INTERVIEWS 1.133 Interviews. TIME FOR RESPONSE BY APPLICANT; 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. 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. DESIGN PATENTS 1.151 Rules applicable. 1.152 Drawing. 1.153 Title, description and claim, oath or declaration. 1.154 Arrangement of specification. 1.155 Issue and term of design patents. PLANT PATENTS 1.161 Rules applicable. 1.162 Applicant, oath or declaration. Specification. AMENDMENTS 1.163 1.164 Claim. 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. Sec. 1.316 Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee. 1.317 Lapsed patents; delayed payment of balance of issue fee. 1.318 Notification of national publication of a patent based on an international application. DISCLAIMER 1.321 Statutory disclaimer. 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-.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 1.416 The International Bureau. 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. Sec. 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 examiner-in-chief, 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. 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; made in United States. invention 1.671 1.626 Preliminary statement; earlier appli 1.672 cation. 1.673 1.627 Preliminary statement; sealing before filing, opening of statement. 1.628 Preliminary statement; correction of error. 1.629 Effect of preliminary statement. 1.630 Reliance on earlier application. 1.631 Access to preliminary statement, service of preliminary statement. 1.632 Notice of intent to argue abandonment, suppression, or concealment by opponent. 1.633 Preliminary motions. 1.634 Motion to correct inventorship. 1.635 Miscellaneous motions. 1.636 Motions, time for filing. 1.637 Content of motions. 1.638 Opposition and reply, time for filing opposition and reply. 1.639 Evidence in support of motion, opposition, or reply. Evidence must comply with rules. Manner of taking testimony. Notice of examination of witness. 1.674 Persons before whom depositions may be taken. 1.675 Examination of witness, reading and signing transcript of deposition. 1.676 Certification and filing by officer, marking exhibits. 1.677 Form of a transcript of deposition. 1.678 Transcript of deposition must be filed. 1.679 Inspection of transcript. 1.682 Official records and printed publica |