Appendix L Patent Laws
United States Code Title 35 - Patents
PART I — UNITED STATES PATENT
AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
CHAPTER 1 — ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICERS
AND EMPLOYEES, FUNCTIONS
Sec.
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
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
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.
CHAPTER 2 — PROCEEDINGS IN THE
PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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.
CHAPTER 3 — PRACTICE BEFORE PATENT
AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
31
[Repealed].
32
Suspension or exclusion from practice.
33 Unauthorized representation as practitioner.
CHAPTER 4 — PATENT FEES; FUNDING;
SEARCH SYSTEMS
41 Patent fees; patent and trademark search systems.
42
Patent and Trademark Office funding.
PART II — PATENTABILITY OF
INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS
CHAPTER 10 — PATENTABILITY
OF INVENTIONS
100 Definitions.
101 Inventions patentable.
102 Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right
to patent.
103 Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject
matter.
104 Invention made abroad.
105 Inventions in outer space.
CHAPTER 11 — APPLICATION FOR PATENT
111 Application.
112 Specification.
113 Drawings.
114 Models, specimens.
115 Oath of applicant.
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 o