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- Background of the invention (See also Specification ) ...608.01(c)
- Bacteria ...1601
- Bar, Statutory (See Statutory bar )
- Base claim canceled ...608.01(n)
- Base claim rejected ...608.01(n)
- Benefit of domestic priority (See also Cross-noting ) ...201.11
- Adding benefit claim after filing ...201.11
- Correcting benefit claim after filing ...201.11
- Correcting benefit claim after patenting ...1405
- Deleting benefit claim after filing ...201.11
- (See also Foreign application ) ...201.13
- Benelux Designs Convention (See also Treaties ) ...201.13 , 1504.10
- Best mode ...608.01(h) , 2165 to 2165.04
- Affidavit or declaration ...715.10
- Compared to enablement ...2165.02
- Computer cases ...2161.01
- Considerations relevant to ...2165.01
- Evidence of concealment ...2165 , 2165.04
- Form paragraphs used to reject ...706.03(c)
- Requirements for rejection for lack of ...2165.03
- Bibliographic Information ...601.05
- Biological material ...2164.06(a) , 2402 , 2403
- Biotechnology (See also Nucleotide sequences ) ...Chapter 2400
- Deposit of biological material ...2403
- Deposit rules ...2402
- Deposit term ...2408
- Enablement ...2164.06(a)
- Examination of applications ...2411
- Form paragraphs ...2427.01
- Patent In computer program ...2430
- Process claims ...706.02(n)
- Samples ...2410
- Sequence rules (See also Sequence rules ) ...2420 , 2421
- Special status for small entity applications ...708.02
- Blue slip (See Form letters and forms :
Issue Classification (Blue slip) PTO-270 )- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) (See also Appeal ; Interference ) ...706.03(v) , 706.03(w) 707.06 , 707.07(f) , 708.01 711.02(b) , 2284 , 2301
- Appeal from ...1216 to 1216.02
- Constitution and duties ...1203
- Decision
- Duty of disclosure to ...2001.03
- Hearing ...1209
- Interference
- Jurisdiction ...706.01 , 706.07(c) , 1210 , 2301 , 2308
- May require appellant to address matter ...1212
- New ground of rejection by ...1214.01
- Non-final decision ininter partes reexamination ...2681
- Petitions ...1002.02(g) , 1002.02(j)
- Rehearing by ...1002.02(f) , 1214.01
- Service Branch ...104
- Statement of allowability by ...1213.01
- Books in library ...901.06(a)
- Borrowed publications ...901.06(a) , 901.06(b)
- Borrowing references from examiner’s search files ...901.08
- Box, Mail (See Correspondence ; Mail Stop )
- Breadth, Undue (See Undue breadth rejection )
- Brief, filed on appeal ...1206
- Brief description of the drawings (See also Specification ) ...608.01(f)
- Brief summary of invention ...608.01(d) , 1302.01
- British English spelling ...608.01
- British specification, provisional ...201.15
- Broadening claims in reissue ...1412.03
- Browser executable code in specification ...608.01 608.01(p)
- Budapest Treaty (See also Microorganisms ; Treaties ) ...901.05(b) , 2402 , 2404.01 , 2405 , 2408 2409 , 2410.01 , 2410.02 , 2411.01
- Bulletin, Classification (See Classification ; Orders )
- Burden of proof ...2112 , 2112.01 , 2113
- Business hours of USPTO ...510
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