Authorities

Conditions for patentability; novelty

Specification

Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

Application number, filing date, and completion of application

Application

Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross-references to other applications

Benefit of earlier filing date; right of priority

Patent application and reexamination processing fees

Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States

Claim for foreign priority

Inventor’s oath or declaration

Inventions patentable

National application filing, search, and examination fees

Affidavit or declaration of prior invention or to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art

Application data sheet

Extensions of time

Affidavit or declaration of attribution or prior public disclosure under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Incorporation by reference

National stage: Commencement

Filing of information disclosure statement

Establishing right of assignee to take action

Reissue of defective patents

(note) AIA First inventor to file provisions

Request for continued examination

Filing of correspondence by Priority Mail Express ®

Divisional applications

Application for patent by an assignee, obligated assignee, or a person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter

Protests by the public against pending applications

Language, paper, writing, margins, read-only optical disc specifications

Persons eligible to file, and time for filing, a request for inter partes reexamination

Correction of inventorship pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 116 or correction of the name or order of names in a patent application, other than a reissue application

Right of priority; benefit of the filing date of a prior application

Manner of making amendments in applications

Duty to disclose information material to patentability

Revival of abandoned application, or terminated or limited reexamination prosecution

Nature of correspondence and signature requirements

Micro entity status

Correspondence respecting patent applications, reexamination proceedings, and other proceedings

Decisions and other actions by the Board

Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications

Content of information disclosure statement

Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections

Certificate of mailing or transmission

Reply by applicant or patent owner to a non-final Office action

Right of priority

Substitute statement in lieu of an oath or declaration

Inventor’s oath or declaration for a reissue application

Statutory disclaimers, including terminal disclaimers

Signature and certificate for correspondence filed in the Office

Definition of small entities and establishing status as a small entity to permit payment of small entity fees; when a determination of entitlement to small entity status and notification of loss of entitlement to small entity status are required; fraud on the Office

Receipt of correspondence

[Reserved]

Requirements for information

Amendments and affidavits or other evidence after final action and prior to appeal

Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence disclosures in patent applications

Inventor’s oath or declaration

Appeal brief

Amendments after allowance

Detailed description and specification of the invention

Questions not specifically provided for

Standards for drawings

Withdrawal from issue

Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments

Transitional procedures for limited examination after final rejection and restriction practice

Contents and term of patent; provisional rights

Abandonment for failure to reply within time period

Notice of rejection; reexamination

Suspension of action by the Office

PCT Article 21

Nature of examination

Patent applications preserved in confidence

General requisites of an application

Power of attorney

Chemical and mathematical formulas and tables

Acting in a representative capacity

Express abandonment

Advancement of examination

Inventorship

Time for prosecuting application

Prosecution by assignee

Certificate of correction of applicant’s mistake

Filing date and day for taking action

Files open to the public

Petition to the Director

Submission of computer program listings

Applicant for patent

Fees

Suspension of rules

Drawings

Micro entity defined

Certificate of correction of applicant’s mistake

Time for appeal or civil action

Amendments and affidavits or other Evidence after appeal

Supplemental oath or declaration

Arrangement of application elements

Unlocatable file

Refunds when small entity status is later established; how errors in small entity status are excused

Claim(s)

Substitute specification

International application designating the United States: Effect