Section If of an improvement, must show connection with old structure.......... Informal drawings.......... Location of names.. Mask work notice......... Must be described in and referred to specification.... No return or release.... Number of sheets........... Original may be used with application for reissue.. Plant patent application......... Printed and published by the Office when patented.. Reissue............ Release not permitted............ Required by law when necessary for understanding.. Scale....... Shading......... Size of sheet and margins............. Specific rules relating to preparation of drawings will be enforced.. Standards for drawings..... Symbols, legends............. Transfer......... Transmission of drawings............. Use of old drawings in new application....... Views......... When necessary, part of complete application......... ....... 1.83 1.85 ........... 1.85 1.84(1) ....1.84(0) 1.74 ............ 1.85 1.84 .1.84(g) 1.88 ......... 1.84(m) 1.88 1.84(i), (j) 1.51 Employee testimony (See Testimony by Office employees) Establishing small entity status........ Evidence. (See Testimony in interferences.) .1.56, 1.555 ........1.765 Section Examination of papers by attorney or agent not permitted without au Fee on appeal to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals provided Files and papers of abandoned applications, disposition.. .1.14 1.11 Filing date of application........ Filing fee part of complete application............ Filing fees............ Filing in Post Office.............. Filing of interference settlement agreements....... Final rejection: Appeal from....... Response to................ When and how given.......... Foreign application...... License to file................................... Foreign country: Taking oath in......... Taking testimony in.................. Foreign mask work protection.... Evaluation of request........... Definition......... Duration of proclamation.. Initiation of evaluation....... Mailing address....... Submission of requests... Foreign patent rights acquired by government.. Licensing...... Forfeited application, for nonpayment of issue fee......... Not cited as reference........... Formulas and tables in patent applications... Fraud practiced or attempted on Office........... Gazette. (See Official Gazette.) General authorization to charge deposit account..... Before the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences...... ............ 1.194 In disciplinary proceedings...... 1.17 10.144 Insane inventor, application by guardian of................ Interferences (See also Depositions, Notice, Preliminary Statement in Appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.. Applicant requests......... Arbitration......... Briefs at final hearing. Burden of proof.............. Civil action...... Claims copied from patent................. Claims of defeated parties stand finally disposed of.. Concession of priority........ Conflicting parties having same attorney. Copying claims from patent............... Correspondence......... Declaration of interference.............. Definition........... Disclaimer to avoid interference... Discovery...... Dissolution of................... Dissolution on motion of examinier..... Extensions of time........ Failure of junior party to take testimony.. Failure to prepare for... Final decision............. Final hearing.. Final hearing briefs.................. Identifying claim from patent........... In what cases declared....... 1.97 1.99 1.15 .1.43 1.662 1.612 1.631 1.664 1.641, 1.659 1.642 ..... 1.615, 1.634, 1.637 1.301, 1.302 .1.604 1.690 1.656 1.657 1.303 1.606, 1.607 1.663 .1.662 ...1.613 1.606, 1.607 1.5(e) 1.611 .1.662(a) 1.671, 1.688 1.633 .1.641 .1.645 ....1.652 1.603-1.606 1.658 .1.654 1.656 ..1.607(a)(3), 1.637(e)(1)(vi) Inspection of cases of opposing parties.......... Interference with a patent.......... Junior party fails to overcome filing date of senior party.. Jurisdiction of interference...... Manner of service of papers.. ...... Matters considered in at final hearing. Motions............... Nonpatentability argued at final hearing......... Notice and access to applications of opposing parties....... Notice of intent to argue abandonment.............. Notices and statements....... ................ 1.601 ..... 1.612 .... 1.606-1.608 .1.640 .... 1.614 1.646 .... 1.655 Order to show cause, judgment on the record.............. ..... 1.640 ......1.602 Requests for findings of fact and conclusions of law......... 1.604 ...1.656 Sanctions for failure to comply with rules of order......... .1.616 Second interference between same parties.......... 1.65 Secrecy order cases...... 5.3(b) ...1.646 1.609 1.663 1.662 Service of papers......... Statement of, from examiner to Board..... Status of claims of defeated applicant after interference..... Statutory disclaimer by patentee during... Suggestion of claims for interference...... Summary judgement.............. Suspension of ex parte prosecution...... Testimony copies............... Time period for completion.......... Times for discovery and taking testimony. International application. (See Patent Cooperation Treaty.) International Preliminary Examining Authority.. Interview summary....... Interviews with examiner.... Inventor (see also Applicant for patent, Oath in patent application): Death or insanity of........... Refuses to sign application........ To make application............ Unavailable............ Inventor's certificate priority benefit................. Inventorship and date of invention of the subject matter of individual claims.... Issue fee............ Issue of patent. (See Allowance and issue of patent.) Joinder of inventions in one application........ Joint inventors............... Joint patent to inventor and assignee..... Jurisdiction: After decision by Board of Patent Appeals and Inteferences..... After notice of allowance... Government inventions........... 1.141 1.45, 1.47, 1.324 ....1.46, 1.334 .1.197, 1.198 1.312 100.1-100.11 1.614 |