---
kind: "unit"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
key: "ptI/ch1"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 1"
heading: "Establishment, Officers and Employees, Functions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/ptI-ch1"
sections_count: 14
---

# Chapter 1 — Establishment, Officers and Employees, Functions

Title 35 — Patents › Part I — United States Patent and Trademark Office

## Sections

- [§1. Establishment](/usc/35/1.md)
- [§2. Powers and duties](/usc/35/2.md)
- [§3. Officers and employees](/usc/35/3.md)
- [§4. Restrictions on officers and employees as to interest in patents](/usc/35/4.md)
- [§5. Patent and Trademark Office Public Advisory Committees](/usc/35/5.md)
- [§6. Patent Trial and Appeal Board](/usc/35/6.md)
- [§7. Library](/usc/35/7.md)
- [§8. Classification of patents](/usc/35/8.md)
- [§9. Certified copies of records](/usc/35/9.md)
- [§10. Publications](/usc/35/10.md)
- [§11. Exchange of copies of patents and applications with foreign countries](/usc/35/11.md)
- [§12. Copies of patents and applications for public libraries](/usc/35/12.md)
- [§13. Annual report to Congress](/usc/35/13.md)
- [§14. Renumbered § 13](/usc/35/14.md)