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# PATENT EXAMINING PROCEDURE

M. P. E. P.
This"Manual",
'dated 1948,
preceded the
1st Edition.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office

REEL NUMBER

1

BOOK NUMBERS

4133

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M. P. E. P.
This"Manual',
dated 1948,
preceded the
1st Edition.

This Manual, dat.od
1948, preceded the
" first edition"

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## MANUAL OF PATENT OFFICE PROCEDURE

EDITED BY
ERNEST A. FALLER

1948

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### FOREWORD

#### The Objective and Scope of the Manual

The purpose of the manual is three fold, first,
to serve as an adequate text for the new Examiners to
study, second, to serve as a standard reference work
for the examining corps, and third. to assist in pro-
ducing uniformity of practice among all the divisions
of the Office The manual will be bound in loose leaf
form so that it can be revised as necessary

In view of the issuance of the Manual of Proce-
dure for Docket Clerks purely clerical functions are
not included except where they explain the duties of
the Assistant Examiner. Situations which occur very
rarely are omitted but an effort has been made to sug-
gest practices which, though not mandatory help the
Examiner to do a better job with less chance of error,

Purely substantive aspects of patent low have
been omitted except where they make the practice clearer.

Acknowledgment is made of the untiring efforts
of those who participated directly in its preparation.
including.

C. D Angel D Arnold. M F. Bailey
T. F Barry. W Berlowitz, G L. Brehm.
J L Bostick . A. Collins. A R Corn-
well P J Federico M S Gibson . W
S Glenn , A J Goldberg G A Gorecki
M Hertz . A. M Horton W. J Kanof M.

E King I .M LaBorde, C E Lee J. C
MacNab H. Magil , A. Margolis, N Marmel -
stein. L. T. McDonald, S. M. Newman . R
A O Leary A D. Parvis E. Paul , E O
Retter M C. Rosa, E. M Servis C M.
Whitmoyer, B Wilson and R. M. Wood ..

Thanks too are due to the Solicitor and his staff,
to the Supervisory Examiners, who were constantly consulted
about the preferred procedure and to the heads of the var-
ious non- technical branches all of whom so willingly sup-
plied information and assistance within their special fields.

Further acknowledgment is due R D Lambert of
Wallace Clark & Co Consultants, who coordinated the efforts
of the Office on this work

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"C"TON - 1 Introductory
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Pater table Subject Matter

1
Types . ista . at deres noting
of mlie Lions

5

6
Representative of Investor or
Owner

7
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Hab's, Per EX Content of poli-
cntion

9
Division, Conus ona Precios
10
Examination of oplichten

11
Prior Art. Classification. Werch

12
letations, uporvision and Review
other than by ippenl

13
Interference

15
Allowance and Jaque
Correction of Patent.

J.7
breren Patent.

18
Blant, intenta
19
Fillancona
C List of Decisions
index