📚 MPEP Library
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024 (November 2024)
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🔥 Critical for Patent Bar Exam
Chapter 600
Parts, Form, and Content of Application
35 USC 112: Written description, enablement, claims - HIGHEST TESTED
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Chapter 700
Examination of Applications
Office actions, responses, amendments - CORE EXAM CONTENT
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Chapter 2100
Patentability
35 USC 101, 102, 103 - Novelty, non-obviousness - HEAVILY TESTED
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Chapter 800
Restriction in Applications
Restriction requirements, divisional applications
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Chapter 2200
Citation of Prior Art and Ex Parte Reexamination
IDS requirements, duty of candor (37 CFR 1.56)
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Chapter 100
Secrecy, Access, National Security, and Foreign Filing
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Chapter 200
Types and Status of Application; Benefit and Priority Claims
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Chapter 300
Ownership and Assignment
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Chapter 400
Representative of Applicant or Owner
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Chapter 500
Receipt and Handling of Mail and Papers
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Chapter 900
Prior Art, Petitions, and Protests
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Chapter 1000
Matters Decided by Various U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Officials
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Chapter 1100
Statutory Invention Registration (SIR)
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Chapter 1200
Appeal
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Chapter 1300
Allowance and Issue
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Chapter 1400
Correction of Patents
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Chapter 1500
Design Patents
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Chapter 1600
Plant Patents
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Chapter 1700
Miscellaneous
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Chapter 1800
Patent Cooperation Treaty
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Chapter 2300
Interference and Derivation Proceedings
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Chapter 2400
Biotechnology
YOUR ADVANTAGE - Sequence listings, deposits, enablement
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Chapter 2500
Maintenance Fees
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Chapter 2600
Optional Inter Partes Reexamination
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Chapter 2700
Patent Terms Extensions
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Chapter 2800
Supplemental Examination
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