Subpart B — National Processing Provisions

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• §1.31 Applicant and patent owner may be represented by one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors.
• §1.32 Power of attorney.
• §1.33 Correspondence respecting patent applications, patent reexamination proceedings, and other proceedings.
• §1.34 Acting in a representative capacity.
• §1.36 Revocation of power of attorney; withdrawal of patent attorney or agent.
• §1.41 Inventorship.
• §1.42 Applicant for patent.
• §1.43 Application for patent by a legal representative of a deceased or legally incapacitated inventor.
• §1.44 Reserved
• §1.45 Application for patent by joint inventors.
• §1.46 Application for patent by an assignee, obligated assignee, or a person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter.
• §1.47 Reserved
• §1.48 Correction of inventorship pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 116 or correction of the name or order of names in a patent application, other than a reissue application.
• §1.51 General requisites of an application.
• §1.52 Language, paper, writing, margins, read-only optical disc specifications.
• §1.53 Application number, filing date, and completion of application.
• §1.54 Parts of application to be filed together; filing receipt.
• §1.55 Claim for foreign priority.
• §1.56 Duty to disclose information material to patentability.
• §1.57 Incorporation by reference.
• §1.58 Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables.
• §1.59 Expungement of information or copy of papers in application file.
• §1.60-1.62 Reserved
• §1.63 Inventor's oath or declaration.
• §1.64 Substitute statement in lieu of an oath or declaration.
• §1.66 Statements under oath.
• §1.67 Supplemental oath or declaration.
• §1.68 Declaration in lieu of oath.
• §1.69 Foreign language oaths and declarations.
• §1.70 Reserved
• §1.71 Detailed description and specification of the invention.
• §1.72 Title and abstract.
• §1.73 Summary of the invention.
• §1.74 Reference to drawings.
• §1.75 Claim(s).
• §1.76 Application data sheet.
• §1.77 Arrangement of application elements.
• §1.78 Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross-references to other applications.
• §1.79 Reserved
• §1.81 Drawings required in patent application.
• §1.83 Content of drawing.
• §1.84 Standards for drawings.
• §1.85 Corrections to drawings.
• §1.88 Reserved
• §1.91 Models or exhibits not generally admitted as part of application or patent.
• §1.92 Reserved
• §1.93 Specimens.
• §1.94 Return of models, exhibits or specimens.
• §1.95 Copies of exhibits.
• §1.96 Submission of computer program listings.
• §1.97 Filing of information disclosure statement.
• §1.98 Content of information disclosure statement.
• §1.99 Reserved
• §1.101 Reserved
• §1.102 Advancement of examination.
• §1.103 Suspension of action by the Office.
• §1.104 Nature of examination.
• §1.105 Requirements for information.
• §1.106-1.108 Reserved
• §1.109 Effective filing date of a claimed invention under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.
• §1.110 Inventorship and ownership of the subject matter of individual claims.
• §1.111 Reply by applicant or patent owner to a non-final Office action.
• §1.112 Reconsideration before final action.
• §1.113 Final rejection or action.
• §1.114 Request for continued examination.
• §1.115 Preliminary amendments.
• §1.116 Amendments and affidavits or other evidence after final action and prior to appeal.
• §1.117-1.119 Reserved
• §1.121 Manner of making amendments in applications.
• §1.122-1.124 Reserved
• §1.125 Substitute specification.
• §1.126 Numbering of claims.
• §1.127 Reserved
• §1.129 Transitional procedures for limited examination after final rejection and restriction practice.
• §1.130 Affidavit or declaration of attribution or prior public disclosure under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.
• §1.131 Affidavit or declaration of prior invention or to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art.
• §1.132 Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections.
• §1.133 Interviews.
• §1.134 Time period for reply to an Office action.
• §1.135 Abandonment for failure to reply within time period.
• §1.136 Extensions of time.
• §1.137 Revival of abandoned application, or terminated or limited reexamination prosecution.
• §1.138 Express abandonment.
• §1.139 Reserved
• §1.141 Different inventions in one national application.
• §1.142 Requirement for restriction.
• §1.143 Reconsideration of requirement.
• §1.144 Petition from requirement for restriction.
• §1.145 Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention.
• §1.146 Election of species.
• §1.151 Rules applicable.
• §1.152 Design drawings.
• §1.153 Title, description and claim, oath or declaration.
• §1.154 Arrangement of application elements in a design application.
• §1.155 Reserved
• §1.161 Rules applicable.
• §1.162 Applicant, oath or declaration.
• §1.163 Specification and arrangement of application elements in a plant application.
• §1.164 Claim.
• §1.165 Plant drawings.
• §1.166 Specimens.
• §1.167 Examination.
• §1.171 Application for reissue.
• §1.172 Reissue applicant.
• §1.173 Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments.
• §1.174 Reserved
• §1.175 Inventor's oath or declaration for a reissue application.
• §1.176 Examination of reissue.
• §1.177 Issuance of multiple reissue patents.
• §1.178 Original patent; continuing duty of applicant.
• §1.179 Reserved
• §1.181 Petition to the Director.
• §1.182 Questions not specifically provided for.
• §1.183 Suspension of rules.
• §1.184 Reserved
• §1.191 Appeal to Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
• §1.192-1.196 Reserved
• §1.197 Termination of proceedings.
• §1.198 Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
• §1.211 Publication of applications.
• §1.213 Nonpublication request.
• §1.215 Patent application publication.
• §1.217 Publication of a redacted copy of an application.
• §1.219 Early publication.
• §1.221 Voluntary publication or republication of patent application publication.
• §1.248 Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences and trials.
• §1.251 Unlocatable file.
• §1.290 Submissions by third parties in applications.
• §1.291 Protests by the public against pending applications.
• §1.292-1.297 Reserved
• §1.301-1.304 Reserved
• §1.311 Notice of allowance.
• §1.312 Amendments after allowance.
• §1.313 Withdrawal from issue.
• §1.314 Issuance of patent.
• §1.315 Reserved
• §1.316 Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee.
• §1.317-1.318 Reserved
• §1.321 Statutory disclaimers, including terminal disclaimers.
• §1.322 Certificate of correction of Office mistake.
• §1.323 Certificate of correction of applicant's mistake.
• §1.324 Correction of inventorship in patent, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 256.
• §1.325 Other mistakes not corrected.
• §1.331-1.334 Reserved
• §1.335 Filing of notice of arbitration awards.
• §1.351-1.352 Reserved
• §1.362 Time for payment of maintenance fees.
• §1.363 Fee address for maintenance fee purposes.
• §1.366 Submission of maintenance fees.
• §1.377 Review of decision refusing to accept and record payment of a maintenance fee filed prior to expiration of patent.
• §1.378 Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent.