MPEP Subject Matter Index (T) – Subject Matter Index

Tables submitted on read-only optical disc or via the USPTO patent electronic filing system as ASCII text file 608.05; 608.05(b); 2422.03; 2422.03(a)
Technical documents 901.06(a)
Technical rejections 2120
Technology Center Director (SeeDirector of Technology Center)
Telephone call, multiplicity rejection 2173.05(n)
Telephone numbers 1730
1. Attorney 408; 713.01; 714.01
2. Examiner 707.08
3. General information 1730
Telephoning of attorney to examiner 408; 713.01
Term, Patent 707.05; 2701
1. Adjustment of 2701; 2710; 2730; 2731; 2732; 2733; 2734; 2736
  1. Determination of 2733
  2. Due care showing 2734
  3. Grounds for 2730
  4. Period of 2731
  5. Reductions to 2732
  6. Request for reconsideration or reinstatement 2730; 2732; 2733; 2734
  7. Third party papers 2736
2. Continued prosecution application 2730; 2732
3. Deposit of biological material 2408
4. Design 1502.01; 1505
5. Divisional 201.06
6. Extension under 35 U.S.C. 156
  1. FDA regulatory review and 2750 - 2766
    1. Deadline 2754.01; 2754.02
    2. Duty of disclosure and 2762; 2762.01
    3. Petition for stay in processing 2765
    4. Interim extension 2755.01; 2755.02
    5. Reissue 2766
    6. Specific Products
      1. Animal drugs 2750; 2751; 2753; 2757; 2758
      2. Antibiotic drugs 2751; 2758
      3. Color additives … 2750; 2751; 2754.01; 2758
      4. Food additives 2750; 2751; 2753; 2754.01; 2758
      5. Medical devices 2750; 2751; 2753; 2758
      6. Veterinary Biological Products 2750; 2751; 2756; 2758
    7. Third party papers 2763
    8. Withdrawal 2761; 2764
7. Foreign 901.05
8. Transitional practice 706.07(g); 803.03
9. Utility 2710
Terminal disclaimer (See alsoDisclaimer) 1490
1. Avoiding/obviating double patenting issues 804.02; 806.04(i); 1490; 2146.03; 2146.03(a); 2158
2. Certificate of correction and 2701; 2720
3. Common ownership or joint research agreement 1490
4. Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) 1490
5. Continuing applications 1490
6. Copending applications procedure 1490
7. Forms and form paragraphs 1490
8. Request for Continued Examination (RCE) 1490
9. Reissue 1402; 1410.02; 1411; 1451; 1490
10. Required for revival 711.03(c)
11. Signature in 402.03; 403.01(a); 1490
12. Situations where not applicable 804.03
13. Withdrawal of 1490
Terminology in application 608.01(g); 608.01(o); 1302.01; 2175
Termination of proceedings 211.01(a); 211.01(b); 711.02(c)
1. Ex parte reexamination 2265; 2266.01; 2268; 2271; 2281; 2285; 2286.01; 2294
Trademark Search 608.01(v); 1703
Test comments 707.07(l)
Testamentary, Letters (See alsoAdministrator or executor) 409.01(b)
Testimony, examiner 1701.01
Tests, comparative (SeeAffidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132))
Third action cases 707.02
Third party submissions/inquiries/correspondence in published applications 1134; 1134.01
Time and Activity Report 1704; 1705
Time for claiming benefit of earlier application 211.03
Time for deciding Director initiated reexamination 2211; 2239
Time for deciding reexamination request 2241
Time for filing papers, right of priority 214.01; 215.02; 215.03
Time for filing petitions 1002
Time for requesting reexamination
1. Ex parte 2210; 2211
Time for reply (See alsoPeriod for reply) 702.01; 710
Time for reply to action in reexamination
1. Ex parte 2263
Time limit 710.02; 710.02(c)
1. For making suggested claims 710.02(c)
2. International preliminary examination report (IPER) 1879.01
3. International search report (ISR) 1843.05
4. Period for reply 710
5. Permanent ink copy 714.07
6. Prior art filing 2204
7. Reply to final rejection 706.07(f)
8. Restriction requirement 811
9. Rewrite claims following Board decision 1214.06
10. Shortened statutory period compared to 710.02; 710.02(b); 710.02(d)
11. Statutory period 710.01; 710.01(a)
12. Transfer of application 909.01(d); 909.02(d)
13. Two periods running 710.04
Time period for owner’s statement 2249
Time reporting 2238
Time to pay maintenance fees 2506
Timely submission of protest 1901.04
Title conveyed by assignment 300
Title documents, handling 317
Title of invention 606; 1893.03(e)(1)
1. Design application 1503.01; 1504.01(a)
  1. Amendment of 1503.01
  2. Use of Trademarks in 1512
2. International application 1821
3. Plant patent application 1610
4. Reviewed at issue 606.01; 1302.01
Title report 320; 2287
Titles of USPTO Officials
Title with signature 602.08(b)
Trade secret material 724 - 724.05
1. Completeness of file wrapper 724.01
2. Materials submitted covered by 35 U.S.C. 122 724.04(a)
3. Method of submitting 724.02
4. Office treatment and handling 724.04; 724.06
  1. After publication 724.04(a)
5. Petition to expunge materials 724.05
6. Reexamination under 37 CFR 1.11(d) 724.04(c)
7. Reissue under 37 CFR 1.11(b) 724.04(b)
8. Types of 724.03
Trade secret submission label 724.02
Trademark and trade name 608.01(v); 2173.05(u); 2175; I
1. Design patent, relationship to 1512
2. Misuse in patent specification 608.01(v)
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
Trademarks, Partial list of I
Transfer of application
1. After amendment 909.01(c)
2. Allowable application 1305
3. Divisible inventions 812
4. Interference 2304.01(b)
5. New 909.01(a); 909.02(a)
6. Primary examiner’s authority 909.02
7. Procedure 909.01(d); 909.02(a); 909.02(d)
8. Secrecy order application 130
Transfer of class or subclass of design patents 903.05
Transfer of drawing 608.02(i)
Transfer of reexamination
1. Ex parte 2237
Transfer of rights to patent or application 509.02; 509.04(a); 509.04(b)
Transfer of specification prohibited 608.01(t)
Transfer of U.S. design patent 903.05
Transitional application (See alsoApplication)
1. After final practice 706.07(g)
2. Generic claim allowable 803.03(b)
3. Linking claim allowable 803.03(a)
4. Patent term 2701
5. Restriction practice 803.03
Transitional phrases 2111.03
1. "Characterized by" 2111.03
2. "Composed of" 2111.03
3. "Comprising" 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
4. "Consisting essentially of" 2111.03
5. "Consisting of" 2111.03; 2173.05(h)
6. "Containing" 2111.03
Translation, foreign application or foreign priority document 214; 215; 216
Translations index in STIC 901.06(a)
Translators in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 901.05(d); 901.06(a)
Transmission, certificate of (SeeCertificate of mailing or transmission (37 CFR 1.8))
Transmittal Fee, PCT 1827
Traverse, answer all matters 707.07(f)
Traverse, division or species requirement 818; 821.01; 821.02
Traverse, rejection of linking claim 818.01(d)
Treaties
1. Benelux Designs Convention (See alsoDesign application) 213.01; 1504.10
2. Budapest Treaty (See alsoBiotechnology and Microorganisms) 901.05(b); 2402; 2404.01; 2405; 2407.05; 2408; 2409; 2410.01; 2410.02; 2411.01
3. European Community Design 1504.10
4. European Patent Convention 901.05
5. GATT 2138.02
6. Hague Agreement (See alsoDesign application) 213.01; 1504.10; Chapter 2900
7. Hague Convention 409.01(b); 602.04(a)
8. NAFTA 201.04; 715; 715.07(c); 2132; 2138.02
9. Paris Convention 213; 1502.01
10. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) 1502.01; 1800; AI; T
11. Patent Law 702
12. Strasbourg Agreement 906
13. UPOV Convention (See alsoPlant patent) 1612; 1613
14. Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) 201.04; 715; 715.07(c); 804; 2701; 2720; 2730; 2132
Trial Proceedings, Duty to disclose 2001; 2001.06(c)
TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) 1801
Tubers 1601
Twenty year term (SeeTerm, Patent)
Two month delay period in reissues 1441
Two periods for reply running 710.04
Type font 608.01; 1504.01(a)