Title 35 — Patents
174 sections across 25 chapters.
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Ch. 1 — Powers and duties 1 inactive 13 sections
- § 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
- § 14 Renumbered § 13] Renumbered
Ch. 2 — Filing date and day for taking action 7 sections
Ch. 3 — Suspension or exclusion from practice 1 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 4 — Patent fees 2 sections
Ch. 10 — Inventions patentable 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 11 — Application 13 sections
- § 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
Ch. 12 — Examination of application 5 sections
Ch. 13 — Appeal to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 6 sections
Ch. 14 — Issue of patent 2 inactive 5 sections
- § 151 Issue of patent
- § 152 Issue of patent to assignee
- § 153 How issued
- § 154 Contents and term of patent; provisional rights
- § 155A Repealed. Pub. L. 112–29, § 20(k) , Sept. 16, 2011 , 125 Stat. 335 ] Repealed
- § 156 Extension of patent term
- § 157 Repealed. Pub. L. 112–29, § 3(e)(1) , Sept. 16, 2011 , 125 Stat. 287 ] Repealed
Ch. 15 — Patents for plants 4 sections
Ch. 16 — Patents for designs 3 sections
Ch. 17 — Secrecy of certain inventions and withholding of patent 8 sections
- § 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
Ch. 18 — Policy and objective 13 sections
- § 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
Ch. 25 — Reissue of defective patents 7 sections
- § 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
Ch. 26 — Ownership 2 sections
Ch. 27 — Time for taking action in Government applications 1 inactive 1 section
Ch. 28 — Infringement of patent 3 sections
Ch. 29 — Remedy for infringement of patent 19 sections
- § 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
Ch. 30 — Citation of prior art and written statements 7 sections
Ch. 31 — Inter partes review 9 sections
Ch. 32 — Post-grant review 9 sections
Ch. 35 — Definitions 1 section
Ch. 36 — Receiving Office 8 sections
- § 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
Ch. 37 — National stage: Commencement 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 38 — Filing international design applications 10 sections
- § 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