MPEP Chapter 1500 — Design
Chapter 1500 of the USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Procedure covers design. It runs to 10 file-level sections and 19 subsections.
Sections in this chapter
- § 1501Statutes and Rules Applicable
- § 1502Definition of a Design
- § 1503Elements of a Design Patent Application Filed Under 35 U.S.C. chapter 16
- § 1504Examination
- § 1504.01Statutory Subject Matter for Designs
- § 1504.01(a)Computer-Generated Electronic Images
- § 1504.01(b)Design Comprising Multiple Articles or Multiple Parts Embodied in a Single Article
- § 1504.01(c)Lack of Ornamentality
- § 1504.01(d)Simulation
- § 1504.01(e)Offensive Subject Matter
- § 1504.02Novelty
- § 1504.03Nonobviousness
- § 1504.04Considerations Under 35 U.S.C. 112
- § 1504.05Restriction
- § 1504.06Double Patenting
- § 1504.07- 1504.09 [Reserved]
- § 1504.10Priority Under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), 386(a) and (b)
- § 1504.20Benefit Under 35 U.S.C. 120
- § 1504.30Expedited Examination
- § 1505Term of Design Patent
- § 1509Reissue of a Design Patent
- § 1510Reexamination
- § 1511Protest
- § 1512Relationship Between Design Patent, Copyright, and Trademark
- § 1513Miscellaneous