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- 37 CFR 1.915 · Content of request for inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.919 · Filing date of request for inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.923 · Examiner's determination on the request for inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.925 · Partial refund if request for inter partes reexamination is not ordered.
- 37 CFR 1.927 · Petition to review refusal to order inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.931 · Order for inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.933 · Patent owner duty of disclosure in inter partes reexamination proceedings.
- 37 CFR 1.935 · Initial Office action usually accompanies order for inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.937 · Conduct of inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.939 · Unauthorized papers in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.941 · Amendments by patent owner in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.943 · Requirements of responses, written comments, and briefs in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.945 · Response to Office action by patent owner in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.947 · Comments by third party requester to patent owner's response in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.948 · Limitations on submission of prior art by third party requester following the order for inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.949 · Examiner's Office action closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.951 · Options after Office action closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.953 · Examiner's Right of Appeal Notice in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.955 · Interviews prohibited in inter partes reexamination proceedings.
- 37 CFR 1.956 · Patent owner extensions of time in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.957 · Failure to file a timely, appropriate or complete response or comment in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.958 · Petition to revive inter partes reexamination prosecution terminated for lack of patent owner response.
- 37 CFR 1.959 · Appeal in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.961-1.977 · §§ 1.961-1.977 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 1.979 · Return of Jurisdiction from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; termination of appeal proceedings.
- 37 CFR 1.981 · Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
- 37 CFR 1.983 · Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.985 · Notification of prior or concurrent proceedings in inter partes reexamination.
- 37 CFR 1.987 · Suspension of inter partes reexamination proceeding due to litigation.
- 37 CFR 1.989 · Merger of concurrent reexamination proceedings.
- 37 CFR 1.991 · Merger of concurrent reissue application and inter partes reexamination proceeding.
- 37 CFR 1.993 · Suspension of concurrent interference and inter partes reexamination proceeding.
- 37 CFR 1.995 · Third party requester's participation rights preserved in merged proceeding.
- 37 CFR 1.997 · Issuance and publication of inter partes reexamination certificate concludes inter partes reexamination proceeding.
- 37 CFR 1.1001 · Definitions related to international design applications.
- 37 CFR 1.1002 · The United States Patent and Trademark Office as an office of indirect filing.
- 37 CFR 1.1003 · The United States Patent and Trademark Office as a designated office.
- 37 CFR 1.1004 · The International Bureau.
- 37 CFR 1.1005 · Display of currently valid control number under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
- 37 CFR 1.1011 · Applicant for international design application.
- 37 CFR 1.1012 · Applicant's Contracting Party.
- 37 CFR 1.1021 · Contents of the international design application.
- 37 CFR 1.1022 · Form and signature.
- 37 CFR 1.1023 · Filing date of an international design application in the United States.
- 37 CFR 1.1024 · The description.
- 37 CFR 1.1025 · The claim.
- 37 CFR 1.1026 · Reproductions.
- 37 CFR 1.1027 · Specimens.
- 37 CFR 1.1028 · Deferment of publication.
- 37 CFR 1.1031 · International design application fees.
- 37 CFR 1.1041 · Representation in an international design application.
- 37 CFR 1.1042 · Correspondence respecting international design applications filed with the Office as an office of indirect filing.
- 37 CFR 1.1045 · Procedures for transmittal of international design application to the International Bureau.
- 37 CFR 1.1051 · Relief from prescribed time limits.
- 37 CFR 1.1052 · Conversion to a design application under 35 U.S.C. chapter 16.
- 37 CFR 1.1061 · Rules applicable.
- 37 CFR 1.1062 · Examination.
- 37 CFR 1.1063 · Notification of refusal.
- 37 CFR 1.1064 · One independent and distinct design.
- 37 CFR 1.1065 · Corrections and other changes in the International Register.
- 37 CFR 1.1066 · Correspondence address for a nonprovisional international design application.
- 37 CFR 1.1067 · Title, description, and inventor's oath or declaration.
- 37 CFR 1.1068 · Statement of grant of protection.
- 37 CFR 1.1070 · Notification of Invalidation.
- 37 CFR 1.1071 · Grant of protection for an industrial design only upon issuance of a patent.
- 37 CFR 3.1 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 3.11 · Documents which will be recorded.
- 37 CFR 3.16 · Assignability of trademarks prior to filing of an allegation of use.
- 37 CFR 3.21 · Identification of patents and patent applications.
- 37 CFR 3.24 · Requirements for documents and cover sheets relating to patents and patent applications.
- 37 CFR 3.25 · Recording requirements for trademark applications and registrations.
- 37 CFR 3.26 · English language requirement.
- 37 CFR 3.27 · Mailing address for submitting documents to be recorded.
- 37 CFR 3.28 · Requests for recording.
- 37 CFR 3.31 · Cover sheet content.
- 37 CFR 3.34 · Correction of cover sheet errors.
- 37 CFR 3.41 · Recording fees.
- 37 CFR 3.51 · Recording date.
- 37 CFR 3.54 · Effect of recording.
- 37 CFR 3.56 · Conditional assignments.
- 37 CFR 3.58 · Governmental registers.
- 37 CFR 3.61 · Domestic representative.
- 37 CFR 3.71 · Prosecution by assignee.
- 37 CFR 3.73 · Establishing right of assignee to take action.
- 37 CFR 3.81 · Issue of patent to assignee.
- 37 CFR 3.85 · Issue of registration to assignee.
- 37 CFR 4.1 · Complaints regarding invention promoters.
- 37 CFR 4.2 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 4.3 · Submitting complaints.
- 37 CFR 4.4 · Invention promoter reply.
- 37 CFR 4.5 · Notice by publication.
- 37 CFR 4.6 · Attorneys and Agents.
- 37 CFR 5.1 · Applications and correspondence involving national security.
- 37 CFR 5.2 · Secrecy order.
- 37 CFR 5.3 · Prosecution of application under secrecy orders; withholding patent.
- 37 CFR 5.4 · Petition for rescission of secrecy order.
- 37 CFR 5.5 · Permit to disclose or modification of secrecy order.
- 37 CFR 5.6-5.8 · §§ 5.6-5.8 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 5.11 · License for filing in, or exporting to, a foreign country an application on an invention made in the United States or technical data relating thereto.
- 37 CFR 5.12 · Petition for license.