Title 37 C.F.R. — Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

1331 sections

PART 1

• § 1.1 — Addresses for non-trademark correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• § 1.2 — Business to be transacted in writing
• § 1.3 — Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy
• § 1.4 — Nature of correspondence and signature requirements
• § 1.5 — Identification of patent, patent application, or patent-related proceeding
• § 1.6 — Receipt of correspondence
• § 1.7 — Times for taking action; Expiration on Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday
• § 1.8 — Certificate of mailing or transmission
• § 1.9 — Definitions
• § 1.10 — Filing of correspondence by Priority Mail Express®
• § 1.11 — Files open to the public
• § 1.12 — Assignment records open to public inspection
• § 1.13 — Copies and certified copies
• § 1.14 — Patent applications preserved in confidence
• § 1.15 — [Reserved]
• § 1.16 — National application filing, search, and examination fees
• § 1.17 — Patent application and reexamination processing fees
• § 1.18 — Patent post allowance (including issue) fees
• § 1.19 — Document supply fees
• § 1.20 — Post-issuance fees
• § 1.21 — Miscellaneous fees and charges
• § 1.22 — Fees payable in advance
• § 1.23 — Methods of payment
• § 1.24 — [Reserved]
• § 1.25 — Deposit accounts
• § 1.26 — Refunds
• § 1.27 — Definition of small entities and establishing status as a small entity to permit payment of small entity fees; when a determination of entitlement to small entity status and notification of loss of entitlement to small entity status are required; fraud on the Office
• § 1.28 — Refunds when small entity status is later established; how errors in small entity status are excused
• § 1.29 — Micro entity status
• § 1.31 — Applicant may be represented by one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors
• § 1.32 — Power of attorney
• § 1.33 — Correspondence respecting patent applications, patent reexamination proceedings, and other proceedings
• § 1.34 — Acting in a representative capacity
• § 1.36 — Revocation of power of attorney; withdrawal of patent attorney or agent
• § 1.41 — Inventorship
• § 1.42 — Applicant for patent
• § 1.43 — Application for patent by a legal representative of a deceased or legally incapacitated inventor
• § 1.44 — [Reserved]
• § 1.45 — Application for patent by joint inventors
• § 1.46 — Application for patent by an assignee, obligated assignee, or a person who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter
• § 1.47 — [Reserved]
• § 1.48 — Correction of inventorship pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 116 or correction of the name or order of names in a patent application, other than a reissue application
• § 1.51 — General requisites of an application
• § 1.52 — Language, paper, writing, margins, read-only optical disc specifications
• § 1.53 — Application number, filing date, and completion of application
• § 1.54 — Parts of application to be filed together; filing receipt
• § 1.55 — Claim for foreign priority
• § 1.56 — Duty to disclose information material to patentability
• § 1.57 — Incorporation by reference
• § 1.58 — Chemical and mathematical formulae and tables
• § 1.59 — Expungement of information or copy of papers in application file
• § 1.60-1.62 — 1.60-1.62 [Reserved]
• § 1.63 — Inventor's oath or declaration
• § 1.64 — Substitute statement in lieu of an oath or declaration
• § 1.66 — Statements under oath
• § 1.67 — Supplemental oath or declaration
• § 1.68 — Declaration in lieu of oath
• § 1.69 — Foreign language oaths and declarations
• § 1.70 — [Reserved]
• § 1.71 — Detailed description and specification of the invention
• § 1.72 — Title and abstract
• § 1.73 — Summary of the invention
• § 1.74 — Reference to drawings
• § 1.75 — Claim(s)
• § 1.76 — Application data sheet
• § 1.77 — Arrangement of application elements
• § 1.78 — Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross-references to other applications
• § 1.79 — [Reserved]
• § 1.81 — Drawings required in patent application
• § 1.83 — Content of drawing
• § 1.84 — Standards for drawings
• § 1.85 — Corrections to drawings
• § 1.88 — [Reserved]
• § 1.91 — Models or exhibits not generally admitted as part of application or patent
• § 1.92 — [Reserved]
• § 1.93 — Specimens
• § 1.94 — Return of models, exhibits or specimens
• § 1.95 — Copies of exhibits
• § 1.96 — Submission of computer program listings
• § 1.97 — Filing of information disclosure statement
• § 1.98 — Content of information disclosure statement
• § 1.99 — [Reserved]
• § 1.101 — [Reserved]
• § 1.102 — Advancement of examination
• § 1.103 — Suspension of action by the Office
• § 1.104 — Nature of examination
• § 1.105 — Requirements for information
• § 1.106-1.108 — 1.106-1.108 [Reserved]
• § 1.109 — Effective filing date of a claimed invention under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
• § 1.110 — Inventorship and ownership of the subject matter of individual claims
• § 1.111 — Reply by applicant or patent owner to a non-final Office action
• § 1.112 — Reconsideration before final action
• § 1.113 — Final rejection or action
• § 1.114 — Request for continued examination
• § 1.115 — Preliminary amendments
• § 1.116 — Amendments and affidavits or other evidence after final action and prior to appeal
• § 1.117-1.119 — 1.117-1.119 [Reserved]
• § 1.121 — Manner of making amendments in applications
• § 1.122-1.124 — 1.122-1.124 [Reserved]
• § 1.125 — Substitute specification
• § 1.126 — Numbering of claims
• § 1.127 — [Reserved]
• § 1.129 — Transitional procedures for limited examination after final rejection and restriction practice
• § 1.130 — Affidavit or declaration of attribution or prior public disclosure under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
• § 1.131 — Affidavit or declaration of prior invention or to disqualify commonly owned patent or published application as prior art
• § 1.132 — Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections
• § 1.133 — Interviews
• § 1.134 — Time period for reply to an Office action
• § 1.135 — Abandonment for failure to reply within time period
• § 1.136 — Extensions of time
• § 1.137 — Revival of abandoned application, or terminated or limited reexamination prosecution
• § 1.138 — Express abandonment
• § 1.139 — [Reserved]
• § 1.141 — Different inventions in one national application
• § 1.142 — Requirement for restriction
• § 1.143 — Reconsideration of requirement
• § 1.144 — Petition from requirement for restriction
• § 1.145 — Subsequent presentation of claims for different invention
• § 1.146 — Election of species
• § 1.151 — Rules applicable
• § 1.152 — Design drawings
• § 1.153 — Title, description and claim, oath or declaration
• § 1.154 — Arrangement of application elements in a design application
• § 1.155 — [Reserved]
• § 1.161 — Rules applicable
• § 1.162 — Applicant, oath or declaration
• § 1.163 — Specification and arrangement of application elements in a plant application
• § 1.164 — Claim
• § 1.165 — Plant drawings
• § 1.166 — Specimens
• § 1.167 — Examination
• § 1.171 — Application for reissue
• § 1.172 — Reissue applicant
• § 1.173 — Reissue specification, drawings, and amendments
• § 1.174 — [Reserved]
• § 1.175 — Inventor's oath or declaration for a reissue application
• § 1.176 — Examination of reissue
• § 1.177 — Issuance of multiple reissue patents
• § 1.178 — Original patent; continuing duty of applicant
• § 1.179 — [Reserved]
• § 1.181 — Petition to the Director
• § 1.182 — Questions not specifically provided for
• § 1.183 — Suspension of rules
• § 1.184 — [Reserved]
• § 1.191 — Appeal to Patent Trial and Appeal Board
• § 1.192-1.196 — 1.192-1.196 [Reserved]
• § 1.197 — Termination of proceedings
• § 1.198 — Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
• § 1.211 — Publication of applications
• § 1.213 — Nonpublication request
• § 1.215 — Patent application publication
• § 1.217 — Publication of a redacted copy of an application
• § 1.219 — Early publication
• § 1.221 — Voluntary publication or republication of patent application publication
• § 1.248 — Service of papers; manner of service; proof of service in cases other than interferences and trials
• § 1.251 — Unlocatable file
• § 1.290 — Submissions by third parties in applications
• § 1.291 — Protests by the public against pending applications
• § 1.292-1.297 — 1.292-1.297 [Reserved]
• § 1.301-1.304 — 1.301-1.304 [Reserved]
• § 1.311 — Notice of allowance
• § 1.312 — Amendments after allowance
• § 1.313 — Withdrawal from issue
• § 1.314 — Issuance of patent
• § 1.315 — [Reserved]
• § 1.316 — Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee
• § 1.317-1.318 — 1.317-1.318 [Reserved]
• § 1.321 — Statutory disclaimers, including terminal disclaimers
• § 1.322 — Certificate of correction of Office mistake
• § 1.323 — Certificate of correction of applicant's mistake
• § 1.324 — Correction of inventorship in patent, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 256
• § 1.325 — Other mistakes not corrected
• § 1.331-1.334 — 1.331-1.334 [Reserved]
• § 1.335 — Filing of notice of arbitration awards
• § 1.351-1.352 — 1.351-1.352 [Reserved]
• § 1.362 — Time for payment of maintenance fees
• § 1.363 — Fee address for maintenance fee purposes
• § 1.366 — Submission of maintenance fees
• § 1.377 — Review of decision refusing to accept and record payment of a maintenance fee filed prior to expiration of patent
• § 1.378 — Acceptance of delayed payment of maintenance fee in expired patent to reinstate patent
• § 1.401 — Definitions of terms under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
• § 1.412 — The United States Receiving Office
• § 1.413 — The United States International Searching Authority
• § 1.414 — The United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Designated Office or Elected Office
• § 1.415 — The International Bureau
• § 1.416 — The United States International Preliminary Examining Authority
• § 1.417 — Submission of translation of international publication
• § 1.419 — Display of currently valid control number under the Paperwork Reduction Act
• § 1.421 — Applicant for international application
• § 1.422 — Legal representative as applicant in an international application
• § 1.423 — [Reserved]
• § 1.424 — Assignee, obligated assignee, or person having sufficient proprietary interest as applicant in an international application
• § 1.431 — International application requirements
• § 1.432 — Designation of States by filing an international application
• § 1.433 — Physical requirements of international application
• § 1.434 — The request
• § 1.435 — The description
• § 1.436 — The claims
• § 1.437 — The drawings
• § 1.438 — The abstract
• § 1.445 — International application filing, processing and search fees
• § 1.446 — Refund of international application filing and processing fees
• § 1.451 — The priority claim and priority document in an international application
• § 1.452 — Restoration of right of priority
• § 1.453 — Transmittal of documents relating to earlier search or classification
• § 1.455 — Representation in international applications
• § 1.461 — Procedures for transmittal of record copy to the International Bureau
• § 1.465 — Timing of application processing based on the priority date
• § 1.468 — Delays in meeting time limits
• § 1.471 — Corrections and amendments during international processing
• § 1.472 — Changes in person, name, or address of applicants and inventors
• § 1.475 — Unity of invention before the International Searching Authority, the International Preliminary Examining Authority and during the national stage
• § 1.476 — Determination of unity of invention before the International Searching Authority
• § 1.477 — Protest to lack of unity of invention before the International Searching Authority
• § 1.480 — Demand for international preliminary examination
• § 1.481 — Payment of international preliminary examination fees
• § 1.482 — International preliminary examination and processing fees
• § 1.484 — Conduct of international preliminary examination
• § 1.485 — Amendments by applicant during international preliminary examination
• § 1.488 — Determination of unity of invention before the International Preliminary Examining Authority
• § 1.489 — Protest to lack of unity of invention before the International Preliminary Examining Authority
• § 1.491 — National stage commencement, entry, and fulfillment
• § 1.492 — National stage fees
• § 1.495 — Entering the national stage in the United States of America
• § 1.496 — Examination of international applications in the national stage
• § 1.497 — Inventor's oath or declaration under 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(4)
• § 1.499 — Unity of invention during the national stage
• § 1.501 — Citation of prior art and written statements in patent files
• § 1.502 — Processing of prior art citations during an ex parte reexamination proceeding
• § 1.510 — Request for ex parte reexamination
• § 1.515 — Determination of the request for ex parte reexamination
• § 1.520 — Ex parte reexamination at the initiative of the Director
• § 1.525 — Order for ex parte reexamination
• § 1.530 — Statement by patent owner in ex parte reexamination; amendment by patent owner in ex parte or inter partes reexamination; inventorship change in ex parte or inter partes reexamination
• § 1.535 — Reply by third party requester in ex parte reexamination
• § 1.540 — Consideration of responses in ex parte reexamination
• § 1.550 — Conduct of ex parte reexamination proceedings
• § 1.552 — Scope of reexamination in ex parte reexamination proceedings
• § 1.555 — Information material to patentability in ex parte reexamination and inter partes reexamination proceedings
• § 1.560 — Interviews in ex parte reexamination proceedings
• § 1.565 — Concurrent office proceedings which include an ex parte reexamination proceeding
• § 1.570 — Issuance and publication of ex parte reexamination certificate concludes ex parte reexamination proceeding
• § 1.601 — Filing of papers in supplemental examination
• § 1.605 — Items of information
• § 1.610 — Content of request for supplemental examination
• § 1.615 — Format of papers filed in a supplemental examination proceeding
• § 1.620 — Conduct of supplemental examination proceeding
• § 1.625 — Conclusion of supplemental examination; publication of supplemental examination certificate; procedure after conclusion
• § 1.701 — Extension of patent term due to examination delay under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (original applications, other than designs, filed on or after June 8, 1995, and before May 29, 2000)
• § 1.702 — Grounds for adjustment of patent term due to examination delay under the Patent Term Guarantee Act of 1999 (original applications, other than designs, filed on or after May 29, 2000)
• § 1.703 — Period of adjustment of patent term due to examination delay
• § 1.704 — Reduction of period of adjustment of patent term
• § 1.705 — Patent term adjustment determination
• § 1.710 — Patents subject to extension of the patent term
• § 1.720 — Conditions for extension of patent term
• § 1.730 — Applicant for extension of patent term; signature requirements
• § 1.740 — Formal requirements for application for extension of patent term; correction of informalities
• § 1.741 — Complete application given a filing date; petition procedure
• § 1.750 — Determination of eligibility for extension of patent term
• § 1.760 — Interim extension of patent term under 35 U.S.C. 156(e)(2)
• § 1.765 — Duty of disclosure in patent term extension proceedings
• § 1.770 — Express withdrawal of application for extension of patent term
• § 1.775 — Calculation of patent term extension for a human drug, antibiotic drug or human biological product
• § 1.776 — Calculation of patent term extension for a food additive or color additive
• § 1.777 — Calculation of patent term extension for a medical device
• § 1.778 — Calculation of patent term extension for an animal drug product
• § 1.779 — Calculation of patent term extension for a veterinary biological product
• § 1.780 — Certificate or order of extension of patent term
• § 1.785 — Multiple applications for extension of term of the same patent or of different patents for the same regulatory review period for a product
• § 1.790 — Interim extension of patent term under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)
• § 1.791 — Termination of interim extension granted prior to regulatory approval of a product for commercial marketing or use
• § 1.801 — Biological material
• § 1.802 — Need or opportunity to make a deposit
• § 1.803 — Acceptable depository
• § 1.804 — Time of making an original deposit
• § 1.805 — Replacement or supplement of deposit
• § 1.806 — Term of deposit
• § 1.807 — Viability of deposit
• § 1.808 — Furnishing of samples
• § 1.809 — Examination procedures
• § 1.821 — Nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence disclosures in patent applications
• § 1.822 — Symbols and format to be used for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data
• § 1.823 — Requirements for content of a “Sequence Listing” part of the specification
• § 1.824 — Form and format for a nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence submission as an ASCII plain text file
• § 1.825 — Amendment to add or replace a “Sequence Listing” and CRF copy thereof
• § 1.831 — Requirements for patent applications filed on or after July 1, 2022, having nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence disclosures
• § 1.832 — Representation of nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data in the “Sequence Listing XML” part of a patent application filed on or after July 1, 2022
• § 1.833 — Requirements for a “Sequence Listing XML” for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences as part of a patent application filed on or after July 1, 2022
• § 1.834 — Form and format for nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence submissions as the “Sequence Listing XML” in patent applications filed on or after July 1, 2022
• § 1.835 — Amendment to add or replace a “Sequence Listing XML” in patent applications filed on or after July 1, 2022
• § 1.839 — Incorporation by reference
• § 1.902 — Processing of prior art citations during an inter partes reexamination proceeding
• § 1.903 — Service of papers on parties in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.904 — Notice of inter partes reexamination in Official Gazette
• § 1.905 — Submission of papers by the public in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.906 — Scope of reexamination in inter partes reexamination proceeding
• § 1.907 — Inter partes reexamination prohibited
• § 1.913 — Persons eligible to file, and time for filing, a request for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.915 — Content of request for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.919 — Filing date of request for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.923 — Examiner's determination on the request for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.925 — Partial refund if request for inter partes reexamination is not ordered
• § 1.927 — Petition to review refusal to order inter partes reexamination
• § 1.931 — Order for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.933 — Patent owner duty of disclosure in inter partes reexamination proceedings
• § 1.935 — Initial Office action usually accompanies order for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.937 — Conduct of inter partes reexamination
• § 1.939 — Unauthorized papers in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.941 — Amendments by patent owner in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.943 — Requirements of responses, written comments, and briefs in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.945 — Response to Office action by patent owner in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.947 — Comments by third party requester to patent owner's response in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.948 — Limitations on submission of prior art by third party requester following the order for inter partes reexamination
• § 1.949 — Examiner's Office action closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.951 — Options after Office action closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.953 — Examiner's Right of Appeal Notice in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.955 — Interviews prohibited in inter partes reexamination proceedings
• § 1.956 — Patent owner extensions of time in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.957 — Failure to file a timely, appropriate or complete response or comment in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.958 — Petition to revive inter partes reexamination prosecution terminated for lack of patent owner response
• § 1.959 — Appeal in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.961-1.977 — 1.961-1.977 [Reserved]
• § 1.979 — Return of Jurisdiction from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; termination of appeal proceedings
• § 1.981 — Reopening after a final decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
• § 1.983 — Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.985 — Notification of prior or concurrent proceedings in inter partes reexamination
• § 1.987 — Suspension of inter partes reexamination proceeding due to litigation
• § 1.989 — Merger of concurrent reexamination proceedings
• § 1.991 — Merger of concurrent reissue application and inter partes reexamination proceeding
• § 1.993 — Suspension of concurrent interference and inter partes reexamination proceeding
• § 1.995 — Third party requester's participation rights preserved in merged proceeding
• § 1.997 — Issuance and publication of inter partes reexamination certificate concludes inter partes reexamination proceeding
• § 1.1001 — Definitions related to international design applications
• § 1.1002 — The United States Patent and Trademark Office as an office of indirect filing
• § 1.1003 — The United States Patent and Trademark Office as a designated office
• § 1.1004 — The International Bureau
• § 1.1005 — Display of currently valid control number under the Paperwork Reduction Act
• § 1.1011 — Applicant for international design application
• § 1.1012 — Applicant's Contracting Party
• § 1.1021 — Contents of the international design application
• § 1.1022 — Form and signature
• § 1.1023 — Filing date of an international design application in the United States
• § 1.1024 — The description
• § 1.1025 — The claim
• § 1.1026 — Reproductions
• § 1.1027 — Specimens
• § 1.1028 — Deferment of publication
• § 1.1031 — International design application fees
• § 1.1041 — Representation in an international design application
• § 1.1042 — Correspondence respecting international design applications filed with the Office as an office of indirect filing
• § 1.1045 — Procedures for transmittal of international design application to the International Bureau
• § 1.1051 — Relief from prescribed time limits
• § 1.1052 — Conversion to a design application under 35 U.S.C. chapter 16
• § 1.1061 — Rules applicable
• § 1.1062 — Examination
• § 1.1063 — Notification of refusal
• § 1.1064 — One independent and distinct design
• § 1.1065 — Corrections and other changes in the International Register
• § 1.1066 — Correspondence address for a nonprovisional international design application
• § 1.1067 — Title, description, and inventor's oath or declaration
• § 1.1068 — Statement of grant of protection
• § 1.1070 — Notification of Invalidation
• § 1.1071 — Grant of protection for an industrial design only upon issuance of a patent

PART 2

• § 2.1 — [Reserved]
• § 2.2 — Definitions
• § 2.6 — Trademark fees
• § 2.7 — Fastener recordal fees
• § 2.11 — Requirement for representation
• § 2.12-2.16 — 2.12-2.16 [Reserved]
• § 2.17 — Recognition for representation
• § 2.18 — Correspondence, with whom held
• § 2.19 — Revocation or withdrawal of attorney
• § 2.20 — Declarations in lieu of oaths
• § 2.21 — Requirements for receiving a filing date
• § 2.22 — Requirements for a base application
• § 2.23 — Requirement to correspond electronically with the Office and duty to monitor status
• § 2.24 — Designation and revocation of domestic representative by foreign applicant
• § 2.25 — Documents not returnable
• § 2.27 — Pending trademark application index; access to applications
• § 2.31 — [Reserved]
• § 2.32 — Requirements for a complete trademark or service mark application
• § 2.33 — Verified statement for a trademark or service mark
• § 2.34 — Bases for filing a trademark or service mark application
• § 2.35 — Adding, deleting, or substituting bases
• § 2.36 — Identification of prior registrations
• § 2.37 — Description of mark
• § 2.38 — Use by predecessor or by related companies
• § 2.39 — [Reserved]
• § 2.41 — Proof of distinctiveness under section 2(f)
• § 2.42 — Concurrent use
• § 2.43 — Service mark
• § 2.44 — Requirements for a complete collective mark application
• § 2.45 — Requirements for a complete certification mark application; restriction on certification mark application
• § 2.46 — Principal Register
• § 2.47 — Supplemental Register
• § 2.48 — Office does not issue duplicate registrations
• § 2.51 — Drawing required
• § 2.52 — Types of drawings and format for drawings
• § 2.53 — Requirements for drawings filed through the TEAS
• § 2.54 — Requirements for drawings submitted on paper
• § 2.56 — Specimens
• § 2.57-2.58 — 2.57-2.58 [Reserved]
• § 2.59 — Filing substitute specimen(s)
• § 2.61 — Action by examiner
• § 2.62 — Procedure for submitting response
• § 2.63 — Action after response
• § 2.64 — Reinstatement of applications and registrations abandoned, cancelled, or expired due to Office error
• § 2.65 — Abandonment
• § 2.66 — Revival of applications abandoned in full or in part due to unintentional delay
• § 2.67 — Suspension of action by the Patent and Trademark Office
• § 2.68 — Express abandonment (withdrawal) of application
• § 2.69 — Compliance with other laws
• § 2.71 — Amendments to correct informalities
• § 2.72 — Amendments to description or drawing of the mark
• § 2.73 — Amendment to recite concurrent use
• § 2.74 — Form and signature of amendment
• § 2.75 — Amendment to change application to different register
• § 2.76 — Amendment to allege use
• § 2.77 — Amendments between notice of allowance and statement of use
• § 2.80 — Publication for opposition
• § 2.81 — Post publication
• § 2.82 — Marks on Supplemental Register published only upon registration
• § 2.83 — Conflicting marks
• § 2.84 — Jurisdiction over published applications
• § 2.85 — Classification schedules
• § 2.86 — Multiple-class applications
• § 2.87 — Dividing an application
• § 2.88 — Statement of use after notice of allowance
• § 2.89 — Extensions of time for filing a statement of use
• § 2.91 — Petition for expungement or reexamination
• § 2.92 — Institution of ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings
• § 2.93 — Expungement and reexamination procedures
• § 2.94 — Action after expungement or reexamination
• § 2.95-2.98 — 2.95-2.98 [Reserved]
• § 2.99 — Application to register as concurrent user
• § 2.101 — Filing an opposition
• § 2.102 — Extension of time for filing an opposition
• § 2.103 — [Reserved]
• § 2.104 — Contents of opposition
• § 2.105 — Notification to parties of opposition proceeding(s)
• § 2.106 — Answer
• § 2.107 — Amendment of pleadings in an opposition proceeding
• § 2.111 — Filing petition for cancellation
• § 2.112 — Contents of petition for cancellation
• § 2.113 — Notification of cancellation proceeding
• § 2.114 — Answer
• § 2.115 — Amendment of pleadings in a cancellation proceeding
• § 2.116 — Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• § 2.117 — Suspension of proceedings
• § 2.118 — Undelivered Office notices
• § 2.119 — Service and signing
• § 2.120 — Discovery
• § 2.121 — Assignment of times for taking testimony and presenting evidence
• § 2.122 — Matters in evidence
• § 2.123 — Trial testimony in inter partes cases
• § 2.124 — Depositions upon written questions
• § 2.125 — Filing and service of testimony
• § 2.126 — Form of submissions to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
• § 2.127 — Motions
• § 2.128 — Briefs at final hearing
• § 2.129 — Oral argument; reconsideration
• § 2.130 — New matter suggested by the trademark examining attorney
• § 2.131 — Remand after decision in inter partes proceeding
• § 2.132 — Involuntary dismissal for failure to take testimony
• § 2.133 — Amendment of application or registration during proceedings
• § 2.134 — Surrender or voluntary cancellation of registration
• § 2.135 — Abandonment of application or mark
• § 2.136 — Status of application or registration on termination of proceeding
• § 2.141 — Ex parte appeals
• § 2.142 — Time and manner of ex parte appeals
• § 2.143 — [Reserved]
• § 2.144 — Reconsideration of decision on ex parte appeal
• § 2.145 — Appeal to court and civil action
• § 2.146 — Petitions to the Director
• § 2.147 — Petition to the Director to accept a paper submission
• § 2.148 — Director may suspend certain rules
• § 2.149 — Letters of protest against pending applications
• § 2.151 — Certificate
• § 2.153 — Publication requirements
• § 2.154 — Publication in Official Gazette
• § 2.155 — Notice of publication
• § 2.156 — Not subject to opposition; subject to cancellation
• § 2.158 — Reregistration of marks registered under Acts of 1881, 1905, and 1920
• § 2.160 — Affidavit or declaration of continued use or excusable nonuse required to avoid cancellation of registration
• § 2.161 — Requirements for a complete affidavit or declaration of use in commerce or excusable nonuse; requirement for the submission of additional information, exhibits, affidavits or declarations, and specimens; and fee for deletions of goods, services, and/or classes from a registration
• § 2.162 — Notice to registrant
• § 2.163 — Acknowledgment of receipt of affidavit or declaration
• § 2.164 — Correcting deficiencies in affidavit or declaration
• § 2.165 — Petition to Director to review refusal
• § 2.166 — Affidavit of continued use or excusable nonuse combined with renewal application
• § 2.167 — Affidavit or declaration under section 15
• § 2.168 — Affidavit or declaration under section 15 combined with affidavit or declaration under sections 8 or 71, or with renewal application
• § 2.171 — New certificate on change of ownership
• § 2.172 — Surrender for cancellation
• § 2.173 — Amendment of registration
• § 2.174 — Correction of Office mistake
• § 2.175 — Correction of mistake by owner
• § 2.176 — Consideration of above matters
• § 2.177 — Action on court order under section 37
• § 2.181 — Term of original registrations and renewals
• § 2.182 — Time for filing renewal application
• § 2.183 — Requirements for a complete renewal application
• § 2.184 — Refusal of renewal
• § 2.185 — Correcting deficiencies in renewal application
• § 2.186 — Petition to Director to review refusal of renewal
• § 2.188 — 2.188 [Reserved]
• § 2.189 — Requirement to provide domicile address
• § 2.190 — Addresses for trademark correspondence with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• § 2.191 — Action of the Office based on the written record
• § 2.192 — Business to be conducted with decorum and courtesy
• § 2.193 — Trademark correspondence and signature requirements
• § 2.194 — Identification of trademark application or registration
• § 2.195 — Filing date of trademark correspondence
• § 2.196 — Times for taking action: Expiration on Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday
• § 2.197 — Certificate of mailing
• § 2.198 — Filing of correspondence by Priority Mail Express®
• § 2.200 — Assignment records open to public inspection
• § 2.201 — Copies and certified copies
• § 2.206 — Trademark fees payable in advance
• § 2.207 — Methods of payment
• § 2.208 — Deposit accounts
• § 2.209 — Refunds

PART 3

• § 3.1 — Definitions
• § 3.11 — Documents which will be recorded
• § 3.16 — Assignability of trademarks prior to filing of an allegation of use
• § 3.21 — Identification of patents and patent applications
• § 3.24 — Requirements for documents and cover sheets relating to patents and patent applications
• § 3.25 — Recording requirements for trademark applications and registrations
• § 3.26 — English language requirement
• § 3.27 — Mailing address for submitting documents to be recorded
• § 3.28 — Requests for recording
• § 3.31 — Cover sheet content
• § 3.34 — Correction of cover sheet errors
• § 3.41 — Recording fees
• § 3.51 — Recording date
• § 3.54 — Effect of recording
• § 3.56 — Conditional assignments
• § 3.58 — Governmental registers
• § 3.61 — Domestic representative
• § 3.71 — Prosecution by assignee
• § 3.73 — Establishing right of assignee to take action
• § 3.81 — Issue of patent to assignee
• § 3.85 — Issue of registration to assignee

PART 4

• § 4.1 — Complaints regarding invention promoters
• § 4.2 — Definitions
• § 4.3 — Submitting complaints
• § 4.4 — Invention promoter reply
• § 4.5 — Notice by publication
• § 4.6 — Attorneys and Agents

PART 5

• § 5.1 — Applications and correspondence involving national security
• § 5.2 — Secrecy order
• § 5.3 — Prosecution of application under secrecy orders; withholding patent
• § 5.4 — Petition for rescission of secrecy order
• § 5.5 — Permit to disclose or modification of secrecy order
• § 5.6-5.8 — 5.6-5.8 [Reserved]
• § 5.11 — License for filing in, or exporting to, a foreign country an application on an invention made in the United States or technical data relating thereto
• § 5.12 — Petition for license
• § 5.13 — Petition for license; no corresponding application
• § 5.14 — Petition for license; corresponding U.S. application
• § 5.15 — Scope of license
• § 5.16-5.17 — 5.16-5.17 [Reserved]
• § 5.18 — Arms, ammunition, and implements of war
• § 5.19 — Export of technical data
• § 5.20 — Export of technical data relating to sensitive nuclear technology
• § 5.25 — Petition for retroactive license
• § 5.31-5.33 — 5.31-5.33 [Reserved]

PART 6

• § 6.1 — International schedule of classes of goods and services
• § 6.2 — Prior U.S. schedule of classes of goods and services
• § 6.3 — Schedule for certification marks
• § 6.4 — Schedule for collective membership marks

PART 7

• § 7.1 — Definitions of terms as used in this part
• § 7.2 — [Reserved]
• § 7.3 — Correspondence must be in English
• § 7.4 — International applications and registrations originating from the USPTO—Requirements to electronically file and communicate with the Office
• § 7.5 — [Reserved]
• § 7.6 — Schedule of U.S. process fees
• § 7.7 — Payments of fees to International Bureau
• § 7.11 — Requirements for international application originating from the United States
• § 7.12 — Claim of color
• § 7.13 — Certification of international application
• § 7.14 — Correcting irregularities in international application
• § 7.21 — Subsequent designation
• § 7.22 — Recording changes to international registration
• § 7.23 — Requests for recording assignments at the International Bureau
• § 7.24 — Requests to record security interest or other restriction of holder's rights of disposal or release of such restriction submitted through the Office
• § 7.25 — Sections of part 2 applicable to extension of protection
• § 7.26 — Filing date of extension of protection for purposes of examination in the Office
• § 7.27 — Priority claim of extension of protection for purposes of examination in the Office
• § 7.28 — Replacement of U.S. registration by registered extension of protection
• § 7.29 — Effect of replacement on U.S. registration
• § 7.30 — Effect of cancellation or expiration of international registration
• § 7.31 — Requirements for transformation of an extension of protection to the United States into a U.S. application
• § 7.36 — Affidavit or declaration of use in commerce or excusable nonuse required to avoid cancellation of an extension of protection to the United States
• § 7.37 — Requirements for a complete affidavit or declaration of use in commerce or excusable nonuse; requirement for the submission of additional information, exhibits, affidavits or declarations, and specimens; and fee for deletions of goods, services, and/or classes from a registration
• § 7.38 — Notice to holder of extension of protection
• § 7.39 — Acknowledgment of receipt of and correcting deficiencies in affidavit or declaration of use in commerce or excusable nonuse
• § 7.40 — Petition to Director to review refusal
• § 7.41 — Renewal of international registration and extension of protection

PART 11

• § 11.1 — Definitions
• § 11.2 — Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline
• § 11.3 — Suspension of rules
• § 11.4 — Computing time
• § 11.5 — Register of attorneys and agents in patent matters; practice before the Office
• § 11.6 — Registration of attorneys and agents
• § 11.7 — Requirements for registration
• § 11.8 — Oath and registration fee
• § 11.9 — Limited recognition in patent matters
• § 11.10 — Restrictions on practice in patent matters; former and current Office employees; government employees
• § 11.11 — Administrative suspension, inactivation, resignation, reinstatement, and revocation
• § 11.12-11.13 — 11.12-11.13 [Reserved]
• § 11.14 — Individuals who may practice before the Office in trademark and other non-patent matters
• § 11.15 — Refusal to recognize a practitioner
• § 11.16 — Requirements for admission to the USPTO Law School Clinic Certification Program
• § 11.17 — Requirements for participation in the USPTO Law School Clinic Certification Program
• § 11.18 — Signature and certificate for correspondence filed in the Office
• § 11.19 — Disciplinary jurisdiction; grounds for discipline and for transfer to disability inactive status
• § 11.20 — Disciplinary sanctions; Transfer to disability inactive status
• § 11.21 — Warnings
• § 11.22 — Disciplinary investigations
• § 11.23 — Committee on Discipline
• § 11.24 — Reciprocal discipline
• § 11.25 — Interim suspension and discipline based upon conviction of committing a serious crime
• § 11.26 — Settlement
• § 11.27 — Exclusion on consent
• § 11.28 — Incapacitated practitioners in a disciplinary proceeding
• § 11.29 — Reciprocal transfer or initial transfer to disability inactive status
• § 11.30 — Participation in the USPTO Diversion Program
• § 11.31 — [Reserved]
• § 11.32 — Instituting a disciplinary proceeding
• § 11.33 — [Reserved]
• § 11.34 — Complaint
• § 11.35 — Service of complaint
• § 11.36 — Answer to complaint
• § 11.37 — [Reserved]
• § 11.38 — Contested case
• § 11.39 — Hearing officer; responsibilities; review of interlocutory orders; stays
• § 11.40 — Representative for OED Director or respondent
• § 11.41 — Filing of papers
• § 11.42 — Service of papers
• § 11.43 — Motions before a hearing officer
• § 11.44 — Hearings
• § 11.45 — Amendment of pleadings
• § 11.46-11.48 — 11.46-11.48 [Reserved]
• § 11.49 — Burden of proof
• § 11.50 — Evidence
• § 11.51 — Depositions
• § 11.52 — Written discovery
• § 11.53 — Proposed findings and conclusions; post-hearing memorandum
• § 11.54 — Initial decision of hearing officer
• § 11.55 — Appeal to the USPTO Director
• § 11.56 — Decision of the USPTO Director
• § 11.57 — Review of final decision of the USPTO Director
• § 11.58 — Duties of disciplined practitioner or practitioner in disability inactive status
• § 11.59 — Dissemination of disciplinary and other information
• § 11.60 — Petition for reinstatement of disciplined practitioner
• § 11.61-11.99 — 11.61-11.99 [Reserved]
• § 11.100 — [Reserved]
• § 11.101 — Competence
• § 11.102 — Scope of representation and allocation of authority between client and practitioner
• § 11.103 — Diligence
• § 11.104 — Communication
• § 11.105 — Fees
• § 11.106 — Confidentiality of information
• § 11.107 — Conflict of interest; Current clients
• § 11.108 — Conflict of interest; Current clients; Specific rules
• § 11.109 — Duties to former clients
• § 11.110 — Imputation of conflicts of interest; General rule
• § 11.111 — Former or current Federal Government employees
• § 11.112 — Former judge, arbitrator, mediator or other third-party neutral
• § 11.113 — Organization as client
• § 11.114 — Client with diminished capacity
• § 11.115 — Safekeeping property
• § 11.116 — Declining or terminating representation
• § 11.117 — Sale of law practice
• § 11.118 — Duties to prospective client
• § 11.119-11.200 — 11.119-11.200 [Reserved]
• § 11.201 — Advisor
• § 11.202 — [Reserved]
• § 11.203 — Evaluation for use by third persons
• § 11.204 — Practitioner serving as third-party neutral
• § 11.205-11.300 — 11.205-11.300 [Reserved]
• § 11.301 — Meritorious claims and contentions
• § 11.302 — Expediting proceedings
• § 11.303 — Candor toward the tribunal
• § 11.304 — Fairness to opposing party and counsel
• § 11.305 — Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal
• § 11.306 — Trial publicity
• § 11.307 — Practitioner as witness
• § 11.308 — [Reserved]
• § 11.309 — Advocate in nonadjudicative proceedings
• § 11.310-11.400 — 11.310-11.400 [Reserved]
• § 11.401 — Truthfulness in statements to others
• § 11.402 — Communication with person represented by a practitioner
• § 11.403 — Dealing with unrepresented person
• § 11.404 — Respect for rights of third persons
• § 11.405-11.500 — 11.405-11.500 [Reserved]
• § 11.501 — Responsibilities of partners, managers, and supervisory practitioners
• § 11.502 — Responsibilities of a subordinate practitioner
• § 11.503 — Responsibilities regarding non-practitioner assistance
• § 11.504 — Professional independence of a practitioner
• § 11.505 — Unauthorized practice of law
• § 11.506 — Restrictions on right to practice
• § 11.507 — Responsibilities regarding law-related services
• § 11.508-11.700 — 11.508-11.700 [Reserved]
• § 11.701 — Communications concerning a practitioner's services
• § 11.702 — Communications concerning a practitioner's services: specific rules
• § 11.703 — Solicitation of clients
• § 11.704 — Communication of fields of practice and specialization
• § 11.705 — Firm names and letterheads
• § 11.706-11.800 — 11.706-11.800 [Reserved]
• § 11.801 — Registration, recognition and disciplinary matters
• § 11.802 — Judicial and legal officials
• § 11.803 — Reporting professional misconduct
• § 11.804 — Misconduct
• § 11.805-11.900 — 11.805-11.900 [Reserved]
• § 11.901 — Savings clause

PART 41

• § 41.1 — Policy
• § 41.2 — Definitions
• § 41.3 — Petitions
• § 41.4 — Timeliness
• § 41.5 — Counsel
• § 41.6 — Public availability of Board records
• § 41.7 — Management of the record
• § 41.8 — Mandatory notices
• § 41.9 — Action by owner
• § 41.10 — Correspondence addresses
• § 41.11 — Ex Parte communications in inter partes proceedings
• § 41.12 — Citation of authority
• § 41.20 — Fees
• § 41.30 — Definitions
• § 41.31 — Appeal to Board
• § 41.33 — Amendments and affidavits or other Evidence after appeal
• § 41.35 — Jurisdiction over appeal
• § 41.37 — Appeal brief
• § 41.39 — Examiner's answer
• § 41.40 — Tolling of time period to file a reply brief
• § 41.41 — Reply brief
• § 41.45 — Appeal forwarding fee
• § 41.47 — Oral hearing
• § 41.50 — Decisions and other actions by the Board
• § 41.52 — Rehearing
• § 41.54 — Action following decision
• § 41.60 — Definitions
• § 41.61 — Notice of appeal and cross appeal to Board
• § 41.63 — Amendments and affidavits or other evidence after appeal
• § 41.64 — Jurisdiction over appeal in inter partes reexamination
• § 41.66 — Time for filing briefs
• § 41.67 — Appellant's brief
• § 41.68 — Respondent's brief
• § 41.69 — Examiner's answer
• § 41.71 — Rebuttal brief
• § 41.73 — Oral hearing
• § 41.77 — Decisions and other actions by the Board
• § 41.79 — Rehearing
• § 41.81 — Action following decision
• § 41.100 — Definitions
• § 41.101 — Notice of proceeding
• § 41.102 — Completion of examination
• § 41.103 — Jurisdiction over involved files
• § 41.104 — Conduct of contested case
• § 41.106 — Filing and service
• § 41.108 — Lead counsel
• § 41.109 — Access to and copies of Office records
• § 41.110 — Filing claim information
• § 41.120 — Notice of basis for relief
• § 41.121 — Motions
• § 41.122 — Oppositions and replies
• § 41.123 — Default filing times
• § 41.124 — Oral argument
• § 41.125 — Decision on motions
• § 41.126 — Arbitration
• § 41.127 — Judgment
• § 41.128 — Sanctions
• § 41.150 — Discovery
• § 41.151 — Admissibility
• § 41.152 — Applicability of the Federal Rules of Evidence
• § 41.153 — Records of the Office
• § 41.154 — Form of evidence
• § 41.155 — Objection; motion to exclude; motion in limine
• § 41.156 — Compelling testimony and production
• § 41.157 — Taking testimony
• § 41.158 — Expert testimony; tests and data
• § 41.200 — Procedure; pendency
• § 41.201 — Definitions
• § 41.202 — Suggesting an interference
• § 41.203 — Declaration
• § 41.204 — Notice of basis for relief
• § 41.205 — Settlement agreements
• § 41.206 — Common interests in the invention
• § 41.207 — Presumptions
• § 41.208 — Content of substantive and responsive motions

PART 42

• § 42.1 — Policy
• § 42.2 — Definitions
• § 42.3 — Jurisdiction
• § 42.4 — Notice of trial
• § 42.5 — Conduct of the proceeding
• § 42.6 — Filing of documents, including exhibits; service
• § 42.7 — Management of the record
• § 42.8 — Mandatory notices
• § 42.9 — Action by patent owner
• § 42.10 — Counsel
• § 42.11 — Duty of candor; signing papers; representations to the Board; sanctions
• § 42.12 — Sanctions
• § 42.13 — Citation of authority
• § 42.14 — Public availability
• § 42.15 — Fees
• § 42.20 — Generally
• § 42.21 — Notice of basis for relief
• § 42.22 — Content of petitions and motions
• § 42.23 — Oppositions, replies, and sur-replies
• § 42.24 — Type-volume or page limits for petitions, motions, oppositions, replies, and sur-replies
• § 42.25 — Default filing times
• § 42.51 — Discovery
• § 42.52 — Compelling testimony and production
• § 42.53 — Taking testimony
• § 42.54 — Protective order
• § 42.55 — Confidential information in a petition
• § 42.56 — Expungement of confidential information
• § 42.57 — Privilege for patent practitioners
• § 42.61 — Admissibility
• § 42.62 — Applicability of the Federal rules of evidence
• § 42.63 — Form of evidence
• § 42.64 — Objection; motion to exclude
• § 42.65 — Expert testimony; tests and data
• § 42.70 — Oral argument
• § 42.71 — Decision on petitions or motions
• § 42.72 — Termination of trial
• § 42.73 — Judgment
• § 42.74 — Settlement
• § 42.75 — Director review
• § 42.80 — Certificate
• § 42.100 — Procedure; pendency
• § 42.101 — Who may petition for inter partes review
• § 42.102 — Time for filing
• § 42.103 — Inter partes review fee
• § 42.104 — Content of petition
• § 42.105 — Service of petition
• § 42.106 — Filing date
• § 42.107 — Preliminary response to petition
• § 42.108 — Institution of inter partes review
• § 42.120 — Patent owner response
• § 42.121 — Amendment of the patent
• § 42.122 — Multiple proceedings and Joinder
• § 42.123 — Filing of supplemental information
• § 42.200 — Procedure; pendency
• § 42.201 — Who may petition for a post-grant review
• § 42.202 — Time for filing
• § 42.203 — Post-grant review fee
• § 42.204 — Content of petition
• § 42.205 — Service of petition
• § 42.206 — Filing date
• § 42.207 — Preliminary response to petition
• § 42.208 — Institution of post-grant review
• § 42.220 — Patent owner response
• § 42.221 — Amendment of the patent
• § 42.222 — Multiple proceedings and Joinder
• § 42.223 — Filing of supplemental information
• § 42.224 — Discovery
• § 42.300 — Procedure; pendency
• § 42.301 — Definitions
• § 42.302 — Who may petition for a covered business method patent review
• § 42.303 — Time for filing
• § 42.304 — Content of petition
• § 42.400 — Procedure; pendency
• § 42.401 — Definitions
• § 42.402 — Who may file a petition for a derivation proceeding
• § 42.403 — Time for filing
• § 42.404 — Derivation fee
• § 42.405 — Content of petition
• § 42.406 — Service of petition
• § 42.407 — Filing date
• § 42.408 — Institution of derivation proceeding
• § 42.409 — Settlement agreements
• § 42.410 — Arbitration
• § 42.411 — Common interests in the invention
• § 42.412 — Public availability of Board records

PART 43

• § 43.1 — Scope
• § 43.2 — Definitions
• § 43.3 — Limits on Director's and other individuals' involvement in panel decisions
• § 43.4 — Limited pre-issuance management and Office involvement in decisions
• § 43.5 — Review of decisions by non-Management Judges
• § 43.6 — Controlling legal authority; no unwritten or non-public binding policy or guidance

PART 90

• § 90.1 — Scope
• § 90.2 — Notice; service
• § 90.3 — Time for appeal or civil action

PART 102

• § 102.1 — General
• § 102.2 — Public reference facilities
• § 102.3 — Records under FOIA
• § 102.4 — Requirements for making requests
• § 102.5 — Responsibility for responding to requests
• § 102.6 — Time limits and expedited processing
• § 102.7 — Responses to requests
• § 102.9 — Business Information
• § 102.10 — Appeals from initial determinations or untimely delays
• § 102.11 — Fees
• § 102.21 — Purpose and scope
• § 102.22 — Definitions
• § 102.23 — Procedures for making inquiries
• § 102.24 — Procedures for making requests for records
• § 102.25 — Disclosure of requested records to individuals
• § 102.26 — Special procedures: Medical records
• § 102.27 — Procedures for making requests for correction or amendment
• § 102.28 — Review of requests for correction or amendment
• § 102.29 — Appeal of initial adverse determination on correction or amendment
• § 102.30 — Disclosure of record to person other than the individual to whom it pertains
• § 102.31 — Fees
• § 102.32 — Penalties
• § 102.33 — General exemptions
• § 102.34 — Specific exemptions

PART 104

• § 104.1 — Definitions
• § 104.2 — Address for mail and service; telephone number
• § 104.3 — Waiver of rules
• § 104.4 — Relationship of this Part to the Federal Rules of Civil or Criminal Procedure
• § 104.11 — Scope and purpose
• § 104.12 — Acceptance of service of process
• § 104.21 — Scope and purpose
• § 104.22 — Demand for testimony or production of documents
• § 104.23 — Expert or opinion testimony
• § 104.24 — Demands or requests in legal proceedings for records protected by confidentiality statutes
• § 104.31 — Scope
• § 104.32 — Procedure for requesting indemnification
• § 104.41 — Procedure for filing claims
• § 104.42 — Finality of settlement or denial of claims

PART 150

• § 150.1 — Definitions
• § 150.2 — Initiation of evaluation
• § 150.3 — Submission of requests
• § 150.4 — Evaluation
• § 150.5 — Duration of proclamation
• § 150.6 — Mailing address

PART 201

• § 201.1 — Communication with the Copyright Office
• § 201.2 — Information given by the Copyright Office
• § 201.3 — Fees for registration, recordation, and related services, special services, and services performed by the Licensing Section and the Copyright Claims Board
• § 201.4 — Recordation of transfers and other documents pertaining to copyright
• § 201.5 — [Reserved]
• § 201.6 — Payment and refund of Copyright Office fees
• § 201.7 — Cancellation of completed registrations
• § 201.8 — Disruption of postal or other transportation or communication services
• § 201.9 — [Reserved]
• § 201.10 — Notices of termination of transfers and licenses
• § 201.11 — Satellite carrier statements of account covering statutory licenses for secondary transmissions
• § 201.12 — Recordation of certain contracts by cable systems located outside of the forty-eight contiguous States
• § 201.13 — Notices of objection to certain noncommercial performances of nondramatic literary or musical works
• § 201.14 — Warnings of copyright for use by certain libraries and archives
• § 201.15 — [Reserved]
• § 201.16 — Verification of a Statement of Account for secondary transmissions made by cable systems and satellite carriers
• § 201.17 — Statements of Account covering compulsory licenses for secondary transmissions by cable systems
• § 201.18 — Notice of intention to obtain a compulsory license for making and distributing phonorecords of nondramatic musical works
• § 201.19-201.21 — 201.19-201.21 [Reserved]
• § 201.22 — Advance notices of potential infringement of works consisting of sounds, images, or both
• § 201.23 — Transfer of unpublished copyright deposits to the Library of Congress
• § 201.24 — Warning of copyright for software lending by nonprofit libraries
• § 201.25 — Visual Arts Registry
• § 201.26 — Recordation of documents pertaining to computer shareware and donation of public domain computer software
• § 201.27 — Initial notice of distribution of digital audio recording devices or media
• § 201.28 — Statements of Account for digital audio recording devices or media
• § 201.29 — Access to, and confidentiality of, Statements of Account, Verification Auditor's Reports, and other verification information filed in the Copyright Office for digital audio recording devices or media
• § 201.30 — Verification of Statements of Account
• § 201.31 — Procedures for closing out royalty payments accounts in accordance with the Audio Home Recording Act
• § 201.32 — [Reserved]
• § 201.33 — Procedures for filing Notices of Intent to Enforce a restored copyright under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
• § 201.34 — Procedures for filing Correction Notices of Intent to Enforce a Copyright Restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act
• § 201.35 — Schedules of pre-1972 sound recordings
• § 201.36 — Notices of contact information for transmitting entities publicly performing pre-1972 sound recordings
• § 201.37 — Noncommercial use of pre-1972 sound recordings
• § 201.38 — Designation of agent to receive notification of claimed infringement
• § 201.39 — Notice to Libraries and Archives of Normal Commercial Exploitation or Availability at Reasonable Price
• § 201.40 — Exemptions to prohibition against circumvention

PART 202

• § 202.1 — Material not subject to copyright
• § 202.2 — Copyright notice
• § 202.3 — Registration of copyright
• § 202.4 — Group registration
• § 202.5 — Reconsideration Procedure for Refusals to Register
• § 202.6 — Supplementary registration
• § 202.7-202.9 — 202.7-202.9 [Reserved]
• § 202.10 — Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
• § 202.11 — Architectural works
• § 202.12 — Restored copyrights
• § 202.13 — Secure tests
• § 202.14-202.15 — 202.14-202.15 [Reserved]
• § 202.16 — Preregistration of copyrights
• § 202.17 — Renewals
• § 202.18 — Access to electronic works
• § 202.19 — Deposit of published copies or phonorecords for the Library of Congress
• § 202.20 — Deposit of copies and phonorecords for copyright registration
• § 202.21 — Deposit of identifying material instead of copies
• § 202.22 — Acquisition and deposit of unpublished audio and audiovisual transmission programs
• § 202.23 — Full term retention of copyright deposits
• § 202.24 — Deposit of published electronic works available only online

PART 203

• § 203.1 — General
• § 203.2 — Authority and functions
• § 203.3 — Organization
• § 203.4 — Proactive disclosure of Office records
• § 203.5 — Requirements for making requests
• § 203.6 — Responsibility for responding to requests
• § 203.7 — Timing of responses to requests
• § 203.8 — Responses to requests
• § 203.9 — Administrative appeals
• § 203.10 — Preservation of records
• § 203.11 — Fees

PART 204

• § 204.1 — Purposes and scope
• § 204.2 — Definitions
• § 204.3 — General policy
• § 204.4 — Procedure for notification of the existence of records pertaining to individuals
• § 204.5 — Procedures for requesting access to records
• § 204.6 — Fees
• § 204.7 — Request for correction or amendment of records
• § 204.8 — Appeal of refusal to correct or amend an individual's record
• § 204.9 — Judicial review

PART 205

• § 205.1 — Definitions
• § 205.2 — Address for mail and service; telephone number
• § 205.3 — Waiver of rules
• § 205.4 — Relationship of this part to the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure
• § 205.5 — Scope of this part related to Copyright Office duties under title 17 of the U.S. Code
• § 205.6-205.10 — 205.6-205.10 [Reserved]
• § 205.11 — Scope and purpose
• § 205.12 — Process served on the Register of Copyrights or an employee in his or her official capacity
• § 205.13 — Complaints served on the Register of Copyrights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 411(a)
• § 205.14 — Court requests to the Register of Copyrights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 411(b)(2)
• § 205.15 — Court notices to the Register of Copyrights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 508
• § 205.16-205.20 — 205.16-205.20 [Reserved]
• § 205.21 — Scope and purpose
• § 205.22 — Production of documents and testimony
• § 205.23 — Scope of testimony
• § 205.24 — Ex Parte communications in informal rulemakings

PART 210

• § 210.1 — General
• § 210.2 — Definitions
• § 210.3 — Accounting requirements where sales revenue is “recognized.”
• § 210.4 — Accounting requirements for offsetting phonorecord reserves with returned phonorecords
• § 210.5 — Situations in which a compulsory licensee is barred from maintaining reserves
• § 210.6 — Monthly statements of account
• § 210.7 — Annual statements of account
• § 210.8 — Documentation
• § 210.9 — Harmless errors
• § 210.10 — Statements required for limitation on liability for digital music providers for the transition period prior to the license availability date
• § 210.11 — Record companies using individual download licenses
• § 210.12-210.20 — [Reserved]
• § 210.21 — General
• § 210.22 — Definitions
• § 210.23 — Designation of the mechanical licensing collective and digital licensee coordinator
• § 210.24 — Notices of blanket license
• § 210.25 — Notices of nonblanket activity
• § 210.26 — Data collection and delivery efforts by digital music providers and musical work copyright owners
• § 210.27 — Reports of usage and payment for blanket licensees
• § 210.28 — Reports of usage for significant nonblanket licensees
• § 210.29 — Reporting and distribution of royalties to copyright owners by the mechanical licensing collective
• § 210.30 — Transfers of copyright ownership, royalty payee changes, and related disputes
• § 210.31 — Musical works database information
• § 210.32 — Musical works database usability, interoperability, and usage restrictions
• § 210.33 — Annual reporting by the mechanical licensing collective
• § 210.34 — Treatment of confidential and other sensitive information

PART 211

• § 211.1 — General provisions
• § 211.2 — Recordation of documents pertaining to mask works
• § 211.3 — Mask work fees
• § 211.4 — Registration of claims of protection in mask works
• § 211.5 — Deposit of identifying material
• § 211.6 — Methods of affixation and placement of mask work notice
• § 211.7 — Reconsideration procedure for refusals to register

PART 212

• § 212.1 — Scope
• § 212.2 — Fees
• § 212.3 — Registration of claims for protection of eligible designs
• § 212.4 — Affixation and placement of design notice
• § 212.5 — Recordation of distinctive identification of vessel designer
• § 212.6 — Recordation of transfers and other documents
• § 212.7 — Reconsideration procedure for refusals to register
• § 212.8 — Correction of errors in certificates of registration

PART 220

• § 220.1 — Definitions
• § 220.2 — Authority and functions
• § 220.3 — Copyright Claims Board Handbook
• § 220.4 — Timing
• § 220.5 — Requests, responses, and written submissions

PART 221

• § 221.1 — Registration requirement
• § 221.2 — Small claims expedited registration

PART 222

• § 222.1 — Applicability of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence
• § 222.2 — Initiating a proceeding; the claim
• § 222.3 — Initial notice
• § 222.4 — Second notice
• § 222.5 — Service; waiver of service; filing
• § 222.6 — Designated service agents
• § 222.7 — Order regarding second filing fee and electronic filing registration
• § 222.8 — Response
• § 222.9 — Counterclaim
• § 222.10 — Response to counterclaim
• § 222.11 — Scheduling order
• § 222.12 — Amending pleadings
• § 222.13 — Consolidation
• § 222.14 — Additional parties
• § 222.15 — Written testimony on the merits
• § 222.16 — Hearings
• § 222.17 — Withdrawal of claims; dismissal
• § 222.18 — Settlement
• § 222.19 — Protective orders; personally identifiable information
• § 222.20 — Evidence

PART 223

• § 223.1 — Respondent's opt-out
• § 223.2 — Libraries and archives opt-out procedures
• § 223.3 — Class action opt-out procedures

PART 224

• § 224.1 — Compliance review
• § 224.2 — Dismissal for unsuitability

PART 225

• § 225.1 — General practices
• § 225.2 — Standard interrogatories
• § 225.3 — Standard requests for the production of documents
• § 225.4 — Additional discovery
• § 225.5 — Disputes and sanctions

PART 226

• § 226.1 — General
• § 226.2 — Requesting a smaller claims proceeding
• § 226.3 — Effect of counterclaims on a smaller claims proceeding
• § 226.4 — Nature of a smaller claims proceeding

PART 227

• § 227.1 — Failure by respondent or counterclaim respondent to appear or participate in proceeding
• § 227.2 — Submission of evidence by claimant or counterclaimant in support of default determination
• § 227.3 — Notice of proposed default determination
• § 227.4 — Opportunity for respondent or counterclaim respondent to submit evidence
• § 227.5 — Issuance of determination

PART 228

• § 228.1 — Claimant or counterclaimant's failure to complete service
• § 228.2 — Claimant or counterclaimant's failure to prosecute

PART 229

• § 229.1 — Access to records and proceedings
• § 229.2 — Final determination certification

PART 230

• § 230.1 — General
• § 230.2 — Request for reconsideration
• § 230.3 — Response to request
• § 230.4 — No new evidence
• § 230.5 — Determination

PART 231

• § 231.1 — General
• § 231.2 — Request for Register's review
• § 231.3 — Response to request for Register's review
• § 231.4 — No new evidence
• § 231.5 — Standard of review
• § 231.6 — Determination

PART 232

• § 232.1 — General
• § 232.2 — Representations to the Board
• § 232.3 — Bad-faith conduct
• § 232.4 — Bar on initiating and participating in claims
• § 232.5 — Legal counsel and authorized representative conduct
• § 232.6 — Representation of business entities

PART 233

• § 233.1 — General
• § 233.2 — Limitation on proceedings
• § 233.3 — Temporary limitations on proceedings

PART 234

• § 234.1 — Law student representatives
• § 234.2 — Pro bono representation directory

PART 235

• § 235.1 — District court referrals

PART 301

• § 301.1 — Copyright Royalty Board
• § 301.2 — Official addresses

PART 302

• § 302.1 — Public records and access
• § 302.2 — Fees

PART 303

• § 303.1 — [Reserved]
• § 303.2 — Representation
• § 303.3 — Documents: Format and length
• § 303.4 — Content of motion and responsive pleadings
• § 303.5 — Electronic filing system (eCRB)
• § 303.6 — Filing and delivery
• § 303.7 — Time
• § 303.8 — Construction and waiver

PART 350

• § 350.1 — Scope
• § 350.2-350.4 — [Reserved]

PART 351

• § 351.1 — Initiation of proceedings
• § 351.2 — Voluntary negotiation period; settlement
• § 351.3 — Controversy and further proceedings
• § 351.4 — Written direct statements
• § 351.5 — Discovery in royalty rate proceedings
• § 351.6 — Discovery in distribution proceedings
• § 351.7 — Settlement conference
• § 351.8 — Pre-hearing conference
• § 351.9 — Conduct of hearings
• § 351.10 — Evidence
• § 351.11 — Rebuttal proceedings
• § 351.12 — Closing the record
• § 351.13 — Transcript and record
• § 351.14 — Proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law
• § 351.15 — Remand

PART 352

• § 352.1 — How made
• § 352.2 — Timing
• § 352.3 — Final determinations

PART 353

• § 353.1 — When granted
• § 353.2 — Form and content of rehearing motions
• § 353.3 — Procedure on rehearing
• § 353.4 — Filing deadline
• § 353.5 — Participation not required

PART 354

• § 354.1 — Material questions of copyright law
• § 354.2 — Novel questions
• § 354.3 — Register of Copyrights' authority to redesignate referrals

PART 355

• § 355.1 — Proceedings in general
• § 355.2 — Commencement of proceedings
• § 355.3 — Submissions and discovery
• § 355.4 — Negotiation periods
• § 355.5 — Hearing procedures
• § 355.6 — Determinations
• § 355.7 — Definitions

PART 360

• § 360.1 — General
• § 360.2 — Definitions
• § 360.3 — Time of filing
• § 360.4 — Form and content of claims
• § 360.20 — General
• § 360.21 — Time of filing
• § 360.22 — Form and content of claims
• § 360.23 — Content of notices regarding independent administrators
• § 360.30 — Amendment of claims
• § 360.31 — Withdrawal of claims
• § 360.32 — Reinstatement of previously withdrawn claims

PART 370

• § 370.1 — General definitions
• § 370.2 — Notice of use of sound recordings under statutory license
• § 370.3 — Reports of use of sound recordings under statutory license for preexisting subscription services
• § 370.4 — Reports of use of sound recordings under statutory license for nonsubscription transmission services, preexisting satellite digital audio radio services, new subscription services and business establishment services
• § 370.5 — Designated collection and distribution organizations for reports of use of sound recordings under statutory license

PART 380

• § 380.1 — Scope and compliance
• § 380.2 — Making payment of royalty fees
• § 380.3 — Delivering statements of account
• § 380.4 — Distributing royalty fees
• § 380.5 — Handling Confidential Information
• § 380.6 — Auditing payments and distributions
• § 380.7 — Definitions
• § 380.10 — Royalty fees for the public performance of sound recordings and the making of ephemeral recordings
• § 380.20 — Definitions
• § 380.21 — Royalty fees for the public performance of sound recordings and for ephemeral recordings
• § 380.22 — Terms for making payment of royalty fees and statements of account
• § 380.30 — Definitions
• § 380.31 — Royalty fees for the public performance of sound recordings and for ephemeral recordings
• § 380.32 — Terms for making payment of royalty fees and statements of account
• § 380.40 — Definitions
• § 380.41 — Royalty fees for the public performance of sound recordings by Commercial Broadcasters making Nonsubscription Transmissions and for Ephemeral Recordings
• § 380.42 — Making payment of royalty fees
• § 380.43 — Delivering statements of account
• § 380.44 — Distributing royalty fees
• § 380.45 — Handling confidential information
• § 380.46 — Auditing payments and distributions
• § 380.50 — Definitions
• § 380.51 — Royalty fees for Eligible Transmissions of sound recordings and the making of Ephemeral Recordings
• § 380.52 — Making payment of royalty fees
• § 380.53 — Delivering statements of account
• § 380.54 — Distributing royalty fees
• § 380.55 — Handling confidential information
• § 380.56 — Auditing payments and distributions

PART 381

• § 381.1 — General
• § 381.2 — Definition of public broadcasting entity
• § 381.3 — [Reserved]
• § 381.4 — Performance of musical compositions by PBS, NPR and other public broadcasting entities engaged in the activities set forth in 17 U.S.C. 118(c)
• § 381.5 — Performance of musical compositions by public broadcasting entities licensed to colleges and universities
• § 381.6 — Performance of musical compositions by other public broadcasting entities
• § 381.7 — Recording rights, rates and terms
• § 381.8 — Terms and rates of royalty payments for the use of published pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
• § 381.9 — Unknown copyright owners
• § 381.10 — Cost of living adjustment
• § 381.11 — Notice of restrictions on use of reproductions of transmission programs

PART 382

• § 382.1 — Definitions
• § 382.2 — Scope and compliance
• § 382.3 — Making payment of royalty fees
• § 382.4 — Delivering statements of account
• § 382.5 — Distributing royalty fees
• § 382.6 — Handling Confidential Information
• § 382.7 — Auditing payments and distributions
• § 382.10 — Royalty fees for the digital performance of sound recordings and the making of ephemeral recordings by preexisting subscription services
• § 382.11 — Calculation of gross revenues for PSS
• § 382.20 — Definitions
• § 382.21 — Royalty fees for the public performance of sound recordings and the making of ephemeral recordings by SDARS
• § 382.22 — Calculation of Gross Revenues for SDARS
• § 382.23 — Adjustments to royalty fee

PART 383

• § 383.1 — General
• § 383.2 — Definitions
• § 383.3 — Royalty fees for public performances of sound recordings and the making of ephemeral recordings
• § 383.4 — Distribution of royalties
• § 383.5 — Auditing payments and distributions
• § 383.6 — Terms for making payment of royalty fees

PART 384

• § 384.1 — General
• § 384.2 — Definitions
• § 384.3 — Royalty fees for ephemeral recordings
• § 384.4 — Terms for making payment of royalty fees and statements of account
• § 384.5 — Confidential information
• § 384.6 — Verification of royalty payments
• § 384.7 — Verification of royalty distributions
• § 384.8 — Unclaimed funds

PART 385

• § 385.1 — General
• § 385.2 — Definitions
• § 385.3 — Late payments
• § 385.4 — Recordkeeping for promotional or free trial non-royalty-bearing uses
• § 385.10 — Scope
• § 385.11 — Royalty rates
• § 385.20 — Scope
• § 385.21 — Royalty rates and calculations
• § 385.30 — Scope
• § 385.31 — Royalty rates

PART 386

• § 386.1 — General
• § 386.2 — Royalty fee for secondary transmission by satellite carriers

PART 387

• § 387.1 — General
• § 387.2 — Royalty fee for compulsory license for secondary transmission by cable systems

PART 388

• § 388.1 — General
• § 388.2 — Definition of coin-operated phonorecord player
• § 388.3 — Compulsory license fees for coin-operated phonorecord players

PART 390

• § 390.1 — Definitions
• § 390.2 — Amount of assessments
• § 390.3 — Annual minimum fees
• § 390.4 — Annual Assessment allocation and payment

PART 401

• § 401.1 — Scope
• § 401.2 — Definitions
• § 401.3 — Use of the standard clauses at § 401.14
• § 401.4 — Contractor appeals of exceptions
• § 401.5 — Modification and tailoring of clauses
• § 401.6 — Exercise of march-in rights
• § 401.7-401.8 — 401.7-401.8 [Reserved]
• § 401.9 — Contractor and contractor employee inventor requests for rights in inventions
• § 401.10 — Government assignment to contractor of rights in invention of government employee
• § 401.11 — Appeals
• § 401.12 — Licensing of background patent rights to third parties
• § 401.13 — Confidentiality of contractor submissions
• § 401.14 — Standard patent rights clauses
• § 401.15 — [Reserved]
• § 401.16 — Federal agency reporting requirements
• § 401.17 — Submissions and inquiries
• § 401.18 — Severability

PART 404

• § 404.1 — Scope of part
• § 404.2 — Policy and objective
• § 404.3 — Definitions
• § 404.4 — Authority to grant licenses
• § 404.5 — Restrictions and conditions on all licenses granted under this part
• § 404.6 — Nonexclusive licenses
• § 404.7 — Exclusive, co-exclusive, and partially exclusive licenses
• § 404.8 — Application for a license
• § 404.9 — [Reserved]
• § 404.10 — Modification and termination of licenses
• § 404.11 — Appeals
• § 404.12 — Protection and administration of inventions
• § 404.13 — Transfer of custody
• § 404.14 — Confidentiality of information
• § 404.15 — Severability

PART 501

• § 501.1 — Purpose
• § 501.2 — Scope
• § 501.3 — Definitions
• § 501.4 — Determination of inventions and rights
• § 501.5 — Agency liaison officer
• § 501.6 — Criteria for the determination of rights in and to inventions
• § 501.7 — Agency determination
• § 501.8 — Appeals by employees
• § 501.9 — Patent protection
• § 501.10 — Dissemination of this part and of implementing regulations
• § 501.11 — Submissions and inquiries