INDEX I-RULES RELATING TO PATENTS EDITORIAL NOTE: This listing is provided for information purposes only. It is compiled and kept up-to-date by the Department of Commerce. A Abandoned applications: Abandonment by failure to prosecute... Abandonment during interference.... Abandonment for failure to pay issue fee Destruction after 20 yrs. unless marked for preservation. Express abandonment Processing and retention fee Referred to in issued patents.. Revival of....... When to public inspection.. Abandonment of application. (See Abandoned applications.) Abstract of the disclosure.(content, physical requirements) Access to pending applications (limited) Action by applicant Address, Correspondence, only one recognized by Office Address for notice to Commissioner of appeal to Fed. Cir. Address of Solicitor's Office Address of the Patent and Trademark Office... Вох СРА ..... Box Interference Box M. Fee..... Box Patent Ext.... Box PCT... Box Provisional Patent Application Box Reexam Administrator or executor, may make application and receive patent.... Proof of authority Admission to practice. (See Attorneys and agents.) In support of application for reissue... To disqualify commonly owned patent as prior art. Agents. (See Attorneys and agents.) Amendment after allowance. Deferral of issuance Delayed payment of issue fee..... Delivery of patent..... Issuance of patent.... Notice of allowance.. Patent to issue upon payment of issue fee.. Withdrawal from issue.. 1.314 ..1.317 1.155, 1.316 1.104(e) Allowed claims statement of grounds for rejecting, by Board of Patent Amendment: .1.313 .1.196 Adding or substituting claims After appeal ................. After decision on appeal, based on new rejection of Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences .1.111, 1.121 1.116 1.606, 1.607 .1.121 1.121 .1.121 .1.121 1.121 1.67 1.126 .1.121 1.111, 1.121 1.121 1.121 1.121 .1.52 1.127 .1.615 1.53(c) .1.121(b), 1.173, 1.174 .1.33, 1.111, 1.116, 1.121, 1.125 1.111, 1.116, 1.121, 1.127 .1.33 1.125 1.134 1.633 1.633 1.121 1.121 1.628 .1.173, 1.174 .1.135 Amino Acid Sequences. (See Nucleotide and/or Amino A Acid Sequences.) Appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences: Statement of grounds for rejecting, by Board of Patent Appeals and 1.33 1.31 1.2 ... 1.3 1.33 Sole changed to joint .... 1.48 1.48 Letters for, sent to attorney or agent May be represented by an attorney or agent.. Personal attendance unnecessary.. Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy Sole changed to another sole Application for patent (see also Abandoned applications, Claims, Drawing, Examination of application Reissues, Provisional applications, Specification): Accepted and filed for examination only when complete.. Access to .... Acknowledgement of filing Alteration after execution Alteration before execution Arrangement. Continuation or division, reexecution not required Continued Prosecution Application (CPA). Copies of, furnished to applicants ... Cross-references of related applications.. Deceased or insane inventor.. Declaration Duty of disclosure Elements of, order and arrangement of. Execution in blank.. 1.53 1.14 1.54 1.67 1.52 .1.77, 1.154, 1.163 1.53(b) .1.53(d) 1.59 1.78 1.42, 1.43 1.68 1.56 .1.77, 1.154, 1.163 1.67 1.42, 1.43, 1.47 1.53(e) Filed by other than inventor. Filed apparently without all pages of specification, petition asserting all pages were filed..... Filed apparently without any drawing, petition asserting drawing was filed, or was not necessary, or adding drawing along with new oath or declaration and seeking new filing date Petition asserting all figures of drawing were filed 1.53(e) Filed apparently without all figures of drawing: ...1.53(e) Petition and filing of missing figures with new oath or declaration seeking new filing date Identification required in letters concerning Incomplete papers not accepted and filed for examination Language, paper, writing, margin.. 1.5 1.53 1.52 ..1.52 Later filing of oath and filing fee Must be made by actual inventor, with exceptions Non-English language convert to a provisional application Owned by Government. Papers having filing date not to be returned Parts of application desirably filed together 1.53(f) 1.41, 1.46 1.41, 1.53 ..1.52 Nonprovisional filed without at least one claim, filing of petition to 1.53(c)(2) .1.103 1.59 1.54 1.54 .1.51 1.17 1.9, 1.51(c), 1.53(c) 1.14(c) Parts filed separately... Assignee: 1.335 Arbitration in interference 1.690 Correspondence held with assignee of entire interest. .3.71, 3.73 1.46, 3.81 If of undivided part interest, correspondence will be held with inventor .... 1.33 If of entire interest, patent may issue to him If of undivided part interest, must assent to application for reissue of patent If of undivided part interest, patent may issue jointly Taking of action in a patent matter before the Office by the Assignee, Assignee must establish its ownership of the patent application or patent involved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner If recorded before payment of issue fee, patent may issue to assignee ...3.54 3.21-3.41 Must be recorded in Patent and Trademark Office to issue patent to assignee..... Atomic energy applications reported to Department of Energy Acting in a representative capacity Assignment will not operate as a revocation of power. Associate... Certificate of good standing. Fee on admission....... General powers not recognized.. Office cannot aid in selection of.. Personal interviews with examiners...... Power of attorney or authorization of agent Representative capacity. Representing conflicting parties Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy Biological material. (See Deposit of Biological material) Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. (See Appeal to Board of Patent Ap- On appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1.192 1.3 1.2 C Certificate of correction ..... Fees..... Mistakes not corrected. Certificate of mailing (as first class mail) or transmission. 1.322, 1.323 1.20 1.325 ..1.8 Certificate of mailing by >Express Mail≥ no longer required, effective De- cember 2, 1996 ... Certificate, Reexamination Certified copies of records, papers, etc. Fee for certification.. Chemical and mathematical formulas and tables Citation of prior art in patent Citation of references Civil action..... Claims (see also Examination of applications): Amendment of ........... Conflicting, same applicant or owner. Date of invention of....... Dependent.... 1.19(b) 1.58 1.501 1.104(d) 1.121 1.78 1.110 ....1.75 |