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Patents and How to Get One: A Practical Handbook

This Dover edition, first published in 2000, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by the Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C., in 1997 under the title _General Information Concerning Patents_.

Chapters

6. Part 6

As an alternative to appeal, in situations where an applicant desires consideration of different claims or further evidence, a new continuation application is often filed. The n...

5. Part 5

(3) _Sectional views._ The plane upon which a sectional view is taken should be indicated on the view from which the section is cut by a broken line. The ends of the broken line...

4. Part 4

According to the law, only the inventor may apply for a patent, with certain exceptions. If a person who is not the inventor should apply for a patent, the patent, if it were ob...

1. Part 1

This Dover edition, first published in 2000, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by the Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C.,...

7. Part 7

The filing fee on each plant application and the issue fee can be found in the fee schedule. For a qualifying small entity filing and issue fees are reduced by half.

3. Part 3

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2. Part 2

=Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System.=—An alphabetical list of approximately 65,000 common, informal headings or terms which refer to specific classes and subclasses...