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- 37 CFR 1.132 · Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections.
- 37 CFR 1.133 · Interviews.
- 37 CFR 1.134 · Time period for reply to an Office action.
- 37 CFR 1.135 · Abandonment for failure to reply within time period.
- 37 CFR 1.136 · Extensions of time.
- 37 CFR 1.137 · Revival of abandoned application, or terminated or limited reexamination prosecution.
- 37 CFR 1.138 · Express abandonment.
- 37 CFR 1.139 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.141 · Different inventions in one national application.
- 37 CFR 1.142 · Requirement for restriction.
- 37 CFR 1.143 · Reconsideration of requirement.
- 37 CFR 1.144 · Petition from requirement for restriction.
- 37 CFR 1.145 · Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention.
- 37 CFR 1.146 · Election of species.
- 37 CFR 1.151 · Rules applicable.
- 37 CFR 1.152 · Design drawings.
- 37 CFR 1.153 · Title, description and claim, oath or declaration.
- 37 CFR 1.154 · Arrangement of application elements in a design application.
- 37 CFR 1.155 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.161 · Rules applicable.
- 37 CFR 1.162 · Applicant, oath or declaration.
- 37 CFR 1.163 · Specification and arrangement of application elements in a plant application.
- 37 CFR 1.164 · Claim.
- 37 CFR 1.165 · Plant drawings.
- 37 CFR 1.166 · Specimens.
- 37 CFR 1.167 · Examination.
- 37 CFR 1.171 · Application for reissue.
- 37 CFR 1.172 · Reissue applicant.
- 37 CFR 1.173 · Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments.
- 37 CFR 1.174 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.175 · Inventor's oath or declaration for a reissue application.
- 37 CFR 1.176 · Examination of reissue.
- 37 CFR 1.177 · Issuance of multiple reissue patents.
- 37 CFR 1.178 · Original patent; continuing duty of applicant.
- 37 CFR 1.179 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.181 · Petition to the Director.
- 37 CFR 1.182 · Questions not specifically provided for.
- 37 CFR 1.183 · Suspension of rules.
- 37 CFR 1.184 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.191 · Appeal to Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
- 37 CFR 1.192-1.196 · §§ 1.192-1.196 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.197 · Termination of proceedings.
- 37 CFR 1.198 · Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
- 37 CFR 1.211 · Publication of applications.
- 37 CFR 1.213 · Nonpublication request.
- 37 CFR 1.215 · Patent application publication.
- 37 CFR 1.217 · Publication of a redacted copy of an application.
- 37 CFR 1.219 · Early publication.
- 37 CFR 1.221 · Voluntary publication or republication of patent application publication.
- 37 CFR 1.248 · Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences and trials.
- 37 CFR 1.251 · Unlocatable file.
- 37 CFR 1.290 · Submissions by third parties in applications.
- 37 CFR 1.291 · Protests by the public against pending applications.
- 37 CFR 1.292-1.297 · §§ 1.292-1.297 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.301-1.304 · §§ 1.301-1.304 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.311 · Notice of allowance.
- 37 CFR 1.312 · Amendments after allowance.
- 37 CFR 1.313 · Withdrawal from issue.
- 37 CFR 1.314 · Issuance of patent.
- 37 CFR 1.315 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.316 · Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee.
- 37 CFR 1.317-1.318 · §§ 1.317-1.318 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.321 · Statutory disclaimers, including terminal disclaimers.
- 37 CFR 1.322 · Certificate of correction of Office mistake.
- 37 CFR 1.323 · Certificate of correction of applicant's mistake.
- 37 CFR 1.324 · Correction of inventorship in patent, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 256.
- 37 CFR 1.325 · Other mistakes not corrected.
- 37 CFR 1.331-1.334 · §§ 1.331-1.334 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.335 · Filing of notice of arbitration awards.
- 37 CFR 1.351-1.352 · §§ 1.351-1.352 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.362 · Time for payment of maintenance fees.
- 37 CFR 1.363 · Fee address for maintenance fee purposes.
- 37 CFR 1.366 · Submission of maintenance fees.
- 37 CFR 1.377 · Review of decision refusing to accept and record payment of a maintenance fee filed prior to expiration of patent.
- 37 CFR 1.378 · Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent.
- 37 CFR 1.401 · Definitions of terms under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
- 37 CFR 1.412 · The United States Receiving Office.
- 37 CFR 1.413 · The United States International Searching Authority.
- 37 CFR 1.414 · The United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Designated Office or Elected Office.
- 37 CFR 1.415 · The International Bureau.
- 37 CFR 1.416 · The United States International Preliminary Examining Authority.
- 37 CFR 1.417 · Submission of translation of international publication.
- 37 CFR 1.419 · Display of currently valid control number under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
- 37 CFR 1.421 · Applicant for international application.
- 37 CFR 1.422 · Legal representative as applicant in an international application.
- 37 CFR 1.423 · [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.424 · Assignee, obligated assignee, or person having sufficient proprietary interest as applicant in an international application.
- 37 CFR 1.431 · International application requirements.
- 37 CFR 1.432 · Designation of States by filing an international application.
- 37 CFR 1.433 · Physical requirements of international application.
- 37 CFR 1.434 · The request.
- 37 CFR 1.435 · The description.
- 37 CFR 1.436 · The claims.
- 37 CFR 1.437 · The drawings.
- 37 CFR 1.438 · The abstract.
- 37 CFR 1.445 · International application filing, processing and search fees.
- 37 CFR 1.446 · Refund of international application filing and processing fees.
- 37 CFR 1.451 · The priority claim and priority document in an international application.
- 37 CFR 1.452 · Restoration of right of priority.
- 37 CFR 1.453 · Transmittal of documents relating to earlier search or classification.