Title 35 — PATENTS

• § 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
• § 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
• § 32— Suspension or exclusion from practice
• § 33— Unauthorized representation as practitioner
• § 41— Patent fees; patent and trademark search systems
• § 42— Patent and Trademark Office funding
• § 100— Definitions
• § 101— Inventions patentable
• § 102— Conditions for patentability; novelty
• § 103— Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter
• § 105— Inventions in outer space
• § 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
• § 131— Examination of application
• § 132— Notice of rejection; reexamination
• § 133— Time for prosecuting application
• § 134— Appeal to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
• § 135— Derivation proceedings
• § 141— Appeal to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• § 142— Notice of appeal
• § 143— Proceedings on appeal
• § 144— Decision on appeal
• § 145— Civil action to obtain patent
• § 146— Civil action in case of derivation proceeding
• § 151— Issue of patent
• § 152— Issue of patent to assignee
• § 153— How issued
• § 154— Contents and term of patent; provisional rights
• § 156— Extension of patent term
• § 161— Patents for plants
• § 162— Description, claim
• § 163— Grant
• § 164— Assistance of Department of Agriculture
• § 171— Patents for designs
• § 172— Right of priority
• § 173— Term of design patent
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 261— Ownership; assignment
• § 262— Joint owners
• § 267— Time for taking action in Government applications
• § 271— Infringement of patent
• § 272— Temporary presence in the United States
• § 273— Defense to infringement based on prior commercial use
• § 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
• § 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
• § 311— Inter partes review
• § 312— Petitions
• § 313— Preliminary response to petition
• § 314— Institution of inter partes review
• § 315— Relation to other proceedings or actions
• § 316— Conduct of inter partes review
• § 317— Settlement
• § 318— Decision of the Board
• § 319— Appeal
• § 321— Post-grant review
• § 322— Petitions
• § 323— Preliminary response to petition
• § 324— Institution of post-grant review
• § 325— Relation to other proceedings or actions
• § 326— Conduct of post-grant review
• § 327— Settlement
• § 328— Decision of the Board
• § 329— Appeal
• § 351— Definitions
• § 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
• § 371— National stage: Commencement
• § 372— National stage: Requirements and procedure
• § 374— Publication of international application
• § 375— Patent issued on international application: Effect
• § 376— Fees
• § 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