Title 37-Patents, Trade-Marks, and Copyrights CHAPTER I-Patent Office, Department of Commerce Part 1 CHAPTER II-Copyright Office, Library of Congress [Revised] 201 CHAPTER III- Government Patents Board [Added] 300 CHAPTER I-PATENT OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CODIFICATION: Chapter I was reorganized as follows, 20 F. R. 4797, July 7, 1955: 1. The subchapter designations were deleted. 2. Former Part 100 was redesignated Part 2. 3. Former Part 10 was redesignated Part 8. 4. Former Part 110 was redesignated Part 4. 5. The text formerly appearing in § 100.161 was redesignated Part 6. 6. Former Part 2 was redesignated Part 7. 2 2 34 5 6 7 10 100 Register of Government interests in patents. [Redesignated] Licenses to file applications for patents in foreign countries. [Revoked] Forms for trademark cases. [Redesignated; revised] Secrecy of certain inventions and licenses to file applications in foreign Classification of goods and services under the Trademark Act. [Added] Forms for patent cases. [Redesignated] Rules of practice in trade-mark cases. [Redesignated] 110 Forms for trade-mark cases. [Redesignated] Part 1-Rules of Practice in Patent RECORDS AND FILES OF THE PATENT OFFICE 1.11 Patent files open to public. [Amended] Assignment records open to public inspection. [Amended] GENERAL INFORMATION AND CORRESPONDENCE 1.12 1.13 Copies and certified copies. [Amended] Patent applications preserved in secrecy. [Amended] FEES AND PAYMENT OF MONEY 1.21 1.6 Receipt of letters and papers. [Re- Patent and miscellaneous fees and charges. [Revised] NOTE: 1.1 to 1.26 are applicable to trademark cases as well as to patent cases except for provisions specifically directed to patents. [Note added, 20 F. R. 4797, July 7, 1955] § 1.4 Nature of correspondence. * (b) Since each application file should be complete in itself, a separate copy of every paper to be filed in an application should be furnished for each application to which the paper pertains, even though the contents of the papers filed in two or more applications may be identical. CODIFICATION: § 1.4 was amended as follows, 20 F. R. 4797, July 7, 1955: (c) A letter relating to a trademark application should identify it as such and by the name of the applicant and the serial number and filing date of the application. A letter relating to a registered trademark should identify it by the name of the registrant and by the number and date of the certificate. CODIFICATION: The headnote of § 1.5 was amended to read as set forth above, and paragraph (c) was added, 20 F. R. 4797, July 7, 1955. § 1.6 Receipt of letters and papers. (a) Letters and other papers received in the Patent Office are stamped with the date of receipt. No papers are received in the Patent Office on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays within the District of Columbia. (b) Mail placed in the Patent Office pouch up to midnight on weekdays, excepting Saturdays and holidays, by the post office at Washington, D. C., serving the Patent Office, is considered as having been received in the Patent Office on the day it was so placed in the pouch. |