Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 2024) |
Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights |
Chapter I - United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce |
SubChapter A - General |
Part 1 - Rules of Practice in Patent Cases |
Subpart E - Supplemental Examination of Patents |
§ 1.601 - Filing of papers in supplemental examination. |
§ 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 - Items of information. |
§ 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 - [Reserved] |
§ 1.610 - Content of request for supplemental examination. |
§ 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 - Format of papers filed in a supplemental examination proceeding. |
§ 1.616 - Sanctions for failure to comply with rules or order or for taking and maintaining a frivolous position. |
§ 1.617 - Summary judgment against applicant. |
§ 1.618 - Return of unauthorized papers. |
§ 1.620 - Conduct of supplemental examination proceeding. |
§ 1.621 - Preliminary statement, time for filing, notice of filing. |
§ 1.622 - Preliminary statement, who made invention, where invention made. |
§ 1.623 - Preliminary statement; invention made in United States, a NAFTA country, or a WTO member country. |
§ 1.624 - Preliminary statement; invention made in a place other than the United States, a NAFTA country, or a WTO member country. |
§ 1.625 - Conclusion of supplemental examination; publication of supplemental examination certificate; procedure after conclusion. |
§ 1.626 - Preliminary statement; earlier application. |
§ 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. |
§ 1.640 - Motions, hearing and decision, redeclaration of interference, order to show cause. |
§ 1.641 - Unpatentability discovered by administrative patent judge. |
§ 1.642 - Addition of application or patent to interference. |
§ 1.643 - Prosecution of interference by assignee. |
§ 1.644 - Petitions in interferences. |
§ 1.645 - Extension of time, late papers, stay of proceedings. |
§ 1.646 - Service of papers, proof of service. |
§ 1.647 - Translation of document in foreign language. |
§ 1.651 - Setting times for discovery and taking testimony, parties entitled to take testimony. |
§ 1.652 - Judgment for failure to take testimony or file record. |
§ 1.653 - Record and exhibits. |
§ 1.654 - Final hearing. |
§ 1.655 - Matters considered in rendering a final decision. |
§ 1.656 - Briefs for final hearing. |
§ 1.657 - Burden of proof as to date of invention. |
§ 1.658 - Final decision. |
§ 1.659 - Recommendation. |
§ 1.660 - Notice of reexamination, reissue, protest, or litigation. |
§ 1.661 - Termination of interference after judgment. |
§ 1.662 - Request for entry of adverse judgment; reissue filed by patentee. |
§ 1.663 - Status of claim of defeated applicant after interference. |
§ 1.664 - Action after interference. |
§ 1.665 - Second interference. |
§ 1.666 - Filing of interference settlement agreements. |
§ 1.671 - Evidence must comply with rules. |
§ 1.672 - Manner of taking testimony. |
§ 1.673 - 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 an affidavit or a transcript of deposition. |
§ 1.678 - Time for filing transcript of deposition. |
§ 1.679 - Inspection of transcript. |
§ 1.682 - Official records and printed publications. |
§ 1.683 - Testimony in another interference, proceeding, or action. |
§ 1.684 - [Reserved] |
§ 1.685 - Errors and irregularities in depositions. |
§ 1.687 - Additional discovery. |
§ 1.688 - [Reserved] |
§ 1.690 - Arbitration of interferences. |
§§ 1.682--1.684 - [Reserved] |