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§ 41.47
Oral hearing
§ 181
Secrecy of certain inventions and withholding of patent
§ 361
Receiving Office
§ 15
PCT Article 15
§ 46.5
PCT Rule 46.5
§ 55.2
PCT Rule 55.2
§ 6
PCT Rule 6
§ 64.1
PCT Rule 64.1
§ 66.7
PCT Rule 66.7(a)
§ 66.8
PCT Rule 66.8
§ 69.1
PCT Rule 69.1
§ 92bis
PCT Rule 92bis
§ 1.162
Applicant, oath or declaration
§ 1.2
Business to be transacted in writing
§ 1.3
Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy
§ 1.378
Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent
§ 1.481
Payment of international preliminary examination fees
§ 1.510
Request for ex parte reexamination
§ 1.570
Issuance and publication of ex parte reexamination certificate concludes ex parte reexamination proceeding
§ 1.62
[Reserved]
§ 1.66
Statements under oath
§ 1.72
Title and abstract
§ 11.6
Registration of attorneys and agents
§ 3.41
Recording fees
§ 41.52
Rehearing
§ 5.11
License for filing in, or exporting to, a foreign country an application on an invention made in the United States or technical data relating thereto
§ 27
Revival of applications; reinstatement of reexamination proceedings
§ 282
Presumption of validity; defenses
§ 13.1
PCT Rule 13.1
§ 2
PCT Article 2
§ 20.1
PCT Rule 20.1(c)
§ 4.10
PCT Rule 4.10
§ 4.17
PCT Rule 4.17
§ 4.18
PCT Rule 4.18
§ 49.5
PCT Rule 49.5(k)
§ 64
PCT Rule 64
§ 80.5
PCT Rule 80.5
§ 90
PCT Rule 90
§ 1.1023
Filing date of an international design application in the United States
§ 1.112
Reconsideration before final action
§ 1.134
Time period for reply to an Office action
§ 1.145
Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention
§ 1.146
Election of species
§ 1.215
Patent application publication
§ 3
37 CFR Part 3
§ 3.31
Cover sheet content
§ 41.45
Appeal forwarding fee
§ 5.2
Secrecy order
§ 90.2
Notice; service
§ 1001
18 U.S.C. 1001
§ 42
Patent and Trademark Office funding
§ 4
Paris Convention Article 4
§ 12.1
PCT Rule 12.1(a)
§ 13ter
PCT Rule 13ter
§ 16
PCT Article 16
§ 20.6
PCT Rule 20.6
§ 36
PCT Rule 36
§ 40.1
PCT Rule 40.1
§ 40.2
PCT Rule 40.2(a)
§ 43
PCT Rule 43
§ 43.5
PCT Rule 43.5
§ 48.2
PCT Rule 48.2(b)
§ 53.9
PCT Rule 53.9(b)
§ 54bis.1
PCT Rule 54bis.1
§ 7
PCT Article 7
§ 70.16
PCT Rule 70.16
§ 1.1021
Contents of the international design application
§ 1.133
Interviews
§ 1.153
Title, description and claim, oath or declaration
§ 1.198
Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
§ 1.217
Publication of a redacted copy of an application
§ 1.248
Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences and trials
§ 1.446
Refund of international application filing and processing fees
§ 1.482
International preliminary examination and processing fees
§ 1.530
Statement by patent owner in ex parte reexamination; amendment by patent owner in ex parte or inter partes reexamination; inventorship change in ex parte or inter partes reexamination
§ 1.834
Form and format for nucleotide and/ or amino acid sequence submissions as the ‘‘Sequence Listing XML’’ in patent applications filed on or after July 1, 2022
§ 2.190
37 CFR 2.190
§ 41.3
Petitions
§ 42.6
Filing of documents, including exhibits; service
§ 5.1
Applications and correspondence involving national security
§ 146
Civil action in case of derivation proceeding
§ 202
Disposition of rights
§ 6
Patent Trial and Appeal Board
§ 2181
42 U.S.C. 2181(a)
§ 13
Hague Rule 13
§ 8
Hague Article 8
§ 12
PCT Article 12(1)
§ 13.3
PCT Rule 13.3
§ 14
PCT Article 14
§ 19.1
PCT Rule 19.1
§ 20
PCT Article 20
§ 23
PCT Rule 23
§ 26.2bis
PCT Rule 26.2bis
§ 26bis.1
PCT Rule 26bis.1
§ 3
PCT Article 3
§ 31
PCT Article 31
§ 33.1
PCT Rule 33.1(b)
§ 35
PCT Rule 35
§ 4.9
PCT Rule 4.9
§ 42
PCT Rule 42