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SUBPART B—National Processing Provisions (§1.31 to §1.378)

• 1.31—Applicant may be represented by one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors.
• 1.32—Power of attorney.
• 1.33—Correspondence respecting patent applications, 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—Applicant for patent.
• 1.42—When the inventor is dead.
• 1.43—When the inventor is insane or legally incapacitated.
• 1.45—Joint inventors.
• 1.46—Assigned inventions and patents.
• 1.47—Filing when an inventor refuses to sign or cannot be reached.
• 1.48—Correction of inventorship in a patent application, other than a reissue application, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 116.
• 1.51—General requisites of an application.
• 1.52—Language, paper, writing, margins, compact 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.
• 1.63—Oath or declaration.
• 1.64—Person making oath or declaration.
• 1.66—Officers authorized to administer oaths.
• 1.67—Supplemental oath or declaration.
• 1.68—Declaration in lieu of oath.
• 1.69—Foreign language oaths and declarations.
• 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—Reservation clauses not permitted.
• 1.81—Drawings required in patent application.
• 1.83—Content of drawing.
• 1.84—Standards for drawings.
• 1.85—Corrections to drawings.
• 1.91—Models or exhibits not generally admitted as part of application or patent.
• 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—Third-party submission in published application.
• 1.102—Advancement of examination.
• 1.103—Suspension of action by the Office.
• 1.104—Nature of examination.
• 1.105—Requirements for information.
• 1.110—Inventorship and date of invention 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.
• 1.121—Manner of making amendments in applications.
• 1.125—Substitute specification.
• 1.126—Numbering of claims.
• 1.127—Petition from refusal to admit amendment.
• 1.129—Transitional procedures for limited examination after final rejection and restriction practice.
• 1.130—Affidavit or declaration to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art.
• 1.131—Affidavit or declaration of prior invention.
• 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, terminated or limited reexamination prosecution, or lapsed patent.
• 1.138—Express abandonment.
• 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—Expedited examination of design applications.
• 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—Applicants, assignees.
• 1.173—Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments.
• 1.175—Reissue oath or declaration.
• 1.176—Examination of reissue.
• 1.177—Issuance of multiple reissue patents.
• 1.178—Original patent; continuing duty of applicant.
• 1.181—Petition to the Director.
• 1.182—Questions not specifically provided for.
• 1.183—Suspension of rules.
• 1.191—Appeal to Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
• 1.197—Return of jurisdiction from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences; termination of proceedings.
• 1.198—Reopening after a final decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
• 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.
• 1.251—Unlocatable file.
• 1.291—Protests by the public against pending applications.
• 1.292—Public use proceedings.
• 1.293—Statutory invention registration.
• 1.294—Examination of request for publication of a statutory invention registration and patent application to which the request is directed.
• 1.295—Review of decision finally refusing to publish a statutory invention registration.
• 1.296—Withdrawal of request for publication of statutory invention registration.
• 1.297—Publication of statutory invention registration.
• 1.301—Appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
• 1.302—Notice of appeal.
• 1.303—Civil action under 35 U.S.C. 145, 146, 306.
• 1.304—Time for appeal or civil action.
• 1.311—Notice of allowance.
• 1.312—Amendments after allowance.
• 1.313—Withdrawal from issue.
• 1.314—Issuance of patent.
• 1.315—Delivery of patent.
• 1.316—Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee.
• 1.317—Lapsed patents; delayed payment of balance of issue fee.
• 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.
• 1.335—Filing of notice of arbitration awards.
• 1.351—Amendments to rules will be published.
• 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.