Arbitration Awards

§ 1.335 - Filing of notice of arbitration awards.

§§ 1.331--1.334 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.351--1.352 - [Reserved]

Petitions and Action by the Commissioner

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 maintenance fee filed prior to expiration of patent.

§ 1.378 - Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent.

Reissues

§ 1.171 - Application for reissue.

§ 1.172 - Reissue applicant.

§ 1.173 - Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments.

§ 1.174 - [Reserved]

§ 1.175 - Inventor's oath or declaration for a reissue application.

§ 1.176 - Examination of reissue.

§ 1.177 - Issuance of multiple reissue patents.

§ 1.178 - Original patent; continuing duty of applicant.

§ 1.179 - [Reserved]

Who May Apply for a Patent

§ 1.41 - Inventorship.

§ 1.42 - Applicant for patent.

§ 1.43 - Application for patent by a legal representative of a deceased or legally incapacitated inventor.

§ 1.44 - [Reserved]

§ 1.45 - Application for patent by joint inventors.

§ 1.46 - Application for patent by an assignee, obligated assignee, or a person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter.

§ 1.47 - [Reserved]

§ 1.48 - Correction of inventorship pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 116 or correction of the name or order of names in a patent application, other than a reissue application.

Review of Patent and Trademark Office Decisions by Court

§ 1.301 - Appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

§ 1.302 - Notice of appeal.

§ 1.303 - Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 145, 146, 306.

§ 1.304 - Time for appeal or civil action.

§§ 1.301--1.304 - [Reserved]

Amendments

§ 1.115 - Preliminary amendments.

§ 1.116 - Amendments and affidavits or other evidence after final action and prior to appeal.

§ 1.117 - [Reserved]

§ 1.118 - Amendment of disclosure.

§ 1.119 - Amendment of claims.

§ 1.121 - Manner of making amendments in applications.

§ 1.122 - Entry and consideration of amendments.

§ 1.123 - Amendments to the drawing.

§ 1.124 - Amendment of amendments.

§ 1.125 - Substitute specification.

§ 1.126 - Numbering of claims.

§ 1.127 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.122--1.24 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.122--1.224 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.117--1.119 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.118--1.119 - [Reserved]

Petitions and Action by the Director

§ 1.181 - Petition to the Director.

§ 1.182 - Questions not specifically provided for.

§ 1.183 - Suspension of rules.

§ 1.184 - [Reserved]

Appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

§ 1.191 - Appeal to Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

§ 1.197 - Termination of proceedings.

§ 1.198 - Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

§§ 1.192--1.196 - [Reserved]

Plant Patents

§ 1.161 - Rules applicable.

§ 1.162 - Applicant, oath or declaration.

§ 1.163 - Specification and arrangement of application elements in a plant application.

§ 1.164 - Claim.

§ 1.165 - Plant drawings.

§ 1.166 - Specimens.

§ 1.167 - Examination.

Interviews

§ 1.133 - Interviews.

Transitional Provisions

§ 1.129 - Transitional procedures for limited examination after final rejection and restriction practice.

Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

§ 1.192 - Appellant's brief.

§ 1.193 - Examiner's answer and reply brief.

§ 1.194 - Oral hearing.

§ 1.195 - Affidavits or declarations after appeal.

§ 1.196 - Decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

Design Patents

§ 1.151 - Rules applicable.

§ 1.152 - Design drawings.

§ 1.153 - Title, description and claim, oath or declaration.

§ 1.154 - Arrangement of application elements in a design application.

§ 1.155 - Expedited examination of design applications.

Action by Applicant and Further Consideration

§ 1.111 - Reply by applicant or patent owner to a non-final Office action.

§ 1.112 - Reconsideration before final action.

§ 1.113 - Final rejection or action.

§ 1.114 - Request for continued examination.

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, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 256.

§ 1.325 - Other mistakes not corrected.

Specification

§ 1.71 - Detailed description and specification of the invention.

§ 1.72 - Title and abstract.

§ 1.73 - Summary of the invention.

§ 1.74 - Reference to drawings.

§ 1.75 - Claim(s).

§ 1.76 - Application data sheet.

§ 1.77 - Arrangement of application elements.

§ 1.78 - Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross-references to other applications.

§ 1.79 - [Reserved]

Examination of Applications

§ 1.101 - [Reserved]

§ 1.102 - Advancement of examination.

§ 1.103 - Suspension of action by the Office.

§ 1.104 - Nature of examination.

§ 1.105 - Requirements for information.

§ 1.106 - Rejection of claims.

§ 1.107 - Citation of references.

§ 1.108 - Abandoned applications not cited.

§ 1.109 - Effective filing date of a claimed invention under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

§ 1.110 - Inventorship and ownership of the subject matter of individual claims.

§§ 1.105--1.109 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.106--1.108 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.106--1.109 - [Reserved]

Miscellaneous Provisions

§ 1.248 - Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences and trials.

§ 1.251 - Unlocatable file.

§ 1.265 - Examination support document.

Information Disclosure Statement

§ 1.97 - Filing of information disclosure statement.

§ 1.98 - Content of information disclosure statement.

§ 1.99 - [Reserved]

Affidavits Overcoming Rejections

§ 1.130 - Affidavit or declaration of attribution or prior public disclosure under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

§ 1.131 - Affidavit or declaration of prior invention or to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art.

§ 1.132 - Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections.

Time for Reply by Applicant; Abandonment of Application

§ 1.134 - Time period for reply to an Office action.

§ 1.135 - Abandonment for failure to reply within time period.

§ 1.136 - Extensions of time.

§ 1.137 - Revival of abandoned application, or terminated or limited reexamination prosecution.

§ 1.138 - Express abandonment.

§ 1.139 - [Reserved]

Allowance and Issue of Patent

§ 1.311 - Notice of allowance.

§ 1.312 - Amendments after allowance.

§ 1.313 - Withdrawal from issue.

§ 1.314 - Issuance of patent.

§ 1.315 - [Reserved]

§ 1.316 - Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee.

§ 1.317 - Lapsed patents; delayed payment of balance of issue fee.

§ 1.318 - [Reserved]

§§ 1.317--1.318 - [Reserved]

Time for Response by Applicant; Abandonment of Application

Models, Exhibits, Specimens

§ 1.91 - Models or exhibits not generally admitted as part of application or patent.

§ 1.92 - [Reserved]

§ 1.93 - Specimens.

§ 1.94 - Return of models, exhibits or specimens.

§ 1.95 - Copies of exhibits.

§ 1.96 - Submission of computer program listings.

Disclaimer

§ 1.321 - Statutory disclaimers, including terminal disclaimers.

The Application

§ 1.51 - General requisites of an application.

§ 1.52 - Language, paper, writing, margins, read-only optical disc specifications.

§ 1.53 - Application number, filing date, and completion of application.

§ 1.54 - Parts of application to be filed together; filing receipt.

§ 1.55 - Claim for foreign priority.

§ 1.56 - Duty to disclose information material to patentability.

§ 1.57 - Incorporation by reference.

§ 1.58 - Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables.

§ 1.59 - Expungement of information or copy of papers in application file.

§ 1.61 - Continuation or divisional application for invention disclosed in a prior nonprovisional application.

§§ 1.60--1.62 - [Reserved]

§ 1.62 - File wrapper continuing procedure.

Protests and Public Use Proceedings

§ 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.

Preissuance Submissions and Protests by Third Parties

§ 1.290 - Submissions by third parties in applications.

§ 1.291 - Protests by the public against pending applications.

§§ 1.292--1.297 - [Reserved]

Publication of Applications

§ 1.211 - Publication of applications.

§ 1.213 - Nonpublication request.

§ 1.215 - Patent application publication.

§ 1.217 - Publication of a redacted copy of an application.

§ 1.219 - Early publication.

§ 1.221 - Voluntary publication or republication of patent application publication.

Oath or Declaration

§ 1.63 - Inventor's oath or declaration.

§ 1.64 - Substitute statement in lieu of an oath or declaration.

§ 1.66 - Statements under oath.

§ 1.67 - Supplemental oath or declaration.

§ 1.68 - Declaration in lieu of oath.

§ 1.69 - Foreign language oaths and declarations.

§ 1.70 - [Reserved]

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.

Amendment of Rules

§ 1.351 - Amendments to rules will be published.

§ 1.352 - [Reserved]

The Drawings

§ 1.81 - Drawings required in patent application.

§ 1.83 - Content of drawing.

§ 1.84 - Standards for drawings.

§ 1.85 - Corrections to drawings.

§ 1.88 - [Reserved]

Prosecution of Application and Appointment of Attorney or Agent

§ 1.31 - Applicant may be represented by one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors.

§ 1.32 - Power of attorney.

§ 1.33 - Correspondence respecting patent applications, patent reexamination proceedings, and other proceedings.

§ 1.34 - Acting in a representative capacity.

§ 1.36 - Revocation of power of attorney; withdrawal of patent attorney or agent.