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600 Parts, Form, and Content of Application
600 Parts, Form, and Content of Application
601 Content of Provisional and Nonprovisional Applications [R-7]
601.01 Complete Application [R-3]
601.01(a) Nonprovisional Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) [R-3]
601.01(b) Provisional Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111(b) [R-3]
601.01(c) Conversion to or from a Provisional Application [R-7]
601.01(d) Application Filed Without All Pages of Specification [R-7]
601.01(e) Nonprovisional Application Filed Without at Least One Claim [R-3]
601.01(f) Applications Filed Without Drawings [R-7]
601.01(g) Applications Filed Without All Figures of Drawings [R-7]
601.01(h) Forms [R-7]
601.02 Power of Attorney [R-7]
601.03 Change of Correspondence Address [R-7]
601.04 National Stage Requirements of the United States as a Designated Office
601.05 Bibliographic Information - Application Data Sheet (ADS) [R-5]
602 Original Oath or Declaration [R-7]
602.01 Oath Cannot Be Amended
602.02 New Oath or Substitute for Original
602.03 Defective Oath or Declaration [R-7]
602.04 Foreign Executed Oath
602.04(a) Foreign Executed Oath Is Ribboned to Other Application Papers [R-7]
602.05 Oath or Declaration - Date of Execution
602.05(a) Oath or Declaration in Continuation and Divisional Applications [R-7]
602.06 Non-English Oath or Declaration [R-3]
602.07 Oath or Declaration Filed in United States as a Designated Office [R-3]
603 Supplemental Oath or Declaration
603.01 Supplemental Oath or Declaration Filed After Allowance [R-7]
604 Administration or Execution of Oath
604.01 Seal [R-3]
604.02 Venue
604.03(a) Notarial Powers of Some Military Officers
604.04 Consul
604.04(a) Consul - Omission of Certificate
604.06 By Attorney in Application
605 Applicant
605.01 Applicant's Citizenship
605.02 Applicant's Residence [R-7]
605.03 Applicant's Mailing or Post Office Address [R-7]
605.04(a) Applicant's Signature and Name [R-7]
605.04(b) One Full Given Name Required [R-7]
605.04(c) Inventor Changes Name [R-7]
605.04(d) Applicant Unable to Write
605.04(e) May Use Title With Signature
605.04(f) Signature on Joint Applications - Order of Names [R-7]
605.04(g) Correction of Inventorship [R-7]
605.05 Administrator, Executor, or Other Legal Representative
605.07 Joint Inventors
606 Title of Invention [R-5]
606.01 Examiner May Require Change in Title
607 Filing Fee [R-5]
607.02 Returnability of Fees [R-7]
608 Disclosure
608.01 Specification [R-7]
608.01(a) Arrangement of Application [R-5]
608.01(b) Abstract of the Disclosure [R-7]
608.01(c) Background of the Invention
608.01(d) Brief Summary of Invention
608.01(e) Reservation Clauses Not Permitted
608.01(f) Brief Description of Drawings [R-7]
608.01(g) Detailed Description of Invention [R-7]
608.01(h) Mode of Operation of Invention
608.01(i) Claims [R-3]
608.01(j) Numbering of Claims
608.01(k) Statutory Requirement of Claims
608.01(l) Original Claims
608.01(m) Form of Claims [R-7]
608.01(n) Dependent Claims [R-7]
608.01(o) Basis for Claim Terminology in Description [R-3]
608.01(p) Completeness [R-3]
608.01(q) Substitute or Rewritten Specification [R-3]
608.01(r) Derogatory Remarks About Prior Art in Specification
608.01(s) Restoration of Canceled Matter [R-5]
608.01(t) Use in Subsequent Application
608.01(u) Use of Formerly Filed Incomplete Application [R-3]
608.01(v) Trademarks and Names Used in Trade [R-7]
608.02 Drawing [R-7]
608.02(a) New Drawing - When Replacement is Required Before Examination [R-7]
608.02(b) Informal Drawings [R-7]
608.02(c) Drawing Print Kept in File Wrapper
608.02(d) Complete Illustration in Drawings [R-3]
608.02(e) Examiner Determines Completeness and Consistency of Drawings [R-3]
608.02(f) Modifications in Drawings [R-3]
608.02(g) Illustration of Prior Art [R-3]
608.02(h) Replacement Drawings [R-3]
608.02(i) Transfer of Drawings From Prior Applications
608.02(m) Drawing Prints [R-3]
608.02(n) Duplicate Prints in Patentability Report Applications
608.02(o) Notations Entered on Drawing
608.02(p) Correction of Drawings [R-3]
608.02(q) Conditions Precedent to Amendment of Drawing
608.02(t) Cancelation of Figures
608.02(v) Drawing Changes Which Require Annotated Sheets
608.02(w) Drawing Changes Which May Be Made Without Applicant's Annotated Sheets
608.02(x) Drawing Corrections or Changes Accepted Unless Notified Otherwise
608.02(y) Return of Drawing
608.02(z) Allowable Applications Needing Drawing Corrections or Corrected Drawings [R-7]
608.03 Models, Exhibits, Specimens [R-3]
608.03(a) Handling of Models, Exhibits, and Specimens [R-3]
608.04 New Matter
608.04(a) Matter Not in Original Specification, Claims, or Drawings
608.04(b) New Matter by Preliminary Amendment [R-3]
608.04(c) Review of Examiner's Holding of New Matter
608.05 Sequence Listing Table, or Computer Program Listing Appendix Submitted on a Compact Disc [R-7]
608.05(a) Deposit of Computer Program Listings [R-7]
608.05(b) Compact Disc Submissions of Large Tables [R-7]
608.05(c) Compact Disc Submissions of Biosequences
609 Information Disclosure Statement [R-7]
609.01 Examiner Checklist for Information Disclosure Statements [R-7]
609.02 Information Disclosure Statements in Continued Examinations or Continuing Applications [R-5]
609.03 Information Disclosure Statements in National Stage Applications [R-3]
609.04(a) Content Requirements for an Information Disclosure Statement [R-7]
609.04(b) Timing Requirements for an Information Disclosure Statement [R-5]
609.05 Examiner Handling of Information Disclosure Statements [R-3]
609.05(a) Noncomplying Information Disclosure Statements [R-7]
609.05(b) Complying Information Disclosure Statements [R-7]
609.05(c) Documents Submitted as Part of Applicant's Reply to Office Action [R-5]
609.06 Information Printed on Patent [R-5]
609.07 IDSs Electronically Submitted (e-IDS) Using EFS [R-7]
609.08 Electronic Processing of Information Disclosure Statement [R-7]
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