MPEP Chapter 300 — Ownership
Chapter 300 of the USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Procedure covers ownership. It runs to 21 file-level sections and 20 subsections, of which 18 carry substantive text and 3 are marked [Reserved]. 15 of its sections are annotated as structured data, exposing 54 statutes and regulations and 6 cited decisions.
Sections in this chapter
- § 301Ownership/Assignability of Patents and Applications
- § 301.01Accessibility of Assignment Records
- § 302Recording of Assignment Documents
- § 302.01Assignment Document Must Be Copy for Recording
- § 302.02Translation of Assignment Document
- § 302.03Identifying Patent or Application
- § 302.04Foreign Assignee May Designate Domestic Representative
- § 302.05Address of Assignee
- § 302.06Fee for Recording
- § 302.07Assignment Document Must Be Accompanied by a Cover Sheet
- § 302.08Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents
- § 302.09Facsimile Submission of Assignment Documents
- § 302.10Electronic Submission of Assignment Documents
- § 303Assignment Documents Not Endorsed on Pending Applications
- § 306Assignment of Division, Continuation, Substitute, and Continuation-in-Part in Relation to Parent Application
- § 306.01Assignment of an Application Claiming the Benefits of a Provisional Application
- § 307Issue to Non-Applicant Assignee
- § 308Issue to Applicant
- § 309Restrictions Upon Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- § 310Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development
- § 311Filing of Notice of Arbitration Awards
- § 312[Reserved]
- § 313Recording of Licenses, Security Interests, and Documents Other Than Assignments
- § 314Certificates of Change of Name or of Merger
- § 315Indexing Against a Recorded Certificate
- § 316[Reserved]
- § 317Handling of Documents in the Assignment Recordation Branch
- § 318Documents Not to be Placed in Files
- § 319[Reserved]
- § 320Title Reports
- § 323Procedures for Correcting Errors in Recorded Assignment Document
- § 323.01Correction of Error in Recorded Cover Sheet
- § 323.01(a)Typographical Errors in Cover Sheet
- § 323.01(b)Typographical Errors in Recorded Assignment Document
- § 323.01(c)Assignment or Change of Name Improperly Filed and Recorded by Another Person Against Owner’s Application or Patent
- § 323.01(d)Expungement of Assignment Records
- § 324Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action in Application Filed Before September 16, 2012
- § 325Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action in Application Filed On or After September 16, 2012