MPEP Subject Matter Index (B) – Subject Matter Index

Background of the invention (See alsoSpecification) 608.01(c)
Bacteria 1601
Bar, Statutory (SeeStatutory bar)
Base claim canceled 608.01(n)
Base claim rejected 608.01(n)
Benefit of domestic priority (See alsoCross-noting) 201.11
1. Adding benefit claim after filing 201.11
2. Correcting benefit claim after filing 201.11
3. Correcting benefit claim after patenting 1405
4. Deleting benefit claim after filing 201.11
Benefit of foreign priority (See alsoForeign application) 201.13
1. Correcting benefit claim after patenting 1402; 1417
Benelux Designs Convention (See alsoTreaties) 201.13; 1504.10
Best mode 608.01(h); 2165 - 2165.04
1. Affidavit or declaration 715.10
2. Compared to enablement 2165.02
3. Computer cases 2161.01
4. Considerations relevant to 2165.01
5. Evidence of concealment 2165; 2165.04
6. Form paragraphs used to reject 706.03(c)
7. Requirements for rejection for lack of 2165.03
Bibliographic Information 601.05
Biological material 2164.06(a); 2402; 2403
Biotechnology (See alsoNucleotide sequences) 2400
1. Deposit of biological material 2403
2. Deposit rules 2402
3. Deposit term 2408
4. Enablement 2164.06(a)
5. Examination of applications 2411
6. Form paragraphs 2427.01
7. Patent In computer program 2430
8. Process claims 706.02(n)
9. Samples 2410
10. Sequence rules (See alsoSequence rules) 2420; 2421
11. Special status for small entity applications 708.02
Blue slip (SeeForm letters and forms: Issue Classification (Blue slip) PTO-270)
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) (See alsoAppeal and Interference) 706.03(v); 706.03(w); 707.06; 707.07(f); 708.01; 711.02(b); 2284; 2301
1. Appeal from 1216 - 1216.02
  1. In inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
2. Constitution and duties 1202
3. Decision
  1. Dissemination of 1720
  2. Generally 1213
  3. Publication of 1213.03; 2681
  4. Treatment of 1721
4. Duty of disclosure to 2001.03
5. Hearing 1209
6. Interference
  1. Declaration of 2301
  2. Return of Jurisdiction to Examiner 2308
7. Jurisdiction 706.01; 706.07(c); 1210; 2301; 2308
8. May require appellant to address matter 1212
9. New ground of rejection by 1214.01
  1. In inter partes reexamination 2681; 2682
10. Non-final decision in inter partes reexamination 2681
11. Petitions 1002.02(g); 1002.02(j)
12. Rehearing by 1002.02(f); 1214.01; 1214.03
  1. Inter partes reexamination 2682; 2683
13. Service Branch 104
14. Statement of allowability by 1213.01
Books in library 901.06(a)
Borrowed publications 901.06(a); 901.06(b)
Borrowing references from examiner’s search files 901.08
Box, Mail (SeeCorrespondence and Mail Stop)
Breadth, Undue (SeeUndue breadth rejection)
Brief, filed on appeal 1205
1. Ex parte reexamination 2274
2. Inter partesreexamination 2662; 2665; 2675
  1. Defective 2675; 2675.02
Brief description of the drawings (See alsoSpecification) 608.01(f)
Brief summary of invention 608.01(d); 1302.01
British English spelling 608.01
British specification, provisional 201.15
Broadening claims in reissue 1412.03
Browser executable code in specification 608.01; 608.01(p)
Budapest Treaty (See alsoMicroorganisms and Treaties) 901.05(b); 2402; 2404.01; 2405; 2408; 2409; 2410.01; 2410.02; 2411.01
1. Depositories 2405
Bulletin, Classification (SeeClassification and Orders)
Burden of proof 2112; 2112.01; 2113
Business hours of USPTO 510