PART I UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
- CHAPTER 1 ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICERS, FUNCTIONS
- CHAPTER 2 PROCEEDINGS IN THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
- CHAPTER 3 PRACTICE BEFORE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
- CHAPTER 4 PATENT FEES
PART II PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS
- CHAPTER 10 PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS
- Section 100 Definitions
- Section 101 Inventions patentable
- Section 102 Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent
- Section 103 Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter
- Section 104 Invention made abroad
- Section 105 Inventions in outer space
- CHAPTER 11 APPLICATION FOR PATENT
- Section 111 Application for patent
- Section 112 Specification
- Section 113 Drawings
- Section 114 Models, specimens
- Section 115 Oath of applicant
- Section 116 Inventors
- Section 117 Death or incapacity of inventor
- Section 118 Filing by other than inventor
- Section 119 Benefit of earlier filing date in foreign country; right of priority
- Section 120 Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States
- Section 121 Divisional applications
- Section 122. Confidential status of applications
- CHAPTER 12 EXAMINATION OF APPLICATION
- Section 131 Examination of application
- Section 132 Notice of rejection; reexamination
- Section 133 Time for prosecuting application
- Section 134 Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- Section 135 Interferences
- CHAPTER 13 REVIEW OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
- Section 141 Appeal to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Section 142 Notice of appeal
- Section 143 Proceedings on appeal
- Section 144 Decision on appeal
- Section 145 Civil action to obtain patent
- Section 146 Civil action in case of interference
- CHAPTER 14 ISSUE OF PATENT
- Section 151 Issue of patent
- Section 152 Issue of patent to assignee
- Section 153 How issued
- Section 154 Contents and term of patent
- Section 155 Patent term extension
- Section 155A Patent term restoration
- Section 156. Extension of patent term
- Section 157 Statutory invention registration
- CHAPTER 15 PLANT PATENTS
- Section 161 Patent for plants
- Section 162 Description, claim
- Section 163 Grant
- Section 164 Assistance of Department of Agriculture
- CHAPTER 16. DESIGNS
- Section 171 Patents for designs
- Section 172 Right of priority
- Section 173 Term of design patent
- CHAPTER 17 SECRECY OF CERTAIN INVENTIONS AND FILING APPLICATIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRY
- Section 181 Secrecy of certain inventions and withholding of patent
- Section 182 Abandonment of invention for unauthorized disclosure
- Section 183 Right to compensation
- Section 184 Filing of application in foreign country
- Section 185 Patent barred for filing without license
- Section 186 Penalty
- Section 187 Nonapplicability to certain persons
- Section 188 Rules and regulations, delegation of power
- CHAPTER 18 PATENT RIGHTS IN INVENTIONS MADE WITH FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
- Section 200 Policy and objective
- Section 201 Definitions
- Section 202 Disposition of rights
- Section 203 March-in rights
- Section 204 Preference for United States industry
- Section 205 Confidentiality
- Section 206 Uniform clauses and regulations
- Section 207 Domestic and foreign protection of federally owned inventions
- Section 208 Regulations governing Federal licensing
- Section 209 Restrictions on licensing of federally owned inventions
- Section 210 Precedence of chapter
- Section 211 Relationship to antitrust laws
- Section 212 Disposition of rights in educational awards
PART III PATENTS AND PROTECTION OF PATENT RIGHTS
- CHAPTER 25. AMENDMENT AND CORRECTION OF PATENTS
- CHAPTER 26. OWNERSHIP AND ASSIGNMENT
- CHAPTER 27. GOVERNMENT INTERESTS IN PATENTS
- CHAPTER 28. INFRINGEMENT OF PATENTS
- CHAPTER 29. REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT, AND OTHER ACTIONS
- CHAPTER 30. PRIOR ART CITATIONS TO OFFICE AND REEXAMINATION OF PATENTS
PART IV PATENT COOPERATION TREATY
- CHAPTER 35. DEFINITIONS
- CHAPTER 36. INTERNATIONAL STAGE
- CHAPTER 37. NATIONAL STAGE
