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Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)

Chapter 0300

Ownership and Assignment

United States Patent and Trademark Office

301Ownership/Assignability of Patents and Applications 302Recording of Assignment Documents 303Assignment Documents Not Endorsed on Pending Applications 304-305[Reserved]306Assignment of Division, Continuation, Substitute, and Continuation-in-Part in Relation to Parent Application 307Issue to Non-Applicant Assignee 308Issue to Applicant 309Restrictions Upon Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 310Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development 311Filing of Notice of Arbitration Awards 312[Reserved]313Recording of Licenses, Security Interests, and Documents Other Than Assignments 314Certificates of Change of Name or of Merger 315Indexing Against a Recorded Certificate 316[Reserved]317Handling of Documents in the Assignment Recordation Branch 318Documents Not to be Placed in Files 319[Reserved]320Title Reports 321-322[Reserved]323Procedures for Correcting Errors in Recorded Assignment Document 324Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action in Application Filed Before September 16, 2012 325Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action in Application Filed On or After September 16, 2012