CFR /  Title 37  /  Part 1: Rules Of Practice In Patent Cases

Section No.	Description
Section 1.1	Business to be transacted in writing
Section 1.2	Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy
Section 1.3	Nature of correspondence and signature requirements
Section 1.4	Identification of patent, patent application, or patent-related proceeding
Section 1.5	Receipt of correspondence
Section 1.6	Times for taking action; Expiration on Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday
Section 1.7	Certificate of mailing or transmission
Section 1.8	Definitions
Section 1.9	Filing of correspondence by Priority Mail Express
Section 1.10	Files open to the public
Section 1.11	Assignment records open to public inspection
Section 1.12	Copies and certified copies
Section 1.13	Patent applications preserved in confidence
Section 1.14	National application filing, search, and examination fees
Section 1.16	Patent application and reexamination processing fees
Section 1.17	Patent post allowance (including issue) fees
Section 1.18	Document supply fees
Section 1.19	Post issuance fees
Section 1.20	Miscellaneous fees and charges
Section 1.21	Fees payable in advance
Section 1.22	Methods of payment
Section 1.23	Deposit accounts
Section 1.25	Refunds
Section 1.26	Definition of small entities and establishing status as a small entity to permit payment of small entity fees; when a
Section 1.27	Refunds when small entity status is later established; how errors in small entity status are excused
Section 1.28	Micro entity status
Section 1.29	Applicant may be represented by one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors
Section 1.31	Power of attorney
Section 1.32	Correspondence respecting patent applications, patent reexamination proceedings, and other proceedings
Section 1.33	Acting in a representative capacity
Section 1.34	Revocation of power of attorney; withdrawal of patent attorney or agent
Section 1.36	Inventorship
Section 1.41	Applicant for patent
Section 1.42	Application for patent by a legal representative of a deceased or legally incapacitated inventor
Section 1.43	Application for patent by joint inventors
Section 1.45	Application for patent by an assignee, obligated assignee, or a person who otherwise shows sufficient
Section 1.46	Correction of inventorship pursuant to 35 U
Section 1.48	General requisites of an application
Section 1.51	Language, paper, writing, margins, compact disc specifications
Section 1.52	Application number, filing date, and completion of application
Section 1.53	Parts of application to be filed together; filing receipt
Section 1.54	Claim for foreign priority
Section 1.55	Duty to disclose information material to patentability
Section 1.56	Incorporation by reference
Section 1.57	Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables
Section 1.58	Expungement of information or copy of papers in application file
Section 1.59	Inventor's oath or declaration
Section 1.63	Substitute statement in lieu of an oath or declaration
Section 1.64	Statements under oath
Section 1.66	Supplemental oath or declaration
Section 1.67	Declaration in lieu of oath
Section 1.68	Foreign language oaths and declarations
Section 1.69	Detailed description and specification of the invention
Section 1.71	Title and abstract
Section 1.72	Summary of the invention
Section 1.73	Reference to drawings
Section 1.74	Claim(s)
Section 1.75	Application data sheet
Section 1.76	Arrangement of application elements
Section 1.77	Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross-references to other applications
Section 1.78	Reservation clauses not permitted
Section 1.79	Drawings required in patent application
Section 1.81	Content of drawing
Section 1.83	Standards for drawings
Section 1.84	Corrections to drawings
Section 1.85	Models or exhibits not generally admitted as part of application or patent
Section 1.91	Specimens
Section 1.93	Return of models, exhibits or specimens
Section 1.94	Copies of exhibits
Section 1.95	Submission of computer program listings
Section 1.96	Filing of information disclosure statement
Section 1.97	Content of information disclosure statement
Section 1.98	Advancement of examination
Section 1.102	Suspension of action by the Office
Section 1.103	Nature of examination
Section 1.104	Requirements for information
Section 1.105	Effective filing date of a claimed invention under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
Section 1.109	Inventorship and ownership of the subject matter of individual claims
Section 1.110	Reply by applicant or patent owner to a non-final Office action
Section 1.111	Reconsideration before final action
Section 1.112	Final rejection or action
Section 1.113	Request for continued examination
Section 1.114	Preliminary amendments
Section 1.115	Amendments and affidavits or other evidence after final action and prior to appeal
Section 1.116	Manner of making amendments in applications
Section 1.121	Substitute specification
Section 1.125	Numbering of claims
Section 1.126	Petition from refusal to admit amendment
Section 1.127	Transitional procedures for limited examination after final rejection and restriction practice
Section 1.129	Affidavit or declaration of attribution or prior public disclosure under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
Section 1.130	Affidavit or declaration of prior invention or to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as
Section 1.131	Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections
Section 1.132	Interviews
Section 1.133	Time period for reply to an Office action
Section 1.134	Abandonment for failure to reply within time period
Section 1.135	Extensions of time
Section 1.136	Revival of abandoned application, or terminated or limited reexamination prosecution
Section 1.137	Express abandonment
Section 1.138	Different inventions in one national application
Section 1.141	Requirement for restriction
Section 1.142	Reconsideration of requirement
Section 1.143	Petition from requirement for restriction
Section 1.144	Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention
Section 1.145	Election of species
Section 1.146	Rules applicable
Section 1.151	Design drawings
Section 1.152	Title, description and claim, oath or declaration
Section 1.153	Arrangement of application elements in a design application
Section 1.154	Expedited examination of design applications
Section 1.155	Rules applicable
Section 1.161	Applicant, oath or declaration
Section 1.162	Specification and arrangement of application elements in a plant application
Section 1.163	Claim
Section 1.164	Plant drawings
Section 1.165	Specimens
Section 1.166	Examination
Section 1.167	Application for reissue
Section 1.171	Reissue applicant
Section 1.172	Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments
Section 1.173	Inventor's oath or declaration for a reissue application
Section 1.175	Examination of reissue
Section 1.176	Issuance of multiple reissue patents
Section 1.177	Original patent; continuing duty of applicant
Section 1.178	Petition to the Director
Section 1.181	Questions not specifically provided for
Section 1.182	Suspension of rules
Section 1.183	Appeal to Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Section 1.191	Termination of proceedings
Section 1.197	Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Section 1.198	Publication of applications
Section 1.211	Nonpublication request
Section 1.213	Patent application publication
Section 1.215	Publication of a redacted copy of an application
Section 1.217	Early publication
Section 1.219	Voluntary publication or republication of patent application publication
Section 1.221	Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences and trials
Section 1.248	Unlocatable file
Section 1.251	Submissions by third parties in applications
Section 1.290	Protests by the public against pending applications
Section 1.291	Notice of allowance
Section 1.311	Amendments after allowance
Section 1.312	Withdrawal from issue
Section 1.313	Issuance of patent
Section 1.314	Delivery of patent
Section 1.315	Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee
Section 1.316	Statutory disclaimers, including terminal disclaimers
Section 1.321	Certificate of correction of Office mistake
Section 1.322	Certificate of correction of applicant's mistake
Section 1.323	Correction of inventorship in patent, pursuant to 35 U
Section 1.324	Other mistakes not corrected
Section 1.325	Filing of notice of arbitration awards
Section 1.335	Amendments to rules will be published
Section 1.351	Time for payment of maintenance fees
Section 1.362	Fee address for maintenance fee purposes
Section 1.363	Submission of maintenance fees
Section 1.366	Review of decision refusing to accept and record payment of a maintenance fee filed prior to expiration of patent
Section 1.377	Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent
Section 1.378	Definitions of terms under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
Section 1.401	The United States Receiving Office
Section 1.412	The United States International Searching Authority
Section 1.413	The United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Designated Office or Elected Office
Section 1.414	The International Bureau
Section 1.415	The United States International Preliminary Examining Authority
Section 1.416	Submission of translation of international publication
Section 1.417	Display of currently valid control number under the Paperwork Reduction Act
Section 1.419	Applicant for international application
Section 1.421	Legal representative as applicant in an international application
Section 1.422	Assignee, obligated assignee, or person having sufficient proprietary interest as applicant in an
Section 1.424	International application requirements
Section 1.431	Designation of States by filing an international application
Section 1.432	Physical requirements of international application
Section 1.433	The request
Section 1.434	The description
Section 1.435	The claims
Section 1.436	The drawings
Section 1.437	The abstract
Section 1.438	International application filing, processing and search fees
Section 1.445	Refund of international application filing and processing fees
Section 1.446	The priority claim and priority document in an international application
Section 1.451	Restoration of right of priority
Section 1.452	Representation in international applications
Section 1.455	Procedures for transmittal of record copy to the International Bureau
Section 1.461	Timing of application processing based on the priority date
Section 1.465	Delays in meeting time limits
Section 1.468	Corrections and amendments during international processing
Section 1.471	Changes in person, name, or address of applicants and inventors
Section 1.472	Unity of invention before the International Searching Authority, the International Preliminary Examining Authority and
Section 1.475	Determination of unity of invention before the International Searching Authority
Section 1.476	Protest to lack of unity of invention before the International Searching Authority
Section 1.477	Demand for international preliminary examination
Section 1.480	Payment of international preliminary examination fees
Section 1.481	International preliminary examination fees
Section 1.482	Conduct of international preliminary examination
Section 1.484	Amendments by applicant during international preliminary examination
Section 1.485	Determination of unity of invention before the International Preliminary Examining Authority
Section 1.488	Protest to lack of unity of invention before the International Preliminary Examining Authority
Section 1.489	National stage commencement, entry, and fulfillment
Section 1.491	National stage fees
Section 1.492	Entering the national stage in the United States of America
Section 1.495	Examination of international applications in the national stage
Section 1.496	Inventor's oath or declaration under 35 U
Section 1.497	Unity of invention during the national stage
Section 1.499	Citation of prior art and written statements in patent files
Section 1.501	Processing of prior art citations during an ex parte reexamination proceeding
Section 1.502	Request for ex parte reexamination
Section 1.510	Determination of the request for ex parte reexamination
Section 1.515	Ex parte reexamination at the initiative of the Director
Section 1.520	Order for ex parte reexamination
Section 1.525	Statement by patent owner in ex parte reexamination; amendment by patent owner in ex parte or inter partes reexamination;
Section 1.530	Reply by third party requester in ex parte reexamination
Section 1.535	Consideration of responses in ex parte reexamination
Section 1.540	Conduct of ex parte reexamination proceedings
Section 1.550	Scope of reexamination in ex parte reexamination proceedings
Section 1.552	Information material to patentability in ex parte reexamination and inter partes reexamination proceedings
Section 1.555	Interviews in ex parte reexamination proceedings
Section 1.560	Concurrent office proceedings which include an ex parte reexamination proceeding
Section 1.565	Issuance and publication of ex parte reexamination certificate concludes ex parte reexamination proceeding
Section 1.570	Filing of papers in supplemental examination
Section 1.601	Items of information
Section 1.605	Content of request for supplemental examination
Section 1.610	Format of papers filed in a supplemental examination proceeding
Section 1.615	Conduct of supplemental examination proceeding
Section 1.620	Conclusion of supplemental examination; publication of supplemental examination certificate; procedure after conclusion
Section 1.625	Extension of patent term due to examination delay under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (original applications,
Section 1.701	Grounds for adjustment of patent term due to examination delay under the Patent Term Guarantee Act of 1999 (original
Section 1.702	Period of adjustment of patent term due to examination delay
Section 1.703	Reduction of period of adjustment of patent term
Section 1.704	Patent term adjustment determination
Section 1.705	Patents subject to extension of the patent term
Section 1.710	Conditions for extension of patent term
Section 1.720	Applicant for extension of patent term; signature requirements
Section 1.730	Formal requirements for application for extension of patent term; correction of informalities
Section 1.740	Complete application given a filing date; petition procedure
Section 1.741	Determination of eligibility for extension of patent term
Section 1.750	Interim extension of patent term under 35 U
Section 1.760	Duty of disclosure in patent term extension proceedings
Section 1.765	Express withdrawal of application for extension of patent term
Section 1.770	Calculation of patent term extension for a human drug, antibiotic drug or human biological product
Section 1.775	Calculation of patent term extension for a food additive or color additive
Section 1.776	Calculation of patent term extension for a medical device
Section 1.777	Calculation of patent term extension for an animal drug product
Section 1.778	Calculation of patent term extension for a veterinary biological product
Section 1.779	Certificate or order of extension of patent term
Section 1.780	Multiple applications for extension of term of the same patent or of different patents for the same regulatory
Section 1.785	Interim extension of patent term under 35 U
Section 1.790	Termination of interim extension granted prior to regulatory approval of a product for commercial marketing or use
Section 1.791	Biological material
Section 1.801	Need or opportunity to make a deposit
Section 1.802	Acceptable depository
Section 1.803	Time of making an original deposit
Section 1.804	Replacement or supplement of deposit
Section 1.805	Term of deposit
Section 1.806	Viability of deposit
Section 1.807	Furnishing of samples
Section 1.808	Examination procedures
Section 1.809	Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence disclosures in patent applications
Section 1.821	Symbols and format to be used for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data
Section 1.822	Requirements for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences as part of the application
Section 1.823	Form and format for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence submissions in computer readable form
Section 1.824	Amendments to or replacement of sequence listing and computer readable copy thereof
Section 1.825	Processing of prior art citations during an inter partes reexamination proceeding
Section 1.902	Service of papers on parties in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.903	Notice of inter partes reexamination in Official Gazette
Section 1.904	Submission of papers by the public in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.905	Scope of reexamination in inter partes reexamination proceeding
Section 1.906	Inter partes reexamination prohibited
Section 1.907	Persons eligible to file, and time for filing, a request for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.913	Content of request for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.915	Filing date of request for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.919	Examiner's determination on the request for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.923	Partial refund if request for inter partes reexamination is not ordered
Section 1.925	Petition to review refusal to order inter partes reexamination
Section 1.927	Order for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.931	Patent owner duty of disclosure in inter partes reexamination proceedings
Section 1.933	Initial Office action usually accompanies order for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.935	Conduct of inter partes reexamination
Section 1.937	Unauthorized papers in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.939	Amendments by patent owner in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.941	Requirements of responses, written comments, and briefs in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.943	Response to Office action by patent owner in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.945	Comments by third party requester to patent owner's response in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.947	Limitations on submission of prior art by third party requester following the order for inter partes reexamination
Section 1.948	Examiner's Office action closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.949	Options after Office action closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.951	Examiner's Right of Appeal Notice in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.953	Interviews prohibited in inter partes reexamination proceedings
Section 1.955	Patent owner extensions of time in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.956	Failure to file a timely, appropriate or complete response or comment in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.957	Petition to revive inter partes reexamination prosecution terminated for lack of patent owner response
Section 1.958	Appeal in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.959	Return of Jurisdiction from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; termination of appeal proceedings
Section 1.979	Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Section 1.981	Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.983	Notification of prior or concurrent proceedings in inter partes reexamination
Section 1.985	Suspension of inter partes reexamination proceeding due to litigation
Section 1.987	Merger of concurrent reexamination proceedings
Section 1.989	Merger of concurrent reissue application and inter partes reexamination proceeding
Section 1.991	Suspension of concurrent interference and inter partes reexamination proceeding
Section 1.993	Third party requester's participation rights preserved in merged proceeding
Section 1.995	Issuance and publication of inter partes reexamination certificate concludes inter partes reexamination proceeding
Section 1.997	Definitions related to international design applications
Section 1.1001	The United States Patent and Trademark Office as an office of indirect filing
Section 1.1002	The United States Patent and Trademark Office as a designated office
Section 1.1003	The International Bureau
Section 1.1004	Display of currently valid control number under the Paperwork Reduction Act
Section 1.1005	Applicant for international design application
Section 1.1011	Applicant's Contracting Party
Section 1.1012	Contents of the international design application
Section 1.1021	Form and signature
Section 1.1022	Filing date of an international design application in the United States
Section 1.1023	The description
Section 1.1024	The claim
Section 1.1025	Reproductions
Section 1.1026	Specimens
Section 1.1027	Deferment of publication
Section 1.1028	International design application fees
Section 1.1031	Representation in an international design application
Section 1.1041	Correspondence respecting international design applications filed with the Office as an office of indirect filing
Section 1.1042	Procedures for transmittal of international design application to the International Bureau
Section 1.1045	Relief from prescribed time limits
Section 1.1051	Conversion to a design application under 35 U
Section 1.1052	Rules applicable
Section 1.1061	Examination
Section 1.1062	Notification of refusal
Section 1.1063	One independent and distinct design
Section 1.1064	Corrections and other changes in the International Register
Section 1.1065	Correspondence address for a nonprovisional international design application
Section 1.1066	Title, description, and inventor's oath or declaration
Section 1.1067	Statement of grant of protection
Section 1.1068	Notification of Invalidation
Section 1.1070	Grant of protection for an industrial design only upon issuance of a patent
Section 1.1071	Definitions