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SECTION I.
OF ATTORNEYS.
§ 431. Relation of Patent Attorneys to the Patent Office
432. Patent Attorneys Appointed only by a Written Power
433. Authority of Attorney Revocable or Irrevocable: How Revoked.
434. Authority of Attorney Limited to the Application Accompanying
the Power.
435. Authorized Attorney the Sole Medium of Communication between
Patent Office and Inventor: his Rights and Duties
436. Compensation of Patent Attorneys: Lien on Letters-Patent.
437. Attorneys Disbarred by Commissioner for Cause
444. Notice of Subsequent Applications to Caveator: Proceedings
445. Caveat not to be Withdrawn: Copies: Amendments
446. Caveat as Evidence: as Estoppel
447. Caveat not Assignable.
448. Caveator not Concluded by his Description of the Invention
SECTION III.
OF THE APPLICATION: ITS FORM.
§ 449. Application for Letters-Patent Made by Whom
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450. Proper Applicant Determined from the Record Title in the Patent
Office.
451. Applications must Conform to Legal Requirements: if Granted,
such Conformity Presumed
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452. Legal Requisites of Application
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453. The Application-Petition: its Requisites
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454. The Application-Oath: By and Before Whom Made
455. The Application-Oath: its Averments
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456. The Application-Oath: its Truth or Falsehood
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457. The Application-Oath: how far Conclusive.
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458. The Application-Oath: Letters-Patent not Invalidated by its
SECTION IV.
OF THE APPLICATION: ITS SUBJECT-MATTER.
§ 459. Subject-Matter of Application must be a Patentable Invention
460. Subject-Matter must not be an Invention already Patented in the
United States by the same Inventor
461. Subject-Matter may be an Invention already Patented in the
United States by a Rival Inventor, or in a Foreign Country by
the same Inventor.
462. Subject-Matter must not Include Inventions already Patented in
the United States by the same Inventor .
463. Subject-Matter may be a New Use of an Invention already Pat-
ented in the United States by the same Inventor .
464. Subject-Matter must not be an Invention already Patented in the
United States by the same Inventor, although his Former Patent
is Inoperative and Invalid
465. Subject-Matter may be an Integral Part, or a Combination, of
other Inventions already Patented in the United States by the
same Inventor
466. Subject-Matter may be an Invention Dependent on or Collateral
to an Invention already Patented in the United States by the
467. Subject-Matter must not be an Invention already Claimed in a
Pending Application by the same Inventor.
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468. Joinder of Inventions not Consistent with the Nature of the Patent
Privilege: but Nevertheless Permitted
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469. Joinder of Inventions Differently Viewed in the Courts and in the
Patent Office.
471. Joinder of Inventions: Rule in the Patent Office.
472. Joinder of Inventions: Combinations: Sub-Combinations: Ele-
ments
473. Joinder of Inventions: Arts: Apparatus: Product
474. Joinder of Inventions: Machines: Processes: Products
475. Joinder of Inventions: Manufactures: Processes: Apparatus.
476. Joinder of Inventions: Compositions: Ingredients: Processes:
Apparatus
477. Joinder of Inventions: Designs.
478. Joinder of Inventions: Improvements
479. Joinder of Inventions: Application of these Rules often Difficult .
SECTION V.
OF THE APPLICATION; THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION.
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480. The Specification: its Importance . .
481. The Specification Sets Forth the Contract between the Public and
the Patentee: its Twofold Object
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§ 482. The Specification: its Two Divisions: the Description and the
Claim
483. The Description: its Object and General Requisites
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484. The Description must Disclose the Attributes of the Invention. 73
485. The Description must Disclose the Manner of Making the In-
486. The Description must Disclose the Mode of Use of the Invention .
487. The Description to be Confined to these Three Points.
488. The Description is Sufficient if Sufficient for Persons Skilled in
the Art. . .
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489. The Description Sufficient if Sufficient when Construed with the
other Parts of the Application
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490. The Description must be Correct: Correctness Defined
491. The Description must be Complete: Completeness Defined.
492. The Description must be Intelligible: Intelligibility Defined
493. The Description: Ambiguity, when Fatal
494. The Description: False Suggestion Fatal
495. The Description: its Form .
496. The Description when the Invention is a Combination
497. The Description when the Invention is an Art
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500. The Description when the Invention is a Composition of Matter
501. The Description when the Invention is a Design.
502. The Description when the Invention is an Improvement
603. The Description: its Sufficiency a Question of Fact
§ 504. The Claim: its Objects and General Requisites
505. The Claim the Life of the Patent and the Measure of the Patent
Privilege
506. The Claim: its Effect, as an Abandonment or otherwise, upon the
Matter not Claimed
507. The Claim: its Form and Contents Governed by Strict Rules
508 The Claim must Claim a Practically Operative Means.
509. The Claim must Claim a Concrete Art or Instrument
510. The Claim must Claim a Single and Distinct Invention
511. The Claim must Indicate the Class of Patentable Inventions to
which the Claimed Invention Belongs.
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512. The Claim must Precisely Define the Invention Claimed.
513. The Claim must Distinguish the Invention Claimed from all
Known Inventions
514. The Claim must Set Forth the Invention Claimed in its Most
Perfect Concrete Form . . . .
515. The Claim must Correspond with the Description
516. The Claim. no Particular Form Required
517. The Claim: Teclinical Phrases
521. The Claims must not be Unnecessarily Multiplied
522. The Claim: Joinder of Claims for Different Inventions
523. The Claim Interpreted by Other Parts of the Application
524. The Claim for a Combination: Combinations not Covered by
Claims for their Elements. .
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525. The Claim for a Combination: its General Requisites.
526. The Claim for a Combination may be Stated in any Intelligible
Form
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527. The Claim for a Combination Covers only the Precise Combi-
nation Claimed. .
528. The Claim for a Combination may be Joined with Claims for its
Elements and Sub-Combinations
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529. The Claim for an Art: its General Requisites.
530. The Claim for a Machine: its General Requisites
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531. The Claim for a Manufacture: its General Requisites
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532. The Claim for a Composition of Matter: its General Requisites
533. The Claim for a Design its General Requisites.
534. The Claim for an Improvement: its General Requisites
535. The Claim for a Generic Invention: its Scope
536. The Claim for a Generic Invention may be Joined with a Claim
for One Species
538. The Claim, as Corrected or Allowed in the Patent Office, Deter-
mines the Validity and Scope of the Patent
539. The Specification: its Signature: Erasures and Corrections.
§ 540. Drawings, Model, and Specimens: when Required
541. Drawings must Correspond with Specification
542. Drawings to be so Clear and Full as to Supply the Place of a
Model
543. Drawings: General Requisites in each Class of Inventions
544. Drawings: Special Rules Governing their Artistic Perfection
545. Model not Filed until Ordered by the Patent Office.
546. Model: its General Requisites
548. Model: its Relation to other Parts of the Application
549. Specimens, instead of Drawings or Model, Required in Applications
covering Compositions of Matter
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SECTION VIII.
OF THE APPLICATION: FILING AND FEES.
§ 550. Filing of Application the Commencement of Proceedings to Obtain
a Patent
551. Filing of Application: in What it Consists.
$552. Application, once Filed, thereafter Known by Date and Number. 163
553. Application, once Filed, not Withdrawn: Preserved in Secrecy
554. Payment of Fees
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SECTION IX.
OF THE APPLICATION PROCEDURE IN THE PATENT OFFICE
IN UNCONTESTED CASES.
§ 555. Examination of Application: Objections to its Form .
556. Objections on the Ground of Misjoinder: Division of the Appli-
cation . .
557. Model and Specimens Ordered when Found Necessary
558. Examination of Application on its Merits: Two Questions In-
volved: their Decision
559. Rejection of Application: Notice and References
560. Action of Applicant after Rejection: Insistence and Second Re-
jection . .
561. Amendment of Application
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563. Amendments: their Form.
Amendments: when Made
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564. Amendments Dependent on Original Application: their Scope
565. Examination of Amended Application: its Rejection: Appeal.
566. Appeal in Uncontested Cases: Matters of Form and of Substance
567. Appeal, on Matters of Form, to Commissioner
568. Appeal, on Matters of Substance, to Examiners-in-Chief
569. Appeal from Examiners-in-Chief to Commissioner
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570. Appeal from Commissioner to Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia. . .
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571. Remedy of Applicant in Equity after Final Rejection of his Appli-
cation in the Patent Office.
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572. Appeals in the Patent Office: their General Character and Effect
573. Interviews of Applicants with Examiners: Motions: Procedure.
574. Abandonment of Application: not Abandonment of the Invention
575. Application Abandoned by Unreasonable Delay: Delay of Two
Years from "Last Action" Unreasonable
579. Abandonment of Application by Express Declaration of the Ap-
plicant . .
581. Substituted Applications are Continuations of the Original and
Bear its Date
583. Allowance of Patent not Binding on Commissioner until Letters-
Patent are Issued: Mandamus
584. Application Forfeited by Failure of Applicant to Pay Final Fee:
Application after Forfeiture . . .