Table of Contents

Part I - United States Patent and Trademark Office

Chapter 1 - Establishment, Officers and Employees, Functions


35 USC 9 - Sec. 9. Certified copies of records

35 USC 10 - Sec. 10. Publications

35 USC 11 - Sec. 11. Exchange of copies of patents and applications with foreign countries

35 USC 12 - Sec. 12. Copies of patents and applications for public libraries

35 USC 13 - Sec. 13. Annual report to Congress

35 USC 1 - Sec. 1. Establishment

35 USC 2 - Sec. 2. Powers and duties

35 USC 3 - Sec. 3. Officers and employees

35 USC 4 - Sec. 4. Restrictions on officers and employees as to interest in patents

35 USC 5 - Sec. 5. Patent and Trademark Office Public Advisory Committees

35 USC 6 - Sec. 6. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

35 USC 7 - Sec. 7. Library

35 USC 8 - Sec. 8. Classification of patents

Chapter 2 - Proceedings in the Patent and Trademark Office


35 USC 21 - Sec. 21. Filing date and day for taking action

35 USC 22 - Sec. 22. Printing of papers filed

35 USC 23 - Sec. 23. Testimony in Patent and Trademark Office cases

35 USC 24 - Sec. 24. Subpoenas, witnesses

35 USC 25 - Sec. 25. Declaration in lieu of oath

35 USC 26 - Sec. 26. Effect of defective execution

Chapter 3 - Practice Before Patent and Trademark Office


35 USC 31 - [Sec. 31. Repealed. Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(9) [title IV, Sec. 4715(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-580]

35 USC 32 - Sec. 32. Suspension or exclusion from practice

35 USC 33 - Sec. 33. Unauthorized representation as practitioner

Chapter 4 - Patent Fees; Funding; Search Systems


35 USC 41 - Sec. 41. Patent fees; patent and trademark search systems

35 USC 42 - Sec. 42. Patent and Trademark Office funding

Part II - Patentability of Inventions and Grant of Patents

Chapter 10 - Patentability of Inventions


35 USC 100 - Sec. 100. Definitions

35 USC 101 - Sec. 101. Inventions patentable

35 USC 102 - Sec. 102. Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent

35 USC 103 - Sec. 103. Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

35 USC 104 - Sec. 104. Invention made abroad

35 USC 105 - Sec. 105. Inventions in outer space