Patents and How to Get One

About this eBook

Author

United States. Department of Commerce

Title

Patents and How to Get One: A Practical Handbook

Credits

Richard Tonsing and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

KF: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United States

Subject

Patent practice -- United States -- Popular works

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 64666

Release Date

March 1, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PATENTS AND HOW TO GET ONE A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
2. 2.Contents
3. 3.Functions of the Patent and Trademark Office
4. 4.Purpose of this Booklet
5. 5.What Is a Patent? — Copyrights — Trademarks/Servicemarks
6. 6.Patent Laws
7. 7.What Can Be Patented
8. 8.Novelty and Other Conditions for Obtaining a Patent
9. 9.The United States Patent and Trademark Office
10. 10.Publications of the Patent and Trademark Office
11. 11.General Information and Correspondence
12. 12.Library, Search Room Services and Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
13. 13.Attorneys and Agents
14. 14.Disclosure Document
15. 15.Who May Apply for a Patent
16. 16.Application For Patent — Non-Provisional Application for a Patent — Provisional Application for a Patent
17. 17.Oath or Declaration, Signature
18. 18.Filing Fees [1]
19. 19.Specification (Description and Claims)
20. 20.Drawing — § 1.84 Standards for drawings. — (b) Photographs.
21. 21.Models, Exhibits, Specimens
22. 22.Examination of Applications and Proceedings in the Patent and Trademark Office — Office Action — Applicant’s Response — Final Rejection — Restrictions
23. 23.Amendments to Application
24. 24.Time for Response and Abandonment
25. 25.Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and to the Courts
26. 26.Interferences
27. 27.Allowance and Issue of Patent
28. 28.Nature of Patent and Patent Rights
29. 29.Maintenance Fees
30. 30.Correction of Patents
31. 31.Assignments and Licenses — Recording of Assignments — Joint Ownership
32. 32.Infringement of Patents
33. 33.Patent Marking and “Patent Pending”
34. 34.Design Patents
35. 35.Plant Patents
36. 36.Treaties and Foreign Patents
37. 37.Foreign Applicants for United States Patents
38. 38.Answers to Questions Frequently Asked

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