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Form-Paragraph-Chapter-800

Form Paragraphs 8.01 - 8.50

United States Patent and Trademark Office

fp8.01Election of Species; Species Claim(s) Present fp8.02Requiring an Election of Species; No Species Claim Present fp8.03In Condition for Allowance, Non-elected Claims Withdrawn with Traverse fp8.04Election by Original Presentation fp8.05Claims Stand Withdrawn With Traverse fp8.06Claims Stand Withdrawn Without Traverse fp8.07Ready for Allowance, Non-elected Claims Withdrawn Without Traverse fp8.08Restriction, Two Groupings fp8.09Restriction, 3rd Grouping fp8.10Restriction, 4th Grouping fp8.11Restriction, Additional Groupings fp8.12Restriction, Linking Claims fp8.13Distinctness (Heading)fp8.14Intermediate-Final Product fp8.14.01Distinct Products or Distinct Processes fp8.15Combination-Subcombination fp8.16Subcombinations, Usable Together fp8.17Process and Apparatus fp8.18Product and Process of Making fp8.19Apparatus and Product Made fp8.20Product and Process of Using fp8.20.02Unrelated Inventions fp8.20.03Unrelated Product and Process Inventions fp8.21To Establish Burden AND Requirement for Election and Means for Traversal for all Restrictions, other than an Election of Species fp8.21.04Notice of Potential Rejoinder of Process Claims fp8.23Requirement, When Elected by Telephone fp8.23.01Requirement, No Election by Telephone fp8.23.02Joint Inventors, Correction of Inventorship fp08.23.03No Telephone Restriction Permitted, No Attorney or Agent of Record, Practitioner Included in ADS fp8.25Answer to Arguments With Traverse fp8.25.01Election Without Traverse fp8.25.02Election Without Traverse Based on Incomplete Reply fp8.26Canceled Elected Claims, Non-Responsive fp8.26.AECanceled Elected Claims, Non-Responsive – Application Under Accelerated Examination fp8.27.aiaDifferent Inventors, Common Assignee, Same Invention, Examined under First Inventor To File (FITF) Provisions of the AIA fp8.27.ftiDifferent Inventors, Common Assignee, Same Invention, Examined Under Pre-AIA (First to Invent) Provisions fp8.28.aiaDifferent Inventors, Common Assignee, Inventions Not Patentably Distinct, No Evidence of Common Ownership Not Later Than the Effective Filing Date of the Claimed Invention, Examined Under First Inventor to File (FITF) Provisions of the AIA fp8.28.ftiDifferent Inventors, Common Assignee, Inventions Not Patentably Distinct, No Evidence of Common Ownership at Time of Invention, Examined Under Pre-AIA (First To Invent) Provisions fp8.28.01.aiaAdvisory Information Relating to Form Paragraph 8.28.aia fp8.28.01.ftiAdvisory Information Relating to Form Paragraph 8.28.fti fp8.29Patentably Indistinct Claims, Copending Applications fp8.3035 U.S.C. 101, Statutory Basis for Double Patenting "Heading" Only fp8.31Rejection, 35 U.S.C. 101, Double Patenting fp8.32Provisional Rejection, 35 U.S.C. 101, Double Patenting fp8.33Basis for Nonstatutory Double Patenting, "Heading" Only fp8.34Rejection, Nonstatutory Double Patenting - No Secondary Reference(s)fp8.35Provisional Rejection, Nonstatutory Double Patenting - No Secondary Reference(s)fp8.36Rejection, Nonstatutory Double Patenting - With Secondary Reference(s)fp8.37Provisional Rejection, Nonstatutory Double Patenting - With Secondary Reference(s)fp8.38Double Patenting - Nonstatutory (Based Solely on Improper Timewise Extension of Patent Rights) With a Patent fp8.39Double Patenting - Nonstatutory (Based Solely on Improper Timewise Extension of Patent Rights) With Another Application fp8.40Improper Markush Grouping Rejection fp8.41Transitional Restriction or Election of Species Requirement – pre-GATT Filing fp8.42Allowable Product, Rejoinder of at Least One Process Claim, Less Than All Claims fp8.43Allowable Product, Rejoinder of All Previously Withdrawn Process Claims fp8.45Elected Invention Allowable, Rejoinder of All Previously Withdrawn Claims fp8.46Elected Invention Allowable, Non-elected Claims Canceled, Other Issues Remain Outstanding fp8.47Elected Invention Allowable, Non-elected Claims Canceled, Before Final Rejection, No Outstanding Issues Remaining fp8.47.01Elected Invention Allowable, Non-elected Claims Canceled, After Final Rejection, No Outstanding Issues Remaining fp8.49Elected Invention Allowable, Claims Stand Withdrawn, Restriction Maintained fp8.50Elected Invention Allowable, Some Claims No Longer Considered Withdrawn