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| Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross references to other applications (United States) |
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| Claim for foreign priority |
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| national application filing, search, and examination fees |
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| Duty to disclose information material to patentability |
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| Incorporation by reference |
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| Inventors oath or declaration |
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| Substitute statement in lieu of an oath or declaration |
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| Filing of information disclosure statement |
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| content of information disclosure statement |
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| Advancement of an application (make special) |
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| affidavit or declaration of attribution or public disclosure(disclosure cited derived from statement by inventor or was made by inventor, respectively) |
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| Affidavit or declaration of prior invention or to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art |
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| Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections (submit evidence to traverse rejection on basis not provided for) |
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| Time period for response to office action statutorily 6 months |
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| Extensions of time (for shortened statutory time periods) |
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| requirement for restriction (two or more independent and distinct inventions are claimed) |
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| Appeals to patent trial and appeal board conducted according to 37 CFR 41 |
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| Publication of pending nonprovisional applications after 18 months |
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| Notice of allowance (invitation to pay issue fee for patent application found to be allowable) |
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| Application abandoned for failing to pay issue fee within 3 months from date of notice of allowance |
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| Statutory disclaimers including terminal disclaimers (patentee may dedicate portion of patent term to public) |
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| maintenance fees, time for payment of maintenance fees, due at 3 years 6 months, 7 years 6 months, 11 years 6 months, 6 month grace period with fee. |
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| The United States Recieving Office (US/RO), receiving office only for applicants who are residents or national of the United States of America. |
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| Applicant for international application, at least one applicant must be US resident to file in US receiving office |
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| International application requirements (contents of application etc) |
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| International application filing fees |
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| Priority claim in international application |
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| Interviews with Examiner (not before first office action) |
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| Amendments after allowance (amendment not matter of right after notice of allowance) |
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| Must reply to office action with request for reconsideration with or without amendment to avoid abandonment |
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| Termination of proceedings of appeal because of dismissal or failure to timely submit appeal brief |
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| revival of abandoned application on the basis of unintentional delay. |
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| Receipt of correspondence |
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| Certificate of mailing or transmission |
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| Entering the national state in the United States of America |
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| Nature of examination (examiner will investigate/search for prior art/knowledge/use of invention) |
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| If prosecution is closed, applicant can submit request for continued examination |
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| Reconsideration of restriction requirement, applicant can request examiner to reconsider, withdraw, or modify restriction requirement |
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| Correction of inventorship in issued patent (pending is under 1.48) |
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| Claims, applicant must specifically claim that which they regard as their invention (rules about claims, dependencies etc) |
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| Petition to director, may petition for actions not subject to appeal |
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| Refunds when small entity status is later established |
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| Amendments, affidavits, or other evidence after final action, may be made if canceling claims or complying with matter of form expressly set forth in previous office action (b)(1) |
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| correction of inventorship in pending (issued is under 1.324) patent application |
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