Section Secret while pending...... Serial number and filing date...... Stricken from the files for irregularities.... Tables and formulas........... To contain but one invention unless connected.. To whom made......... Two or more by same party with conflicting claims... Arbitration award filing.......... Assignee: Correspondence held with assignee of entire interest...... If of entire interest, patent may issue to him........... .1.14 1.54 1.56 1.58 1.141 1.51 .1.78 .1.88 1.335 .1.33 .1.46, 1.334 If of undivided part interest, correspondence will be held with inventor.......... 1.33 If of undivided part interest, must assent to application for reissue of patent......... .1.171, 1.172 If of undivided part interest, patent may issue jointly.. Patent will issue to, if assignment is recorded before payment of issue fee........... If recorded before payment of issue fee, patent will issue to assignee.......... 1.334 Must be recorded in Patent and Trademark Office to issue patent to Assignment will not operate as a revocation of power.. Attorneys at law, registration of.............. Certificate of good standing.......... Code of professional responsibility. Committee on Enrollment.......... Disciplinary procedures and investigations... Fee on admission.................. Foreign patent attorneys and agents, registration of... Former examiners, registration of.... General powers not recognized....................... Government officers and employees as......... Lead attorney, designated in interference... ..... Limited recognition........ Section May be refused recognition for misconduct............ Office cannot aid in selection of... Personal interviews with examiners.. Persons not registered or recognized.......... Power of attorney or authorization of agent.... Professional conduct...... Registration of attorneys and agents.. Removing names from registers....... Representative capacity.. Representing conflicting parties........... Required to conduct business with decorum and courtesy. Requirements for registration............ Revocation of power........ Signature and certificate of attorney.. 10.9 10.15 1.21(a), 10.8 1.31 1.133 10.10 1.34 10.20-10.112 .10.6-10.8 10.11 1.33, 1.34 1.613 1.3 10.6-10.8 .10.6-10.8 Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. (See Appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Interferences.) Box FWC.............. Box PCT.. Briefs: .1.1(b), 1.62 .1.1(b) 1.1(c) At final hearing in interference....... 1.656 In petitions to Commissioner................. 1.181 On appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.. Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy... Business to be transacted in writing......... Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (see also Petition to Commissioner): Address of............... 1.1 All communications to Patent and Trademark Office to be addressed to..... 1.1 Cases decided by Board of Patents and Interferences reopened only by........... 1.198 Composition of matter, specimens of ingredients may be required................. 1.93 Computer program listings... 1.96 Concurrent office proceedings....... Conduct of reexamination proceedings....... 1.565, 1.615(b) 1.550 Conflicting claims, same applicant or owner in two or more applica tions............... 1.78 Copies of records, fees......... Correction, certificate of................................................ Correction of inventorship.......... Continuing application for invention disclosed and claimed in prior application........ Copies of patents, records, etc... 1.60, 1.62 .1.11, 1.12, 1.13 1.19(b), 1.59 1.322, 1.323 .1.48 ............ Correspondence: All letters and communications to the Office to be addressed to the Double, with different parties in interest not allowed.... 1.33 Held with attorney or agent.............. 1.33 Identification of application or patent in letter relating to........... 1.5 May be held exclusively with assignee of entire interest...... Resumed with principal, if power or authorization is revoked....... With attorney or agent after power or authorization is filed................ Coupons sold by the Office............. 1.33 ...... 1.24 Section Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appeal to. (See Appeal to Court of Ap- D Date of invention of subject matter of individual claims........ Day for taking any action or paying any fee falling on Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday.. Death or insanity of inventor..... .1.110 1.7 .1.42, 1.43 Decision on appeal by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences....... 1.196 1.197 To be sealed up, addressed, and forwarded to the Commissioner. 1.676 93-124 0-87--6 Inferior or defective drawings will be rejected.... Informal drawings........... If of an improvement, must show connection with old structure.... Location of names... Must be described in and referred to specification... Must show every feature of the invention........... Original may be used with application for reissue. Plant patent application..... 1.118, 1.123 .1.84(j) 1.84(c) 1.83 ....1.19 1.152 1.84(1) ... 1.84(k) .1.81 1.84(d) 1.83 1.85 1.85 1.84(1) 1.74 1.83 1.84(e) .1.174 1.84(a) 1.81 Specific rules relating to preparation of drawings will be enforced................ 1.85 |