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- Completeness screening whether to assign to an examiner - Examine by the examiner - Allowed: notice of allowance - issue fee - Rejected: 1st office action --> 2nd office action --> final office action --> appeal or RCE  - Rejections often based on 35 USC 101, 102, 103, or/and 112 - Post grant: ex parte reexamination, supplemental examination, derivation proceedings, inter partes review, post grant review, business method patent

 - Parent applications: Provisional and Non-provisional - Parts: Application data sheet, cover sheet, oath/declaration, drawings, specification, abstract, background of invention, brief summary of invention, summary of invention, and claims (independent and dependent claims), information disclosure statement (patent search)

- Define IP right - Innovation by protecting inventors

- 35 USC - 37 CFR - MPEP - Official Gazette

 - Subject matter invented by human - Novelty, non-obvious, utility - Utility, design, plant - Utility: Machines, manufactures, composition of matter, processes

- Inventors - Assignees - USPTO - Commissioner - WIPO - Examiners - Patent practitioners - Power of attorney - Patent trial and appeal board

Chapter 2200 Citation of Prior Art and Ex Parte Reexamination of Patents Chapter 2300 Interference Proceedings Chapter 2400 Biotechnology - Rules for biological deposits and sequences Chapter 2500 Maintenance Fees Chapter 2600 (Optional) Inter Partes Reexamination Chapter 2700 Patent Terms and Extensions Chapter 2800 Supplemental Examination Chapter 2900 International Design Applications

Chapter 800 Double Patenting (35 USC 111) - Only one invention - Independence and distinctness Chapter 900 Prior Art, Classification, Search - Prior Art search - Cancelled matter, co-pending abandoned applications and foreign patents Chapter 1000 Matters Decided by Various PTO Officials - Disputes Chapter 1100 Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) Pre-Grant Publication (P-G Pub) and Preissuance Submissions Chapter 1200 Appeal Chapter 1300 Allowance and Issue - Notice of allowance - Issue fee - Withdrawing from issue Chapter 1400 Correction of Patents - Reissue applications Chapter 1500 Design Patents Chapter 1600 Plant Patents Chapter 1700 Miscellaneous - Restrictions from former examiners - Official Gazette - US Philippines search engine Chapter 1800 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Chapter 1900 Protest Chapter 2000 Duty of Disclosure

Appendix I Prior Art Rejections - Prior art rejections including 35 USC 102 and 103 - AIA Appendix II 35 USC 102 Rejections - AIA and pre-AIA rejections under 35 USC 102 for lack of novelty Appendix III 35 USC 103 Rejections - Rejections under 35 USC 103 based on the obviousness Appendix IV Disqualify Prior Art - 37 CFR 1.130, 1.131, 1.132 Appendix V 35 USC 112 (Specification) - Written description, Enablement, Best Mode

Patentability - What is patentable - 35 USC 101, 102, 103 - Requirements for the specification

Chapter 700 Examination of Applications - Examination process - Petitions - Suspension of action - Continuing examination - Interviews - Amendments

Chapter 200 Types, Cross-Noting and Status of Application - National and international applications - Different types of applications (DIV, CON, CIP, Provisional, etc.) - Claiming the priority of an earlier applications in the US or others - Application status Chapter 300 Ownership and Assignment Chapter 400 Representative of Inventor or Owner - Power of attorney - Correspondence Chapter 500 Receipt and Handling of Mail and Papers - Small and micro entity statuses Chapter 600 Parts, Form and Content of Application

Chapter 100 Secrecy, Access, National Security and Foreign Filing - Who to access which application types - Secrecy orders - Foreign filing

- Appendix L: Patent Laws  - Appendix R: Patent Rules  - Appendix T: Patent Cooperation Treaty (International Patent Law Treaty) - Appendix AI: Administrative Instructions Under the PCT  - Appendix P: Paris Convention

  - 100 questions for 6 hours divided over 2-3 hour blocks of 50 questions each - 5 answer choices - Computerized exam any weekday - 90 questions are scored - Score >70% to pass (>63 questions) - Review session is available for an additional fee

How to use MPEP - Look-up facts - Search by chapters -  Understand the topics each chapter covers.

A request for correction of an obvious error in PCT must be made within 26 months from the priority date.

If the PCT receiving office discovers missing parts and invites the applicant to supply them, they have two months from the invitation date to do so. 

미국 특허법 § 102 - 특허의 조건; novelty, 35 USC § 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty 35 USC § 102(a) Novelty; Prior Art. —특허를 받을 수 있다, unless— (1) the effective filing date 이전에, the claimed invention이 특허를 받았거나, 출판되었거나, 공공에서 사용되었거나, 판매되었거나 또는 공공에 이용가능하다; or (2) the effective filing date 이전에, the claimed invention이 section 151 에 따라 issued patent에 묘사되어 있거나, 또는 section 122 (b)에 따라 다른 발명자의 특허나 특허출원이 출판되거나 출판되었다고 간주된다. 35 USC § 102(b) Exceptions.— (1) the effective filing date 1년 또는 1년 전에 공개된 claimed invention은 subsection (a)(1)에 의한 prior art가 아닐 것이다, if— (A) 같은 발명자, 공동 발명자, 또는 "발명자 혹은 공동 발명자로 인해 직간접적으로 공개된 the subject matter를 획득한 어떤 사람"에 의한 공개; or (B) 같은 발명자, 공동 발명자, 또는 "발명자 혹은 공동 발명자로 인해 직간접적으로 공개된 the subject matter를 획득한 어떤 사람"에 의한 공개된 이후에 공개된 the subject matter. (2) 특허와 특허출원에 나타난 공개는 subsection (a)(2)에 의한 prior art가 아닐 것이다, if— (A) 공개된 the subject matter를 같은 발명자 혹은 공동 발명자에게서 얻었다면; (B) subsection (a)(2)에 의해 출원되기 전에, 공개된 the subject matter가 같은 발명자, 공동 발명자, 또는 "발명자

미국 특허법 § 101 - 특허 가능한 발명, 35 USC § 101 - Inventions patentable 어떤 새롭고 유용한 ( new and useful and non-obvious ) process, machine, manufacture, 또는 composition of matter; 또는 어떤 새롭고 유용한 improvement thereof;  은 invention 또는 discover로 특허로 등록할 수 있고 특허법에 적용한다.  Patentable invention:     - Product:  어떤 새롭고 유용한 ( new and useful and non-obvious ) process, machine, manufacture, 또는 composition of matter     - Process:  new and useful and non-obvious way of doing, making, or using  process, machine, manufacture, 또는 composition of matter. 결과물이 특허받지 못하더라도 그 process는 특허받을 수 있다. process claim은 그 steps을 꼭 포함해야 한다.     - Product-by-process: Product이 특허성을 결정한다. 어떻게 만들었는지는 특허성을 결정하지 않는다. Product-by-process의 청구항의 Product이 prior art와 같다면, 다른 방법으로 만들어졌다고 해도 특허를 받지 못한다.      - Living subject matter: genetic engineering같은 human intervention이 필요하다.        - Practical application of natural phenomenon Non-patentable invention:     - Naturally occurring living subject matter or raw materials     - 넓게 합리적으로 해석했을 때, 인간