Post classifier )
Shoes 510 , 901.05(c) , 901.07 , 902.02(b) , 905.04
Statutory authority 903.01
Subclasses 707.05(e) , 902.01 902.02 , 903.02(a) , 903.02(c)

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)(See also International application ; Treaties ) Chapter 1800 , App. T

Administrative Instructions App. AI
Agent 1807
Amendment before the designated office 1893.01(a)(2) 1893.01(a)(3)
Amendment of claims before the International Bureau 1853
Applicant 1810 , 1817.01 , 1817.01(a)
Applicant for United States Receiving Office 1805 1810 , 1820
Basic flow timeline 1842
Classification of application 903.08(b)
Classification of subject matter 1844.01 , 1879
Common representative 1807
Concepts, major 1801
Country codes 1851
Definitions 1802
Design patents1501.01 , 1503.01
Designated office 1893.01(a)
Designation of states 1817.01 , 1817.01(a)
Fees 1827 , 1893.01(c)

Reduced basic fee by filing sequence listing and/or tables on compact disc 1823.02

Filing date requirements 1810
Foreign filing license 1832
Foreign patent citation codes 1851
Forms

Compact Disc Transmittal Sheet For Submission of Sequence Listing and/or Tables To The United States Receiving Office Under Pct Administrative Instructions-Part 8 1823.02
IB/307 1893.03(e)
IB/308 1893.01(a)(1)
PCT/DO/EO/903 1893.01(a)(3) , 1893.03(a) 1893.03(b) , 1893.03(e) 1893.03(g) , 1895.01
PCT/DO/EO/905 1893.01(a)(1) , 1893.01(d) 1893.01(e) , 1893.03(b)
PCT/DO/EO/1390 1893.03(a)
PCT/ISA/201 1852
PCT/ISA/203 1843.04
PCT/ISA/206 1850
PCT/ISA/210 1843.04 , 1844 , 1844.01 1845.02 , 1893.03(e)
PCT/ISA/217 1836
PCT/ISA/220 1844 , 1845.02
PCT/IPEA/401 1864 , 1865 , 1866
PCT/IPEA/405 1875 , 1875.01
PCT/IPEA/408 1860 , 1860.01 , 1874 , 1876 , 1878 , 1878.01 , 1879
PCT/IPEA/409 1871 , 1871.01 , 1874 , 1878 1878.01 , 1878.01(a) , 1879 , 1893.03(e)
PCT/IPEA/410 1864.04
PCT/IPEA/411 1876
PCT/IPEA/412 1836 , 1876.01
PCT/IPEA/416 1879.02
PCT/IPEA/420 1875.02
PCT/IPEA/428 1878.02
PCT/RO/101 1801 , 1812 , 1817.01(a) 1821 , 1844 , 1844.01
PCT/RO/117 1893.03(e)
PCT/RO/136 1893.03(e)
PTO-1382 1830 , 1832
USPTO/299 1850
USPTO/499 1850 , 1875 , 1875.01

Gazette 1801 , 1823.01 , 1857
Guidelines on qualifying for reduced basic fee by filing sequence listing on compact disc 1823.02
Help Desk 1730
Information sources 1730
International Bureau 1801
International preliminary examination 1860 , 1860.01
International preliminary examination report 1879
International preliminary report on patentability 1801
1845 , 1879.03 , 1893.03(e)
International publication 1857

Prior art effect 1857.01 , 1896 , 2136.03

International search report 1844
International searching authority 1840
Member countries 1817
National procedure 1893
National stage(See National stage application (35 U.S.C. 371) )
Numbering of sheets 1812
Office of PCT Legal Administration 103 , 1730
Priority 201.13(b) , 1828 , 1893.03(c) , 1895
Priority document 201.13(b) , 1828
Publication 1857
Receiving office 1801
Receiving office procedure 1801
Record copy transmittal 1801
Reply to invitation concerning lack of unity of invention 1850 , 1875.02 , 1893.03(d)
Reply to written opinion 1878.02
Representation before the designated office 402
Revocation of agent 1808
Schedule of fees 1827
Search report 707.05 , 1302.14 , 1844
Secrecy order 120
Sequence listings 1823.02 , 1848

On electronic media 1823.02

Signature missing 1820
Unity of invention 823 , 1850 , 1875 , 1893.03(d)
Written opinion, preparation 1845 , 1878 , 1878.01
Written opinion, time to reply to 1845.01 , 1878 , 1878.01

Patent Cooperation Treaty Administrative Instructions App. AI

105Reproduced 1834
204Reproduced 1823
205Reproduced 1824
208Reproduced 1823.02
209Reproduced 1823
404Reproduced 1857
502Reproduced 1850
513Reproduced 1848
603Reproduced 1875.02
604Reproduced 1879
605Reproduced 1872
606Reproduced 1880
607Reproduced 1876
801Reproduced 1823.02
803Reproduced 1823.02

Patent Cooperation Treaty Articles App. T

3Reproduced 1812
5Reproduced 1823
6Reproduced 1824
7Reproduced 1825
11Reproduced 1810 , 1896
17Reproduced 1843
18Reproduced 1844
19Reproduced 1853
21Reproduced 1857
29Reproduced 1857
30Reproduced 110
31Reproduced 1864.02 , 1864.03 , 1865 , 1869
32Reproduced 1862
33Reproduced 1878.01(a) 1878.01(a)(1) , 1878.01(a)(3)
34Reproduced 1862 , 1864.01 , 1874 1875
, 1878 , 1878.01 , 1878.02
35Reproduced 1879
36Reproduced 1879.02 , 1879.03
37Reproduced 1880
38Reproduced 1879.04

Patent Cooperation Treaty Rules

4.3.Reproduced 1844.01
4.11.Reproduced 1817.02 , 1819
4.15.Reproduced 1820
5.1.Reproduced 1823
5.2.Reproduced 1823.02
6Reproduced 1824
6.1.Reproduced 1824
6.2.Reproduced 1824
6.3.Reproduced 1824
6.4.Reproduced 1824
6.5.Reproduced 1824
7Reproduced 1825
7.1.Reproduced 1825
7.2.Reproduced 1825
8Reproduced 1826
8.1.Reproduced 1826 , 1844.01
8.2.Reproduced 1826 , 1844.01
8.3.Reproduced 1826
11Reproduced 1825
11.5.Reproduced 1825
11.6.Reproduced 1825
11.11.Reproduced 1825
11.13.Reproduced 1825
13Reproduced 1850
13.1Reproduced 1850
13.2Reproduced 1850
13.3Reproduced 1850
13.4Reproduced 1850
13.5Reproduced 1850
13bisReproduced 1823.01
13bis.1.Reproduced 1823.01
13bis.2.Reproduced 1823.01
13bis.3.Reproduced 1823.01
13bis.4.Reproduced 1823.01
13bis.5.Reproduced 1823.01
13bis.6.Reproduced 1823.01
13bis.7.Reproduced 1823.01
13terReproduced 1823.02
13ter.1 Reproduced 1823.02 , 1848
13ter.2 Reproduced 1823.02
17Reproduced 201.13(b)
17.1.Reproduced 201.13(b)
17.2Reproduced 201.13(b)
33Reproduced 1843
33.1.Reproduced 1843
33.2.Reproduced 1843
33.3.Reproduced 1843
37.1Reproduced 1844.01
37.2Reproduced 1844.01
38Reproduced 110 , 1844.01
38.1Reproduced 1844.01
38.2Reproduced 1844.01
39Reproduced 1843.02
39.1.Reproduced 1843.02
40Reproduced 1850
40.1.Reproduced 1850
40.2.Reproduced 1850
41Reproduced 1852
41.1.Reproduced 1852
43bisReproduced 1845
43bis.1.Reproduced 1845
44ter.Reproduced 1879.04
46Reproduced 1853
46.1.Reproduced 1853
46.2.Reproduced 1853
46.3.Reproduced 1853
46.4.Reproduced 1853
46.5.Reproduced 1853
54Reproduced 1864.02
54.1.Reproduced 1864.02
54.2.Reproduced 1864.02
54.3Reproduced 1864.02
54.4.Reproduced 1864.02
60Reproduced 1868
60.1.Reproduced 1868
61Reproduced 1881
61.2.Reproduced 1881
61.3.Reproduced 1881
62Reproduced 1871 , 1871.01
62.1.Reproduced 1871 , 1871.01
62.2.Reproduced 1871 , 1871.01
62bisReproduced 1871
62bis.1Reproduced 1871
64Reproduced 1878.01(a)
64.1.Reproduced 1878.01(a)
64.2.Reproduced 1878.01(a)
64.3.Reproduced 1878.01(a)
65Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
65.1.Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
65.2.Reproduced 1878.01(a)(2)
66Reproduced 1843.02 , 1864.01 , 1870 , 1878 , 1878.02
66.1.Reproduced 1843.02
66.1bis.Reproduced 1878
66.3.Reproduced 1878.02
66.4.Reproduced 1878
66.5.Reproduced 1878.02
66.6.Reproduced 1878.02
66.7.Reproduced 1870
66.8.Reproduced 1864.01 , 1878.02
66.9.Reproduced 1878.02
69Reproduced 1879.01
69.1.Reproduced 1879.01 , 1879.01(a)
69.2.Reproduced 1879.01 , 1879.01(a)
70Reproduced 1879.03
70.17Reproduced 1879.03
71Reproduced 1879.02
71.1.Reproduced 1879.02
71.2.Reproduced 1879.02
72Reproduced 1879.03
72.1.Reproduced 1879.03
72.2.Reproduced 1879.03
72.2bis.Reproduced 1879.03
72.3.Reproduced 1879.03
82Reproduced 1834.02
82.1.Reproduced 1834.02
82.2.Reproduced 1834.02
90.4.Reproduced 1807
90.5.Reproduced 1807
90.6.Reproduced 1808
90bisReproduced 1859 , 1880
90bis.1Reproduced 1859
90bis.2Reproduced 1859
90bis.3Reproduced 1859
90bis.4Reproduced 1880
90bis.5Reproduced 1859
90bis.6Reproduced 1859
90bis.7Reproduced 1859
91Reproduced 1836
91.1.Reproduced 1836
92Reproduced 1834
92.1.Reproduced 1834
92.2.Reproduced 1834

Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs)

Accepting documents under the Disclosure Document Program 1706

Patent application publication(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
Patent pending(See Statutes: 35 U.S.C. 292 )
Patent search facility 103 , 2232 , 2629 , 2632

Hours 510 , 1730
Regulations for public use 510

Patent term extension/adjustments 1303 , 2211 , 2250 2611 , 2666.01
Patentability(See also Reasons for Allowance ; Rejection )
Chapter 2100
Patentability report 705

Appeal 705.01(a) , 1207
Count 705.01(c)
Date status 705.01(c)
Dispute between examiners 705.01(a)
Drawing 608.02(n) , 705.01(d)
Final action 705.01(a)
Improper 705.01(e)
Initiate 705.01
Interviews 705.01(f) , 713.01
Limitation as to use 705.01(e)
Practice used only in extraordinary situations 705
Primary decides propriety 1004
Print of drawing 608.02(n) , 705.01(d)
Purpose 705.01(e)
Request for 1003
Recording 705.01(c)
Restriction, Effect on 807
Search 705.01(a) , 705.01(b)
Sequence of examination 705.01(b)
Transfer of appeal 705.01(a)

Patentability review conference in ex parte reexamination
2271 , 2271.01 , 2287
Patentability review conference in inter partes reexamination 2671.03
Patentability statement 1302.14
Patentable novelty, pointed out 714.04
Patentable subject matter

Computer programs 2106
Disclosed but not claimed 706
Living subject matter 1601 , 2105
Mathematical algorithms 2106
Plants 1601 , 2105

Patented file 905.03
Patented file, ordering 711.04(b)
'Patent In' computer program(See also Sequence rules ) 1730 , 2430
Patents of addition, foreign 901.05(b)
Payment of fees 509
Payor number(See Customer numbers )
PCT(See Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) )
Pencil notations, erased at allowance 1302.01
Pending application as prior art(See also Application publication ) 706.02(f)(2) , 706.02(k) , 901.03
Pending application preserved in confidence 101
Pending applications as references(See also Application Publication ) 706.02(f)(1) , 706.02(f)(2) 706.02(k) , 901.03
Period for reply 710

After Board decision 1214.01
After final 706.07(f)

In transitional application 706.07(g)

After interference 710.02(b)
Amendment after 714.17
Claim copied from patent 710.04(a)
Claims all allowed 707.07(a) , 710.02(b) , 714.14
Computed 710.01(a) , 710.05
Copying claim from patent does not extend statutory period 710.04(a)
Correction of citation 707.05(g) , 710.06
Date of receipt of amendment 710.01(a) , 710.05
Defective Office action 707.05(g) , 710.06
Difference between shortened statutory period and time limit 710.02(d)
Extension 710.02(d) , 710.02(e)
Extension of time to commence civil action 1002.02(k)(1)
Extension of time to file notice of appeal at CAFC 1002.02(k)(1)
Full statutory period for reply 130
Holiday, Saturday, or Sunday expiration of time 505 , 513 , 710.05 , 710.01(a)
Incomplete reply 710.02(c) , 711.02(a) 714.03 , 2266.01 , 2666.30
Less than six months 710.02 , 710.02(b) , 710.02(c) 710.02(d) , 710.02(e)
Miscellaneous factors 710.06
Petition 1002
Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts 150
Remailing 707.13 , 710.06
Restarting 710.06
Saturday, Expiration of time 505 , 710.01(a) , 710.05
Secrecy order application 130
Shortened, Extension 710.02(d) , 710.02(e)
Shortened statutory period 710.02 , 710.02(b) 710.02(e)
Shortened statutory period, Distinguished from time limit 710.02(d)
Shortened statutory period, When used 710.02(b)
Statutory period 710.01

How computed 710.01(a)

Suggesting claims 710.02(c)
Sunday, Expiration of time 505 , 710.01(a) , 710.05
Supplemental action 710.06
Time computation 710.01(a) , 710.05
Time limit action 710.02
Time limit action, When used 710.02(c)
Two periods running 710.04 , 710.04(a)
Withdrawal of attorney or agent during 402.06

Periodicals 901.06 , 901.06(a)
Period of enforceability 2204 , 2211 , 2610 , 2611 , 2686.02
Permanent ink 608.01 , 714.07 , 714.19
Perpetual motion 506 , 608.03 , 706.03(a) 707.07(g) , 2107.01
Persons who may cite prior art relating to an issued patent 2203
Pertinent prior art 904.02
Petition

Abandonment holding 711.02 , 711.03(c) , 711.03(d) 1002.02(c) , 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q) , 1002.02(r)
Abandonment holding, Examiner's statement 711.03(d)
Abandonment holding for failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing 1124
Accept color drawings or photographs 507 1002.02(d) , 1503.02
Accepting late issue fee 711.03(c)
Accept omitted pages 1002.02(p)
Access to application 103 , 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(p)
Access to interference agreement 1002.02(f)
Access to interference application 1002.02(f)
Access to unopened preliminary statements 1002.02(g)
Add inventor in provisional application 1002.02(q)
Admit model 1002.02(c)
Attorney withdrawal 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c) 1002.02(p)
Biotechnology processes under 35 U.S.C. 103(b) 706.02(n)
Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2681
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences involved 1002.02(f) , 1002.02(g) , 1002.02(j)
Certificate of Correction 1002.02(d) , 1002.02(g) 1002.02(l)
Change in inventorship 1002.02(d) , 1002.02(e) 1002.02(l) , 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q) , 1481
Change inventor' s name 605.04(c)
Change in order of inventors names 605.04(f)
Color drawings or photographs 507 1002.02(d) , 1503.02
Common ownership situation 706.02(k)
Concurrent ex parte and inter partes prosecution 1002.02(g)
Consideration of submission after NIRC in inter partes reexamination 2687.01
Converting a 111(a) application to a 371 application 1002.02(p)
Converting a 371 application to 111(a) application 1002.02(p)
Converting a nonprovisional to provisional 1002.02(b) 1002.02(c) , 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q)
Correct filing date 506.02 , 513 601.01(b) , 1002.02(b)
Correction of inventorship 201.03 , 1002.02(d) 1002.02(e) , 1002.02(l) 1002.02(p) , 1002.02(q)

In ex parte reexamination 2250.02
In inter partes reexamination 2658 , 2666.03

Counter-terrorism inventions 708.02 , 1002.02(s)
Defer issuance 1002.02(b) , 1306.01
Delegation of Director' s authority 1001.01
Denial 1002.02
Denial of request for reexamination 1002.02(c)

Ex parte 2246 , 2248 , 2265
Inter partes 2647 , 2648

Director' s duties Introduction , 1002
Dismissed 1002.02
Dismissed without prejudice 1002.02
Divisional reissue 1002.02(b)
Entry of amendment 1002.02(d) , 1206
Entry of amendment after RAN in inter partes reexamination 2672 , 2673.02 , 2675
Entry of late paper for revival of ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b) , 2268
Entry of late papers for revival of inter partes reexamination proceeding 1002.02(b) , 2668
Expedited examination of design applications 502 , 1002.02(c)(3)
Express abandonment after payment of issue fee 1002.02(b)
Express abandonment to avoid pre-grant publication 502 , 1125 , 1135

Facsimile submission 502.01

Expunge papers from file 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)
Expunge information 724.05 , 1002.02(c)
Extension of time 710.02(e) , 714.17 , 1002.02(q)

Application before Office of Patent Legal Administration 1002.02(b)
Application before Office of Petition 1002.02(b)

Filing date 506.02 , 513 601.01(b) , 601.01(c) , 601.01(f) 601.01(g) , 1002.02(b)
Final rejection 1002.02(c)

SIR application 1105

Foreign filing license 140 , 1002.02(c)(1)

Facsimile submission 502.01

Inspection 103
Interference 1002.02(c) , 1002.02(f) , 1002.02(g)
Interview in merged reissue/inter partes reexamination 2686.03
Late foreign priority claim 1002.02(b)
Maintenance fees, accept and record 1002.02(b) 2580
Maintenance fees, delayed payment/reinstatement 1002.02(b) , 2515 , 2531 , 2590
Make special(See also Special application ) 708.02 , 1002.02(s) , 1504.30
Matter subject to Introduction , 706.01 , 1002
Merge reexaminations 1002.02(b) , 2283
Merge reissue and ex parte reexamination 1002.02(b) , 2285
Merge reissue andinter partes reexamination 1002.02(b) , 2667 , 2686.03
Modification of secrecy order 120
New matter 608.04(c) , 1002.02(c)
Nonsigning inventor 409.03 , 1002.02(b) 1002.02(p)
Objection by examiner 1002.02(c)
Patent term extension 1002.02(b)
Period for filing 1002
Premature Action Closing Prosecution (ACP) in inter partes reexamination 2672
Premature final rejection 706.07(c) , 1002.02(c)
Preliminary amendment as part oforiginal disclosure 608.04(b)
Procedure 1002.01
Public use proceedings 1002.02(b)
Publication Division 1002.02(r)
Reconsideration of denied petition ( ex parte reexamination) 2268
Rescission of secrecy order 1002.02(c)(1)
Refused assignment 313 , 317
Refusal to enter amendment 1002.02(c)
Refusal to initiate interference 1002.02(c)
Refusal to issue Certificate of Correction 1002.02(c)
Registration to practice 1002.02(m)
Reinstate rejection after Board decision 1002.02(c)
Reinstatement 1002.02(m)
Relating to PCT international application and/ornational stage application 1002.02(p)
Relating to reexamination or reissue 1002.02(b)
Reopen prosecution after Board decision 1002.02(c)
Reopen prosecution after Board decision in inter partes reexamination 2682
Requirement for information 1002.02(c)
Rescission of secrecy order 120
Resetting period for reply 1002.02(c)
Restriction requirement holding 821.01 , 1002.02(c)
Retroactive foreign filing license 140
Return model 1002.02(c)
Return original oath 1002.02(c)
Revival 711.03(c) , 1002.02(b) , 1124
Revive PCT application 1002.02(p)
Rule 1.48 (inventorship) 201.03
Secrecy order 1002.02(c)(1)
Sequence rules 1002.02(c)(2)
Special status 708.02 , 1002.02(s) , 1504.30
Stay ex parte reexamination proceedings 2284 , 2285
Stayinter partes reexamination proceedings 2667 2686.02 , 2686.03
Sufficiency of an affidavit 1002.02(c)
Supervisory authority of Director of the USPTO 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)
Suspend action - public safety or defense 1002.02(c)(1)
Suspend rules 1002.02(b)
Suspension of second or subsequentinter partes reexamination requests 2640
Time for filing 1002
Trademark related 1002.02(i)
Transfer from another application 608.02(i)
Unavoidable delay, withdraw abandonment 711.03(c) 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)(3) , 1306
Unintentional delay, withdraw abandonment 711.03(c) 1002.02(b) , 1002.02(c)(3) , 1306

Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing 1124

Unintentionally delayed claim for foreign priority 201.14 , 201.14(a) , 201.16 1002.02(b) , 1402 , 2258 , 2658
Unintentionally delayed claim for priority to a U.S. application 201.06(c) , 201.11 , 201.11(a) 1002.02(b) , 2258 , 2658
Vacate order granting request for ex parte reexamination 2246
Vacate an order grantinginter partesreexamination 2646
Waive rules 1002.02(b)
Waive time provisions in ex parte reexamination 2265
Waive time provisions in inter partes reexamination 2648 , 2668 , 2672
Withdrawal of lapsed patent 1002.02(r)
Withdrawal from issue, after issue fee paid 502 , 1002.02(b) , 1308
Withdrawal from issue, issue fee not paid 1002.02(c) , 1308
Withdrawal of a terminal disclaimer 1490
Withdrawal of abandonment 1002.02(b)
Withdrawal of attorney 1002.02(s)

In interference 1002.02(g)

Withhold from issue, before issue fee paid 1002.02(c)

Petition for Express Abandonment to Avoid Publication Under 37 CFR 1.138(a) PTO/SB/24A

Cited 1125
Reproduced 1135

Petition for Revival of an Application For Patent Abandoned for Failure to Notify the Office of a Foreign or International Filing PTO/SB/64a

Cited 1124
Reproduced 1135

Petitionable matter 706.01
PG-Pub(See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) )
Pharmaceutical subject matter

Safety review by FDA 2107.03
Statute(See Statutes: 35 U.S.C. 155 )
Utility 2107.01

Phi, Greek letter usage 608.01(g)
Philippines-United States search exchange 1711
Photograph as drawing 507 , 608.02 , 1503.02
Piecemeal prosecution 707.07(g)
Plant Breeder' s Rights 1613
Plant Convention, UPOV 1612
Plant patent Chapter 1600

Action 1610
Advertising 1610
Affidavit 1610
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) 1608 , 1609
Allowance 1611
Application publication 1120 to 1135
Asexual reproduction 1601 , 1605
Bacteria 1601
Claim 1605 , 1610
Color drawing 1603 , 1606
Color identified 1605
Declaration 1604
Definitions 1601
Department of Agriculture 1608
Deposit 1605
Duplicate papers 1603 , 1605 , 1609
Elements of application 1603
Examination 1608
Examiner's amendment 1610
Executive Order 1608
Issue 1611
Laudatory expressions 1610
Method claim improper 1605
Oath 1604
Parts 1603
Plant varieties excluded 1601
Priority claim 1613
Publication of application 1120 to 1135
Report of Agricultural Research Service 1608 , 1609
Rules applicable 1602
Signature 1603
Specification 1605 , 1610
Specimens 1607
Statutory basis 1601
Term 2701
Tubers 1601
UPOV Convention 1612

Plant patent series 901.04
PO Box(See Mail stop )
Post classifier 902.04 , 903.02(c) , 903.07(b) 903.08(d) , 903.08(e) 903.09 , 903.10

Requesting consideration by 903.08(d)

Post employment agreement of former Office employee 1702
Post Office, Depositing papers in 502
Post Office address(See also Correspondence ; Mail Stop )

Applicant 409.03(e) , 605.03 , 719.02(b)
Attorney 601.02

Postal Service interruptions and emergencies 511
Postcard, self-addressed 203.08 , 503 601.01(d) , 601.01(f) , 601.01(g) 719.01(a) , 1204 , 1901 , 1901.05
Power of attorney 402

Application in interference 402.08
Application oath or declaration includes 601.02
Assignee appoints 402.07
Assignee revokes 402.07
Associate attorney 402.02 , 406
Attorney not of record 714.01(c)
Canadian patent agent 402
Change in plurality of applications or patents 402
Coinventor 402.01 , 402.10
Customer Number 402
Death of applicant 409 to 409.01(f)
Death of principal attorney 406
Exception as to registration 402.01
General, for international application 1807
Invalid 402
Joint applicant 402.01
Limited recognition 402.01
Notice of revocation 402.05
Post Office address 601.02
Provisional application 103
Reexamination,inter partes 2613 , 2622
Revocation 402.05 , 402.07 , 402.08 , 402.10

After Allowance 2501

Secrecy order applications 120
Unregistered attorney or agent 402 , 402.01
Withdrawal of attorney or agent 402.06 , 2501
Withdrawn in patent 2223 , 2501

Power to inspect 103 , 104 , 324 , 402 , 713.05
Power to inspect, approval 104
Power to inspect, suspended attorney 105
Practitioner(See Attorney or agent )
Practitioner' s names on patents 1309
Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) 1120 to 1135

Amendments prior to publication 1121
Appendices not published 1121
Application in a foreign language 608.01
Assignee information published 1121
Certification as to intent to file counterpart applications 1122
Claim sets, multiple 1121
Computer programs 1121
Content 1120 , 1121
Conversion to provisional to avoid publication 601.01(c)
Complete application required 1120
Copies of published application files 1128
Correction of errors in the PG-Pub 1130
Correspondence address 1121
Correspondence regarding published application 1134
Disparaging remarks not published 1120
Drawings 507 , 1120 , 1121
Early publication 1129
Express abandonment to avoid publication 502 1125 , 1135

Facsimile submission 502.01

Fee, publication 1126 , 1133 , 1303 , 1306 , 1306.03
Forms 1135
Inappropriate nonpublication request 1122
Material mistake by the Office 1130
Nonpublication request 1122
Notice of foreign filing 1124
Notice of Publication 1127
Notice of New or Revised Publication 1127
Offensive language not published 1120
Public access to published application 1128 , 1132
Publication date, projected 1120 , 1122
Publication fee 1126 , 1133 , 1303
RCE' s not published 1120
Redacted publication 1132
Refund of publication fee 1126
Replacement drawings prior to publication 507 1120 , 1121
Republication 1130
Request for early publication 1129
Request for nonpublication 1122
Request for redacted publication 1132
Rescission of nonpublication request 1123 , 1124
Residence changed 719.02(b)
Sequences published on Internet 1121
Status information of published application 1128
Substitute specification required 1120
Tables, large 608.05(b)
Third party inquiries 1134
Voluntary publication 1133
When published 1120
Which applications 1120

Pre-Grant Publication Division 502 , 1120 1122 , 1125 , 1126
Preamble, design application 1503.01
Preamble, effect of 2111.02
Preamble, Jepson claim 2129
Predicted tests in specification 608.01(p)
Preliminary amendment 506 , 714.01(e)
Preliminary amendment

Entry denied 714.01(e)
Excess claims 506 , 714.01(e) , 714.10
New matter 608.04(b) , 714.01(e)
Non-compliant amendment, treatment of 714

Preliminary handling of public use or on sale 2122
Preliminary hearing, public use proceeding 720.03
Premature final rejection 706.07(c)
Premature response in inter partes reexamination 2667
Prima facie showing, public use proceeding 720.02
Primary examiner 705.01(a) , 706.04 , 706.07(c) 706.07(d) , 707.01 , 710.02(b) , 710.02(e) 711.03(a) , 713.01 , 713.02 , 713.10 , 714.16 714.16(d) , 714.19 , 715.08 , 716 , 2271 2633 , 2636 , 2648 , 2660 , 2671.01 to 2671.03

Print of drawing(See also Drawings ) 608.02(m)

Printed matter nonstatutory 706.03(a)
Printer waiting 708.01 , 1305 , 1309.02
Printing date, declassified material 707.05(f)
Printing practitioners names on patents 1309
Printing priority 1309
Prior art(See also Reference ) Chapter 900

Admissions as 2129
Analogous 2141.01(a)
Disqualification under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) 706.02(l)(1) , 706.02(l)(2)
706.02(l)(3) , 2136.01 , 2141.01
Duty of disclosure of 2001.04
Effects of international application publication 1857 1857.01 , 1895.01
Equivalents 2144.06
Electronic Information Disclosure Statement 609.07
Filed on Saturday Sunday or a Federal holiday 609.04(b)
Foreign application as 2135.01
Information reasonably necessary for finding 704.11
International application publication 706.02(a) 1857.01 , 2163 , 2163.03
Kind codes 901.04(a)
Level of ordinary skill 2141.03
Patents as 706.02(a) , 2126 , 2132 , 2136
Publications under 35 U.S.C. 122(b) 1895.01 1896 , 2136 , 2136.03
Scope and content of 2141.01

Means limitations 2182

Search(See also Search ) Chapter 900
Statutory Invention Registrations as 901.02 , 2136
Suitability of 2144.07
Third party submissions 609 , 1134.01
Used in deciding request for reexamination 2242 , 2642
Well-known in the art 2144.03

Prior art citations in reexamination proceedings

Ex parte 2202

Content 2205
Copies of prior art 2205
English translations 2205
Explanation of pertinence 2205
Flowcharts 2206
Handling 2206
Sample letter 2205
Service on patent owner 2208
Time for filing 2204

Inter partes 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 in reexamination

Ex parte 2218
Inter partes 2618

Prior art filed by protestor 1901.02 , 1901.03
Prior art on drawing 608.02(g) , 2125
Prior art statement 609 , 1893.03(g)

Provisional application 609
Reissue application 1418

Prior art, statement applying (reexamination) 2217 , 2617
Prior art used in determining reexamination request

Ex parte 2244
Inter partes 2644

Prior Examiner's action 704.01 , 706.04 , 713.01
Priority

Claiming in continued prosecution
application 201.06(d) , 1302.04
Claiming in ex parte reexamination 2258
Claiming in inter partes reexamination 2658
Claiming in reissue application 1402 , 1405 , 1417
Foreign application(See also Foreign application ) 201.13

Corrected by Certificate of Correction 1481
Design applications 1504.02 , 1504.10
Ex parte reexamination 2258
Incorporation by reference 201.13 , 201.17 , 608.01(p)
Inter partes reexamination 2658
Proper identification 201.14(d)

Formal requirements 201.11 , 201.14 , 706.02(f)(1)
Incorporation by reference to earlier application 201.06(c) , 201.17 , 608.01(p)
International application 201.11(a) , 1828 , 1893.03(c)

Corrected by Certificate of Correction 1481

Inventor' s certificate 201.13(a)
Overcoming reference 201.15
Patent printing 1309
Petition for unintentionally delayed claim to benefit of prior U.S. application 201.11 , 201.11(a)
Prior U.S. application 201.11

Corrected by Certificate of Correction 201.11 , 1481
Design application 1504.20
In ex parte reexamination 2258
In inter partes reexamination 2658
Provisional application 706.02

Time charts 2138.01
Time for filing 201.13

Priority document(See Foreign application )
Priority practice(See Foreign application )
Private use(See also Public use ) 2133.03(a)
Proceedings, Termination of 201.11 , 711.02(c)
Process of making and product made 806.05(f)
Processing and retention fee 601.01(a)
Processing of reexamination in Technology Center

Ex parte 2233
Inter partes 2633

Product and process of using 806.05(h) , 2173.05(p)
Product by process 2113 , 2173.05(p)
Product of human ingenuity 2105
Product of nature 706.03(a)
Program Management System (PMS) 2238 , 2638
Programs, Computer(See Computer programs or software )
Prolix claim 2173.05(m)
Proof, burden of 2112 , 2112.01 , 2113
Proof of authority of administrator or executor 409.01(b)
Proof of foreign filing 201.14
Proof of irreparable damage 409.03(g)
Proof of ownership, reissue application 1410.01
Proof of unavailability or refusal to sign 409.03(d)
Proofreading of action 707.08
Proper multiple dependent claim 608.01(n)
Property rights statement 150

Contents of 151

Property rights under AEC and NASA Acts 115 , 150 , 151
Prophetic examples in the specification 608.01(p)
Proprietary interest, Proof of 409.03(f)
Proprietary materials(See Protective order material ; Trade secret material )
Pro se applicant(See also Applicant ; Inventor )

Appeal brief 1205
Certificate of mailing 512
Change of address 601.03 , 719.02(b)
Death 409.01(f)
Duty of disclosure 2002.01
Examination of application 707.07(j)
Examiner's action 707
Interview 713.01
Legal representation 401
Telephone restriction practice 812.01

Prosecution

Closed, application allowable except for formal matters 707.07(j) , 710.02(b) , 714.14
Closed, secrecy order cases 130

Prosecution after appeal 1207.04

Piecemeal 707.07(g)
Reopening after allowance 1308.01
Reopening after Board decision 1214.07

Prosecution laches 2190
Prosecution of Secrecy Order application 130
Prosecution reopened after court decision 1216.01
Protective order material(See also Trade secret material ) 724 to 724.06

Submission 724.02

Protest Chapter 1900

Access by protestor 1901.05 , 1901.07
Acknowledgment of protest 1901.05
Certificate of service 1901.03
Comments of applicant 1901.06
Complete 1901.03
Copies of documents 1901.03
Express consent of applicant required 1134
Filed in reissue where patent is in interference 1449 , 1901.06
Handling 1901.05
Improper protest 1134 , 1901.03
Information which can be relied on 1901.02
Involving fraud, lack of good faith or candor, orviolation of duty of disclosure 1901.06 , 2013
Multiple papers on same issue 1901.07(a)
Reissue application 1441.01 , 1901.04
Reissue litigation 1901.03 , 1901.04
Requirement for information 1901
Review of adverse decision 1906
Service on patentee or applicant 1901.03
TC Director' s attention required 1003
Timeliness of protest 1901.04
Trade secret information 724 , 1901.02
Treatment by examiner 1901.06
Under Rule 1.291 1901
Who can file 1901.01

Protestor participation 1901.07
Provisional application 201.04(b) , 1706

Abandonment 201.04(b) , 201.11 , 711.03(c)
Access 103 , 104