MPEP Subject Matter Index (C) – Subject Matter Index

CAFC (SeeCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC))
Canceled matter, before papers executed 602.08(b)
Canceled matter, cannot be recaptured in reissue 1412.02
Canceled matter, Restoring 608.01(s)
Canceled matter in patented file 901.01
Canceling claim after issue 714.16
Canceling claims not appealed 1214.05
Canceling drawing 608.02(t)
Cancellation of drawing figures 608.02(t)
Candor, Duty of (See alsoDuty of candor and good faith) 2001; 2001.03
Carbon copy, application papers 608.01
Carbon copy of amendment 714.07
Card catalog in library 901.06(a)
Caricatures, Offensive 608; 1504.01(e)
Catalog and circulars 901.06(a)
Central Facsimile Number 502; 502.01
Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) (See alsoOffice of Patent Legal Administration (OPLA)) 103; 1002.02(c)(4); 2212.01; 2224; 2227; 2229; 2231; 2233; 2235 - 2237; 2239; 2240; 2242; 2245 - 2249; 2258.01; 2262; 2265; 2267; 2270; 2271.01; 2274; 2281; 2283 - 2287; 2289; 2294; 2295; 2803.01; 2812; 2812.02; 2812.03; 2816; 2816.02; 2817.01; 2819; 2822
Certificate, derivation 901.04
Certificate effect of signature 402.03; 410
Certificate, Ex parte Reexamination 2288
1. Format 2290
Certificate, Inter Partes review 901.04
Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
1. Applicant’s mistake 1481
2. Assignee’s name 307; 1481.01
3. Branch 1002.02(l)
4. Copy required in reexamination
  1. Ex parte 2214
5. Date of issuance 1485
6. Domestic priority 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 1002.02(b); 1002.02(p); 1402; 1481; 1481.03
7. Electronic publication 1485
8. Expedited issuance 1480.01
9. Foreign priority 216.01; 1481; 1481.03
10. Form PTO-1050 1480; 1480.01; 1485
11. Form PTO/SB/44 1480; 1480.01; 1485
12. Handling of request for 1485
13. International application priority 1481.03
14. Inventorship 1412.04; 1481; 1481.02
15. Matters requiring TC Director’s attention 1003
16. Office’s mistake 1480; 1480.01
17. Official Gazette listing 1480; 1485
18. Paper 1485
19. Patent in litigation 1003
20. Petition of refusal to issue 1002.02(c)
21. Reissue application 1411.01; 1443
22. Report by examiner 1485
23. Third party standing 1480
Certificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8) 502.01; 511; 512; 513
1. Ex parte reexamination 2224; 2265; 2266
2. Information disclosure statement 609
3. International application 1805; 1834; 1865; 1893.01(a)(1)
4. Maintenance fee 2510
5. Overcoming abandonment 711.03(c); 711.04(c)
6. Period for reply 714.17
Certificate of service
1. Ex parte reexamination 2220
Certificate, post grant review 901.04
Certified copies
1. Abstract of Title 320
2. Appeal to federal circuit 1216.01
3. Application as filed 608.01; 1730
4. Certified Copy Center 501; 502; 1730; 2209; 2232; 2435; 2803.02
5. Civil litigation 1216
6. Facsimile submission not permitted 502.02
7. Facsimile requests for 1730
8. Foreign application 213.04; 215; 502.02; 1402; 1417; 1481.03; 1504.10; 1893.03(c); 2138.06
9. MPEP ; 1730
10. Orders for 1730
11. Patent copies 1730
12. Patent related file wrappers 1730
13. PCT application 1801; 1828; 1893.03(c); 1895.01; 1896
14. Photocopies not permitted 502.02
15. Provisional application 103; 104
16. Reexamination file
  1. Ex parte 2232
  2. Inter partes 2632
Change from small entity status (See alsoSmall entity status) 509.03(b)
Change of correspondence address 601.03; 711.03(c)
Characteristic feature in design applications 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
Chemical compound 608.01(b)
Chemical practice
1. Enablement 2164.06(b)
2. Generic chemical formula 2131.02; 2144.08
3. Markush 803.02; 2117; 2173.05(h)
Chief Administrative Patent Judge 1002.02(f)
Circulars (See alsoPublication)
Citation of prior art
1. A.P.C. publications 901.06(c)
2. Abbreviatures 711.06; 711.06(a)
3. Abstract 711.06; 711.06(a); 2120
4. Allowance, Listing at 1302.12
5. Applicant’s 707.05(b); 707.05(d); 1302.12
6. Complete data 707.05(e)
7. Copies furnished 707.05(a)
8. Correction 707.05(g)
9. Correction, period for reply 710.06
10. Cross references 707.05(e)
11. Data used 707.05(e)
12. Decisions, orders, notices, memoranda 707.06
13. Defensive publications 711.06; 711.06(a)
14. Electronic Resources 707.05(e)
15. Examiner’s answer 1207
16. Foreign language documents 2120
17. Foreign patent data 707.05(e); 901.05(a)
18. Foreign printed applications 901.05(b)
19. Form PTO-892 reproduced 707.05(a)
20. Incorrect 707.05(g); 710.06
21. Literature, in specification 608.01(p)
22. Mailing copy to patent owner 2206; 2208
23. Memorandum 707.06
24. Notices 707.06
25. Order of listing 707.05(c)
26. Orders 707.06
27. Patents series, U.S. (See alsoPatent) 901.04
28. Periodical 707.05(e); 901.06
29. Prior art effect of international application 2136.03; 2139.02; 2152.05; 2154.01(a)
30. Prior art in application 707.05(b); 1302.12
31. Prior art in patent 1920; 2200
  1. Confidentiality 2202; 2203
  2. Content 2205
  3. Court decision 2207
  4. Filing and handling 2206
  5. Parties who may cite 2203
  6. Service on patent owner 2208
  7. Time for filing 2204
32. Publications 707.05(e)
33. References 707.05
  1. Allowance in first action 1302.12
  2. From applicant 707.05(b); 1302.12
Citizenship of applicant 601.05
Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 145 1214.07; 1216; 1216.02
Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 146 1216
Claim 608.01(i); 608.01(k)
1. "Adapted for" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
2. "Adapted to" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
3. Added by amendment 608.01(o)
  1. Results in change of inventorship 602.09
4. Added in excess of number of claims previously paid for 714.10
5. After prosecution closed 714.16; 714.19
6. After prosecution closed, near end of time period 714.20
7. Aggregation 2173.05(k)
8. All allowed 710.02(b)
9. All canceled 711.01
10. Allowable except as to form 706; 707.07(a); 707.07(j)
11. Allowed, Rejection of 706.04; 706.05
12. Allowed, Withdrawn appeal 1215.02
13. Alternative phrase (See alsoIndefinite claim) 2117; 2173.01; 2173.05(h); 2173.05(i)
14. Amendment of (See alsoAmendment) 714
15. Analysis 904.01
16. Antecedent basis (See alsoIndefinite claim) 2173.03; 2173.05(e)
17. Basis in description 608.01(o); 2171
18. Basis in disclosure 608; 2163.03
19. Breadth 2163.05; 2164.08; 2173.04
20. Broadening in reissue application 1412.02; 1412.03
  1. Dependent claim 1412.03
21. Cancellation by examiner after appeal 1214.05
22. Cancellation results in change of inventorship 602.01(c)
23. Change after Board statement of allowability 1213.01
24. Combination, old 2173.05(j)
25. Combination and subcombination 806.05(a)
26. Combination Sets 905.03
27. Comprising 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
28. Considered in deciding reexamination request 2243
29. Consisting essentially of 2111.03
30. Consisting of 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
31. Construed in light of specification 608.01(o); 804; 2103; 2106; 2111 - 2111.03; 2129; 2145; 2164.08; 2173.02 - 2173.05(c); 2181; 2184
32. Contingent limitations 2111.04
33. Copied from patent (SeeClaim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
34. Correspondence with disclosure 1302.01; 2173.03
35. Defined by specification, term 2111.01
36. Dependent 608.01(n)
37. Dependent, objected to when improper 608.01(n); 706.01
38. Dependent on canceled or rejected claim 608.01(n); 706.01; 707.07(j); 1214.06
39. Design application 1503; 1503.01
40. Differing only by functional statement 2114; 2173.05(g)
41. Diminishing scope 2173.05(h)
42. Disclaimer 710.02(d); 2304.04(c)
43. Domestic benefit 210 - 211.05; 217
44. Double inclusion 2173.05(o)
45. Duplicate 608.01(m); 2173.05(o)
46. Each mentioned in letter 707.07(i)
47. Equivalence 2183
48. Excess added by preliminary amendment over number of claims previously paid for 714.10
49. Excess over fee after notice of allowance 714.16(c)
50. Fees, dependent 608.01(n)
51. File wrapper notation 1302.09
52. Foreign priority (See alsoForeign application) 210; 213 - 217
53. Form 608.01(m)
54. Function of machine 2173.05(v)
55. Functional 2103; 2114; 2173.05(g)
56. Generic (See alsoGeneric claim) 806.04(d); 2173.05(h)
57. Illustrated by drawing 608.02(d); 2173.05(s)
58. Improvement (i.e., Jepson claim) 2129
59. Inaccurate 2173.03
60. Incomplete 2172.01
61. Indefinite 2173; 2175
62. Independent 608.01(n)
63. Index 719.04
64. Informal 702.01
65. International application 1824
66. Interpretation 2111; 2111.01; 2111.02; 2111.03
67. Jepson 2129
68. Linking 806.04; 806.05(c); 809; 809.03; 821.04(a)
69. Linking, Generic 806.04; 821.04(a)
70. Markush 2117
  1. Generic 803.02
  2. Improper 2117
  3. Indefinite 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
  4. Subgenus 2173.05(h)
  5. Support 608.01(p)
71. Material or article worked upon 2115
72. Means (See alsoMeans) 2181 - 2185
73. Missing 601.01(e)
74. Multiple dependent 608.01(n)
75. Multiplicity 2173.05(h); 2173.05(n)
76. Negative limitation 2173.05(i)
77. New matter 608.04; 608.04(a); 2163.06
  1. Reissue application 1411.02
78. Nonelected invention 803.02; 821.01; 821.02; 821.04(a)
79. Nonelected invention, Added 821.03
80. Nonstatutory 2104 - 2107
81. Novel, nonobvious starting material or end product 2116.01
82. Numbering 608.01(j)
83. Objection contrasted with rejection 706.01
84. Official Gazette(O.G.) 1302.09
85. Omnibus claim 2173.05(r)
86. Ordinary and customary meaning 2106; 2111.01
87. Patentably distinct 608.01(m)
88. Plain meaning of claim term 2111.01
89. Plant application 1605; 1610
90. Present on Filing Date 608.01(l); 1410
91. Priority (See alsoForeign application) 210; 213 - 217
92. Product, Functional 2114
93. Product by process 2113; 2173.05(p)
94. Prolix (See alsoIndefinite claim) 2173.05(m)
95. Ranges 2131.01; 2131.03; 2144.05; 2163.05; 2173.05(c)
96. Reference numerals included 608.01(m); 2173.05(s)
97. Reissue application
  1. Numbering 1453; 1455
  2. Original claim subject to examination 1440
  3. Printed in Official Gazette 1455
  4. Same invention as original patent 1412.01
  5. Underlining and bracketing 1453; 1455
98. Rejection 706; 2121 - 2187
99. Relative terminology 2173.05(b)
100. Renumbering at issue 608.01(j); 1302.01
101. Renumbering dependent 608.01(n); 1302.01
102. Single means 2164.08(a); 2173.05(g); 2181
103. Single sentence 608.01(m)
104. Species, how recognized 806.04(e); 806.04(f)
105. Species (plural) added 818.02(b)
106. Statutory requirement 608.01(k)
107. Subgenus (Markush type) 2173.05(h)
108. Subject matter eligibility 2104; 2106 - 2106.07(c)
109. Suggested for interference 2304.03 - 2304.04(b)
  1. Failure to make 2304.04(c)
  2. Time limit 710.02(c)
110. Summary of invention, consistent 608.01(d)
111. Terminology basis in description 608.01(o); 2163.02; 2163.05; 2173.01; 2173.05(a)
112. Unsupported 2163.01; 2173.03
113. Use claims 2173.05(q)
114. Vague (See alsoIndefinite claim) 706.03; 2171 - 2173
115. Varying scope 608.01(m)
116. "Whereby" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
117. "Wherein" clauses in 2103; 2111.04; 2143.03
118. With motion granted in part 714.20
119. Withdrawal of appealed claim by cancellation 1214.05; 1215.03
Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent (See alsoInterference) 710.04(a); 2304.4(a)
1. Appeal of rejection 1200
2. Disclaimer rejection 2304.04(c)
3. Late amendment 714.19
4. Not a reply to Office action 711.02(b)
5. Patent in different Technology Center 2304.01(b)
6. Period for reply 710.02(c); 710.04(a)
7. Prosecution closed 714.19
8. Rejection 2303
  1. TC Director’s attention 1003
9. Rejection, Failure to reply to 2304.04(c)
10. Special 708.01
Claiming same invention 715; 715.05; 2104; 2107.01; 2135; 2135.01; 2136.01; 2136.05(a); 2139.03; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2152.07; 2154.01(d)
Class, scope 903.02(b)
Class definitions 902.02
Classification (See alsoPatent classification) 900
1. Application (SeeClassification of application)
2. Basis 903.02
3. Cooperative Patent Classification System (See alsoCooperative Patent Classification) 902; 905.02
  1. Definitions
    1. For CPC 905.02
    2. For USPC 902.02; 902.02(a)
4. Design 907; 1503.01
5. Examiner (SeeClassification examiner)
6. Foreign patents 903.03
7. Harmonized subclasses 903.06
8. Index to U.S. Patent Classification 906
  1. Classification, International
9. Indices 902.03
10. Information 902.03(a)
11. International 906
12. Issue classification form/sheet/slip 903.07; 907; 1302.09; 1302.10; 1302.13
13. Locarno International 907
14. Mandatory 903.07
15. Manual for USPC 902.01
16. Patent classification Home Page on the Internet 902.03(a)
17. Nonpatent literature 901.06
18. Patent, Change of 903.05
19. Patent Classification Home Page on the USPTO Intranet 902.03(b)
20. Principles 903.02
21. Revision 903.02(b)
22. Statutory authority 903.01
Classification examiner
1. Patentability report 705.01(a)
Classification of application 900
1. Allowed application 903.07; 1004; 1302.10
2. Amendment affecting 909.01(c)
3. By applicant 601
4. Cross-referencing 903.07(a)
5. Disputed 909.01(d); 909.02(d)
6. File wrapper data 719.03
7. Improperly classified 909.01(d); 909.02(d)
  1. New application, by Office of Patent Application Processing 909.01(a); 909.02(a)
8. New application, by SPE 909.01(b); 909.02(b)
9. Post classifier 909.02(e); 903.10
10. Preliminary 601
11. Rules governing 909.02(e)
12. Transfer to another Technology Center 909.01(d)
Classifier, Post 909.02(e); 903.10
Clean copy of specification 608.01(q); 1302.02
Clearance for new law interpretation 1003; 1207.02
Closed prosecution except for formal matters 707.07(j); 710.02(b); 714.14
1. Prosecution not closed 707.07(j)
Closing of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 213.03; 510
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (SeeRules, Patent (Code of Federal Regulations))
Coinventor, Power of attorney 402.10
Collateral estoppel (See alsoEstoppel) 2012.01
1. Ex-parte reexamination 2259
Combination and aggregation 2173.05(j); 2173.05(k)
Combination and subcombination 806.05(a); 806.05(c); 903.02(b)
Comments on tests or examples 707.07(l)
Commercial activity or explotation as on sale (See alsoOn sale) 2120.02; 2133.03 - 2133.03(e)(7); 2139.02; 2152.02(d)
Commercial success of invention, affidavit alleging (See alsoAffidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.03; 1504.03
Commissioner for Patents (See alsoOffice of the Commissioner for Patents) 409.03; 708.01
1. Duty of Disclosure to 2001.03
2. Mailing address 501
3. Statutory basis 1001
Commissioner initiated reexamination (SeeDirector initiated Reexamination)
Commissioner for Trademarks
1. Petitions decided by 1002.02(i)
Commodity Control List (CCL) 120
Common applicants 709.01; 715.01(a); 717.02 - 717.02(d); 2136.01; 2137; 2139.03; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.07; 2154.01(d); 2158.01
Common knowledge, use in rejections 2143; 2144.03
Common ownership 717.02 - 717.02(d); 2136.01; 2137; 2144.01; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2154.02(c); 2156
1. Conflicting claims 303; 608.01(m); 709.01; 804; 822; 2136.01; 2139.03; 2146.03; 2152.07; 2154.01(d); 2158.01; 2304.05
2. Requirements to establish 717.02(a); 717.02(b); 2146.02
Common representative for international application 402.09; 1807
Communication with suspended or excluded attorney or agent 105
Communications, official mailing address for 501
Communication via Internet e-mail 502.03
Comparative tests (See alsoAffidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)) 716.02(b)
Complete application 506; 601.01 - 601.01(g)
Complete British specification 214.03
"Comprising" as transitional phrase 2111.03
"Comprising" in Markush claim 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
Computer generated electronic images 1504.01(a)
Computer programs or software
1. Adequate disclosure 2164.06(c); 2181
2. Affidavit practice 2164.06(c)
3. Best mode 2161.01
4. Computer Program Listing Appendix 601; 608.05; 608.05(a)
5. Deposit of listings 608.05; 608.05(a)
6. Enablement 2161.01; 2164.06(c)
7. Patentable subject matter 2106; 2106.04(a)(1); 2106.04(a)(2); 2106.05 - 2106.05(h)
8. Printed in PG-Pub 1121
9. Undue experimentation 2164.06(c)
10. Written description 2161.01
Concealment 608.01(h); 2138.03; 2165.04
Conception 715.07; 2136.03 - 2137; 2138 - 2138.06; 2163
Concordance, International and United States classification 906
Concurrent Office proceedings 2282 - 2286.01; 2820
Conduct in public information facilities 510
Conduct of ex parte reexamination proceedings 2254
Confidential material 121; 724 - 724.05
Confidential material submission 121; 724.02
Confidential party of interest 2202; 2203
Confidential status of application 101; 2136.01; 2154.01(d)
1. Same applicant 608.01(m); 709.01; 804; 822; 2120.02; 2136.01; 2146.03; 2154.01(d)
2. Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
Confidential submission of prior art and section 301 written statements 2202; 2203
Confidentiality, pending applications 100
Confidentiality of international applications 110
Confirmation number 503
Conflicting applications, same assignee 709.01; 715.01(b); 804.03; 822; 2136.01; 2141.01; 2146; 2146.01; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.06; 2154.01(d); 2154.02(c); 2158; 2158.01
Conflicting oaths or declarations 602.01(c)
Congress, Inquiry on status of application by member of 203.08(a)
Conservator, unavailable joint inventor 409.02
"Consisting essentially of" as transitional phrase 2111.03
"Consisting of" as transitional phrase 2111.03
"Consisting of" in Markush claim 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
Constitutional basis for patents
Constructive election (See alsoElection of species) 818.02(a); 818.02(c)
Constructive notice to patent owner of request for reexamination 2230
Constructive reduction to practice 715.07
Consular certificate 602.04
Consular certificate, Foreign executor or administrator 409.01(b)
Consular certificate, Omission of 602.04
Consular officer 602.04
Content of ex-parte reexamination request 2214
Continuation 201.06(c); 201.07; 601.01(a)
1. Abandonment of prior nonprovisional application 201.06(c)
2. Affidavits, copies of 201.06(c)
3. Assignment carried from parent 306
4. Change of attorney/correspondence address 201.06(c)
5. Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
6. Copendency 211.01(b)
7. Cross-reference to prior application 202; 211
8. Definition 201.07
9. Design 1504.20
10. Effective filing date 211.02
11. Examination 201.06(c)
12. Extension of time 201.06(c)
13. File wrapper continuing (FWC) 201.06(b)
14. File wrapper/history notation 202
15. Final rejection on first action 706.07(b)
16. Incorporation by reference 201.06(c)
17. Identification on letter of transmittal 506
18. Inspection of parent 103
19. International application 1828.02
20. International application as parent 211.01(c); 1895
21. Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
22. Inventorship 201.06(c)
23. New matter 201.07; 608.04(b)
24. Oath 201.06(c); 602.05(a); 602.05(b)
25. Parent application data noted in file history/wrapper 202; 1302.04
26. Reference to parent application 202; 211
27. Reference to parent application inadvertently omitted 1302.04
28. Reissue 1402; 1410.01; 1410.02; 1412.03; 1415.01; 1441; 1451; 1455; 1460; 1481.03
29. Restriction 819
30. Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
31. Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
32. Rule 1.60 application, Former 201.06(a)
33. Rule 1.62 application, Former 201.06(b)
34. Small or micro entity status 201.06(c)
35. Specification and drawings 201.06(c)
36. Substitute statement under 37 CFR 1.64 201.06(c)
37. Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
38. Time for filing 211.03
39. When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
40. Written description requirement 211.05
Continuation-in-part 201.08; 601.01(a)
1. Assignment from parent does not apply 306
2. Copendency 211.01(b)
3. Cross reference to parent application 202; 211
4. Definition 201.08
5. Design application 1504.20
6. Effective filing date 211.02; 2133.01; 2139.01; 2146.03(a); 2151; 2152.01
7. File wrapper continuing procedure 201.06(b)
8. File wrapper/history notation 202
9. Filed by assignee 324
10. Identification on letter of transmittal 506
11. Inspection of parent 103
12. International application used as mechanism to file 1828.02
13. International application as parent 211.01(c)
14. Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
15. Ownership 306
16. Reference to parent application 211.02
17. Rejection over publication of parent application 2133.01; 2154.01(b)
18. Rejection over published priority document 2154.01(b)
19. Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
20. Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
21. Time for filing 211.03
22. When patented, opens parent application to public inspection 103
Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 201.01; 201.06; 201.06(d)
1. Amendments before first Office action 714.01(e)
2. Application number 503
3. Assignee right to take action 324; 325
4. Certificate of mailing or transmission 512
5. Complete non-provisional application 601.01; 601.01(a)
6. Continuation-in-part not permitted 201.08
7. Continuity with parent 211.01(b)
8. Correspondence 502; 502.01
9. Cross reference to previous application 202
10. Design application 201.06(d); 1502.01
11. Eliminated for utility and plant applications 201.06(d)
12. Express abandonment of prior application 711.01; 711.02(b)
13. Extension of time 201.06(d)
14. Filing date 201.06(d)
15. Improper CPA treated as RCE 201.6(d); 706.07(h)
16. Information disclosure statement in parent 609.02; 707.05
17. Inventorship 201.06(d)
18. Patent term 1303; 2701
19. Plant application, no longer available 201.06(d)
20. Public access to 201.06(d)
21. Published as PG-Pub 1120
22. Reissue 1430; 1470
23. Reference to domestic benefit claims 1302.04
24. Restriction requirement in prior application 819
25. Signature Requirements 201.06(d)
26. Small or micro entity status 201.06(d)
27. Suspension of action 709
28. Terminal disclaimer, effect in 1490
29. Utility application, no longer available 201.06(d)
Continuing application 210; 211; 1302.12; 1302.04
1. Specific reference 202; 211
Continuing data (See alsoCross-noting) 202
Continuity between applications 211.01(b)
Control of inspection by assignee 104; 106
Convention, International (See alsoTreaties) 213.03
Converting nonprovisional and provisional applications 201.04; 601.01(c)
Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC) 902; 905
1. Classification in 905.03; 905.04(b)
2. Combination Sets 905.03
3. Definition 905.02
4. References in Definitions 905.01(a)(1)
5. Scheme 905.01
6. Warnings in Definitions 905.01(a)(3)
Copendency 211.01(b)
Copending U.S. application
1. Common ownership 717.02(a); 2136.01; 2146; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.05; 2152.06; 2154.01(c); 2156; 2158; 2158.01
2. Design application 1504.20
3. Different inventive entities 717.02(a); 2136.01; 2136.04; 2136.05(b); 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2152.07; 2154.01(d)
4. Duty of disclosure in 2001.06(b)
5. Terminal disclaimer practice 1490
Copied patent claim (SeeClaim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
Copier copies 714.07
Copies of prior art with reexamination request
1. Ex parte 2218
Copies of published applications 1128
Copy of foreign application, certified 215
Copy of printed patent in reexamination
1. Ex parte 2219
Copying ex-parte reexamination file by public 2232
Copyrights 608.01(v)
1. Relationship to design patents 1512
Correction of drawing 608.02(p); 1302.05
1. Annotated sheets 608.02(v)
2. Approval by examiner 608.02(x)
Deferrable 608.02(b); 608.02(p)
Marked-up copy 608.02(v)
New matter 608.04
Not approved 608.02(x)
Order for 608.02(x)
Replacement sheets 1302.05; 1303.01
Correction of inventorship
1. Application 601.01(d) - 601.01(g); 602.01(c); 605.04(g)
2. Consent of assignee 602.01(c)
3. Continuing application 602.01(c)
4. During ex parte reexamination 2250.02
5. In a patent
  1. By a certificate of correction 602.01(c); 1402; 1481; 1481.02
  2. By filing a reissue application 1402; 1412.04; 1412.05
6. Misjoinder 1402; 1412.04
Correction of name 602.01(c); 602.08(b)
Correction of patent 1400
1. By reexamination (SeeReexamination, Ex parte and Reexamination, Inter partes)
2. By reissue (See alsoReissue application) 1401 - 1470
3. By supplemental examination (See alsoSupplemental examination) 2809.01
4. Certificate of correction 1480 - 1485
5. Statutory disclaimer (See alsoDisclaimer and Terminal disclaimer) 1490
Correction of PG-Pub 1130
Correction of reference citation 707.05(g); 710.06
Correspondence (See alsoMail stop)
1. Address of PTO 501; 502
2. Address in secrecy order applications 120
3. Address of patent owner 2222; 2805
4. Address, official mailing 501
5. Address of an attorney 403; 403.01(a); 403.01(b)
6. Boxes (SeeMail stop)
7. Continuing application 201.06(c)
8. Crossing in mail 714.05
9. Duplicate filings 402.10; 403; 502.04; 714.01(a)
10. Electronic mail 502.03; 713; 713.01; 713.04
11. Facsimile transmission 502.01; 2510; 2515
12. Identifying with issue batch number (no longer required) 1303.01
13. Maintenance fee 2510; 2515; 2542
14. Plural attorneys 402.10; 403.02
15. Post Allowance 502; 1306
16. Published application 1134
17. Receipt and handling 500
18. Reexamination, ex parte 2224
19. Signature requirements 502.02
  1. Design patent practitioner 502.02; 1502.02
20. Third party, application published 1134
21. With whom held 403
Counter terrorism inventions, special status 708.02
Counting actions 1705
Countries for foreign priority 213.01
Country codes 1851
Court decision
1. Citation of 707.06
2. Dissemination of 1720
3. Entry in patent file 2207
4. Treatment of 1721
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 704.11(a); 706.07(h); 710.02; 710.02(e); 711.02(b); 716.01(a); 716.03; 716.06; 1002.02(k)(1); 1002.02(k)(3); 1214.06; 1216; 1216.01
1. Appeal to, from an ex parte reexamination 2279
Court papers, service on Director 1216
Cover sheet — provisional application 201.04
CREATE Act (SeeJoint Research Agreement)
Credit Card Payment Form PTO-2038 reproduced 509
Criteria for deciding ex parte reexamination request 2242
Cross-noting
1. Data of parent application on file wrapper/history 202; 1302.09
2. Data of provisional application in specification 1302.04
3. Data of provisional application on file wrapper/history 202
4. Data of related application in application data sheet 211.02; 1302.04
5. Foreign application cited in an application oath 202; 214.03
6. Foreign application, file wrapper/history 202
7. In original patent file of reissue application 202
8. Reissue applications 1451; 1455; 1481.03
9. Specific reference 202; 211
Cross-reference
1. Another application (See alsoCross-noting) 608.01(p); 1302.04
2. At allowance 903.07; 1302.04
3. Citing 707.05(e)
4. Noted during examination 903.07(a)
5. Required for all claimed disclosure 903.07(a)
Crossed mailings 714.05
Current Employee Restrictions 1702
Customary meaning of claim term 2111; 2111.01; 2173.01
Customer Numbers 402; 403; 711.04(c); 1807; 2515; 2540
1. Change of address 601.03
2. Correspondence relating to 403
Customer Service Center 104; 508.04; 714.13; 1730
Customer Service Window 101; 103; 501; 502; 505; 710.02(e); 714.13; 714.16(d); 724.02; 2413.03; 2433