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TIME FOR RESPONSE BY APPLICANT;
ABANDONMENT OF APPLICATION

1.134 Time period for response to an Office action.

1.135 Abandonment for failure to respond within time period.

1.136 Filing of timely responses with petition and fee for extension of time and extensions of time for cause.

1.137 Revival of abandoned application. 1.138 Express abandonment.

1.139 Revival of provisional application.

JOINDER OF INVENTIONS IN ONE APPLICATION; RESTRICTION

1.141 Different inventions in one national application.

1.142 Requirement for restriction.

1.143 Reconsideration of requirement.

1.144 Petition from requirement for restriction.

1.145 Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention. 1.146 Election of species.

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1.165

1.166 Specimens.

1.167

Examination.

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1.124

Amendment of amendments.

1.125 Substitute specification.

1.126 Numbering of claims.

1.127 Petition from refusal to admit amend

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1.177

Reissue in divisions.

1.178 Original patent.

1.179 Notice of reissue application.

PETITIONS AND ACTION BY THE COMMISSIONER

1.181 Petition to the Commissioner.

1.182 Questions not specifically provided for.

1.183 Suspension of rules.

1.184 Reconsideration of cases decided by former Commissioners.

APPEAL TO THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES

1.191 Appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

1.192 Appellant's brief.

1.193 Examiner's answer. 1.194 Oral hearing.

1.195 Affidavits or declarations after appeal. 1.196 Decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

1.197 Action following decision. 1.198 Reopening after decision.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

1.248 Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences.

PROTESTS AND PUBLIC USE PROCEEDINGS 1.291 Protests by the public against pending applications.

1.292 Public use proceedings.

1.293 Statutory invention registration. 1.294 Examination of request for publication of a statutory invention registration and patent application to which the request is directed.

1.295 Review of decision finally refusing to publish a statutory invention registration.

1.296 Withdrawal of request for publication of statutory invention registration. 1.297 Publication of statutory invention registration.

REVIEW OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE DECISIONS BY COURT

1.301 Appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

1.302 Notice of appeal.

1.303 Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 145, 146, 306.

1.304 Time for appeal or civil action.

ALLOWANCE AND ISSUE OF PATENT

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1.318 Notification of national publication of a patent based on an international application.

DISCLAIMER

1.321 Statutory disclaimers, including ter

minal disclaimers.

CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN PATENT

1.322 Certificate of correction of Office mistake.

1.323 Certificate of correction of applicant's mistake.

1.324 Correction of inventorship in patent. 1.325 Other mistakes not corrected.

ARBITRATION AWARDS

1.331-1.334 [Reserved]

1.335 Filing of notice of arbitration awards. AMENDMENT OF RULES

1.351 Amendments to rules will be pub

lished.

1.352 Publication of notice of proposed amendments.

MAINTENANCE FEES

1.362 Time for payment of maintenance fees.

1.363 Fee address for maintenance fee purposes.

1.366 Submission of maintenance fees. 1.377 Review of decision refusing to accept and record payment of a maintenence fee filed prior to expiration of patent.

1.378 Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent.

Subpart C-International Processing
Provisions

GENERAL INFORMATION

1.401 Definitions of terms under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

1.412 The United States Receiving Office. 1.413 The United States International

Searching Authority.

1.414 The United States Patent and Trademark Ofice as a Designated Office or Elected Office.

1.415 The International Bureau.

1.416 The United States International Preliminary Examining Authority.

WHO MAY FILE AN INTERNATIONAL
APPLICATION

1.421 Applicant for international applica

tion.

1.422 When the inventor is dead.

1.423 When the inventor is insane or legally incapacitated.

1.317 Lapsed patents; delayed payment of balance of issue fee.

1.424 Joint inventors.

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1.488 Determination of unity of invention before the International Preliminary Examining Authority.

1.489 Protest to lack of unity of invention before the International Preliminary Examining Authority.

NATIONAL STAGE

1.491 Entry into the national stage. 1.492 National stage fees.

1.494 Entering the national stage in the United States of America as a Designated Office.

1.495 Entering the national stage in the United States of America as an Elected Office.

1.496 Examination of international applications in the national stage.

1.497 Oath or declaration under 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(4).

1.499 Unity of invention during the national stage.

Subpart D-Reexamination of Patents

CITATION OF PRIOR ART

1.501 Citation of prior art in patent files. REQUEST FOR REEXAMINATION

1.510 Request for reexamination. 1.515 Determination of the request for reex

amination.

1.520 Reexamination at the initiative of the Commissioner.

REEXAMINATION

1.525 Order to reexamine.

1.530 Statement and amendment by patent

owner.

1.535 Reply by requester.

1.540 Consideration of responses. 1.550 Conduct of reexamination proceedings. 1.552 Scope of reexamination in reexamination proceedings.

1.555 Information material to patentability in reexamination proceedings. 1.560 Interviews in reexamination proceedings.

1.565 Concurrent office proceedings.

CERTIFICATE

1.570 Issuance of reexamination certificate after reexamination proceedings.

Subpart E-Interferences

1.601 Scope of rules, definitions. 1.602 Interest in applications and patents involved in an interference. 1.603 Interference between applications; subject matter of the interference. 1.604 Request for interference between applications by an applicant.

1.605 Suggestion of claim to applicant by examiner.

1.606 Interference between an application and a patent; subject matter of the interference.

1.607 Request by applicant for interference with patent.

1.608 Interference between an application and a patent; prima facie showing by applicant.

1.609 Preparation of interference papers by examiner.

1.610 Assignment of interference to administrative patent judge, time period for completing interference.

1.611

Declaration of interference. 1.612 Access to applications. 1.613 Lead attorney, same attorney representing different parties in an interference, withdrawal of attorney or agent. 1.614 Jurisdiction over interference. 1.615 Suspension of ex parte prosecution. 1.616 Sanctions for failure to comply with rules or order or for taking and maintaining a frivolous position. 1.617 Summary judgment against applicant. 1.618 Return of unauthorized papers. 1.621 Preliminary statement, time for filing, notice of filing.

1.622 Preliminary statement, who made invention, where invention made. 1.623 Preliminary statement; invention made in United States, a NAFTA country, or a WTO member country. 1.624 Preliminary statement; invention made in a place other than the United States, a NAFTA country, or a WTO member country.

1.625 Preliminary statement; derivation by an opponent.

1.626 Preliminary statement; earlier appli

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1.685 Errors and irregularities in depositions.

1.687 Additional discovery.
1.688 Use of discovery.
1.690

Arbitration of interferences.

Subpart F-Extension of Patent Term

1.701 Extension of patent term due to prosecution delay.

1.710 Patents subject to extension of the patent term.

1.720 Conditions for extension of patent

term.

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