Patents and How to Get One: A Practical Handbook
by United States. Department of Commerce
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About This Book
What is a patent? What do “patent pending” and “patent applied for” mean? How do you go about applying for a patent? This indispensable handbook, originally published by the U.S. Government’s Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) not only answers these and many other questions frequently asked of the agency, but provides readers with general information about patents and how the PTO operates.Designed specifically for non-attorneys and written in clear, easy-to-understand language, the guide takes readers through the registration process step by step, beginning with general information about the fu...
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- PATENTS AND HOW TO GET ONE A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
- Functions of the Patent and Trademark Office
- Purpose of this Booklet
- What Is a Patent?
- Trademarks/Servicemarks
- Patent Laws
- What Can Be Patented
- Novelty and Other Conditions for Obtaining a Patent
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Publications of the Patent and Trademark Office
- General Information and Correspondence
- Library, Search Room Services and Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
- Attorneys and Agents
- Disclosure Document
- Who May Apply for a Patent
- Application For Patent
- Non-Provisional Application for a Patent
- Provisional Application for a Patent
- Oath or Declaration, Signature
- Filing Fees[1]
- Specification (Description and Claims)
- Drawing
- § 1.84 Standards for drawings.
- (b) Photographs.
- Models, Exhibits, Specimens
- Examination of Applications and Proceedings in the Patent and Trademark Office
- Office Action
- Applicant’s Response
- Final Rejection
- Restrictions
- Amendments to Application
- Time for Response and Abandonment
- Appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and to the Courts
- Interferences
- Allowance and Issue of Patent
- Nature of Patent and Patent Rights
- Maintenance Fees
- Correction of Patents
- Assignments and Licenses
- Recording of Assignments
- Joint Ownership
- Infringement of Patents
- Patent Marking and “Patent Pending”
- Design Patents
- Plant Patents
- Treaties and Foreign Patents
- Foreign Applicants for United States Patents
- Answers to Questions Frequently Asked
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