TITLE 35-PATENTS
PART I—UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (sections 1 to 42)
CHAPTER 1—ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, FUNCTIONS (sections 1 to 14)
- § 1 — Establishment
- § 2 — Powers and duties
- § 3 — Officers and employees
- § 4 — Restrictions on officers and employees as to interest in patents
- § 5 — Patent and Trademark Office Public Advisory Committees
- § 6 — Patent Trial and Appeal Board
- § 7 — Library
- § 8 — Classification of patents
- § 9 — Certified copies of records
- § 10 — Publications
- § 11 — Exchange of copies of patents and applications with foreign countries
- § 12 — Copies of patents and applications for public libraries
- § 13 — Annual report to Congress
- § 14 — Renumbered § 13]
CHAPTER 2—PROCEEDINGS IN THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (sections 21 to 28)
- § 21 — Filing date and day for taking action
- § 22 — Printing of papers filed
- § 23 — Testimony in Patent and Trademark Office cases
- § 24 — Subpoenas, witnesses
- § 25 — Declaration in lieu of oath
- § 26 — Effect of defective execution
- § 27 — Revival of applications; reinstatement of reexamination proceedings
- § 28 — Award of certificates to accelerate certain matters at the Patent and Trademark Office
CHAPTER 3—PRACTICE BEFORE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (sections 31 to 33)
CHAPTER 4—PATENT FEES; FUNDING; SEARCH SYSTEMS (sections 41 to 42)
PART II—PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS (sections 100 to 212)
CHAPTER 10—PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS (sections 100 to 105)
CHAPTER 11—APPLICATION FOR PATENT (sections 111 to 123)
- § 111 — Application
- § 112 — Specification
- § 113 — Drawings
- § 114 — Models, specimens
- § 115 — Inventor’s oath or declaration
- § 116 — Inventors
- § 117 — Death or incapacity of inventor
- § 118 — Filing by other than inventor
- § 119 — Benefit of earlier filing date; right of priority
- § 120 — Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States
- § 121 — Divisional applications
- § 122 — Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications
- § 123 — Micro entity defined
CHAPTER 12—EXAMINATION OF APPLICATION (sections 131 to 135)
CHAPTER 13—REVIEW OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE DECISIONS (sections 141 to 146)
CHAPTER 14—ISSUE OF PATENT (sections 151 to 157)
- § 151 — Issue of patent
- § 152 — Issue of patent to assignee
- § 153 — How issued
- § 154 — Contents and term of patent; provisional rights
- § 155 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–29, § 20(k) , Sept. 16, 2011 , 125 Stat. 335 ]
- § 156 — Extension of patent term
- § 157 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–29, § 3(e)(1) , Sept. 16, 2011 , 125 Stat. 287 ]
CHAPTER 15—PLANT PATENTS (sections 161 to 164)
CHAPTER 16—DESIGNS (sections 171 to 173)
CHAPTER 17—SECRECY OF CERTAIN INVENTIONS AND FILING APPLICATIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRY (sections 181 to 188)
- § 181 — Secrecy of certain inventions and withholding of patent
- § 182 — Abandonment of invention for unauthorized disclosure
- § 183 — Right to compensation
- § 184 — Filing of application in foreign country
- § 185 — Patent barred for filing without license
- § 186 — Penalty
- § 187 — Nonapplicability to certain persons
- § 188 — Rules and regulations, delegation of power
CHAPTER 18—PATENT RIGHTS IN INVENTIONS MADE WITH FEDERAL ASSISTANCE (sections 200 to 212)
- § 200 — Policy and objective
- § 201 — Definitions
- § 202 — Disposition of rights
- § 203 — March-in rights
- § 204 — Preference for United States industry
- § 205 — Confidentiality
- § 206 — Uniform clauses and regulations
- § 207 — Domestic and foreign protection of federally owned inventions
- § 208 — Regulations governing Federal licensing
- § 209 — Licensing federally owned inventions
- § 210 — Precedence of chapter
- § 211 — Relationship to antitrust laws
- § 212 — Disposition of rights in educational awards
PART III—PATENTS AND PROTECTION OF PATENT RIGHTS (sections 251 to 329)
CHAPTER 25—AMENDMENT AND CORRECTION OF PATENTS (sections 251 to 257)
- § 251 — Reissue of defective patents
- § 252 — Effect of reissue
- § 253 — Disclaimer
- § 254 — Certificate of correction of Patent and Trademark Office mistake
- § 255 — Certificate of correction of applicant’s mistake
- § 256 — Correction of named inventor
- § 257 — Supplemental examinations to consider, reconsider, or correct information
CHAPTER 26—OWNERSHIP AND ASSIGNMENT (sections 261 to 262)
CHAPTER 27—GOVERNMENT INTERESTS IN PATENTS (sections 266 to 267)
CHAPTER 28—INFRINGEMENT OF PATENTS (sections 271 to 273)
CHAPTER 29—REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT, AND OTHER ACTIONS (sections 281 to 299)
- § 281 — Remedy for infringement of patent
- § 282 — Presumption of validity; defenses
- § 283 — Injunction
- § 284 — Damages
- § 285 — Attorney fees
- § 286 — Time limitation on damages
- § 287 — Limitation on damages and other remedies; marking and notice
- § 288 — Action for infringement of a patent containing an invalid claim
- § 289 — Additional remedy for infringement of design patent
- § 290 — Notice of patent suits
- § 291 — Derived patents
- § 292 — False marking
- § 293 — Nonresident patentee; service and notice
- § 294 — Voluntary arbitration
- § 295 — Presumption: Product made by patented process
- § 296 — Liability of States, instrumentalities of States, and State officials for infringement of patents
- § 297 — Improper and deceptive invention promotion
- § 298 — Advice of counsel
- § 299 — Joinder of parties
CHAPTER 30—PRIOR ART CITATIONS TO OFFICE AND EX PARTE REEXAMINATION OF PATENTS (sections 301 to 307)
- § 301 — Citation of prior art and written statements
- § 302 — Request for reexamination
- § 303 — Determination of issue by Director
- § 304 — Reexamination order by Director
- § 305 — Conduct of reexamination proceedings
- § 306 — Appeal
- § 307 — Certificate of patentability, unpatentability, and claim cancellation
CHAPTER 31—INTER PARTES REVIEW (sections 311 to 319)
CHAPTER 32—POST-GRANT REVIEW (sections 321 to 329)
PART IV—PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (sections 351 to 376)
CHAPTER 35—DEFINITIONS (section 351)
CHAPTER 36—INTERNATIONAL STAGE (sections 361 to 368)
- § 361 — Receiving Office
- § 362 — International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority
- § 363 — International application designating the United States: Effect
- § 364 — International stage: Procedure
- § 365 — Right of priority; benefit of the filing date of a prior application
- § 366 — Withdrawn international application
- § 367 — Actions of other authorities: Review
- § 368 — Secrecy of certain inventions; filing international applications in foreign countries
CHAPTER 37—NATIONAL STAGE (sections 371 to 376)
PART V—THE HAGUE AGREEMENT CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (sections 381 to 390)
CHAPTER 38—INTERNATIONAL DESIGN APPLICATIONS (sections 381 to 390)
- § 381 — Definitions
- § 382 — Filing international design applications
- § 383 — International design application
- § 384 — Filing date
- § 385 — Effect of international design application
- § 386 — Right of priority
- § 387 — Relief from prescribed time limits
- § 388 — Withdrawn or abandoned international design application
- § 389 — Examination of international design application
- § 390 — Publication of international design application