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File E8r7 E8r6 E8r6 Chapter, Appendix Title Blue html Blue Pages Title html Title Page FWD html Foreword TOC html Table of Contents Intro html Introduction 0100 html 100 Secrecy, Access, National Security, and Foreign Filing 0200 html 200 Types, Cross-Noting, and Status of Application 0300 html 300 Ownership and Assignment 0400 html 400 Representative of Inventor or Owner 0500 html 500 Receipt and Handling of Mail and Papers 0600 html 600 Parts, Form, and Content of Application 0700 html 700 Examination of Applications 0800 html 800 Restriction in Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111; Double Patenting 0900 html 900 Prior Art, Classification, and Search 1000 html 1000 Matters Decided by Various U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Officials 1100 html 1100 Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) and Pre-Grant Publication (PG Pub) 1200 html 1200 Appeal 1300 html 1300 Allowance and Issue 1400 html 1400 Correction of Patents 1500 html 1500 Design Patents 1600 html 1600 Plant Patents 1700 html 1700 Miscellaneous 1800 html 1800 Patent Cooperation Treaty 1900 html 1900 Protest 2000 html 2000 Duty of Disclosure 2100 html 2100 Patentability 2200 html 2200 Citation of Prior Art and Ex Parte Reexamination of Patents 2300 html 2300 Interference Proceedings 2400 html 2400 Biotechnology 2500 html 2500 Maintenance Fees 2600 html 2600 Optional Inter Partes Reexamination 2700 html 2700 Patent Terms and Extensions Ap I html Appendix I - Partial List of Trademarks Ap II html Appendix II - List of Decisions Cited Ap L html Appendix L - Patent Laws Ap R html Appendix R - Patent Rules Ap T html Appendix T - Patent Cooperation Treaty Ap AI html Appendix AI - Administrative Instructions Under The PCT Ap P html Appendix P - Paris Convention Index html Index - Subject Matter Index
Zipped version of the MPEP E8r7 in the PDF format: E8r7_PDF Chapters 100 - 1000 (9mb) Chapters 1100 - 2700 (14mb) Apps. and Remainder (7mb) PDF Index Files (12mb) Zipped version of the MPEP E8r6 in the HTML format: E8r6_HTML Chapters 100 - 1000 (13mb) Chapters 1100 - 2700 (10mb) Apps. and Remainder (2mb)
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