---
kind: "unit"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
key: "ptII/ch11"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 11"
heading: "Application for Patent"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/ptII-ch11"
sections_count: 13
---

# Chapter 11 — Application for Patent

Title 35 — Patents › Part II — Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents

## Sections

- [§111. Application](/usc/35/111.md)
- [§112. Specification](/usc/35/112.md)
- [§113. Drawings](/usc/35/113.md)
- [§114. Models, specimens](/usc/35/114.md)
- [§115. Inventor’s oath or declaration](/usc/35/115.md)
- [§116. Inventors](/usc/35/116.md)
- [§117. Death or incapacity of inventor](/usc/35/117.md)
- [§118. Filing by other than inventor](/usc/35/118.md)
- [§119. Benefit of earlier filing date; right of priority](/usc/35/119.md)
- [§120. Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States](/usc/35/120.md)
- [§121. Divisional applications](/usc/35/121.md)
- [§122. Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications](/usc/35/122.md)
- [§123. Micro entity defined](/usc/35/123.md)