USPTO Final Petition Decisions MCP Server

,"Document Description List Updated 04/27/2022 - See tab ""list of changes""",,,,,,,,,, Category,Document Description,USPTO Business Process,DOC CODE,FILING TYPE,NEW/FOLLOWON,,,,,, First Action Interview Pilot,Amendment/Request for Reconsideration-After Non-Final Rejection,Amendment filed by the applicant in response to a non-final office action issued by the Examiner based on the merits of the application.,A... ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Amendment after Notice of Allowance (Rule 312) ,"When applicant files an amendment after the Notice of Allowance has been mailed but before the issue fee is paid, the amendment is not entered automatically. It may only be entered upon recommendation of a Primary Examiner. It will not be entered if it requires additional search or more than cursory review.",A.NA ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Response After Final Action ,Amendment provided by the applicant after the Examiner closes prosecution with a final rejection. Amendment is not automatically entered by the Examiner. It will not be entered if it requires additional search or more than cursory review.,A.NE ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Preliminary Amendment ,Amendment filed by the applicant prior to the Examiner issuing an office action that is based on the merits of the application.,A.PE ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Response after Ex Parte Quayle Action ,An Ex parte Quayle action is an Office action noting that all claims are allowable and the application is in condition for allowance except as to matters of form such as correction of the specification or a new oath. An Ex parte Quayle action closes prosecution on the merits. A proper response from the applicant to an Ex parte Quayle action is limited to correcting these matters of form.,A.QU ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Abstract ,"A portion of the application, as submitted by the applicant, that gives a brief overview of the disclosed invention.",ABST ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Amendment Submitted/Entered with Filing of CPA/RCE ,Applicant may submit an amendment at the time of the filing of a Request for Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) or a Request for Continued Examination (RCE).,AMSB ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Amendment/Argument after Notice of Appeal ,"An amendment may be filed at any time after final rejection, but before the jurisdiction of the case has passed to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. However, after the Notice of Appeal has been filed by applicant, any amendment or argument filed by applicant is not normally entered unless the paper presented clearly places the application in condition for allowance.",AP/A ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Amendment/Argument after BPAI Decision ,"An amendment may be filed after the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. If it does include any recommendation made by the Board and presents new or amended claims, in view of the fact that prosecution is closed, the appellant is not entitled to have such amendment entered automatically. However, if the amendment is submitted with a request for continued examination, the prosecution of the application will be reopened and the amendment will be entered. If the amendment obviously places an application in condition for allowance, the primary examiner, with the concurrence of the supervisory patent examiner, will have the amendment entered. Arguments may be filed after the Board's decision such as the judicial precedent or rule or statute has been rescinded or overruled.",BD.A ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Request for Rehearing of BPAI Decision ,"The Examiner may request rehearing of the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. All requests by the Examiner to the Board for rehearing of a decision must be approved by the TC Director and must also be forwarded to the Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy for approval before mailing. The request should set a period of 1 month for the appellant to file a reply. After the period set for appellant to file a reply has expired, the application file will be forwarded to the Board.",BDRR ,"371 DESIGN SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Claims ,The claim is that part of a patent application particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as the invention or discovery.,CLM ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Drawings-only black and white line drawings ,One or more drawings where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented.,DRW ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY HAGUE HAGUE","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Drawings-other than black and white line drawings ,One or more drawings where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented where the drawings is other than a black and white line drawing.,DRW.NONBW ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY UTILITY HAGUE HAGUE","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Electronic Record Correction,"The USPTO has established a retention period of one year for patent-related papers that have been scanned into the Image File Wrapper system (IFW) or the Supplemental Complex Repository for Examiners (SCORE). After the expiration of the one-year retention period (after September 1, 2012, or later), the USPTO will dispose of the paper unless, within sufficient time prior to disposal of the paper, the relevant patent applicant, patent owner, or reexamination party files a bona fide request to correct the electronic record of the paper in IFW or SCORE, and the request remains outstanding at the time disposal of the paper would have otherwise occurred. ",E.RECORD.COR," DESIGN "," FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Amendment,Response to Election / Restriction Filed ,"Restriction is a generic term that includes the practice of requiring an election between distinct inventions, for example, election between combination and subcombination inventions, and the practice relating to an election between independent inventions, for example, an election of species. An Examiner may make a restriction requirement when an application may properly support separate patents and they are either independent or distinct. The Examiner may make this request either over the telephone, in which case the applicant's response is recorded in the next Office action, or in a separate letter making the Election or Restriction requirement. In the latter case, the applicant responds to this requirement in a separate response electing an invention or species to be examined.",ELC. ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Amendment Copying Claims - Not in Response to Examiner Suggesting Claims. ,"While the claims of two or more applications may not be identical, if they are directed to the same patentable invention, an interference exists. If an applicant presents a claim that allegedly corresponds exactly or substantially to a claim in another application or patent without suggestion by the Examiner, the Examiner will require him or her to identify the other application or patent.",IACN ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Amendment Copy Claims/Response to Suggested Claims ,"While the claims of two or more applications may not be identical, an interference exists if they are directed to the same patentable invention. If an applicant is not claiming the same patentable invention as another applicant, the examiner may suggest a claim or claims to the first applicant, provided the intention of the parties to claim the same patentable invention as expressed in the summary of the invention or elsewhere in the disclosure or claims is present. When an examiner suggests a claim, the applicant will be required to copy verbatim as suggested. A reply to the examiner's suggestion of a claim is not complete unless it includes an amendment adding the exact claim suggested to the application.",IACS ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Applicant summary of interview with examiner ,This letter from the applicant provides the applicant's summary of an interview held with the examiner.,INTRVIEW.APP,"371 DESIGN SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Request under Rule 48 correcting inventorship ,Applicant can file a request to correct inventorship under Rule 48 at any time during prosecution of an application.,R48.REQ ,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Request for Continued Examination (RCE) ,"If prosecution in an application is closed, an applicant may request continued examination (RCE) of the application by filing a submission and the fee prior to payment of the issue fee, abandonment of the application, or the filing of a notice of appeal. A submission includes, but is not limited to, an information disclosure statement, an amendment to the written description, claims, or drawings, new arguments, or new evidence in support of patentability. The USPTO will withdraw the finality of any Office action and the submission will be entered and considered.",RCEX ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Applicant Arguments/Remarks Made in an Amendment ,"A reply by the applicant to an office action must request reconsideration for further examination, must distinctly and specifically point out the supposed errors in the examiner's action and must reply to every ground of objection and rejection in the prior Office action. The reply must present arguments or remarks pointing out the specific distinctions believed to render the claims, including any newly presented claims, patentable over any applied references. In the amendment in reply to a rejection of claims, applicant's arguments or remarks must clearly point out the patentable novelty which he or she thinks the claims present in view of the references cited or the objections made.",REM ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Supplemental Response or Supplemental Amendment ,"Supplemental Response filed by the applicant at any time during prosecution in response to a communication issued by the USPTO to address informalities, corrections to the application or to augment arguments or a prior amendment submitted.",SA.. ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Amendment,Specification ,The written description of the invention.,SPEC ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Documents submitted with 371 (National Stage) Applications ,"For an international application designating the United States, to begin the national stage, an applicant files International Bureau documents including the international application, a translation if necessary, and other documents such as an international search report and a preliminary examination report.",371P ,"371 371","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Abstract ,"A portion of the application, as submitted by the applicant, that gives a brief overview of the disclosed invention.",ABST ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Application Data Sheet ,"The application data sheet is a sheet voluntarily submitted in either provisional or nonprovisional applications and contains bibliographic data, arranged in a format specified by the USPTO in 37 CFR � 1.76. Supplemental application data sheets may be submitted prior to payment of the issue fee either to correct or update information in a previously submitted application data sheet.",ADS ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Chemical Formulae (Text File) ,"Applicants may file supplemental chemical content in InChI text format (i.e., .txt file) to facilitate prosecution of application.",APP.TXT.CHEM,"371 371 AE_UTILITY PROVSNL PROVSNL SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Mathematical Formulae (Text File) ,"Applicants may file supplemental mathematical content in MathML text format (i.e., .txt file) to facilitate prosecution of application.",APP.TXT.MATH,"371 371 AE_UTILITY PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,3D Protein Crystals (Text File) ,"Applicants may file supplemental protein structure content in PDB-compatible text format (i.e., .txt file) to facilitate prosecution of application.",APP.TXT.PDB ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Appendix to the Specification ,A sequence listing table or a computer program of greater than a specified size must be submitted as an appendix to the specification and be provided on a compact disc.,APPENDIX ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Claims ,The claim is that part of a patent application particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as the invention or discovery.,CLM ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Computer Listing (text file) ,"Computer program listings may be submitted in patent applications when necessary for the purpose of providing the appropriate sequence of instructions, routines, and other contents of a program for a computer. If the computer program listing is sufficiently short, it may be submitted either as drawings or as part of the specification. Longer computer program listings must be submitted on a compact disc. A compact disc containing such a computer program listing is referred to as a ""."" The not be part of the printed patent.",COMPUTER ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Terminal Disclaimer Filed ,"A timely filed terminal disclaimer may be filed by applicant to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent is shown to be commonly owned with this application. The purpose of a terminal disclaimer is to obviate a double patenting rejection by removing the potential harm to the public by issuing a second patent, and not to remove a patent as prior art. (For Example: PTO/SB/25 or PTO/SB/26)",DIST ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Drawings-only black and white line drawings ,One or more drawings where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented.,DRW ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Drawings-other than black and white line drawings ,One or more drawings where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented.,DRW.NONBW ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Translation of Foreign Priority Documents ,"An application may be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of a prior application filed in a foreign country, to overcome an intervening reference or for similar purposes. As part of claiming the benefit of foreign priority, applicant is required to file a certified copy of the original foreign application, specification, and drawings upon which it is based. If the priority papers are not in the English language, a translation is required that may be filed with the priority papers or at a later time.",FR TRANS ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Miscellaneous Incoming Letter ,"A miscellaneous incoming letter from applicant shall be submitted any time during prosecution that is not directed to a requirement, notice or Office action sent by the USPTO.",LET. ,PG PUB,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Application Part,Oath or Declaration filed ,"Each inventor must make an oath or declaration that he/she believes himself/herself to be the original and first inventor of the subject matter of the application, and he/she must make various other statements under 37 CFR � 1.63, As set forth in 37 CFR � 1.64, the oath or declaration must be signed by all of the actual inventors except as provided for in 37 CFR �� 1.42, 1.43, 1.47, or 1.67.",OATH ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Power to Make Copies and/or Inspect ,"Written authority signed by an applicant, an attorney or agent of record, an authorized official of an assignee or a registered attorney or agent named in the papers accompanying the application papers can be submitted to give access to an application to any person. This written authority gives the named person or persons a power to inspect and make copies of the application. An unrestricted power to inspect given by an applicant is recognized as in effect until rescinded.",PC/I ,PROVSNL,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Application Part,Sequence Listing (Text File) ,"In a patent application, a sequence listing filed as a .txt file is either the ""Sequence Listing"" under 37 CFR 1.821(c) or the ""computer readable form (CRF)"" under 37 CFR 1.821(e).",SEQ.TXT ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PCT PCT PROVSNL PROVSNL SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Sequence Listing ,"Patent applications which contain disclosures of nucleotide and /or amino acid sequences must contain, as a separate part of the disclosure, a paper or electronic copy disclosing the nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences and associated information using the symbols and format established in 37 CFR 1.822 and 1.823.",SEQLIST ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Specification ,The written portion of the application is submitted by the applicant describing the invention.,SPEC ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Specification - Not in English ,The written portion of the application is submitted by the applicant describing the invention that is not submitted in English. Note translation requirements under 37 CFR � 1.52(d).,SPECNO ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Statutory disclaimers per Manual of Patent Examining Procedure(MPEP) 1490. ,A statement in which a patent owner relinquishes legal rights to one or more claims of a patent. Claims of a patent cannot be disclaimed in favor of new claims to be added to the patent or an amendment to existing claims. (For Example: PTO/SB/43),STAT.DISCLMR,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Table not included in Specification (Text File),"In a PCT application, the only tables that may be filed in .txt format are ""Tables relating to sequence listing"" in accordance with PCT Administrative Instruction Annex C-bis.",TABLE ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PGPUB","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Provisional Cover Sheet (SB16) ,A cover sheet for a provisional application indicating the contents of the submission.,TR.PROV ,PROVSNL,NEW,,,,,, Application Part,Fee Worksheet (SB06) ,Patent Application Fee Determination Record (Substitute for Form PTO-875),WFEE ,PG PUB,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Application Part,Interim Copy of the Foreign Priority Document ,"Applicant may file an interim copy of the foreign priority document in order to meet the time period requirement to file a certified copy in Rule 55 for applications filed on or after March 16, 2013. An interim copy is a true copy from the applicant�s record of the foreign priority application as originally filed with the foreign office and is not a copy of the certified copy. See Rule 55 for requirements of an interim copy. A certified copy of the foreign priority document is required before patent grant in order to be entitled to foreign priority. An interim copy does not satisfy the certified copy requirement.",FRPR.IC,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Interim Copy of the Foreign Priority Document (text file),Interim copy of Foreign Priority Document (text file),FRPR.IC.TXT,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Affidavit-Rule 130(a)-America Invents Act (First Inventor to File) ONLY,"When any claim of an application or a patent under reexamination is rejected, the applicant or patent owner may submit an appropriate affidavit or declaration to disqualify a disclosure as prior art under Rule 130(a) by establishing that the disclosure was made by the inventor or a joint inventor, or the subject matter disclosed was obtained directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor.",AF/D.130A,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Affidavit-Rule 130(b)-America Invents Act (First Inventor to File) ONLY,"When any claim of an application or a patent under reexamination is rejected, the applicant or patent owner may submit an appropriate affidavit or declaration to disqualify a disclosure as prior art under Rule 130(b) by establishing that the subject matter disclosed had, before such disclosure was made or before such subject matter was effectively filed, been publicly disclosed by the inventor or a joint inventor or another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor. ",AF/D.130B,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Affidavit-Rule 131-pre-America Invents Act (First to Invent) ONLY,"When a reference applied by the Examiner has a patent or publication date less than 1 year before the U.S. filing date of the application being examined, applicant may file an affidavit or declaration under Rule 131(a) (Pre-AIA (FTI) Rule 131) to show prior inventorship to overcome the rejection. When any claim of an application or a patent under reexamination is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 on a U.S. patent or U.S. patent application publication which is not prior art under 35 U.S.C. 102(b), and the inventions defined by the claims in the application or patent under reexamination and by the claims in the patent or published application are not identical but are not patentably distinct, and the inventions are owned by the same party, the applicant or owner of the patent under reexamination may disqualify the patent or patent application publication as prior art by submission of an affidavit or declaration under Rule 131(c) (pre-AIA(FTI) Rule 130) stating common ownership and stating that the inventor named is the prior inventor.",AF/D.131 ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Affidavit-traversing rejections or objections rule 132,Evidence submitted by applicant to overcome a rejection or objection on a basis not otherwise provided for in the rules is submitted as an affidavit under Rule 132.,AF/D.132 ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Affidavit-not covered under specific rule,Evidence submitted by applicant not provided for in the rules.,AF/D.OTHER,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Make/Rescind America Invents Act(AIA) (First Inventor to File) 1.55/1.78 Statement,"For a nonprovisional application filed on or after March 16, 2013, that claims priority to or the benefit of the filing date of an earlier application (i.e., foreign, provisional, or nonprovisional application, or international application designating the United States of America) that was filed prior to March 16, 2013, and contains, or contained at any time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013, the applicant must provide a statement (under Rule 55 or 78) to that effect within the later of four months from the actual filing date of the later-filed application, four months from the date of entry into the national stage in an international application, sixteen months from the filing date of the prior-filed application, or the date that a first claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013, is presented in the application. �If applicant inadvertently filed such a statement under Rule 55 or 78, applicant may rescind that statement. �The filing receipt must reflect the presence or absence of such a statement under Rule 55 or 78. �Furthermore, the status of the PALM AIA (FITF) indicator may need to be updated (this is not always the case because the status of the PALM AIA (FITF) indicator depends on a number of factors) whenever applicant files such a statement under Rule 55 or 78, or rescinds�",R.55.78.STMT,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Change Requests,Change of Address.,"Where an attorney or agent of record (or applicant, if he or she is prosecuting the application pro se) changes his or her correspondence address, he or she is responsible for promptly notifying the USPTO of the new correspondence address (including ZIP Code). The notification should also include his or her telephone number. A change of correspondence address must be signed by an attorney or agent of record.",C.AD ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Change Requests,Response to Rule 105 Communication,"Applicant's response to a Requirement for Information must include a complete response to each enumerated requirement for information giving either the information required or a statement that the information required to be submitted is unknown and/or is not readily available to the party or parties from which it was requested. There is no requirement for the applicant to show that the required information was not readily attainable, but applicant is required to make a good faith attempt to obtain the information and to make a reasonable inquiry once the information is requested.",C105 ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Change Requests,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Change Requests,List-up to 10 attys appointed in a POA,"Listing of attorney appointed in a POA. List must accompany the PA.. If the power of attorney was already filed (e.g., as part of an oath or declaration), the rule requires that a new copy of the signed document must be filed with separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be entered. If the power of attorney giving power of attorney to more than ten patent practitioners was inadvertently filed without a separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be made of record, the separate listing may be filed subsequently with a cover letter that identifies the power of attorney that has been previously filed and states that all the names on the separate listing appear in the power of attorney, the Office will enter the separate paper listing rather than requiring applicant to resubmit the documents as required in the rule.",PA.LIST,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Change Requests,Power to Make Copies and/or Inspect ,"Written authority signed by an applicant, an attorney or agent of record, an authorized official of an assignee or a registered attorney or agent named in the papers accompanying the application papers can be submitted to give access to an application to any person. This written authority gives the named person or persons a power to inspect and make copies of the application. An unrestricted power to inspect given by an applicant is recognized as in effect until rescinded.",PC/I ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Change Requests - Supp Exam,Change of Address.,"Where an attorney or agent of record (or applicant, if he or she is prosecuting the application pro se) changes his or her correspondence address, he or she is responsible for promptly notifying the USPTO of the new correspondence address (including ZIP Code). The notification should also include his or her telephone number. A change of correspondence address must be signed by an attorney or agent of record.",C.AD ,SUPP EXAM (SE),"NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Change Requests - Supp Exam,Electronic Record Correction,"The USPTO has established a retention period of one year for patent-related papers that have been scanned into the Image File Wrapper system (IFW) or the Supplemental Complex Repository for Examiners (SCORE). After the expiration of the one-year retention period (after September 1, 2012, or later), the USPTO will dispose of the paper unless, within sufficient time prior to disposal of the paper, the relevant patent applicant, patent owner, or reexamination party files a bona fide request to correct the electronic record of the paper in IFW or SCORE, and the request remains outstanding at the time disposal of the paper would have otherwise occurred. ",E.RECORD.COR,SUPP EXAM (SE),"NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Change Requests - Supp Exam,Request for withdrawal as attorney or agent,Incoming petition to withdraw the attorney or agent and change the address. PTO form SB83 is used for withdrawing.,PET.POA.WDRW,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Change Requests - Supp Exam,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Change Requests - Supp Exam,Request for Certificate of Correction ,"Whenever a mistake of a minor character appears in a patent and a showing has been made that such mistake occurred in good faith, the applicant may request that the USPTO issue a certificate of correction. The certificate is then attached to each printed copy of the patent, and the certificate is considered as part of the original patent.",COCIN ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Continued Prosecution,Continued Prosecution Application - Continuation (Amendment CPA) ,Applicant may submit an amendment at the time of the filing of a Request for Continued Prosecution Application (CPA),ACPA ,"AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN","NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW",,,,,, Continued Prosecution,Amendment Submitted/Entered with Filing of Continued Prosecution Application (CPA)/Request for Continued Examination(RCE) ,Applicant may submit an amendment at the time of the filing of a Request for Continued Prosecution Application (CPA),AMSB ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Continued Prosecution,Continuing Prosecution Application - Divisional (DCPA) ,"A Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) is filed by applicant before abandonment or termination of proceedings of a prior application and requests express abandonment of that prior application. The CPA discloses and claims only subject matter disclosed in the prior application. The CPA may be either a continuation or a Divisional CPA. In the Divisional CPA (DCPA), applicant requests prosecution of claims that were directed to the non-elected invention in the prior application.",DCPA ,"AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN","NEW NEW NEW NEW",,,,,, Continued Prosecution,Request for Continued Examination (RCE) ,"If prosecution in an application is closed, an applicant may request continued examination (RCE) of the application by filing a submission and the fee prior to payment of the issue fee, abandonment of the application, or the filing of a notice of appeal. A submission includes, but is not limited to, an information disclosure statement, an amendment to the written description, claims, or drawings, new arguments, or new evidence in support of patentability. The USPTO will withdraw the finality of any Office action and the submission will be entered and considered.",RCEX ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Entity Status Correspondence,Certification of Micro Entity (Gross Income Basis),"A certification under 37 CFR 1.29(a) the applicant files to establish entitlement to a 75% discount of certain fees for filing, searching, examining, issuing, appealing, and maintaining patent applications and patents. In order to qualify on the gross income basis for the micro entity discount, each inventor and each non-inventor applicant (if any) must meet requirements generally referred to as the Application Filing Limit and the Gross Income Limit. The same Gross Income Limit applies to any party with an �ownership interest� from any applicant or inventor. In addition, any party (e.g., applicant, licensee or assignee) holding rights in the application must meet the Small Entity Requirement.",MES.GIB,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Entity Status Correspondence,Certification of Micro Entity (Education Basis) ,"A certification under 37 CFR 1.29(d) the applicant files to establish entitlement to a 75% discount of certain fees for filing, searching, examining, issuing, appealing, and maintaining patent applications and patents. In order to qualify on the institution of higher education basis for the micro entity discount, the applicant must certify that the applicant qualifies as a small entity as defined in 37 CFR 1.27, and that in addition, the applicant meets one of 2 requirements generally referred to as (1) �Employment by an Institution of Higher Education� (from which the applicant obtains the majority of the applicant�s income); or (2) �Assignment or Obligation to Assign to an Institution of Higher Education.�",MES.IHEB,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Entity Status Correspondence,Assertion of entitlement to small entity status ,"An assertion under 37 CFR 1.27(c) the applicant makes to establish entitlement to a 50% discount of certain fees for filing, searching, examining, issuing, appealing, and maintaining patent applications and patents. Applicants make small entity status assertions in writing as provided in � 1.27(c)(1), or by payment in the exact amount of one of the small entity basic filing fees represented by fee codes 2011, 4011, 2012, 2017, 2013, 2005, 2014, 2019, and 2631. To qualify as a small entity, each applicant must be a person, small business concern meeting Small Business Administration standards, or a nonprofit organization as defined in � 1.27(a)(3). In addition, any party (e.g., applicant, licensee or assignee) holding rights in the application must also qualify as a small entity.",SES.REQ,"371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Entity Status Correspondence,Notification of loss of entitlement to small entity status,A notification under 37 CFR 1.27(g)(2) the applicant files to notify the USPTO that the applicant has lost entitlement to small entity status under 37 CFR 1.27. A notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status results in regular undiscounted fee status.,SES.LOSS,"371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Entity Status Correspondence,Notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status,"A notification under 37 CFR 1.29(i) the applicant files to notify the USPTO that the applicant has lost entitlement to micro entity status under 37 CFR 1.29(a) or (d). A notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status will normally result in small entity status by default.� However, if the notification is accompanied by regular unreduced fees or some other indication of loss of entitlement to small entity status, then the notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status will result in regular undiscounted fee status. ",MES.LOSS,"371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Eprocessing,Evidence of Publication,"For this program, non-applicant third parties can make an IDS-like submission in an application. �The submissions are limited to publications so, in some instances, the third party may need to upload additional material to establish that a document submitted was published. �This additional material would be coded as �Evidence of Publication.� �There isn�t a corollary for applicant IDS submissions; submitting evidence of publication is something new for this program.",3P.PUB.EVDNC,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Eprocessing,Concise Description of Relevance,"Under this program, the third party must provide, for each document submitted, a concise description of the document�s relevance to the examination of the application. �They may choose to enter the description in a text field on the EFS-Web interface but because the field is limited to 250 characters, they also have the option of uploading a separate PDF document that contains the concise description for a particular document.",3P.RELEVANCE,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Eprocessing,Translation - Foreign Reference,"Because non-applicant third parties will be using the system, it would be less confusing for them if they could select a translation code when they need to upload an English-language translation for a NPL or FOR document, but we could live with using NPL for a translation of an NPL document and FOR for a translation of a foreign document if need be and provide some instructions to that effect. �The idea was to make it as easy as possible for less-savvy third parties to use the electronic system to file their submissions. ",3P.TRANS.FOR,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Eprocessing,Translation - Non Patent Literature,"Because non-applicant third parties will be using the system, it would be less confusing for them if they could select a translation code when they need to upload an English-language translation for a NPL or FOR document, but we could live with using NPL for a translation of an NPL document and FOR for a translation of a foreign document if need be and provide some instructions to that effect. �The idea was to make it as easy as possible for less-savvy third parties to use the electronic system to file their submissions. ",3P.TRANS.NPL,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, First Action Interview Pilot,Reply under 37 CFR 1.111 to Pre-Interview Communication,"Applicant files a reply in compliance with 37 CFR 1.111 to a Pre-inteview Communication. Applicant waives First Action Interview, waives receipt of the First Action Interview Office Action and files a formal amendment.",FAI.A..,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, First Action Interview Pilot,First action interview - Enrollment Request,The applicant files the request for first action interview prior to the first office action on the merits.,FAI.REQ,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, First Action Interview Pilot,First Action Interview - Schedule Interview Request,The applicant files the request for to schedule the interview under first action interview pilot.,FAI.REQ.INTV,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, First Action Interview Pilot,Request to Not Have a First Action Interview,Applicants file a communication in response to a Pre-inteview Communication in which applicant requests to not have a first action interview and proceed directly to First Action Interview Office action with no intervening amendment.,FAI.REQ.WD,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,,t General Transmittal,Authorization for Extension of Time all replies ,"37 CFR 1.136 is the patent rule governing extensions of time. A constructive petition for an extension of time should be document indexed as 136A, and is treated as requesting an extension of time for any paper needing an extension of time to be treated as timely filed. In accordance with 37 CFR 1.136(a)(3), there are two types of deposit account authorizations that may be treated as a constructive petition for time for any concurrent or future reply.",136A ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,English translation of non-English PCT publication for provisional rights under 35 U.S.C. 154(d),"When seeking provisional rights under 35 U.S.C. 154(d), applicant must submit an English language translation of non-English language publication of PCT international application designating the United States as required by 35 U.S.C. 154(d)(4). The right under 35 U.S.C. 154(d)(1) to obtain a reasonable royalty based upon the publication of the PCT international application designating the United States shall commence on the date on which the USPTO receives the translation of the publication in the English language.",154D4.TRANS,"371 371","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Request for extension under COVID-19,The applicant provides form COVID-19 to avail the application of relief for the delay in filing or payment that was delayed due to COVID-19 outbreak.,COVID-19,"371 DESIGN UTILITY PROVSNL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) HAGUE TRACK1","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal,Response to Rule 105 Communication,"Applicant's response to a Requirement for Information must include a complete response to each enumerated requirement for information giving either the information required or a statement that the information required to be submitted is unknown and/or is not readily available to the party or parties from which it was requested. There is no requirement for the applicant to show that the required information was not readily attainable, but applicant is required to make a good faith attempt to obtain the information and to make a reasonable inquiry once the information is requested.",C105 ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Internet Communications Authorized,"To communicate with the examiner via internet communications such as email, written authorization is required. An authorization by the applicant, which authorizes internet communications that has been approved should be coded as ECOMM.AUTH.",ECOMM.AUTH,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN HAGUE HAGUE REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY TRACK1 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Internet Communications Authorization Withdrawn,"To communicate with the examiner via internet communications such as email, written authorization is required. To withdraw authorization, written authorization is also required. A withdrawal of authorization by the applicant, which withdraws authorization for internet communications that is approved should be coded as ECOMM.AUTH.WTDW",ECOMM.WTDW,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN HAGUE HAGUE REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY TRACK1 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Computer Readable Form(CRF) Statement Paper and Computer Readable Form are the same ,"In an application with a sequence listing, applicant must submit a copy of the ""Sequence Listing"" in computer readable form (CRF). In addition to a compact disc copy, a paper copy is required along with a statement that the ""Sequence Listing"" content of the paper and the computer readable copy are the same.",CRFS,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Letter Express Abandonment of the application ,"At any time during the prosecution of the application, applicant may file a letter expressly abandoning the application.",EABN ,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing Licenses.,"The Office of License and Review (L&R) offers a service to Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing License. The Office will render a decision on the petition within 3 business days. The Petitions are received by hand carry, facsimile directly in L&R, or via EFS-Web. ",EXPD.LICENSE,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,First action interview - Enrollment Request,The applicant files the request for first action interview prior to the first office action on the merits.,FAI.REQ,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Request to Not Have a First Action Interview,Applicants file a communication in response to a Pre-inteview Communication in which applicant requests to not have a first action interview and proceed directly to First Action Interview Office action with no intervening amendment.,FAI.REQ.WD,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Issue Fee Payment (PTO-85B) ,"When applicant transmits the issue fee payments on an issue fee transmittal form, the payment of that fee in Revenue Accounting and Management (RAM) system is recorded on that form.",IFEE ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Applicant summary of interview with examiner ,This letter from the applicant provides the applicant's summary of an interview held with the examiner.,INTRVIEW.APP,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Any request going to Licensing and Review ,"Requests coming into Licensing and Review include expedited licensing requests for foreign filing, retroactive licensing requests and responses to property rights potential claims from NASA or the Department of Energy.",L_R IN ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Miscellaneous Incoming Letter ,"A miscellaneous incoming letter from applicant shall be submitted any time during prosecution that is not directed to a requirement, notice or Office action sent by the USPTO.",LET. ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Letter Requesting Suspension of Prosecution ,An applicant may file a petition to suspend action in an application for a specific period of time for good and sufficient reasons. An example would be where a request for continued examination is made before a preliminary amendment is filed. The suspension would be requested to prevent having the case examined before the preliminary amendment is entered.,M856 ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Letter Requesting Interview with Examiner ,"Interviews with examiners concerning applications and other matters pending before the Office must be conducted on Office premises and within Office hours. An interview should normally be arranged for in advance, as by letter or telephone call, in order to insure that the primary examiner and/or the examiner in charge of the application will be present and available in the Office.",M865 ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Post Allowance Communication - Incoming ,Communication is received from applicant after allowance of an application and prior to publication thereof.,N427 ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Transmittal Letter accompanying New/Additional Drawings ,Transmittal letter is filed by applicant during prosecution of an application indicating that new or additional drawings were submitted.,NDRW ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,List-up to 10 attys appointed in a POA,"Listing of attorney appointed in a POA. List must accompany the PA.. If the power of attorney was already filed (e.g., as part of an oath or declaration), the rule requires that a new copy of the signed document must be filed with separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be entered. If the power of attorney giving power of attorney to more than ten patent practitioners was inadvertently filed without a separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be made of record, the separate listing may be filed subsequently with a cover letter that identifies the power of attorney that has been previously filed and states that all the names on the separate listing appear in the power of attorney, the Office will enter the separate paper listing rather than requiring applicant to resubmit the documents as required in the rule.",PA.LIST,"371 371 AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Relief in Emergency Situations Determined by Director,"A petition filed during a natural disaster (e.g. Katrina, Japan Tsunami). SB/425",PET.RELIEF,"AE_DESIGN AE_UTILITY DESIGN UTILITY REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW",,,,,, General Transmittal,Statement of preexamination search ,"In a request for accelerated examination, a statement by applicant indicating that a preexamination search was conducted, including an identification of the field of search by United States class and subclass and the date of the search, where applicable, and for database searches, the search logic or chemical structure sequence used as a query, the name of the file or files search and the database service, and the date of the search. The search must involve U.S. patents and patent application publications, foreign patent documents, and non-patent literature.",PREX.SRCH ,"AE_DESIGN AE_UTILITY DESIGN UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Examination support document ,"An accelerated examination support document including an information disclosure statement in compliance with 37 CFR 1.98 citing each reference deemed most closely related to the subject matter of each of the claims, identification of all the limitations in the claims that are disclosed by the reference specifying where the limitation is disclosed for each reference cited, a detailed explanation of how each of the claims are patentable over the references cited with the particularity required by 37 CFR 1.11(b) and (c), a concise statement of the utility of the invention as defined in each of the independent claims, a showing of where each limitation of the claims finds support under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112 in the written description of the specification, and identification of any cited references that may be disqualified as prior art under 35 U.S.C. 103(c) as amended by the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act.",PREX.SUP.DOC,"AE_DESIGN AE_UTILITY DESIGN UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Request under Rule 129 to Reopen Prosecution ,"An applicant in an application, other than for reissue or a design patent, that has been pending for at least two years as of June 8, 1995 can request to have prosecution reopened for examination. Applicant is entitled to have a first submission entered and considered on the merits after a final rejection on the merits has closed prosecution if the first submission and the fee are filed prior to the filing of an appeal brief and prior to abandonment of the application. The finality of the final rejection is automatically withdrawn upon the timely filing of the submission and payment of the fee. A submission includes, but is not limited to, an information disclosure statement, an amendment to the written description, claims or drawings and a new substantive argument or new evidence in support of patentability.",R129 ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Response providing copy of record for reconstruction ,"A copy of the applicant �s or patentee �s record (if any) of all of the correspondence between the Office and the applicant or patentee for such application, patent, or other proceeding (except for U.S. patent documents). See 37 CFR 1.251.",R251.RES ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Assignee showing of ownership per 37 CFR 3.73 ,"When an assignee to the entire title first seeks to take an action in a patent application, patent or reexamination proceeding, the assignee must file documentary evidence of title as well as a document stating that the evidence has been reviewed and certifying that, to the best of assignee's knowledge and belief, title is in the assignee seeking to take action.",R3.73 ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Refund Request ,A formal request made from the applicant to refund fees paid during the prosecution of an application. The request must include reasons indicating why the fees are to be refunded. Any request for refund must be filed within two years from the date the fee was paid.,RFN.REQ ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Refund Request ONLY for Papers Filed During a Designated Outage ,Certification and Request to Treat an Application filed during a designated significant unplanned electronic system outage as an application filed by the USPTO's Electronic Filing System?,RFN.OUTAGE,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,"Request for Expedited Processing, Design Rocket Docket ","A request is sent by applicant to expedite the processing and examination of a Design application. The request must be received prior to an examiner's action. The request must include a submission of request with fee, drawings, a statement that a preexamination search was conducted indicating the field of search with an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) and that the application is in condition for examination.",ROCKET ,"DESIGN DESIGN","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Supplemental Response or Supplemental Amendment ,"Supplemental Response filed by the applicant at any time during prosecution in response to a communication issued by the USPTO to address informalities, corrections to the application or to augment arguments or a prior amendment submitted.",SA.. ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Form PTO/SB/94 - statutory invention registration(SIR) Request ,"An applicant for an original patent may request, at any time during the pendency of applicant 's pending complete application, that the specification and drawings be published as a statutory invention registration (SIR). Any request for publication of a statutory invention registration must include a waiver of the applicant 's right to receive a patent on the invention claimed effective upon the date of publication of the SIR, the required fee, and a statement that the application to which the request is directed complies with the formal requirements for printing as a patent. The application to be published as a SIR must be complete including a specification with a claim or claims, an oath or declaration, and drawings when necessary.",SIR. ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Authorization or Rescission of Authorization to Access Search Results,"For applications subsequently filed in the EPO, the EPO�s Rule 141 EPC requires the applicants to submit a copy of the search results from the U.S. priority application to the EPO if the EPO application is filed on or after January 1, 2011. This written authorization (Form PTO/SB/69) should be submitted prior to the filing of a subsequent EPO application, in which priority is claimed to a U.S. patent application. This document can also be used to rescind a previous authorization to access the search results. The rescission of the previous authorization will not be effective unless and until an appropriate USPTO official recognizes and acts on the rescission.",SREXR141,"371 371 PROVSNL PROVSNL UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Request for status of Application ,"This letter from the applicant is a simple request for the status of the application, such as the time until a first action can be expected.",STATUS.LET ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Election in Response to Notice of Final Determination ,"If more than one application for patent term extension under 35 USC 156 was filed for a single regulatory review period, the Office will require election of a single patent for extension based upon the regulatory review. In response to this requirement, applicant will file an election of a single patent for extension. 37 CFR 1.785.",TERM.ELC.RES,"371 UTILITY ","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Response to request for information sent under 37 CFR 1.750,Applicants� response to a requirement for information in relation to a patent term extension under 35 USC 156.,TERM.INF.RES,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,37 CFR 1.750 Request for reconsideration,"If a patent appears, at the outset, to be ineligible, Applicants are sent a notice of final determination, INELIGIBLE, they may respond by arguing for eligibility. Also includes reconsideration of calculated term for extension. ",TERM.RCN.REQ,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Patent Term Extension Application Under 35 USC 156 ,"If a product is required to be reviewed by the FDA or the Dept of Agriculture, a patent claiming the product, a method of use of the product, and/or a method of manufacturing the product may be eligible for extension. To obtain an extension, an application must be filed pursuant to 35 USC 156.",TERM.REQ ,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal,Interim Patent Term Extension Application Under 35 USC 156(d)(5) ,"If a product is required to be reviewed by the FDA or the Dept of Agriculture, a patent claiming the product, a method of use of the product, and/or a method of manufacturing the product may be eligible for extension, and if the review by FDA will extend beyond the expiration date, a patent may be granted an interim extension pursuant to 35 USC 156(d)(5).",TERM.REQ.ITM ,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Gereral Transmittal,Patent Term Extension(PTE) Waiver of time period for requesting reconsideration,Allows the PTE applicant to waive the one-month time period for responding to the Notice of Final Determination,TERM.WAIVE ,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Withdrawal of Application for Patent Term Extension(PTE) ,Allows the PTE applicant to expressly withdraw their PTE application under 37 CFR 1.770,TERM.WD ,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Provisional Cover Sheet (SB16) ,A cover sheet for a provisional application indicating the contents of the submission.,TR.PROV ,"PROVSNL PROVSNL","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Accelerated Exam - Transmittal amendment/reply ,The transmittal accompanying an amendment or reply in an application undergoing accelerated examination.,TR.RESP.ACX ,"DESIGN UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Transmittal Letter,The applicant provides a transmittal letter such as an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) letter along with an IDS form (PTO/SB/08) at the earliest possible stage of prosecution detailing the most pertinent references known to applicant.,TRAN.LET,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Transmittal of New Application ,"A transmittal letter for a new application indicating the contents of the submission, including any accompanying fees.",TRNA ,"371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN UTILITY","NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW",,,,,, General Transmittal,Transmittal Reissue Application ,"Upon filing any papers in the USPTO for a reissue application, applicant includes a transmittal letter stating/listing the contents of the submission, including any fees that may accompany the papers. This filing may include an Express Mail Certificate of Mailing.",TRREISS ,"REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY","NEW NEW",,,,,, General Transmittal,Fee Worksheet (SB06) ,Fee worksheet is found at the end of the application used by the Technical Administrative Staff to determine the amount of fees due from the applicant. This worksheet can also include various other payment related internal documents.,WFEE ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal,Extension of Time ,"If applicant is required to respond within a shortened statutory time, the applicant may extend that period up to the maximum 6 month period set by statute by filling a written request and the appropriate fee.",XT/ ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Trasmittal,Relief in Emergency Situations Determined by Director,"?A petition filed during a natural disaster (e.g. Katrina, Japan Tsunami, Covid).",PET.RELIEF,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, General Transmittal ,Pro Bono Representation Certification,A certification to be filed by an attorney in a new or pending application certifying that the application is being prosecuted pro bono,PRO.BON.CERT,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY TRACK1 HAGUE HAGUE ","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Assignee showing of ownership per 37 CFR 3.73 ,"When an assignee to the entire title first seeks to take an action in a patent application, patent or reexamination proceeding, the assignee must file documentary evidence of title as well as a document stating that the evidence has been reviewed and certifying that, to the best of assignee's knowledge and belief, title is in the assignee seeking to take action.",R3.73 ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Fee Worksheet (PTO-06) ,Patent Application Fee Determination Record (Substitute for Form PTO-875),WFEE ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,List-up to 10 attys appointed in a POA,"Listing of attorney appointed in a POA. List must accompany the PA.. If the power of attorney was already filed (e.g., as part of an oath or declaration), the rule requires that a new copy of the signed document must be filed with separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be entered. If the power of attorney giving power of attorney to more than ten patent practitioners was inadvertently filed without a separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be made of record, the separate listing may be filed subsequently with a cover letter that identifies the power of attorney that has been previously filed and states that all the names on the separate listing appear in the power of attorney, the Office will enter the separate paper listing rather than requiring applicant to resubmit the documents as required in the rule.",PA.LIST,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Miscellaneous Incoming Letter ,"A miscellaneous incoming letter from applicant shall be submitted any time during prosecution that is not directed to a requirement, notice or Office action sent by the USPTO.",LET. ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Power to Make Copies and/or Inspect ,"Written authority signed by an applicant, an attorney or agent of record, an authorized official of an assignee or a registered attorney or agent named in the papers accompanying the application papers can be submitted to give access to an application to any person. This written authority gives the named person or persons a power to inspect and make copies of the application. An unrestricted power to inspect given by an applicant is recognized as in effect until rescinded.",PC/I ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Refund Request ,A formal request made from the applicant to refund fees paid during the prosecution of an application. The request must include reasons indicating why the fees are to be refunded. Any request for refund must be filed within two years from the date the fee was paid.,RFN.REQ ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Transmittal Letter,The applicant provides a transmittal letter such as an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) letter along with an IDS form (PTO/SB/08) at the earliest possible stage of prosecution detailing the most pertinent references known to applicant.,TRAN.LET,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Transmittal of New Application ,"A transmittal letter for a new application indicating the contents of the submission, including any accompanying fees.",TRNA ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Transmittal of New Application ,"A transmittal letter for a new application indicating the contents of the submission, including any accompanying fees.",TRNA ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, General Transmittal - Supp Exam,Certification of Pro Bono Representation,A certification to be filed by an attorney in a new or pending application certifying that the application is being prosecuted pro bono,PRO.BON.CERT,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, IDS/References,Third-Party Submission under 37 CFR 1.290,"Under 35 U.S.C. 122(e), a third party is permitted to submit patents, published patent applications or printed publications along with a concise description of the relevance of each document to the Office for consideration during the examination of a patent application. This provision applies to any patent application filed before, on, or after September 16, 2012. Third-Party Submissions must be made (1) before the later of (i) 6 months after the date the application is first published by the Office, or (ii) the date of a first Office action on the merits rejecting any claim, and (2) before the date a notice of allowance is given or mailed.",IDS.3P,,,,,,,, IDS/References,Foreign Reference ,Foreign references submitted by the applicant for consideration by the examiner.,FOR ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Form (SB08) ,The applicant provides an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) at the earliest possible stage of prosecution detailing the most pertinent references known to applicant. The Examiner is to considered each reference cited in the IDS prior to the next Office action on the merits.,IDS ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,Letter specifying the conditions for filing under 37CFR1.97,The applicant provides an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) letter along with an IDS form (PTO/SB/08) specifying the conditions for filing the IDS under 37CFR1.97 and explaining the relevance of the references citied under 37CFR1.98(a)(3)(i),IDS.R197.REL,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,NPL Documents ,Non-patent U.S. references submitted by the applicant for consideration by the examiner.,NPL ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,37 CFR 1.501 Submission by Patent Owner ,"At any time after allowance of an application and during the period of enforceability of the patent, a patent owner may cite, to the Office in writing, prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which are stated to be pertinent and applicable to the patent and believed to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of the patent. The period of enforceability is the length of the term of the patent plus the 6 years under the statute of limitations for bringing an infringement action.",O501 ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,Other reference-Patent/Application/Search Documents,"Submission of US Patent, US Application documentation or International or Foreign Search Reports",REF.OTHER ,"AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,Patent Term Adjustment Statement under 37 CFR 1.704(d) filed with an IDS,"Statement filed with an IDS when the references were first cited in any communication from a patent office in a counterpart foreign or international application or from the Office, and this communication was not received by any individual designated in � 1.56(c) more than thirty days prior to the filing of the information disclosure statement; or the references are communications that were issued by a patent office in a counterpart foreign or international application or by the Office, and this communication was not received by any individual designated in � 1.56(c) more than thirty days prior to the filing of the information disclosure statement",PTA.IDS,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE) UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, IDS/References,Transmittal Letter,The applicant provides a transmittal letter such as an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) letter along with an IDS form (PTO/SB/08) at the earliest possible stage of prosecution detailing the most pertinent references known to applicant.,TRAN.LET,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,3D Protein Crystals (Text File) ,"Applicants may file supplemental protein structure content in PDB-compatible text format (i.e., .txt file) to facilitate prosecution of application.",APP.TXT.PDB ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,Computer Listing (text file) ,"Computer program listings may be submitted in patent applications when necessary for the purpose of providing the appropriate sequence of instructions, routines, and other contents of a program for a computer. If the computer program listing is sufficiently short, it may be submitted either as drawings or as part of the specification. Longer computer program listings must be submitted on a compact disc. A compact disc containing such a computer program listing is referred to as a ""."" The not be part of the printed patent.",COMPUTER ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,Computer Readable Form(CRF) Statement Paper and Computer Readable Form are the same ,"In an application with a sequence listing, applicant must submit a copy of the ""Sequence Listing"" in computer readable form (CRF). In addition to a compact disc copy, a paper copy is required along with a statement that the ""Sequence Listing"" content of the paper and the computer readable copy are the same.",CRFS,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,Mathematical Formulae (Text File) ,"Applicants may file supplemental mathematical content in MathML text format (i.e., .txt file) to facilitate prosecution of application.",APP.TXT.MATH,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,Request to Voluntarily Supply Lengthy Table,"Describes the applicant�s �voluntary� submission of his/her Lengthy Table that was previously submitted in a non-text electronic format and is only available as a PDF or TIFF image. The voluntary submission, along with the statement that the content of the electronic lengthy table section is identical to that of the previously filed version of the same material, facilitates the data capture and conversion of the image data into XML electronic format that is subsequently provided to the PTO at patent grant. The lengthy table in electronic format will be submitted as a text file.",VOL.TABLE,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,Sequence Listing ,"Patent applications which contain disclosures of nucleotide and /or amino acid sequences must contain, as a separate part of the disclosure, a paper or electronic copy disclosing the nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences and associated information using the symbols and format established in 37 CFR 1.822 and 1.823.",SEQLIST ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Items of Information - Other Specific,Sequence Listing (Text File) ,"In a patent application, a sequence listing filed as a .txt file is either the ""Sequence Listing"" under 37 CFR 1.821(c) or the ""computer readable form (CRF)"" under 37 CFR 1.821(e).",SEQ.TXT ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Office of Patent Pub,Request for Corrected Notice of Allowance ,"If, on examination, it appears that the applicant is entitled to a patent under the law, a Notice of Allowance is sent to the applicant. The Notice of Allowance specifies an issue fee that must be paid within three months from the date of mailing of the Notice of Allowance to avoid abandonment of the application. Applicant may file necessary amendments, assignments, petitions, information disclosure statements, or other papers prior to the date of issue fee payment. One such paper is a request for a corrected Notice of Allowance, where some information on the Notice of Allowance is incorrect.",C680 ,"371 DESIGN UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Office of Patent Pub,Request for New or Replacement Patent Grant ,"At the request of the patentee or the patentee' s assignee, the USPTO may issue a certificate of correction pursuant to correct a mistake in a patent, incurred through the fault of the Office, wherein the mistake is clearly disclosed in the records of the Office. If the nature of the mistake on the part of the Office is such that a certificate of correction is deemed inappropriate in form, the USPTO may issue a corrected patent as a more appropriate form for correction, without expense to the patentee.",C694 ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Office of Patent Pub,Request for Certificate of Correction ,"Whenever a mistake of a minor character appears in a patent and a showing has been made that such mistake occurred in good faith, the applicant may request that the USPTO issue a certificate of correction. The certificate is then attached to each printed copy of the patent, and the certificate is considered as part of the original patent.",COCIN ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Office of Patent Pub,Request for Simultaneous Issuance,"Applicant or attorney request simultaneous Issuance of Patents where applications have been allowed and a Notice of Allowance and Fee(s) Due (PTOL-85) has been mailed in each application. A request for simultaneous issuance will be granted. A request for simultaneous issuance will be granted unless all the applications have not reached the same stage of processing, or a specific requirement of the regulation (e.g. 37CFR1.177) is not correctly supplied",REQ.SML.ISS,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Office of Patent Pub,Nonpublication request from applicant.,"A nonpublication request must be submitted with the application upon filing, certifying that the invention disclosed in the application has not been and will not be the subject of an application filed in another country, or under a multilateral international agreement, that requires publication at eighteen months after filing. Form PTO/SB/35 may be used by applicant for filing this request.",PG.NONPUB.RQ,"AE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY"," NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Office of Patent Pub,Rescind Nonpublication Request for Pre Grant Publication ,"An applicant may rescind at any time a prior filed request that an application not be published. This request will result in the publication of the application at eighteen months from the filing date of the application or as of the request to rescind the nonpublication request, whichever is earlier.",RESC ,"371 REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Amendment,Request for Reconsideration - IA ,Request for Reconsideration - IA,P.REQ.RECON ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Amendment,Chapter II - Amendments to description/drawings - PCT Article 34 ,"Under PCT Article 34, the applicant may submit amendments to the claims, description and drawings prior to preparation of the International Preliminary Examination Report.",P2.ART34.A ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Amendment,Chapter II - Amendment to the claims - PCT Article 34 ,"Under PCT Article 34, the applicant may submit amendments to the claims prior to preparation of the International Preliminary Examination Report.",P2.ART34.CLM,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Amendment,Chapter II - Request for Reconsideration - International Application ,Request for Reconsideration - IA (Chapter II),P2.REQ.RECON,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Amendment,Chapter II-Response to the written opinion ISA/237/IPEA/408,"The applicant is entitled to submit a response to the written opinion (Form IPEA/408 or Form ISA/237). If the response includes amendments, it should be indexed as P2.ART34.CLM (for claims) or P2.ART34.A (for other parts of the application)",P2.RESP.408 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Abstract ,"Applicants may file supplemental protein structure content in PDB-compatible text format (i.e., .txt file) to facilitate prosecution of application.",ABST ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Claims ,The claim is that part of a patent application particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as the invention or discovery.,CLM ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Drawings-only black and white line drawings ,"Where it is necessary to understand the invention, a complete application must include drawings illustrating the disclosed invention.",DRW ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,RO/134 - Deposited Microorganisms/Bio Material ,"If the invention in an international application pertains to a microorganism or other biological material, the applicants use this form to document that they have fulfilled their obligation to deposit a sample with an appropriate authority.",P.134 ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Sequence Listing Cover Sheet/Statement under PCT Rule 13ter ,"Where a sequence listing is provided in both computer readable and in paper form, the applicant supplies a statement verifying that the content of the two forms is the same.",P.13TER.STMT,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Corp. Resolution/Auth to act on behalf of Corp. ,"If the applicant in an international application is a legal entity such as a corporation, then a ""resolution"" signed by one or more corporate officers is needed in order to delegate authority to sign legal documents on behalf of the corporate entity to one or more people.",P.CORP.RES ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Fee payment - International Application ,"A payment of fees by the applicant either in response to an invitation therefore (RO/102, RO/133, IPEA/403 or IPEA/440) or, as sometimes happens, spontaneously.",P.FEE.PYMT ,PCT,NEW,,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Miscellaneous incoming letter from Applicant - International Application ,Miscellaneous incoming communication from the applicant concerning an international application.,P.LET ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,PCT/RO/101 Annex (fee calculation sheet) ,New international applications are accompanied by a form authored by the applicant showing how much money is due and for which fees.,P.N.101.ANX ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,PCT/RO/101 - Request form for new International Application - Conventional ,"New international applications are accompanied by a bibliographic data form authored by the applicant. The form is referred to by number as the RO/101 or, alternatively, by name as the ""Request"". The ""conventional"" format of this form is filled out manually.",P.N.101.CONV,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,PCT/RO/101 - Request form for new International Application - PCT EASY Format ,"New international applications are accompanied by a bibliographic data form authored by the applicant. The form is referred to by number as the RO/101 or, alternatively, by name as the ""Request"". The ""SAFE"" format of this form is filled out using an authoring tool developed by the International Bureau (IB). The bibliographic data is stored to a diskette that accompanies the paper application to the receiving Office.",P.N.101.SAFE,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,PCT EASY Validation Log ,The authoring program devised by the International Bureau for preparing the request form (Form PCT/RO/101) automatically scans entered data for obvious errors and inconsistencies and generates this list of any problems detected.,P.SAFE.LOG ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Statement explaining lack of signature - International Application ,"PCT Rule 4.15(b) provides that where an applicant refused to sign the request or could not be found or reached after diligent effort, the request need not be signed by that applicant if it is signed by at least one applicant and a statement is furnished explaining, to the satisfaction of the receiving Office, the lack of the signature concerned.",P.SIG.STMT ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,PCT-Transmittal Letter ,"Upon filing any papers to the USPTO regarding the filing of a new application, applicant includes a transmittal letter indicating the contents of the submission, including any fees that may accompany the papers. This letter usually includes the Express Mail Certificate of Mailing. This transmittal letter corresponds to the transmittal letter in a PCT application.",P.TR ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney or an associate Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Sequence Listing (Text File) ,"In a PCT application, the sequence listing is filed as a .txt file either as the ""sequence listing part of the description"" under PCT Rule 5.2 or the sequence listing in electronic form under PCT Rule 13ter.1.",SEQ.TXT ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Sequence Listing ,"In a PCT application, the ""sequence listing part of the description"" under PCT Rule 5.2 in paper or electronic format in compliance with the PCT Administrative Instructions. If applicant files the sequence listing as a PDF file, applicant must also file the sequence listing as a .txt file in response to an invitation from the International Searching Authority under PCT Rule 13ter.1.",SEQLIST ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Application Part,Specification ,The written portion of the application is submitted by the applicant describing the invention.,SPEC ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Request for recording of a change/PCT Rule 92bis ,"Under PCT Rule 92bis, the applicant may submit changes to the person, name, residence, nationality or address of the applicant, inventor or agent (attorney).",P.92BIS ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Confirmation of incorporation by reference,"An applicant submits a statement, to the RO, confirming that an element or part contained in a previously filed application is incorporated by reference in the international application. See PCT Rule 20.6.",P.R20.6.CONF,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Request for rectification - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 91, the applicant may request that obvious errors in the international application or other papers submitted by the applicant may be rectified.",P.REQ.RECT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Evidence for restore of priority claim,An applicant submits to the RO a request to restore Right of Priority for an international application.The request must be received by the RO within two months from the date of priority expiration. See PCT Rule 26bis.3,P.RESTORE.PC,PCT,"NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Priority Claim Adjustment under PCT Rule 26bis ,"Under PCT Rule 26bis, the applicant may correct or add a priority claim.",P.RULE26BIS ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Substitute Sheets of Request (Form PCT/RO/101) ,"Under PCT Rule 26, the applicant may submit a new version of one or more pages of the bibliographic data form (PCT/RO/101) as long as no new matter is introduced.",P.SUB.SH.101,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Substitute Drawings ,"Under PCT rule 26, the applicant may submit formalized drawings as long as no new matter is introduced.",P.SUB.SH.DRW,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Substitute Sheets - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 26, the applicant may submit corrected versions of one or more pages of the initially filed description, claims, abstract or sequence listing in an international application as long as no new matter is introduced.",P.SUB.SHEET ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Request to withdraw International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.1, the applicant may withdraw the international application at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date.",P.WD.APPL ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Request to withdraw as attorney - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90.6(d), an agent or common representative may renounce his appointment by a notification signed by him.",P.WD.ATTY ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Request to withdraw designation - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.2, the applicant may withdraw the designation of any designated State at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date.",P.WD.DES ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Request to withdraw priority claim - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.3, the applicant may withdraw a priority claim made under Article 8(1) at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date.",P.WD.PRIORIT,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Chapter II - Request for recording change/PCT Rule 92bis ,"Under PCT Rule 92bis, the applicant may submit changes to the person, name, residence, nationality or address of the applicant, inventor or agent (attorney) (Chapter II).",P2.92BIS ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Chapter II - Response to form PCT/IPEA/404 ,"If certain defects are noted in the Demand, the IPEA invites the applicant to make corrections by sending a form IPEA/404. Applicant is expected to submit corrections within one month.",P2.RESP.404 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Chapter II - Request to withdraw as attorney - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90.6(d), an agent or common representative may renounce his appointment by a notification signed by him. (Chapter II)",P2.WD.ATTY ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Chapter II - Request to withdraw designation - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.2, the applicant may withdraw the designation of any designated State at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date. (Chapter II)",P2.WD.DES ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Chapter II - Request to withdraw priority claim - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.3, the applicant may withdraw a priority claim made under Article 8(1) at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date. (Chapter II)",P2.WD.PRRITY,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Change Request,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney or an associate Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Form PCT/IPEA/401 - Demand ,"As part of the papers needed to initiate Chapter II processing, the applicant submits a bibliographic data form, the Demand, PCT Form/IPEA/401",P2.401 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Form IPEA/401 Annex ,"As part of the papers needed to initiate Chapter II processing, the applicant submits a fee calculation sheet (Form IPEA/401 Annex)",P2.401.ANX ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Request for recording change/PCT Rule 92bis ,"Under PCT Rule 92bis, the applicant may submit changes to the person, name, residence, nationality or address of the applicant, inventor or agent (attorney). (Chapter II)",P2.92BIS ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Amendments to description/drawings - PCT Article 34 ,"Under PCT Article 34, the applicant may submit amendments to the claims, description and drawings prior to preparation of the International Preliminary Examination Report.",P2.ART34.A ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Amendment to the claims - PCT Article 34 ,"Under PCT Article 34, the applicant may submit amendments to the claims prior to preparation of the International Preliminary Examination Report.",P2.ART34.CLM,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Fee payment - International Application ,"A payment of fees by the applicant either in response to an invitation therefore (RO/102, RO/133, IPEA/403 or IPEA/440) or, as sometimes happens, spontaneously.",P2.FEE.PYMT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Miscellaneous communication from Applicant - International Application ,Miscellaneous incoming communication from the applicant concerning an international application. (Chapter II),P2.LET ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Request for Reconsideration - International Application ,Request for Reconsideration - IA (Chapter II),P2.REQ.RECON,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Request for rectification - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 91, the applicant may request that obvious errors in the international application or other papers submitted by the applicant may be rectified.",P2.REQ.RECT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Response to form PCT/IPEA/404 ,"If certain defects are noted in the Demand, the IPEA invites the applicant to make corrections by sending a form IPEA/404. Applicant is expected to submit corrections within one month.",P2.RESP.404 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Response to form PCT/IPEA/405 Unity of Invention ,"Applicant's response to Form PCT/IPEA/405, Invitation to Restrict or Pay Additional Fees. Form PCT/IPEA/405 is issued by the International Preliminary Examining Authority when it is determined that the international application does not comply with the requirement of unity of invention under PCT Rule 13.",P2.RESP.405 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II-Response to the written opinion ISA/237/IPEA/408,"The applicant is entitled to submit a response to the written opinion (Form IPEA/408 or Form ISA/237). If the response includes amendments, it should be indexed as P2.ART34.CLM (for claims) or P2.ART34.A (for other parts of the application)",P2.RESP.408 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Request to withdraw as attorney - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90.6(d), an agent or common representative may renounce his appointment by a notification signed by him. (Chapter II)",P2.WD.ATTY ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Request to withdraw designation - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.2, the applicant may withdraw the designation of any designated State at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date. (Chapter II)",P2.WD.DES ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Request to withdraw priority claim - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 90bis.3, the applicant may withdraw a priority claim made under Article 8(1) at any time prior to the expiration of 30 months from the priority date. (Chapter II)",P2.WD.PRRITY,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Chapter II,Chapter II - Petition for review by the PCT legal office ,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Patent Cooperation Treaty Legal Administrator to act on the decision or continue prosecution. (Chapter II).,PET.P2.PCT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Form,RO/101 - Request form for new IA - Conventional ,"New international applications are accompanied by a bibliographic data form authored by the applicant. The form is referred to by number as the RO/101 or, alternatively, by name as the ""Request"". The ""conventional"" format of this form is filled out manually.",P.N.101.CONV,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Form,RO/101 - Request form for new IA - PCT EASY Format ,"New international applications are accompanied by a bibliographic data form authored by the applicant. The form is referred to by number as the RO/101 or, alternatively, by name as the ""Request"". The ""SAFE"" format of this form is filled out using an authoring tool developed by the International Bureau (IB). The bibliographic data is stored to a diskette that accompanies the paper application to the receiving Office.",P.N.101.SAFE,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Form,Substitute Sheets of Request (Form PCT/RO/101) ,"Under PCT Rule 26, the applicant may submit a new version of one or more pages of the bibliographic data form (PCT/RO/101) as long as no new matter is introduced.",P.SUB.SH.101,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Form,Chapter II - Form PCT/IPEA/401 - Demand ,"As part of the papers needed to initiate Chapter II processing, the applicant submits a bibliographic data form, the Demand, PCT Form/IPEA/401",P2.401 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Form,Chapter II - Form IPEA/401 Annex ,"As part of the papers needed to initiate Chapter II processing, the applicant submits a fee calculation sheet (Form IPEA/401 Annex)",P2.401.ANX ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing Licenses.,"The Office of License and Review (L&R) offers a service to Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing License. The Office will render a decision on the petition within 3 business days. The Petitions are received by hand carry, facsimile directly in L&R, or via EFS-Web. ",EXPD.LICENSE,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Sequence Listing Cover Sheet/Statement under PCT Rule 13ter ,"Where a sequence listing is provided in both computer readable and in paper form, the applicant supplies a statement verifying that the content of the two forms is the same.",P.13TER.STMT,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,PCT/ISA/217 - Notification of Decision Request for Rectification,The International Searching Authority uses this form (PCT/ISA/217) to notify the applicant and the International Bureau of its decision to authorize or refuse a request for rectification. See PCT Rule 91.1(f).,P.217.IN,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,PCT/ISA/224 - Communication-No Other Form is Applicable,The International Searching Authority uses this form (PCT/ISA/224) to communicate information to the applicant or another Authority in situations where no other form more particularly pertains.,P.224.IN,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,PCT/ISA/225 - Invitation to Furnish Nucleotide/Amino Acid/Related Tables,"Where the International Searching Authority finds that the international application contains disclosure of one or more nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences but the sequence listing fails to comply with the standard provided for in the Administrative Instructions, the International Searching Authority uses this form (PCT/ISA/225) to invite the applicant to furnish a proper sequence listing. See PCT Rule 13ter.1(a).",P.225.IN,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,PCT/ISA/234 - Notification of Transmission of Demand to International Bureau (IB) or the Competent IPEA,The International Searching Authority uses this form (PCT/ISA/234) to transmit a demand (Form PCT/IPEA/401) to another Authority.,P.234.IN,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Corporation Resolution/Authority to Act on Behalf of Corporation ,"If the applicant in an international application is a legal entity such as a corporation, then a ""resolution"" signed by one or more corporate officers is needed in order to delegate authority to sign legal documents on behalf of the corporate entity to one or more people.",P.CORP.RES ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Fee payment - International Application ,"A payment of fees by the applicant either in response to an invitation therefore (RO/102, RO/133, IPEA/403 or IPEA/440) or, as sometimes happens, spontaneously.",P.FEE.PYMT ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Miscellaneous communication from ISA,"Miscellaneous incoming communications from a foreign ISA (e.g. EP, AU, KR).",P.FORISA.LET,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Misc. incoming letter from Applicant - IA ,Miscellaneous incoming communication from the applicant concerning an international application.,P.LET ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,RO/101 - Annex (fee calculation sheet) ,New international applications are accompanied by a form authored by the applicant showing how much money is due and for which fees.,P.N.101.ANX ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Request for Reconsideration - International Application ,Request for Reconsideration - IA,P.REQ.RECON ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Response to Form PCT/ISA/206 Unity of Invention ,"If the application contains claims to more than one invention, the applicant is invited to either limit the application to only one of the inventions or to pay additional search fees for one or more of the remaining inventions. If the invitation is made in writing (see P.206), the written response is titled under this doc code. See also P.299.",P.RESP.206,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Response to PCT/PCT/ISA/225 invitation to furnish sequence listing,Applicants response to the USPTO's request to furnish a sequence listing (see P.225).,P.RESP.225 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,PCT EASY Validation Log ,The authoring program devised by the International Bureau for preparing the request form (Form PCT/RO/101) automatically scans entered data for obvious errors and inconsistencies and generates this list of any problems detected.,P.SAFE.LOG ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Chapter I � Select Competent International Searching Authority (ISA),"This for for the applicant to select an ISA where either the applicant has either not selected an ISA or the ISA that the applicant has selected does not search the subject matter of the international application. In the latter case, applicant must select another ISA.",P.SELECT.ISA,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Statement explaining lack of signature - International Application ,"PCT Rule 4.15(b) provides that where an applicant refused to sign the request or could not be found or reached after diligent effort, the request need not be signed by that applicant if it is signed by at least one applicant and a statement is furnished explaining, to the satisfaction of the receiving Office, the lack of the signature concerned.",P.SIG.STMT ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,PCT-Transmittal Letter ,"Upon filing any papers to the USPTO regarding the filing of a new application, applicant includes a transmittal letter indicating the contents of the submission, including any fees that may accompany the papers. This letter usually includes the Express Mail Certificate of Mailing. This transmittal letter corresponds to the transmittal letter in a PCT application.",P.TR ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Request to withdraw US designation - International Application ,"In order to avoid some of the ensuing complications, some applicants in international applications particularly do not want the US designated. In such situations, they will withdraw the designation of the United States under PCT Rule 90bis.2.",P.WD.US.DES ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Chapter II - Fee payment - International Application ,"A payment of fees by the applicant either in response to an invitation therefore (RO/102, RO/133, IPEA/403 or IPEA/440) or, as sometimes happens, spontaneously.",P2.FEE.PYMT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Chapter II - Miscellaneous communication from Applicant - International Application ,Miscellaneous incoming communication from the applicant concerning an international application. (Chapter II),P2.LET ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Chapter II - Request for Reconsideration - International Application ,Request for Reconsideration - IA (Chapter II),P2.REQ.RECON,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Chapter II - Request for rectification - International Application ,"Under PCT Rule 91, the applicant may request that obvious errors in the international application or other papers submitted by the applicant may be rectified.",P2.REQ.RECT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Chapter II - Response to form PCT/IPEA/405 Unity of Invention ,"Applicant's response to Form PCT/IPEA/405, Invitation to Restrict or Pay Additional Fees. Form PCT/IPEA/405 is issued by the International Preliminary Examining Authority when it is determined that the international application does not comply with the requirement of unity of invention under PCT Rule 13.",P2.RESP.405 ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Request for status of Application ,"This letter from the applicant is a simple request for the status of the application, such as the time until a first action can be expected.",STATUS.LET ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Fee Worksheet (PTO-06) ,Patent Application Fee Determination Record (Substitute for Form PTO-875),WFEE ,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Extension of Time ,"If applicant is required to respond within a shortened statutory time, the applicant may extend that period up to the maximum 6 month period set by statute by filing a written request and the appropriate fee.",XT/ ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - General Transmittal,Certification of Pro Bono Representation,A certification to be filed by an attorney in a new or pending application certifying that the application is being prosecuted pro bono,PRO.BON.CERT,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Petition,Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing Licenses.,"The Office of License and Review (L&R) offers a service to Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing License. The Office will render a decision on the petition within 3 business days. The Petitions are received by hand carry, facsimile directly in L&R, or via EFS-Web. ",EXPD.LICENSE,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Petition,Confirmation of incorporation by reference,"An applicant submits a statement, to the RO, confirming that an element or part contained in a previously filed application is incorporated by reference in the international application. See PCT Rule 20.6.",P.R20.6.CONF,"PCT PCT","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Petition,Evidence for restore of priority claim,An applicant submits to the RO a request to restore Right of Priority for an international application.The request must be received by the RO within two months from the date of priority expiration. See PCT Rule 26bis.3,P.RESTORE.PC,PCT,"NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PCT - Petition,Chapter II - Petition for review by the PCT legal office ,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Patent Cooperation Treaty Legal Administrator to act on the decision or continue prosecution. (Chapter II),PET.P2.PCT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PCT - Petition,Petition for review and processing by the PCT legal office. ,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Patent Cooperation Treaty Legal Administrator to act on the decision or continue prosecution. (Chapter II),PET.PCT ,PCT,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Petition,Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing Licenses.,"The Office of License and Review (L&R) offers a service to Petition for Expedited Foreign Filing License. The Office will render a decision on the petition within 3 business days. The Petitions are received by hand carry, facsimile directly in L&R, or via EFS-Web. ",EXPD.LICENSE,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition under Rule 41.3 to Chief Admin Patent Judge,"37 CFR 41.3 is the patent rule governing petitions that must be addressed to the Chief Administrative Patent Judge on matters pending before the Board, petitions authorized by this part and petitions seeking relief under 35 U.S.C. 135(c), including (1) seeking an extension of time to file certain papers after an appeal brief is filed in an ex parte appeal and (2) enlarging the page limit of an appeal brief, reply brief, or request for rehearing. Petitions under 37 CFR 41.3 should be coded as PET.41.3, and an automessage sent to the Patent Board.Inbox.",PET.41.3,"371 DESIGN REEXAM-EX-PARTE UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition automatically granted by EFS ,Any electronically granted petition submitted via EFS-Web.,PET.AUTO,DESIGN,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Petition,Petition from Applicant to accept color drawings or color photographs,Petition from Applicant to accept color drawings or color photographs,PET.COLOR ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM-EX-PARTE REEXAM-EX-PARTE REEXAM-INTER-PARTES SUPP EXAM SUPP EXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_UTILITY TRACK 1","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW",,,,,, Petition,Petition auto-grant letter from EFS,A petition automatically granted in EFS-Web as long as the customer conforms to certain rules for the auto-grant,PET.DEC.AUTO,DESIGN,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Petition,Electronic Record Correction,"The USPTO has established a retention period of one year for patent-related papers that have been scanned into the Image File Wrapper system (IFW) or the Supplemental Complex Repository for Examiners (SCORE). After the expiration of the one-year retention period (after September 1, 2012, or later), the USPTO will dispose of the paper unless, within sufficient time prior to disposal of the paper, the relevant patent applicant, patent owner, or reexamination party files a bona fide request to correct the electronic record of the paper in IFW or SCORE, and the request remains outstanding at the time disposal of the paper would have otherwise occurred. ",E.RECORD.COR,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for review by the Office of Petitions.,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Office of Petitions to act on the decision or continue prosecution.,PET.OP ,"371 371 DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition to make special based on Age/Health,An incoming petition from applicant delegated to the Office of Petitions to act on the decision or continue prosecution. This petition is requesting to be made special because of advanced age (over 65 years of age) or poor health.,PET.OP.AGE ,"371 371 DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for review by the PCT legal office. ,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Patent Cooperation Treaty Legal Administrator to act on the decision or continue prosecution. ,PET.PCT ,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Request for withdrawal as attorney or agent,Incoming petition to withdraw the attorney or agent and change the address. PTO form SB83 is used for withdrawing.,PET.POA.WDRW,"371 371 DESIGN DESIGN SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Patent Term Adjustment Petition,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Office of Petitions to act on the decision or continue prosecution.,PET.PTA,"371 DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW",,,,,, Petition,Petition for review by the Technology Center Special Program Examiner(SPRE) ,An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. Some petitions are delegated to the Technology Center Special Program Examiner to act on the decision or continue prosecution.,PET.SPRE ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for 12-month Accelerated Examination,A petition to make an application special for accelerated examination except in the cases of an applicant�s age or health. See 37 CFR 1.102 and MPEP 708.02. This is preferably filed using form PTO/SB/28.,PET.SPRE.ACX,"AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for review/processing depending on status ,"An incoming petition from applicant is sent to the official who has been delegated with the authority to decide the petition. For some petitions, the office that is to review and process a petition is determined based on the processing status of the application as defined by the PALM status codes.",PET.STATUS ,"DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition to Withdraw from Issue ,"Prior to paying the issue fee, applicant can request that the Office withdraw an application from issue upon filing a petition including the fee and a showing of good and sufficient reasons why withdrawal of the application from issue is necessary. Once the issue fee has been paid, the application will only be withdrawn from issue upon filing a petition by applicant indicating unpatentability of one of more claims. The petition must be accompanied by an unequivocal statement that one or more claims are unpatentable, an amendment to the unpatentable claims, and an explanation as to how the amendment causes the claims to be patentable.",PETWDISS ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition to make Special under Patent Prosecution Highway,Applicant uses the request/petition form to request participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program. The request form has a checklist of all the requirements and the use of the form will ensure that all requirements are complied with.,PPH.PET.652 ,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition to Convert under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(2) or (c)(3) ,"A non-provisional regular application may be converted to a provisional application provided a petition requesting the conversion is submitted by applicant along with the petition fee. The petition and fee must be submitted prior to the earlier of the abandonment of the nonprovisional application, the payment of the issue fee, the expiration of 12 months after the filing date of the nonprovisional application, or the filing of a request for statutory invention registration.",RCONVP ,"371 REEXAM SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED) UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Request Acceleration Certificate Humanitarian Program,"When an owner of an Acceleration Certificate under the Humanitarian Awards Pilot Program desires to redeem the Acceleration Certificate and accelerate Office processing for a pending application or reexamination proceeding, the owner completes and files the CERT.AC.HM.R form. The Office form is recommended, but the owner�s own form may be used at Owner�s risk. The form must identify the unique Certificate Number being redeemed and the application or reexamination proceeding number for which acceleration is being sought. Upon receipt and review of the Redemption Request the Office will determine whether to grant or dismiss acceleration. If previous Redemption Request has been dismissed, then a new Redemption Request may be filed.",CERT.AC.HM.R,"AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition To Make Special for collaborative search ,Petition to make special based on the collaborative search program,PET.CSP,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for collaborative search with JPO,Petition to make special based on the collaborative search program with Japan Patent Office,PET.CS.JPO,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for collaborative search with KIPO,Petition to make special based on the collaborative search program with Korean Intellectual Property Office,PET.CS.KIPO,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,After Final Consideration Program Request,"This request is sent from applicant after the Examiner has closed prosecution with a final rejection. Applicant provides an Applicant Initiated Interview Request (PTOL-413A) and a proposed amendment (37 CFR 1.116) to an independent claim that does not broaden the claim. The Examiner will conduct a full and complete review of any proposed amendment to an independent claim and schedule and interview, if necessary.",A.NE.AFCP ,"371 DESIGN UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,Green Tech Petition under 37 CFR 1.102,"A petition to make an application special, to be given priority for examination, based on green technology, i.e., Environmental Quality or Energy. See 37 CFR 1.102 and MPEP 708.02(V) & MPEP 708.02(VI).",PET.GREEN,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,Petition to make special under Patent Prosecution Hwy,Applicant uses the request/petition form to request participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program. The request form has a checklist of all the requirements and the use of the form will ensure that all requirements are complied with.,PPH.PET.652 ,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,Petition to make special by Express Abandonment of Copending Application,"A petition to make an application special, to be given priority for examination, based on the abandonment of another unexamined application.",PET.OP.SPAC,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,Certification and Request for Missing Parts,The request is for the missing parts program in which applicant who files a nonprovisional application claiming the benefit of a provisional application may delay paying the search and examination fees and any required excess claims fees.,REQ.MIS.PARTS,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,Request for Peer Review,The patent owner/assignee/applicant presents the form according to the provisions of the Peer to patent pilot to allow the application to be apart of the program.,PEER.CONSENT,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs," COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Request"," Allows an applicant that qualifies for small or micro entity status to file a request for prioritized examination in certain applications with a certification that the claimed invention covers a product or process related to COVID-19 and that the product or process is subject to an approval by the FDA.",TRACK1.COVID,"TRACK1 371 UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Request for Corrected Filing Receipt ,"When an application is initially filed, applicant is informed of the application number and filing date by a filing receipt sent out by the USPTO. If applicant discovers an error in the filing receipt, applicant may send a request to the USPTO to correct the error.",CFILE ,"371 DESIGN HAGUE PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Request for Peer Review,The patent owner/assignee/applicant presents the form according to the provisions of the Peer to patent pilot to allow the application to be apart of the program.,PEER.CONSENT,"371 UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Applicant Response to Pre-Exam Formalities Notice ,Response is sent by applicant to a notification to file missing parts or a notification of failure to comply with reissue rules within the time period for reply as set in the notice.,PEFR ,"371 DESIGN PROVSNL REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Response to Pre-Exam Reissue Notice ,Response is sent by applicant to a notification to file missing parts or a notification of failure to comply with reissue rules within the time period for reply as set in the notice.,PEFRREISS ,"DESIGN UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Response to Pre-Exam Sequence Notice ,"The USPTO will send applicant a notification of a failure to comply with the sequence rules and include an analysis of any submitted computer readable form. Upon detection during the preexamination processing of damage or a deficiency, a notice will be sent to the applicant detailing the damage or deficiency and setting a two month period for reply. Applicant must respond to the notice within the indicated time period and supply any information required.",PEFRSEQ ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Nonpublication request from applicant.,"A nonpublication request must be submitted with the application upon filing, certifying that the invention disclosed in the application has not been and will not be the subject of an application filed in another country, or under a multilateral international agreement, that requires publication at eighteen months after filing. Form PTO/SB/35 may be used by applicant for filing this request.",PG.NONPUB.RQ,"AE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Certification and Request for Missing Parts,The request is for the missing parts program in which applicant who files a nonprovisional application claiming the benefit of a provisional application may delay paying the search and examination fees and any required excess claims fees.,REQ.MIS.PARTS,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Exam,Rescind Nonpublication Request for Pre Grant Pub ,"An applicant may rescind at any time a prior filed request that an application not be published. This request will result in the publication of the application at eighteen months from the filing date of the application or as of the request to rescind the nonpublication request, whichever is earlier.",RESC ,"371 REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Grant Pub,Request for Early Publication ,Applications are normally published 18 months after they are filed. Applicant may request that his or her application be published earlier than that date.,EARLYPUB ,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN REEXAM REEXAM REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Grant Pub,Request/Corrected Patent Application Publications ,The Office will grant a request for a corrected or revised patent application publication from applicant when the Office makes a material mistake which is apparent from Office records. Any request for a corrected or revised patent application publication from applicant must be filed within two months from the date of the patent application publication and include an indication of the mistake.,PGA9 ,"371 REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Grant Pub,Request for Express Abandonment for refund or to avoid publication,"An applicant seeking to abandon an application to avoid publication of the application must submit a declaration of express abandonment by way of a petition including a fee in sufficient time to recognize the abandonment and remove the application from the publication process. Applicant should submit the declaration of express abandonment, petition and fee more than four weeks prior to the projected date of publication.",PGEA ,"371 REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Grant Pub,Request for Refund of Publication Fee Paid ,"Upon filing a request to withdraw the request for publication, applicant may also include a request for a refund of any amount paid in excess of the application filing fee and a handling fee as set forth by the USPTO. The request for refund of the publication fee must be filed prior to the publication of the application.",PGREF ,"371 REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pre-Grant Pub,Rescind Nonpublication Request for Pre Grant Pub ,"An applicant may rescind at any time a prior filed request that an application not be published. This request will result in the publication of the application at eighteen months from the filing date of the application or as of the request to rescind the nonpublication request, whichever is earlier.",RESC ,"371 REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Priority Documents,Interim Copy of Foreign Priority Document (PDF),"Applicant may file an interim copy of the foreign priority document in order to meet the time period requirement to file a certified copy in Rule 55 for applications filed on or after March 16, 2013. An interim copy is a true copy from the applicant�s record of the foreign priority application as originally filed with the foreign office and is not a copy of the certified copy. See Rule 55 for requirements of an interim copy. A certified copy of the foreign priority document is required before patent grant in order to be entitled to foreign priority. An interim copy does not satisfy the certified copy requirement.",FRPR.IC,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Priority Documents,Interim Copy of Foreign Priority Document (TXT),Interim copy of Foreign Priority (text file),FRPR.IC.TXT,"371 371 AE_UTILITY AE_DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Priority Documents,Request for USPTO to retrieve priority docs ,Request from the applicant authorizing the USPTO to electronically retrieve Official Priority Documents from participating foreign IP Office and enter them into the file wrapper.,PD.REQ.RETR ,"371 371 DESIGN DESIGN PROVSNL PROVSNL UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Priority Documents,Authorization or Rescission of Authorization to Access Application by Digital Access Service /Priority Document Exchange Office ,This document (PTO/SB/39) can be used by U.S. applicants to provide the USPTO with authorization to permit participating International Offices access to their electronic U.S. Priority Patent Applications. This document can also be used to rescind a previous authorization to access the priority document. The rescission of the previous authorization will not be effective unless and until an appropriate USPTO official recognizes and acts on the rescission. ,PD.TO.AUTH ,"371 371 DESIGN DESIGN UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Appeal Brief Filed ,"After two rejections from the Examiner, applicant (now appellant) may file an Appeal Brief of the Examiner's decision. The appeal is to be decided upon by an administrative patent judge from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences within the USPTO. The judge weighs the evidence in the Appeal Brief and in an Examiner's Answer to reach a decision.",AP.B ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Request ,Request filed by applicant to have a panel of examiners formally review the legal and factual basis of the rejections in their application prior to the filing of an appeal brief.,AP.PRE.REQ ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Amendment/Argument after Notice of Appeal ,"An amendment may be filed at any time after final rejection, but before the jurisdiction of the case has passed to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. However, after the Notice of Appeal has been filed by applicant, any amendment or argument filed by applicant is not normally entered unless the paper presented clearly places the application in condition for allowance.",AP/A ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Request to Withdraw Appeal by Appellant ,"Appellant may file a request to withdraw an appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. If no claims are allowed, the withdrawal is an express abandonment. If some claims are allowed, the withdrawal is the equivalent of an amendment canceling the appealed claims.",AP/W ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Affidavit/Declaration/ Exhibit After Notice of Appeal ,"An affidavit, declaration or exhibit may be filed after the Notice of Appeal. However, after the jurisdiction of the case has passed to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, an affidavit, declaration or exhibit may be considered by the Examiner only in the case that the Board remands the case to the Examiner for that purpose.",APAF ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Confirmation of Hearing by Appellant ,"Appellant may request an oral hearing before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In response to that request, a notice of the hearing stating the date, time and docket is forwarded to the appellant by the Board. The appellant must send a confirmation within a stated time period confirming that appellant will attend.",APCH ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Request for Oral Hearing ,"Appellant may request an oral hearing before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In response to that request, a notice of the hearing stating the date, time and docket is forwarded to the appellant by the Board.",APOH ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Appeal Postponement of Oral Hearing Request ,"Appellant may request an oral hearing before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In response to that request, a notice of the hearing stating the date, time and docket is forwarded to the appellant by the Board. The appellant must send a confirmation within a stated time period confirming that appellant will attend. If appellant cannot attend at the designated time, appellant may request a postponement of the hearing. Such a request may be granted if it does not unduly delay a decision in the case or place undue burden on the Board.",APPH ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Reply Brief Filed ,"In response to an Examiner's Answer prepared by the Examiner following appellant's appeal brief to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, appellant has a right to file a reply brief within two months of the mailing date of the Examiner's Answer.",APRB ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Waiver of Hearing by Appellant ,"Appellant may request an oral hearing before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In response to that request, a notice of the hearing stating the date, time and docket is forwarded to the appellant by the Board. The appellant must send a confirmation within a stated time period confirming that appellant will attend. If appellant no longer can or wishes to attend the scheduled hearing, appellant should inform the Board of a of waiver of hearing at the earliest possible opportunity.",APWH ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Request for Rehearing of BPAI Decision ,A request for rehearing filed by appellant for a rehearing of the original decision of the Board.,BDRR ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Petition under Rule 41.3 to Chief Administrative Patent Judge,"37 CFR 41.3 is the patent rule governing petitions that must be addressed to the Chief Administrative Patent Judge on matters pending before the Board, petitions authorized by this part and petitions seeking relief under 35 U.S.C. 135(c), including (1) seeking an extension of time to file certain papers after an appeal brief is filed in an ex parte appeal and (2) enlarging the page limit of an appeal brief, reply brief, or request for rehearing. Petitions under 37 CFR 41.3 should be coded as PET.41.3, and an automessage sent to the Patent Board.Inbox.",PET.41.3,"371 DESIGN REEXAM-Ex Parte UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Certification and Transmittal of Appeal Forwarding Fee,Forwarding an appeal in an application or ex parte reexamination proceeding to the Board. Form AIA/34,WFEE.APPEAL,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY ","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Notice of Appeal Filed ,"After two rejections from the Examiner, applicant may file an Appeal Notice noting that applicant (now appellant) is appealing the Examiner's decision. The appeal is to be decided upon by an administrative patent judge from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences within the USPTO. The judge weighs the evidence in the Appeal Brief and in an Examiner's Answer to reach a decision.",N/AP ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,Supplemental Appeal Brief ,"Where prosecution is reopened by the primary examiner after an appeal or reply brief has been filed, appellant must either file a reply to the new office action or request a reinstatement of the appeal to avoid abandonment of the application. If reinstatement of the appeal is requested by appellant, such request must be accompanied by a supplemental appeal brief, but no new amendments, affidavits or other evidence are permitted. The supplemental appeal brief must follow the same rules for filing an appeal brief. Appellant also may file a Supplemental Appeal Brief after filing an Appeal Brief and prior to the Examiner's Answer.",SAPB ,"371 DESIGN REEXAM UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB Petition,Petition under Rule 41.3 to Chief Admin Patent Judge,"37 CFR 41.3 is the patent rule governing petitions that must be addressed to the Chief Administrative Patent Judge on matters pending before the Board, petitions authorized by this part and petitions seeking relief under 35 U.S.C. 135(c), including (1) seeking an extension of time to file certain papers after an appeal brief is filed in an ex parte appeal and (2) enlarging the page limit of an appeal brief, reply brief, or request for rehearing. Petitions under 37 CFR 41.3 should be coded as PET.41.3, and an automessage sent to the Patent Board.Inbox.",PET.41.3,"371 DESIGN REEXAM-Ex Parte UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB Reexamination,Withdrawal of Appeal,Request to withdraw appeal,RXAP/W ,REEXAM,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB Reexamination,Request for rehearing to BPAI,Request by appellant for rehearing by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences,RXAPRR ,REEXAM,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB Reexamination,Patent Owner Comments on request for Rehearing timely,A Request from the Patent Owner requesting a timely rehearing,XI.RRHOC ,REEXAM,FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB Reexamination,Requester Comments on request for Rehearing timely,Requester comment on a request for a timely rehearing,XI.RRHRC ,REEXAM,FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Notice of concurrent proceedings / decisions ,"In ex parte reexamination proceedings, patent owners are required to file a notice of concurrent proceedings and decisions on such proceedings in which the patent is or was involved.",NTC.CONCPROC,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Notice of Cross Appeal - Third Party Requester,Third Party Requester filed a Notice of Cross Appeal in an Inter Partes Reexam,XI.NCAPR ,"REEXAM REEXAM","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam follow-on papers received in Office of Patent Application Processing(OPAP) ,Any follow-on incoming ex parte reexam papers (control no. 90/xxxxxx or 95/xxxxxx) addressed to the CRU/TC.,RX.90 ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Response to Final Rejection ,"A response filed by the patent owner in response to a final rejection, which is placed in the file, but not automatically entered; it is entered only if approved by the examiner for entry in a reexamination proceeding.",RXAAF. ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Defective Brief Filed ,Response filed by appellant to a non-compliant appeal brief for a reexamination proceeding. ,RXAPBI ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Certificate of Mailing ,"A certificate included with an incoming paper, filed by either the owner or the third party requester, which indicates the date that the paper was deposited in the U.S. mail for filing in a reexamination proceeding.",RXC/M. ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Certificate of Service ,"A certificate included with an incoming paper, filed by either the owner or the third party requester, which indicates the date that the paper was served on the other party (or parties) in a reexamination proceeding.",RXC/SR ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Court of Appeals Decision Rendered ,Notification that a Court of Appeals decision was mailed by the Court in a reexamination proceeding,RXCAFC ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Appeal BPAI Decision to Court of Appeals ,Notification by owner that the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) decision has been appealed to the Court of Appeals to reverse/overturn the BPAI decision,RXCTAP ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Fee Payment Only Filed ,"An incoming paper filed by the owner or the third party requester, which only includes payment of a fee",RXFEE ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Miscellaneous Incoming Letter ,A miscellaneous letter filed by either the owner or the third party requester in a reexamination proceeding.,RXLET. ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Copy of patent for which reexamination is requested ,The patent copy containing the specification and claims for which patent the reexamination is requested,RXPATENT ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Petition for Review of Reexam Denial ,"A petition filed by the requester (can be patent owner or third party requester), asking that the decision denying the reexamination request be reconsidered.",RXRPET ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam request for For Priority (Priority Papers May Be Included) ,A letter filed by the owner requesting that foreign priority be given to the patent being reexamined,RXRQ4FP ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Request to Merge Reexam Proceedings ,A letter requesting that the reexamination be merged with another copending reexamination proceeding for reexamination of the same patent.,RXRQMP ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Reexam Request to Lift Suspension of Prosecution ,A letter requesting that the suspension of the reexamination proceeding be lifted.,RXRQS. ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Transmittal letter filing of a response in a reexam ,A general Transmittal letter accompanying the filing of a paper in a reexamination proceeding.,RXTRLTR ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Patent Owner Comments after Action Closing Prosecution ,"Patent owner amendment/comments filed after Action Closing Prosecution - the paper is placed in the file, but not automatically entered; it is entered only if approved by the examiner for entry in a reexamination proceeding.",XI.ACPOC ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reexamination,Patent Owner Appeal to the Federal Circuit Filed ,Appeal filed by patent owner to the Federal Circuit,XI.APCTO ,SUPP EXAM (REEXAM ORDERED),FOLLOWON,,,,,, Reissue,Notice of concurrent proceedings / decisions ,"In ex parte reexamination proceedings, patent owners are required to file a notice of concurrent proceedings and decisions on such proceedings in which the patent is or was involved.",NTC.CONCPROC,"REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY","NEW NEW",,,,,, Reissue,Consent of Assignee accompanying the declaration. ,"If any of the inventors has/have assigned (transferred) their ownership of the original patent to one or more assignees, then all of the assignees must consent to the filing of a reissue application. The consent must be accompanied by an assignee showing of ownership per 37 CFR 3.73(b) for each assignee.",REIS.CONSENT,"DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UITILITY","FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Reissue,Reissue Oath or Declaration ,"A reissue oath, declaration, or assignment statement must be filed that is signed by each named inventor, or a substitute statement must be filed that is signed by the applicant for reissue. See 37 CFR 1.175",REIS.DECL ,"DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UITILITY","FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Reissue,Supplemental reissue declaration filed in accord with Manual of Patent Examining Procedure(MPEP) 1414.01 ,"After the first filed reissue oath or declaration, one or more additional reissue oaths or declarations may later be required. For example, if errors not covered by a prior reissue declaration are later corrected during prosecution of the application, then a supplemental reissue oath/declaration under either 37 CFR 1.175(b) or (c) must be filed prior to allowance by the examiner. If any error previously stated in the original reissue oath or declaration is still being corrected, then the supplemental oath/declaration need only state that �every error in the patent which was corrected in the present reissue application, and which is not covered by the prior oath(s) and/or declaration(s) submitted in this application, arose without any deceptive intention on the part of the applicant.� If no error previously stated in the original reissue oath or declaration is still being corrected, then the supplemental reissue oath or declaration must also specify at least one error being corrected in the reissue application. The supplemental reissue oath or declaration must be signed by the same parties who can sign an original declaration/oath.",REIS.SUPDECL,"DESIGN UTILITY","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Reissue,Transmittal Reissue Application ,"Upon filing any papers in the USPTO for a reissue application, applicant includes a transmittal letter stating/listing the contents of the submission, including any fees that may accompany the papers. This filing may include an Express Mail Certificate of Mailing.",TRREISS ,"DESIGN REISSUE_DESIGN REISSUE_UTILITY UITILITY","FOLLOWON NEW NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Copy of Sales Receipt or Invoice - Supplemental Examination,A copy of a sales receipt or invoice that is filed as an item of information as part of a request for supplemental examination should be document coded SE.SALE.RCPT,SE.SALE.RCPT,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Court Document - Supplemental Examination ,A copy of a court document that is filed as an item of information as part of a request for supplemental examination should be document coded SE.COURT.DOC,SE.COURT.DOC,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Declaration or Affidavit - Supplemental Examination ,"A declaration (e.g., under 37 CFR 1.131 or 1.132) that is filed as or accompanying an item of information as part of a request in a supplemental examination proceeding should be document coded SE.DECL.AFF",SE.DECL.AFF,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Drawings-only black and white line drawings ,One or more drawings where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented.,DRW ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Drawings-other than black and white line drawings ,One or more drawings where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter sought to be patented.,DRW.NONBW ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Foreign Reference ,Foreign references submitted by the applicant for consideration by the examiner.,FOR ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),List of Items of Information - Supplemental Examination,"A list of items of information that is separately filed (i.e., does not form part of the transmittal form PTO/SB/59) as part of a request for supplemental examination pursuant to 37 CFR 1.610(b)(2), should be document coded SE.ITEM.LIST ",SE.ITEM.LIST,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Miscellaneous Item of Information,"An item of information that does not fall under any other category (i.e., it is not a declaration (SE.DECL.AFF), court document (SE.COURT.DOC), invoice or sales receipt (SE.SALE.RCPT), translation of a non-English language item of information (SE.TRANS), transcript of audio or video recording (SE.TRNSCRPT), foreign reference (FOR), non-patent literature (NPL), US patent document (SE.ITEM.PAT), etc.), and is filed as part of a request for supplemental examination, should be document coded SE.ITEM.MISC",SE.ITEM.MISC,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),NPL Documents ,Non-patent U.S. references submitted by the applicant for consideration by the examiner.,NPL ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Transcript of Audio or Video Recording - Supplemental Examination,A transcript of an audio or video recording that is filed as an item of information as part of a request for supplemental examination should be document coded SE.TRNSCRPT,SE.TRNSCRPT,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),Translation of Non-English Language Item of Information,"A translation of a non-English language item of information that is filed as part of a request for supplemental examination (37 CFR 1.610(b)(7)), should be document coded SE.TRANS",SE.TRANS,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, SE (Items of Information),US Patent or Patent Application Pub - Supp Exam,A copy of a U.S. patent document (a U.S. patent or patent application publication) that is submitted as an item of information as part of a request for supplemental examination should be document coded SE.ITEM.PAT,SE.ITEM.PAT,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Assignee showing of ownership per 37 CFR 3.73 ,"When an assignee to the entire title first seeks to take an action in a patent application, patent or reexamination proceeding, the assignee must file documentary evidence of title as well as a document stating that the evidence has been reviewed and certifying that, to the best of assignee's knowledge and belief, title is in the assignee seeking to take action.",R3.73 ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Copy of patent for which Supplemental Examination is requested,"A copy of a patent for which supplemental examination is requested, and which is filed in supplemental examination proceeding, should be document coded SE.PATENT",SE.PATENT,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Fee Worksheet (PTO-06) ,Patent Application Fee Determination Record (Substitute for Form PTO-875),WFEE ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,List of Prior or Concurrent Office Proceedings - Supplemental Examination,"A list of prior or concurrent Office proceedings that is separately filed (i.e., does not form part of the transmittal form PTO/SB/59) as part of a request for supplemental examination pursuant to 37 CFR 1.610(b)(3), or is filed later in the supplemental examination proceeding pursuant to 37 CFR 1.620(d), should be document coded SE.OFF. PROC",SE.OFF.PROC,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,List-up to 10 attys appointed in a POA,"Listing of attorney appointed in a POA. List must accompany the PA.. If the power of attorney was already filed (e.g., as part of an oath or declaration), the rule requires that a new copy of the signed document must be filed with separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be entered. If the power of attorney giving power of attorney to more than ten patent practitioners was inadvertently filed without a separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be made of record, the separate listing may be filed subsequently with a cover letter that identifies the power of attorney that has been previously filed and states that all the names on the separate listing appear in the power of attorney, the Office will enter the separate paper listing rather than requiring applicant to resubmit the documents as required in the rule.",PA.LIST,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Petition in Supplemental Examination,A petition that is filed in a supplemental examination proceeding should be document coded SE.PET,SE.PET,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Power of Attorney ,Applicant may file a change in Power of Attorney at any time during prosecution of an application. The POA indicates representatives given permission to act on behalf of the inventor or assignee to prosecute an application.,PA.. ,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Receipt of Corrected Supplemental Examination Request,"When a request for supplemental examination has been previously submitted in a supplemental examination proceeding, and a second corrected request is filed that is a correction and/or completion of the previously submitted request for supplemental examination, the second corrected request should be document coded SE.REQ.COR",SE.REQ.COR,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Supplemental Examination,Receipt of Original Supplemental Examination Request,"A request for supplemental examination that has been submitted for the first time, and is not a correction of a previously submitted request for supplemental examination (a corrected request for supplemental examination), should be document coded as SE.REQ.ORIG",SE.REQ.ORIG,"SUPP EXAM (SE) SUPP EXAM (SE)","NEW FOLLOWON ",,,,,, Track I - Prioritized Examination," COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Request"," Allows an applicant that qualifies for small or micro entity status to file a request for prioritized examination in certain applications with a certification that the claimed invention covers a product or process related to COVID-19 and that the product or process is subject to an approval by the FDA.",TRACK1.COVID,"TRACK1 371 UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON FOLLOWON ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Certificate of Service under 37 CFR 1.248,Certificate of Service:�A submission under this section by a person other than the patent owner must include a certification that a copy of the submission was served in its entirety upon patent owner at the address as provided for in�� 1.33(c). A submission by a person other than the patent owner that fails to include proper proof of service as required by�� 1.248(b)�will not be entered into the patent file.,501.CERT.SRV,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Accompanying Info for patent owner claim scope statement,(i) The forum and proceeding in which patent owner filed each statement; (ii) The specific papers and portions of the papers submitted that contain the statements; and (iii)How each statement submitted is a statement in which patent owner took a position on the scope of any claim in the patent.,501.CLM.INFO,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Patent Owner Claim Scope Statement Explanation/Justification,"Explanation: May, if the submission is made by the patent owner, include an explanation of how the claims differ from any prior art submitted under paragraph (a)(1) of this section or any written statements and accompanying information submitted under paragraph (a)(2) of this section.",501.CLM.JUST,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Patent Owner Claim Scope Statements,"Statements of the patent owner filed by the patent owner in a proceeding before a Federal court or the Office in which the patent owner took a position on the scope of any claim of the patent. Any statement submitted under this paragraph must be accompanied by any other documents, pleadings, or evidence from the proceeding in which the statement was filed that address the written statement, and such statement and accompanying information under this paragraph must be submitted in redacted form to exclude information subject to an applicable protective order.",501.CLM.STMT,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Statement(s) of Pertinence and Manner (Prior Art),"Under this program, the submitter must provide, a statement as to the pertinence and manner of apply the submitted art to at least one claim of the patent. �They may choose to enter multiple statements.� They will upload as separate PDF document(s) that contains the statement(s) of pertinence and Manner of Applying the prior art",501.PERTNCNE,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Evidence of Publication,"For this program, submissions are limited to patents, publications and patent owner claim scope statements.� In some instances, a submitter may need to upload additional material to establish that a document submitted was published. �This additional material would be coded as �Evidence of Publication.�",501.PUB.EVDN,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Request notice of Non-compliant 37 CFR 1.501 Submission,"37�CFR�1.501 submissions are routed to a parking lot where they will be screened for compliance before being entered into the patent file. A 37�CFR�1.501 filer can request that the Office notify them if their submission is found to be non-compliant. To do so, the filer will include a request with contact information where such notification should be directed. Non-compliant submissions will not be entered into the patent file.",501.RQ.NCMP,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Translation - Foreign Reference,37�CFR�1.501 �Citation of prior art and written statements in patent files. Translation - Foreign Reference,501.TRNS.FOR,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, 1.501 Prior Art Submission,Translation - Non Patent Literature/Publications,37�CFR�1.501 �Citation of prior art and written statements in patent files. Translation - Non Patent Literature/Publications,501.TRNS.NPL,1.501 PRIOR ART,"NEW ",,,,,, Change Requests,Maintenance Fee Address Change,Maintenance Fee address change submitted via EFS-Web,MFEE.C.AD,"371 DESIGN UTILITY",FOLLOWON,,,,,, Application Part,Annex(es) to DM/1 or equivalent ,Annex(es) to the application for international registration (DM/1 form or equivalent),HAGUE.ANX ,"HAGUE HAGUE","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Application Part,Application for International Registration (DM/1 or equivalent),Application for the internatioinal registration of industrial designs under the Hague Agreement. The application may be made on the official WIPO form DM/1 or an equivalent thereof.,REQ.HAGUE ,"HAGUE HAGUE","NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition in an International design application decided by International Patent Legal Administration(IPLA),Petition relating to an international design application for review and processing by International Patent Legal Administration,PET.HAGUE ,"HAGUE DESIGN","FOLLOWON FOLLOWON",,,,,, Petition,Petition for Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot,"A petition to make an application special, to be given priority for examination, based on claim(s) to a method of treating cancer using Immunotherapy..",PET.IMMUNO,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, Pilot Programs,Prosecution Conference Pilot Request ,This request is sent from applicant after the examiner has closed prosecution with a final rejection.�Applicant requests entry into the Prosecution Conference pilot by submitting this form along with limited arguments and optional claim amendments.�A prosecution conference will then be conducted with applicants as appropriate.,A.NE.PCP,"371 371 UTILITY UTILITY","NEW FOLLOWON NEW FOLLOWON",,,,,, PTAB,District Court Trail Documents - Incoming,Agency receives documents filed in district court proceedings,DC.TR.DOCI,"371 DESIGN UTILITY PROVISIONAL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (SE) HAGUE",FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB,District Court Trial Exhibit,Exhibits filed in district court proceedings,DC.TR.EX,"371 DESIGN UTILITY PROVISIONAL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (SE) HAGUE",FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB,District Court Trial Pleading,Agency files court documents in district court proceedings,DC.TR.PLD,"371 DESIGN UTILITY PROVISIONAL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (SE) HAGUE",FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB,District Court Trial Transcripts,Agency receives record of district court proceedings,DC.TR.TRAN,"371 DESIGN UTILITY PROVISIONAL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (SE) HAGUE",FOLLOWON,,,,,, PTAB,District Court Trial Presentation,Agency files presentation documents in district court proceedings,DC.TR.PSNT,"371 DESIGN UTILITY PROVISIONAL REEXAM SUPP EXAM (SE) HAGUE",FOLLOWON,,,,,,