MPEP Subject Matter Index (D) – Subject Matter Index

D-10 notice 130; 1304.01
Damage, Proof of irreparable 409.03(g)
Databases (SeeElectronic databases)
Date
1. Amendment 505; 511; 512; 710.01(a); 710.05; 714.18
2. Citation of foreign patent 901.05(a); 901.05(b)
3. Convention 213.01
4. Filing 211.02; 502; 503; 505; 506; 506.02; 1002.02(b)
  1. of EFS-Web transmissions 502.05
5. Filing, Refusal to accord 506.02
6. Foreign application (priority) 210; 213 - 217
7. Invention 2137; 2138
8. Maintenance fees due 2506
9. Office action 707.11
10. Office stamp 502; 505; 506; 512; 714.18
11. Reference 707.05(e); 715; 715.01; 715.01(c); 2120; 2120.01
Date of execution of oath 602.03
Death of attorney 406
Death of inventor (See alsoAdministrator or executor) 409; 409.01(a); 409.01(b)
Deceased inventor
1. Allowance not withdrawn 1303.03
2. Legal representative as applicant 409.01(a); 409.01(b); 1806
  1. Proof of authority of 409.01(b)
3. Legal representative refuses to sign 409.03(c)
Deceptive intent (See alsoFraud and Inequitable conduct)
1. Foreign filing licenses 140
2. Inventorship 602.01(c)
3. Reissue 1401; 1412.02; 1412.03; 1412.04; 1414; 1414.02; 1414.03; 1444; 1448; 1451; 1457; 1481.02; 1490; 2012
Decision
1. By Patent Trial and Appeal Board 1213; 1302.14
  1. Dissemination of 1720
  2. Ex-parte reexamination 2277
  3. Reconsideration of 1214.03
  4. Treatment of 1721
2. Citation 707.06
3. Denying ex parte reexamination request 2247
4. Ex-parte reexamination review petition 2240
5. Governs examiner’s action
6. Listed II
7. Ordering ex-parte reexamination 2246
8. Public availability 103
9. Publication of 707.06
Declaration (See alsoOath) 602
1. Amendment 602.01
2. Attached to specification 602; 602.08(c)
3. Change of inventorship 602.01(c)
4. Copies, filing of 602
5. Copies from prior application 201.06(c)
6. Date of execution 602.03
7. Defective 602.03
8. Delayed filing 506; 601.01(a)
9. Executed before alterations made 602.08(b)
10. Facsimile transmission 502.01; 602
11. Foreign priority applications listed 202; 214
12. International application 1820; 1893.01; 1893.01(a); 1893.01(a)(1); 1893.01(a)(2); 1893.01(a)(3); 1893.01(e); 1893.03(a); 1893.03(b); 1893.03(g); 1895
13. Inventor refuses to sign or cannot be found 602.08(b)
14. Minor, by 409
15. Non-English 602.06
16. Plant patent application 1604
17. Refers to preliminary amendment 601.01(a); 602.01(b)
18. Reissue application 1405; 1410.01 - ; 1414; 1414.01 - 1414.03; 1418; 1444; 1451; 1455
19. Signed before alteration 602.08
20. Substitute 602.02
Declarations, conflicting 602.01(c)
Dedication to the public 715; 1490
Defective oath 602.03
1. In reissue application 1414 - 1414.03
Defects, correction of, in request for ex parte reexamination 2227; 2231
Defense, applications affecting 115; 120; 130; 140
Defensive publication citation 711.06(a)
Defensive publication program 711.06
Deferral of examination 709
Definition of USPC class 902.02
Delegation of Director’s authority 1001.01; 1002; 1002.02
Demonstration at interview 713.08
Denial of request for reexamination 2247; 2247.01
Department of Energy (DOE) 115; 140; 150; 151; 2104.01
Dependent claim 608.01(n)
1. Objected to when base claim is canceled 608.01(n); 707.07(j)
2. Reissue 1402; 1412.03; 1415; 1453; 1455
Dependent claim, objected to when improper 608.01(n); 706.01
Deposit account 509.01
1. Authorizations 509.01; 1302.04
2. Extensions of time 706.07(f)
3. International applications 1850; 1875.01
4. Issue fee 1303; 1306; 1308.01
5. Maintenance fee 2510; 2515; 2522
6. Overdrawn 509.01
7. Petition fee 711.03(c)
8. Refunds 509; 509.01; 607.02
9. Replenishment 509.01; 1730
  1. Mailing address 501
Deposit Account Division 509.01
Deposit of microorganisms (See alsoBiotechnology) 1605; 1823.01; 2402 - 2411.05
Deposit of correspondence 502
Depositions
1. Evidence 1901.02; 2013
2. Of examiner 1701.01
Deposit rules (See alsoBiotechnology) 2400
1. Acceptable depository 2405
2. Biological material, definition 2402; 2403
3. Biological material, made or isolated without undue experimentation 2404.02
4. Budapest Treaty (See alsoTreaties) 2402
5. Budapest Treaty depositories 2405
6. Depositories, Current list of Budapest Treaty 2405
7. Examination procedures 2411; 2411.01
  1. After grant 2407.02
  2. Application in condition for allowance except for deposit 2411.03
  3. Certificate of correction 2407.02
  4. Content of application regarding deposited material 2411.05
  5. Need for 37 CFR 1.312 amendment 2411.03
  6. Reissue 2407.02
  7. Rejections based on deposit issue 2411.01
  8. Responses from applicant 2411.02
8. Furnishing of samples 2410
  1. Access to deposits 2410.01
  2. Certification of availability of deposit 2410.02
  3. Conditions of deposit 2410.01
  4. Exception to removal of restrictions 2410.01
  5. Restrictions removed upon grant 2410.01
9. Known and readily available biological material 2404.01
  1. Budapest Treaty deposit 2404.01
  2. Continuity of access 2404.01
  3. Deposits certified as available 2404.01; 2410.02
  4. Health, safety restrictions 2404.01
  5. Indicia of "known and readily available" 2404.01
10. Material capable of self-replication 2403.01
  1. Direct self-replication 2403.01
  2. Indirect self-replication 2403.01
11. Need for a deposit 2402; 2403; 2404
12. Non-Budapest Treaty deposit 2404.01
13. Plant material 2403.02
14. Plant Patent Act, Relation to 2403.02
15. Reference to deposit in application 2404; 2404.03
  1. Implication, presumption 2404; 2404.03
  2. Requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112 2163; 2164.06(a); 2404; 2404.03
16. Replacement or supplement of deposit 2407
  1. After a patent has issued 2407.02
  2. Exemption from replacement 2407.05
  3. Failure to replace 2407.03
  4. In a pending application 2407.01
  5. Reason for replacement 2407.04
  6. Replacement not recognized 2407.06
  7. Request for certificate of correction 2407.02
  8. Treatment of replacement, presumption of identity 2407.04
17. Seeds 2403.02
18. Term of deposit 2408
  1. Budapest Treaty term 2408
  2. Enforceable life of patent 2408
19. Time for making original deposit 2406
  1. Assurance regarding deposit before payment of issue fee 2406; 2411.03
  2. Corroboration 2406.02
  3. Description in application specification 2406.01
  4. During application pendency 2406
  5. Loss of U.S. filing date in other countries 2406; 2406.03
  6. New matter 2406.01
  7. Patent Cooperation Treaty applications 1823.01
  8. Post-issuance deposits 2406
  9. Viability of deposit 2409
  10. Viability statement 2409
20. 35 U.S.C. 112 requirements 2402; 2403; 2404
Deputy Director of Patents and Trademarks 1002.02(o); 1202
Derivation proceedings 2310
1. Action once instituted 2313
2. Action after decision 2315
3. Board action 2314
4. Certificate 901.04
5. Definition 2310.02
6. Jurisdiction 2312
7. Statutory basis 2310.01
8. Technology Center practice specialist 2311; 2315
Derogatory remark regarding prior art 608.01(r)
Description
1. Basis for claim 608.01(o); 2161; 2163; 2166
2. Computer programming 2161.01
3. Detailed 608.01(g)
4. International application 1823
Design application 1500
1. Analogous art 1504.02; 1504.03
2. Anticipation 1504.02
3. Application, elements of 1503
4. Articles, design comprising multiple 1504.01(b)
5. "Average observer" test 1504.02
6. Benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 1504.20
7. Benelux Designs Convention (See alsoTreaties) 213.01; 1504.10
8. Characteristic feature 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
9. Claim 1503; 1503.01
10. Combining references 1504.03
11. Commercial success 1504.03
12. Computer generated electronic images 1504.01(a)
13. Continuation application 1504.20
14. Continuation-in-part (CIP) application 1504.20
15. Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 1502.01
16. Convention, International 213.01; 1504.10
17. Copending applications 1504.06; 1504.20
18. Copying, evidence of, to rebut obviousness 1504.03
19. Copyright, Relationship to 1512
20. Definition 1502
21. Description 1503; 1503.01
22. Disclaimer 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
23. Disclosure 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
24. Divisional application 201.06; 1504.20
25. Double patenting 804; 1504.06
26. Patent Term Filing Date 804; 1490
27. Drawing 1503; 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
  1. Broken lines 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
  2. Color 1503.02
  3. Trademarks 1512
28. EFS-Web 502.05; 1730
29. Embodiments, alternate or multiple 1503.01; 1504.01(b); 1504.05
30. Enablement 1503.02; 1504.04
31. European Community Design treaty 1504.10
32. Examination 1504; 1504.01; 1504.02; 1504.03; 1504.04
33. Expedited Examination 501; 1002.02(c)(3); 1504.30
  1. Reissue 1457
34. Expert testimony 1504.03
35. Feature emphasized 1503.01
36. Fee, filing 607
  1. Reissue 1457
37. Fee, issue 1306
38. Font, type 1504.01(a)
39. Foreign priority 210; 213; 215; 1504.02; 1504.10
  1. More than six months before U.S. filing 1504.02
40. Functionality 1504.01(c)
  1. Obviousness and 1504.03
41. Hague Agreement (See alsoTreaties) 213.01; 1002.02(p); 1504.10; Chapter 2900
42. Hidden end use 1504.01(c)
43. Hidden feature 1504.02; 1504.03; 1504.04
44. Icon and electronic images, computer generated 1504.01(a)
45. International (See alsoInternational design application)
  1. Global design database 707.05(e)
  2. Publication 1120
  3. Status Information for 1128
46. Indefiniteness 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
47. Library collections relating to 901.06(a)
48. Modification, description 1503.01
49. Multiple embodiments 1504.05
50. Multiple parts of article 1504.01(b)
51. New matter 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.01(a); 1504.04
52. Object, Design for 1502
53. Obviousness 1504.03
54. Obviousness-type (nonstatutory) double patenting (ODP) 1504.06
55. Offensive subject matter 1504.01(e)
56. Ornamentality lacking 1504.01(c)
57. Patent Cooperation Treaty 1501; 1502.01
58. Patentability 1504.01; 1504.01(a) - 1504.01(e); 1504.02; 1504.03; 1504.04
59. Petition, Special Status 708.02; 1504.30
60. Petition to accept color drawings or photographs 608.02; 1503.02
61. Photographs 1503.02; 1504.04
62. Preamble 1503.01
63. Priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 210; 215; 1504.02; 1504.10
64. References supplied 707.05(a); 1513
65. Quayle action 1504
66. Registration abroad 1504.02; 1504.10
67. Reissue 1457; 1509
68. Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1502.01
69. Request for Expedited Examination 1504.30
70. Restriction 1504.05
  1. Reissue 1457
71. Rules applicable 1501
72. Scope of claim 1503.01; 1504.04; 1504.05; 1504.06
73. Search 1504; 1504.02; 1504.03
74. Secondary considerations 1504.03
75. Simulation 1504.01(d)
76. Specification 1503.01
  1. Use of Copyrights in 1512
  2. Use of Trademarks in 1512
77. Statutory subject matter 1502; 1504.01
78. Surface ornamentation 1502; 1502.01; 1503.02; 1504.01; 1504.01(a); 1504.01(c); 1504.03
79. Surface treatment or indicia 1503.02
80. Term of 1457; 1502.01; 1505
81. Title 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
  1. Amendment of 1503.01
  2. Use of Trademarks in 1512
82. Trademark, relationship to 1512
83. Type fonts 1504.01(a)
84. Utility patent, relationship to 1502.01
85. Views 1503.02; 1504.04
86. Visual characteristics 1502
87. Written description lacking 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.01(a); 1504.04
Design patent practitioer 402; 403; 405; 1502.02; 2911
Design patent series (See alsoPatent) 901.04
Designated office 1801; 1803; 1893.01(a)
Designation of states 1821
Detailed description (SeeSpecification)
Determination of public use or on sale 2120.02; 2133.03 - 2133.03(e)(7); 2139.02; 2152.02(c); 2152.02(d)
Determining if a Reexamination Was Filed for a Patent 2232.01
Determining whether an application is subject to first to invent provisions of AIA 2159 - 2159.04
Digest (SeeCross-reference: Art collection)
Dictionary as a source for the ordinary and customary meaning of a claim term 2111.01; 2173.02; 2173.05(a)
Diligence
1. Charts for priority 2138.01
2. Filing application 2138.06
3. Filing reissue 1403
4. Interference practice 2138.01
5. Of actions during regulatory review 2001.06(e); 2004; 2015; 2757.01
6. Reasonable 2138.03; 2138.06
7. Shown in 37 CFR 1.131 affidavit 715.07; 715.07(a)
8. To overcome a rejection 2136.05
Director of Technology Center 714.13; 714.14; 714.16; 714.25; 715.08; 804.04; 1002.02; 1002.02(c); 1207.01; 1207.02; 1207.03; 1207.05; 1208; 1214.04; 1308; 1308.01; 1901.06; 2242; 2258.01; 2265; 2267; 2274; 2284 - 2286
1. Functions 1002.02(c); 1003
2. TC 2900 1002.02(c)(3)
3. TC Director Who Oversees Licensing and Review 710; 1002.02(c)(1)
Director of the USPTO
1. Authority and functions 708.01; 709; 711.02; 714; 719.01; 1001; 1002; 2104.01; 2209; 2212; 2239; 2240; 2242; 2244; 2246; 2258.01; 2258.02; 2265; 2266; 2284; 2286.01
  1. Publication of confidential decisions 103
  2. Withdrawal from issue 1308
2. Decisions
3. Mailing address 501
4. Notices (See alsoPublication) ; 707.06
5. Orders (See alsoPublication) ; 707.06
Director initiated reexamination 2212; 2239
Disbarred attorney (SeeAttorney or agent: Suspended or excluded)
Disciplinary proceedings 402; 410
1. Mailing address 501
Disclaimer (See alsoTerminal disclaimer)
1. Co-author of publication 715.01(c)
2. Copy required in reexamination
  1. Ex parte 2214
3. Correction or withdrawal of 1490
4. Defensive publication 711.06
5. Design application 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
6. Effect 1490
7. Forms 1490
8. Processing 1490
9. Rejection 710.02(d); 2136.05(a); 2139.03; 2141; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.07
10. Requirements 1490
11. Statutory 1490
12. Terminal 804; 804.02; 1490; 2136.05(a); 2139.03; 2141.01; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.07
Disclosure (See alsoDuty of disclosure and Specification)
1. Abstract 608.01(b)
2. Amendment 608.04; 1302.02
3. Amendment, Preliminary 608.04(b)
4. Best Mode (See alsoBest Mode) 608.01(h); 2165
5. Chemical compound 608.01(p)
6. Claim Present on Filing Date 608.01(l); 1410; 2163.01
7. Claimed 901.03
8. Common, parent and continuing applications 211.05
9. Completeness 608.01(p); 2163; 2164
10. Computer programming cases 2164.06(c); 2161.01; 2181
11. Correspondence with claims 2163.05; 2163.07; 2173.03
12. Design application 1503; 1503.01
13. Detailed description 608.01(g)
14. Duty of 2000
15. Enablement (See alsoEnablement) 2164
16. Foreign application 211.05
17. Implicit 2144.01
18. Incomplete 608.01(p); 2161 - 2165; 2175
19. Incomprehensible 702.01
20. Incorporation by reference (See alsoIncorporation by reference) 217; 608.01(p)
21. Insufficient 608.01(p); 702.01; 2175
22. Later filed application 608.01(p)
23. Operability 716.07; 2164.08(b)
24. Preliminary amendment 608.04(b)
25. Reasonable inquiry 2001
26. Related applications 608.01(p); 1302.04
27. Requirements for 2161
28. Secrecy order, Material subject to 120
29. Specification (See alsoSpecification) 608.01
30. Sufficiency for continuity 211.05
31. Sufficiency of 716; 716.09
32. Support for claims 2163.01
33. Trade name 608.01(v)
34. Trademark 608.01(v)
35. Utility 608.01(p); 2104; 2107 - 2107.03
36. Written (See alsoWritten description) 2163
Discourtesy 714.19; 714.25
Dismissal of appeal 1215.04
Disposals counted 1705
Distinct, definition 802.01
Distinct inventions 802; 802.01; 803; 806.05
1. Apparatus and product made 806.05(g)
2. Distinct processes 806.05(j)
3. Distinct products 806.05(j)
4. Process and apparatus for its practice 806.05(e)
5. Process and product made 806.05(f)
Divisional application 201.06; 601.01(a)
1. Abandonment of prior nonprovisional application 201.06(c)
2. Assignment carried from parent application 306
3. Change of attorney/correspondence address 201.06(c)
4. Continued prosecution application (CPA) 201.06(d)
5. Copendency 211.01(b)
6. Design application 201.06; 1504.20
7. Drawing, Transfer of 608.02(i)
8. Effective date 211
9. Examination 201.06(c)
10. Extensions of time 201.06(c)
11. Filed by assignee 324; 325
12. File wrapper continuation (FWC) 201.06(b)
13. File wrapper/history notation 202; 1302.04
14. Incorporation by reference 201.06(c)
15. Inspection of parent application 103
16. Inventor, at least one in common 211.01
17. Inventorship 201.06(c)
18. New matter 201.06
19. Oath 201.06(c); 602.05
20. Patented, Opens parent application to inspection 103
21. Reference to parent application 211.02; 1302.04
22. Reissue 1402; 1410.01; 1410.02; 1414; 1415.01; 1441; 1450; 1451; 1460; 1481.03
23. Rule 1.53(b) 201.06(c)
24. Rule 1.53(d) 201.06(d)
25. Rule 1.60, Former 201.06(a)
26. Rule 1.62, Former 201.06(b)
27. Signature 201.06(d)
28. Small or micro entity status 201.06(c)
29. Specification and drawings 201.06(c)
30. Substitute statement under 37 CFR 1.64 201.06(c)
31. Time for filing 211.03
32. Written description requirement 211.05
DNA (See alsoBiotechnology and Nucleotide sequences) 2400
1. Enablement 2164.08
2. Searching 901.06(a)
Docket report 1704
Doctrine of collateral estoppel (SeeEstoppel)
Doctrine of dedication to the public 715
Doctrine of equivalents 2138.05; 2173.05(b); 2186
Doctrine of segregable parts 1504.05
Doctrine of unclean hands 2010
Document, Disclosure 1706
1. Electronic (See alsoElectronic publications) 707.05(e)
DoD Directive 5230.25 120
DoD Security Agreement 120
Domestic benefit
1. Claiming in continued prosecution application 201.06(d); 1302.04
2. Claiming in ex parte reexamination 2258.02
3. Claiming in reissue application 1402; 1405; 1410
4. Correction in a patent 1481.03
5. Entitlement to 211.05
6. Formal requirements 210; 211.05; 2136; 2139.01; 2152.01
7. Incorporation by reference to earlier application 201.06(c); 217; 608.01(p)
8. International application 211.01(c); 211.01(d)
  1. Corrected by certificate of correction 1481
9. Patent printing 1302.09
10. Petition for unintentionally delayed claim to benefit of prior U.S. application 211.04; 214.02
11. Prior to U.S. application 211 - 211.05
  1. Corrected by Certificate of Correction 211.02(a); 1481
  2. Design application 1504.20
  3. In ex parte reexamination 2258.02
  4. Provisional application 211.01(a); 2139.01; 2152.01
12. Time for filing 211.03
Domestic representative 302.04
Double correspondence 403
Double inclusion in claim 2173.05(o)
Double patenting 800
1. Avoiding rejection 804.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a)
2. Basis 804
3. Between one or more applications and a published application that has not been abandoned 804
4. Between a patent and a reissue application or a patent under reexamination 804
5. Claimed subject matter 806.01
6. Commonly owned cases, treatment 717.02(c); 804.03
7. Copending applications 804; 2127; 2136.01; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.07; 2154.01(d); 2158.01
8. Definition 804
9. Design applications/patents 804; 1504.06
10. Different inventive entities 804.03; 2109; 2136.01; 2136.04; 2146.02; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2152.07; 2154.01(d)
11. Distinct and independent inventions 804.01
12. Domination 804
13. Impact of patent term extension 804.05
14. International applications 804
15. Obviousness type (ODP) 804
  1. Design application 1504.06
16. Plant applications 1601
17. Reexamination 804; 2217; 2258
18. Rejection 804
  1. Nonstatutory 804
  2. Obvious 804
  3. Prohibition, 35 U.S.C. 121 804.01; 821.04(b)
  4. Provisional 804; 2136.01; 2139.03; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.07; 2154.01(d); 2158.01
  5. Specification, use of 804
  6. Statutory 804; 804.03
19. Rejection nullification 804.01
20. Restriction previously required 804.04; 1003
21. Same assignee 804.03; 822; 2136.01; 2141.01; 2146 - 2146.03(a); 2148; 2152.06; 2154.02(c); 2158; 2158.01
22. Same inventor 806.04(h); 806.04(i); 806.05; 822
23. Species and genus 806.04(h); 806.04(i)
24. Subject matter not patentably distinct 804
25. Subject to joint research agreement 804; 804.02; 804.03
26. Submissions to TC director 804.04
27. Terminal disclaimer effect 804; 804.02; 1451; 1490; 2146.03(a)
  1. In a reissue application 1451
Drawings 507; 608.02
1. Amendment 608.02(p); 714; 1302.04
  1. In ex parte reexamination 2250.01
  2. In reissue application 1413; 1453
  3. Prior to publication of PG-Pub 1121
2. Amendment, Disposition of orders for 608.02(x)
3. Amendment support by claim present on filing date 608.04(a)
4. Annotated sheets 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
5. Brief description 608.01(f)
6. Canceled figure 608.02(t)
7. Canceled sheet 608.02(t)
8. Canceled sheet, patent 608.02(t)
9. Canceled sheet, transfer 608.02(i)
10. Color 608.01(f); 608.02; 1503.02
11. Colored plant 1606
12. Complete illustration 608.02(d)
13. Completeness 608.02(e)
14. Computer lists 608.05
15. Consistency 608.02(e)
16. Content of 608.02(d)
17. Correction (See alsoCorrection of drawing) 608.02(p); 1302.05
  1. Incorporated into PG-Pub 1120; 1121
  2. Reversed figure numbers 1302.04
18. Design application 1503; 1503.01; 1503.02; 1504.04
19. Disclosure 608
20. Divisional application 608.02; 608.02(i)
21. EFS-Web 502.05
22. Examiner determines completeness 608.02(e)
23. Illustrates claim 608.02(e)
24. Informal 507
25. International application 1825
26. Kept in application 608.02(c)
27. Location 608.02(c)
28. Modification illustrated 608.02(f)
29. Marked-up copy 608.02(b); 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
30. Necessary for filing date 506; 608.02; 702
31. New drawings required 608.02(a)
32. New, handling 608.02(a)
33. New matter 608.04; 608.04(a)
34. New, when required 608.02(a)
35. Not received 608.02(h); 1825
36. Not required 608.02
37. Not returned 608.02(y)
38. Objection 608.02; 608.02(a); 608.02(b); 608.02(d) - 608.02(f); 608.04(a); 1503.02; 1504.04
39. Official Gazette figure 1302.09
40. Omitted drawings 601.01(g)
41. Patented file 901.01(a)
42. Petition to transfer from another application 608.02(i)
43. Photographs 502.05; 507; 608.01(f); 608.02; 1503.02
44. Plant application 1603; 1606
45. Prior art 608.02(g); 2125
46. Provisional application 601
47. Reference characters 608.02; 608.02(e)
48. Reference characters, change 608.02(w)
49. Reissue application 1411; 1413
  1. No longer transferred from original patent 1413
50. Replacement drawings for publication in PG-Pub 1121
51. Replacement 608.02(h); 1302.05
52. Reversed figure numbers 1302.04
53. Review by Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP) 507
54. Required by examiner 608.02
55. Requirements 608.02
56. Return 608.02(y)
57. Section lines 608.01; 608.02(w)
58. Security markings 121
59. Sequences 2412.04; 2412.06
60. Substitute 502; 608.02; 608.02(h)
61. Sufficiency, determined by examiner 608.02(e)
62. Symbols 608.02
63. Trademarks 1512
64. Unacceptable for publication 608.02; 608.02(b)
Drawing correction 507; 608.02(p)
1. Annotated sheets 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
2. Approval by examiner 608.02(x)
3. Marked-up copy 608.02(b); 608.02(v); 608.02(w)
4. New matter 608.04
5. Order for 608.02(x)
6. PG-Pub 1120; 1121
7. Replacement sheets 502; 608.02(h); 1302.05
8. Required 507; 707.07(a)
Due Care Showing 2734
Duplicate claims 608.01(m)
Duplicate foreign patents 903.03
Duplicate papers for plant applications 1603; 1605; 1606; 1609
Duty of candor and good faith 2001; 2001.03; 2001.04; 2733; 2762
1. Compared to duty to disclose material information 2001.04
2. inconsistent information between agencies 2001.04
3. Information disclosure 609
4. Reexamination 2280
Duty of disclosure 2000
1. After patent grant 2003.01
2. Aids to compliance 2004
3. By whom 2002; 2002.01
4. Checklist 2004
5. Compared to requirement for information 704.12(a); 2005
6. Compliance with 2004
7. Continuing applications 2001.04; 2004
8. Copending applications 2001.06(b); 2004
9. Copied claims 2001.06(d)
10. Duration of 2001.04; 2003.01
11. Foreign applications 2001.06(a)
12. Information material to patentability 2001.04; 2001.05; 2001.06(e)
13. Litigation information and/or Trial Proceedings 2001.06(c)
14. Materiality 2000; 2001.04; 2001.05
15. Questionnaire 2004
16. Reexamination
  1. Ex parte 2014; 2280
17. Regulatory review 2001.06(e); 2004; 2015
18. Reissue application 1406; 1418; 1448; 2001.06(c); 2003
19. Related application
  1. Foreign 2001.06(a)
  2. U.S. 2001.06(b)
20. Sources of information 2001.06
21. Timing 2003; 2003.01
22. To whom owed 2001.03
23. Violation of 2010
  1. Claims invalidated 2016
  2. Protest 2013
  3. Reexamination 2014
  4. Reissue 2012
  5. Rejection of claims in reissue application 1448
24. Who has 2001.01
25. Duty of Reasonable inquiry 2001; 2001.06(e)