§ 111 Application
§ 112 Specification
§ 113 Drawings
§ 114 Models, specimens
§ 115 Inventor’s oath or declaration
§ 116 Inventors
§ 117 Death or incapacity of inventor
§ 118 Filing by other than inventor
§ 119 Benefit of earlier filing date; right of priority
§ 120 Benefit of earlier filing date in the United States
§ 121 Divisional applications
§ 122 Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications
§ 123 Micro entity defined
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Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 35 > Part II > Chapter 11 - Application for Patent

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • claimed invention: means the subject matter defined by a claim in a patent or an application for a patent. See 35 USC 100
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • invention: means invention or discovery. See 35 USC 100
  • inventor: means the individual or, if a joint invention, the individuals collectively who invented or discovered the subject matter of the invention. See 35 USC 100
  • oath: includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed. See 1 USC 1
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • process: means process, art or method, and includes a new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material. See 35 USC 100
  • writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1