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D-10 notice 130 , 1304.01
D-11 notice 1103
Damage, Proof of irreparable 409.03(g)
Databases(See Electronic databases )
Date

Amendment 505 , 511 , 512 710.01(a) , 710.05 , 714.18
Citation of foreign patent 901.05(a) , 901.05(b)
Convention 201.13
Filing 201.11 , 502 , 503 , 505 , 506 506.02 , 1002.02(b)
Filing, Refusal to accord 506.02 , 2133
Foreign application (priority) 201.13 , 201.14 , 201.15
Invention 2137 , 2138
Maintenance fees due 2506
Office action 707.11
Office stamp 502 , 505 , 506 , 714.18
Reference 706.02 , 707.05(e) , 707.05(f) 715 , 715.01 , 715.01(c)
Technology Center stamp 714.18

Date no longer entered on drawing 608.02(o)
Date of execution of oath 602.05
Date stamp, Technology Center 714.18
Death of attorney 406
Death of inventor(See also Administrator or executor ) 409 to 409.01(f)
Deceased inventor

Allowance not withdrawn 1303.03
Legal representative as applicant 409.01(a) , 1820

Proof of authority of 409.01(b)

Legal representative refuses to sign 409.03(c)

Deceptive intent(See also Fraud ; Inequitable conduct )

Biotechnology process 706.02(n)
Foreign filing licenses 140 , 706.03(s)
Inventorship 201.03
Reissue 1402 , 1414 , 2012

Decision

By Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences 1213 1302.14

Dissemination of 1720
Ex parte reexamination 2277
Inter partes reexamination 2681 , 2682
Reconsideration of 1214.03
Treatment of 1721

By classification examiner 903.08(f)
Citation 707.06
Ex parte reexamination rehearing request 2240
Governs examiner's action Introduction
Listed Appendix II
On interference motion 2340
Ordering ex parte reexamination 2246
Orderinginter partesreexamination(See Reexamination, Inter partes : Decision on the request for reexamination )
Public availability 103
Publication of 707.06

Declaration(See also Oath ) 602

After appeal 1211.02
Amendment 602.01
Attached to specification 605.04(a)
Change of inventorship 201.03
Copies, filing of 602
Copies from prior application 201.06(c)
Date of execution 602.05
Defective 602.03
Delayed filing 506
Executed before alterations made 605.04(a)
Facsimile transmission 502.01 , 602
Foreign priority applications listed 201.14 201.14(c) , 202.04
International application 1820 , 1893.01 , 1893.01(a) 1893.01(a)(1) , 1893.01(a)(2) 1893.01(a)(3) , 1893.01(e) 1893.03(a) , 1893.03(b) 1893.03(g) , 1895 , 1896
Inventor refuses to sign or cannot be found 603
Minor, by 409
Non-English 602.06
Plant patent application 1604
Refers to preliminary amendment 601.01(a) , 602
Reissue application 706.03(x) , 1414 1414.01 , 1444 , 1455
Signed before alteration 605.04(a)
Substitute 602.02

Declarations, conflicting 201.03
Declassified matter 707.05(f)
Dedication to the public 715 , 1490
Defective oath 602.03

In reissue application 1414

Defects, correction of, in request for ex parte reexamination 2231
Defects, correction of in request forinter partesreexamination 2231
Defense, applications affecting 115 , 120 , 130 , 140
Defensive publication citation 711.06(a)
Defensive publication program 711.06
Deferral of examination 709
Definition of class 902.02
Delegation of Director's authority 1001.01 1002 , 1002.02
Demonstration at interview 713.08
Denial of request for reexamination 2247 , 2247.01
2647 , 2647.01
Department of Energy (DOE) 115 , 140
150 , 151 , 706.03(b)
Department of Commerce, Organization Orders

30-3A cited 510
30-3B cited 510

Dependent claim 608.01(n)

Objected to when base claim is canceled 608.01(n) 707.07(j)
Reissue 1455
Treatment ininter partesreexamination 2660.03

Dependent claim, objected to when improper 608.01(n) 706.01
Deposit account 509.01

Authorizations 509.01 , 1302.04
Extensions of time 706.07(f)
International applications 1847 , 1850 , 1875.01
Issue fee 1303 , 1306 , 1308.01
Maintenance fee 2510 , 2515 , 2522
Overdrawn 509.01
Petition fee 711.03(c)
Refunds 509 , 607.02
Replenishment 509.01

Mailing address 501

Deposit Account Division 509.01
Deposit of microorganisms(See also Biotechnology ) 1605 , 1823.01 , 2402 to 2411.05
Deposit of correspondence 502
Depositions

Evidence 1901.02 , 2013
Of examiner 1701.01

Deposit rules(See also Biotechnology ) Chapter 2400

Acceptable depository 2405
Background information 2401
Biological material, definition 2403
Biological material, made or isolated without undue experimentation 2404.02
Budapest Treaty(See also Treaties ) 2402
Budapest Treaty depositories 2405
Depositories, Current list of Budapest Treaty 2405
Effective date 2401 , 2402
Examination procedures 2411

After grant 2411.04
Application in condition for allowance except for deposit 2411.03
Certificate of correction 2411.04
Content of application regarding deposited material 2411.05
Need for 37 CFR 1.312 amendment 2411.03
Reissue 2411.04
Rejections based on deposit issue 2411.01
Responses from applicant 2411.02

Furnishing of samples 2410

Access to deposits 2410.01
Certification of accessibility of deposit 2410.02
Conditions of deposit 2410.01
Exception to removal of restrictions 2410.01
Restrictions removed upon grant 2410.01

Known and readily available biological material 2404.01

Budapest Treaty deposit 2404.01
Continuity of access 2404.01
Deposits certified as available 2404.01
Health, safety restrictions 2404.01
Indicia of "known and readily available" 2404.01

Material capable of self-replication 2403.01

Direct self-replication 2403.01
Indirect self-replication 2403.01

Need for a deposit 2402 , 2404
Plant material 2403.02
Plant Patent Act, Relation to 2403.02
Reference to deposit in application 2404 , 2404.03

Implication, presumption 2404 , 2404.03
Requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112 2164.06 , 2404 2404.03

Replacement or supplement of deposit 2407

After a patent has issued 2407.02
Exemption from replacement 2407.05
Failure to replace 2407.03
In a pending application/reexamination proceeding 2407.01
Reason for replacement 2407.04
Replacement not recognized 2407.06
Treatment of replacement, presumption of identity 2407.04

Seeds 2403.02
Term of deposit 2408

Budapest Treaty term 2408
Enforceable life of patent 2408

Time for making original deposit 2406

Assurance regarding deposit before payment
of issue fee 2406 , 2411.03
Corroboration 2406.02
Description in application specification 2406.01
During application pendency 2406
Loss of U.S. filing date in other countries 2406.03
New matter 2406.01
Patent Cooperation Treaty applications 1823.01 , 2406
Post-issuance deposits 2406
Viability of deposit 2409
Viability statement 2409

35 U.S.C. 112 requirements 2402 , 2403 , 2404

Deputy Director of Patents and Trademarks 1002.02(o) , 1203
Derogatory remark regarding prior art 608.01(r)
Description

Design application Chapter 1500

Analogous art 1504.02 , 1504.03
Anticipation 1504.02
Application, elements of 1503
Articles, design comprising multiple 1504.01(b)
"Average observer" test 1504.02
Benelux Designs Convention(See also Treaties ) 201.13 , 1504.10
Characteristic feature 1503.01 , 1504.01(a)
Claim 1503 , 1503.01
Combining references 1504.03
Commercial success 1504.03
Computer generated icons 1504.01(a)
Continuation application 1504.20
Continuation-in-part (CIP) application 1504.20
Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 1502.01
Convention, International 201.13 , 1504.10
Copending applications 1504.06 , 1504.20
Copying, evidence of, to rebut obviousness 1504.03
Copyright, Relationship to 1512
Definition 1502
Description 1503 , 1503.01
Disclaimer 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
Disclosure 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
Divisional application 201.06 , 1504.20
Double patenting 804 , 1504.06
Drawing 1503 , 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04

Broken lines 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
Color 1503.02
Trademarks 1512

Embodiments, alternate or multiple 1503.01 1504.01(b) , 1504.05
Enablement 1503.02 , 1504.04
European Community Design treaty 1504.10
Examination 1504 , 1504.01 , 1504.02 1504.03 , 1504.04
Expedited Examination 502 , 1002.02(c)(3) , 1504.30

Reissue 1457

Expert testimony 1504.03
Feature emphasized 1503.01
Fee, filing 607

Reissue 1457

Fee, issue 1306
Font, type 1504.01(a)
Foreign priority 201.13 , 1504.02 , 1504.10

German application 201.14(b)
More than six months before U.S. filing 1504.02

Functionality 1504.01(c)

Obviousness and 1504.03

Hague Agreement(See also Treaties ) 201.13 , 1504.10
Hidden end use 1504.01(c)
Hidden feature 1504.02 , 1504.03 , 1504.04
Icon, computer generated 1504.01(a)
Indefiniteness 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
Library collections relating to 901.06(a)
Modification, description 1503.01
Multiple embodiments 1504.05
Multiple parts of article 1504.01(b)
New matter 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.01(a) , 1504.04
Object, Design for 1502
Obviousness 1504.03
Obviousness-type double patenting 1504.06
Offensive subject matter 1504.01(e)
Ornamentality lacking 1504.01(c)
Patent Cooperation Treaty 1501 , 1502.01
Patentability 1504.01 , 1504.01(a) to 1504.01(e) 1504.02 , 1504.03 , 1504.04
Petition, Special Status 708.02 , 1504.30
Petition to accept color drawings
or photographs 608.02 , 1503.02
Photographs 1503.02 , 1504.04
Preamble 1503.01
Priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 201.13 , 201.14(b) 1504.02 , 1504.10
Priority under 35 U.S.C. 120 201.11 , 1504.20
References supplied 707.05(a) , 1513
Quayle action 1504
Registration abroad 1504.02 , 1504.10
Reexamination,inter partes 2611
Reissue 1457 , 1512
Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1502.01
Request for Expedited Examination 1504.30
Restriction 1504.05

Reissue 1457

Rules applicable 1501
Scope of claim 1503.01 , 1504.04 1504.05 , 1504.06
Search 1504 , 1504.02 , 1504.03
Secondary considerations 1504.03
Simulation 1504.01(d)
Specification 1503.01

Use of Copyrights in 1512
Use of Trademarks in 1512

Statutory bar, foreign application 201.13 , 1504.02
Statutory subject matter 1502 , 1504.01
Surface ornamentation 1502 , 1502.01 , 1503.02 1504.01 , 1504.01(a) 1504.01(c) , 1504.03
Surface treatment or indicia 1503.02
Term of 1457 , 1502.01 , 1505
Title 1503.01 , 1504.01(a)

Amendment of 1503.01
Use of Trademarks in 1512

Trademark, relationship to 1512
Type fonts 1504.01(a)
Utility patent, relationship to 1502.01
Visual characteristics 1502
Written description lacking 1503.01 , 1503.02 1504.01(a) , 1504.04

Design patent series(See also Patent ) 901.04
Designated office 1801 , 1893.01(a)
Designation fee - PCT 1817.01(a)
Designation of states 1817.01 , 1817.01(a)
Detailed description(See Specification )
Determination of public use or on sale 706.02(c) , 2133.03
Digest(See Cross-reference : Art collection )
Dictionary as a source for the ordinary and customary meaning of a claim term 2111.01 , 2173.05(a)
Diligence

Charts for priority 2138.01
Filing application 2138.06
Filing reissue 1403
Interference practice 2138.01
Of actions during regulatory review 2757.01
Reasonable 2138.06
Shown in 37 CFR 1.131 affidavit 715.07 , 715.07(a)
To overcome a rejection 2136.05

Director of Technology Center 402.06 , 708.02 714.01(a) , 714.13 , 714.25 , 715.08 720.01 , 804.04 , 1002.02 , 1002.02(c) 1206 , 1207 , 1208.01 , 1214.04 , 1308 1308.01 , 1901.06 , 2248 , 2249 , 2265 2274 , 2283 to 2286 , 2301.01(b) , 2303 2303.01 , 2305.04 , 2306 , 2307.02 , 2307.03 2309.02 , 2648 , 2667 , 2682 , 2686.01
Functions 1002.02(c) , 1003
TC 1600 1002.02(c)(2)
TC 2900 502 , 1002.02(c)(3)
TC 3640 710
, 1002.02(c)(1)

Director of the USPTO

Action requiring attention of

Failure to identify claim as copied from a patent 2307.05

Authority and functions 706.03(b) , 708.01 , 709 711.02 , 714 , 719.01 , 1001 , 1002 , 2203 2242 , 2284

Publication of confidential decisions 103
Withdrawal from issue 1308

Decisions Introduction
Mailing address 501
Notices(See also Publication ) Introduction , 707.06
Orders(See also Publication ) Introduction , 707.06

Director initiated reexamination 2212 , 2239

Disbarred attorney(See Attorney or agent : Suspended or excluded )

Disciplinary proceedings 402

Mailing address 501

Disclaimer(See also Terminal disclaimer )

Co-author of publication 715.01(c)
Copy required in reexamination

Ex parte 2214
Inter partes 2614

Defensive publication 711.06
Design application 1503.01 , 1503.02 , 1504.04
Forms 1490
Interference 2305 , 2305.04 , 2307.02
Processing 1490
Rejection 706.02(k) , 710.02(d)
Statutory 1490
Terminal 706.02(k) , 804.02 , 1490

Disclosure(See also Duty of disclosure ; Specification )

Abstract 608.01(b)
Amendment 608.04 , 1302.02
Amendment, Preliminary 608.04(b)
Best Mode(See also Best Mode ) 608.01(h) , 2165
Chemical compound 608.01(p)
Claimed 901.03
Common, parent and continuing applications 201.11
Completeness 608.01(p) , 2164
Computer programming cases 2106.02
Correspondence with claims 2163.05 , 2173.03
Design application 1503 , 1503.01
Detailed description 608.01(g)
Document 1706
Duty of Chapter 2000
Enablement(See also Enablement ) 2164
Foreign application 201.15
Implicit 2144.01
Incomplete 608.01(p) , 706.03(c) , 2161 to 2165
Incomprehensible 702.01
Incorporation by reference(See also Incorporation by reference ) 608.01(p)
Insufficient 608.01(p) , 702.01 , 706.03(c)
Later filed application 608.01(p)
Operability 716.07 , 2164.08(b)
Original claim 608.01(l) , 2163.06
Preliminary amendment 608.04(b)
Related applications 608.01(p) , 1302.04
Requirements for 2161
Reservation clause 608.01(e)
Restricted to claimed subject matter 1302.01
Secrecy order, Material subject to 120
Specification(See also Specification ) 608.01
Sufficiency for continuity 201.11
Sufficiency of 716
Support for claims 2163.01
Trade name 608.01(v)
Trademark 608.01(v)
Utility 608.01(p) , 706.03(a)
Written(See also Written description ) 2163

Disclosure document program 1706

Evidence under 37 CFR 1.131 715.07

Discourtesy 714.19 , 714.25

Dismissal of appeal 1215.04

Disposals counted 1705

Distinct, definition 802.01

Distinct inventions 802 , 802.01 , 803 , 806.05

Apparatus and product made 806.05(g)
Process and apparatus for its practice 806.05(e)
Process and product made 806.05(f)

Divisional application 201.06 , 601.01(a)

Assignment carried from parent application 201.12 306
Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
Copendency 201.11
Design application 201.06 , 1504.20
Drawing, Transfer of 608.02(i)
Effective date 201.11
Filed by assignee 324
File wrapper continuation (FWC) 201.06(b)
File wrapper/history notation 202.02 , 1302.04
Inspection of parent application 103
Inter partes reexamination of 2611
Inventor, at least one in common 201.11
New matter 201.06
Oath 201.06(c) , 602.05(a)
Ownership carried from parent application 201.12
Parent application data notation in specification 202.01
Patented, Opens parent application to inspection 103
Reference to parent application 201.11 , 1302.04
Reissue 1414 , 1440 , 1450 , 1451
Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
Rule 1.60, Former 201.06(a)
Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
Signature 201.06(d)
Time for filing 201.11
Written description requirement 201.11

DNA(See also Biotechnology ; Nucleotide sequences ) Chapter 2400

Enablement 2164.08
Searching 901.06(a)
Sequence listing 2422 , 2424 , 2431
Special status for recombinant 708.02

Docket report 1704

Doctrine of collateral estoppel(See Estoppel )

Doctrine of dedication to the public 715

Doctrine of equivalents 2138.05 , 2173.05(b) , 2186

Doctrine of segregable parts 1504.05

Doctrine of unclean hands 2010

Document, Disclosure 1706

Electronic(See also Electronic publications ) 707.05(e)

DoD Directive 5230.25 120

DoD Security Agreement 120

Domestic representative 302.04

Double correspondence 403 , 714.01(a)

Double inclusion in claim 2173.05(o)

Double patenting Chapter 800

Avoiding rejection 706.02(k) , 706.02(l)(3) , 804.02
Basis 804
Between one or more applications and a published application 804
Claimed subject matter 806.01
Commonly owned cases, treatment 804.03
Copending applications 706.02(k) , 804
Definition 804
Design applications/patents 804 , 1504.06
Different inventive entities 706.02(k) , 804.03
Distinct and independent inventions 804.01
Domination 804
International applications 804
Obviousness type 804

Design application 1504.06

Plant applications 1601
Reexamination 804 , 2217 , 2258
Rejection 804

Nonstatutory 804
Obvious 804
Prohibition, 35 U.S.C. 121 804.01
Provisional 706.02(k) , 706.02(l)(3) , 804
Specification, use of 804
Statutory 804 , 804.03

Rejection nullification 804.01
Restriction previously required 804.04 , 1003
Same assignee 706.02(k) 804.03 , 822
Same inventor 806.04(h) , 806.04(i) , 806.05 822 , 822.01
Species and genus 806.04(h) , 806.04(i)
Subject matter not patentably distinct 804
Submissions to TC director 804.04
Terminal disclaimer effect 706.02(k) 804.02 , 1451 , 1490

In a reissue application 1451

Drafting notation 608.02 , 707.07(a) , 707.07(c)

Drafting stamp (no longer required) 608.02(o)

Drawings 507 , 608.02

Amendment 608.02(p) , 1302.04

In ex parte reexamination 2250.01
Ininter partesreexamination 2666.02
In reissue application 1413
Prior to publication of PG-Pub 1121

Amendment, Direction for 608.02(q)
Amendment, Disposition of orders for 608.02(x)
Amendment support by original claim 608.04(a)
Annotated sheets 608.02(v) , 608.02(w)
Brief description 608.01(f)
Canceled figure 608.02(t)
Canceled sheet 608.02(t)
Canceled sheet, patent 608.02(i)
Canceled sheet, transfer 608.02(i)
Color 608.02 , 1503.02
Colored plant 1606
Complete illustration 608.02(d)
Completeness 608.02(e)
Computer lists 608.05
Consistency 608.02(e)
Content of 608.02(d)
Correction(See also Correction of drawing ) 608.02(p) 1302.05

Incorporated into PG-Pub 1120 , 1121
Reversed figure numbers 1302.04

Date no longer entered on back 608.02(o)
Delivered to wrong Technology Center 508.01
Design application 1503 , 1503.01 1503.02 , 1504.04
Disclosure 608
Divisional application 608.02 , 608.02(i)
Drafting criticism included in first Office action 707.07(a) , 707.07(c)
Drafting notation 608.02
Drafting stamp no longer required 608.02(o)
Examiner determines completeness 608.02(e)
Illustrates claim 608.02(e)
Informal (no longer used) 507 , 608.02(b)
Interference prints 608.02(m)
International application 1825
Kept in application 608.02(c)
Lost 1302.05(a)
Mail section stamp no longer used 608.02(o)
Modification illustrated 608.02(f)
Marked-up copy 608.02(v) , 608.02(w)
Necessary for filing date 506 , 608.02
New drawings required 608.02(a)
New, handling 608.02(a)
New matter 608.04 , 706.03(o)
New, when required 608.02(a)
Not received 608.02(h) , 1825
Not required 608.02
Not returned 608.02(y)
Objection 608 , 608.01 608.02 , 608.02(b) 706.03(o) , 1503.02 , 1504.04 Official Gazettefigure 1302.09
Omitted drawings 601.01(g)
Patented file 905.03
Petition to transfer from another application 608.02(i)
Photographs 608.02 , 1503.02
Placement in file wrapper 719.01(b)
Plant application 1603 , 1606
Print(See also Print of drawing ) 608.02(m) , 608.02(n)
Prior art 608.02(g) , 2125
Provisional application 608.02
Reference characters 608.02(e)
Reference characters, change 608.02(w)
Reissue application 1411 , 1413

No longer transferred from original patent 1413

Removal from Technology Center 608.02(c)
Replacement drawings for publication in PG-Pub 1121
Replacement 608.02(h)
Reversed figure numbers 1302.04
Review by Office of Initial Patent Examination (OIPE) 507
Required by examiner 608.02
Requirements 608.02
Return 608.02(y)
Section lines 608.02(f)
Security markings 121
Substitute 502 , 608.02(h)
Sufficiency, determined by examiner 608.02(e)
Symbols 608.02
Trademarks 1512
Unacceptable 608.02(b)

Drawing correction 507 , 608.02(p)

Dual correspondence 403 , 714.01(d)

Due Care Showing 2734

Duplicate amendments(See also Amendment ) 719.01(a)

Duplicate claims 706.03(k)

Duplicate foreign patents 903.03

Duplicate papers for plant applications 1603 , 1605 1606 , 1609

Duty of candor and good faith 2001 , 2001.03 , 2733 , 2762

Compared to duty to disclose material information 2001.04
Information disclosure 609
Reexamination 2280

Duty of disclosure Chapter 2000

After patent grant 2003.01
Aids to compliance 2004
Checklist 2004
Compared to requirement for information 704.12(a) 2005
Compliance with 2004
Continuing applications 2001.04 , 2004
Copending applications 2001.06(b) , 2004
Copied claims 2001.06(d)
Duration of 2001.04 , 2003.01
Foreign applications 2001.06(a)
Information material to patentability 2001.04 , 2001.05
Litigation information 2001.06(c)
Questionnaire 2004
Reexamination

Ex parte 2014 , 2280
Inter partes 2003.01 , 2684

Reissue application 1406 , 1414 , 1418 , 1448 2001.06(c) , 2003
Sources of information 2001.06
To whom owed 2001.03
Violation of 2010

Claims invalidated 2016
Protest 2013
Reexamination 2014
Reissue 2012
Rejection of claims in reissue application 1448

Who has 2001.01

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