MPEP 300 – Ownership and Assignment

This page consolidates and annotates enforceable requirements under MPEP 300 — Ownership and Assignment, including statutory authority, regulatory rules, examiner guidance, and practice notes. It is provided as guidance, with links to the ground truth sources. This is information only, it is not legal advice.

MetricValueShare of total
Rules extracted528
1.4%
Citations to Authorities
MPEP713
USC123
CFR1,009
PCT0
1.5%
Avg citations per rule3.49
Topics covered86 primary + 128 secondary
8.8%

Pages in this chapter

Page
MPEP § 301 — Ownership/Assignability of Patents and Applications45 rules
MPEP § 301.01 — Accessibility of Assignment Records24 rules
MPEP § 302 — Recording of Assignment Documents12 rules
MPEP § 302.01 — Assignment Document Must Be Copy for Recording12 rules
MPEP § 302.02 — Translation of Assignment Document0 rules
MPEP § 302.03 — Identifying Patent or Application9 rules
MPEP § 302.04 — Foreign Assignee May Designate Domestic Representative9 rules
MPEP § 302.05 — Address of Assignee1 rules
MPEP § 302.06 — Fee for Recording9 rules
MPEP § 302.07 — Assignment Document Must Be Accompanied by a Cover Sheet28 rules
MPEP § 302.08 — Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents4 rules
MPEP § 302.09 — Facsimile Submission of Assignment Documents14 rules
MPEP § 302.10 — Electronic Submission of Assignment Documents11 rules
MPEP § 303 — Assignment Documents Not Endorsed on Pending Applications3 rules
MPEP § 306 — Assignment of Division, Continuation, Substitute, and Continuation-in-Part in Relation to Parent Application4 rules
MPEP § 306.01 — Assignment of an Application Claiming the Benefits of a Provisional Application2 rules
MPEP § 307 — Issue to Non-Applicant Assignee24 rules
MPEP § 308 — Issue to Applicant13 rules
MPEP § 309 — Restrictions Upon Employees of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office3 rules
MPEP § 310 — Government License Rights to Contractor-Owned Inventions Made Under Federally Sponsored Research and Development4 rules
MPEP § 311 — Filing of Notice of Arbitration Awards21 rules
MPEP § 313 — Recording of Licenses, Security Interests, and Documents Other Than Assignments6 rules
MPEP § 314 — Certificates of Change of Name or of Merger4 rules
MPEP § 315 — Indexing Against a Recorded Certificate2 rules
MPEP § 317 — Handling of Documents in the Assignment Recordation Branch2 rules
MPEP § 317.01 — Recording Date10 rules
MPEP § 317.02 — Correction of Unrecorded Returned Documents and Cover Sheets4 rules
MPEP § 317.03 — Effect of Recording11 rules
MPEP § 318 — Documents Not to be Placed in Files1 rules
MPEP § 320 — Title Reports8 rules
MPEP § 323 — Procedures for Correcting Errors in Recorded Assignment Document10 rules
MPEP § 323.01 — Correction of Error in Recorded Cover Sheet8 rules
MPEP § 323.01(a) — Typographical Errors in Cover Sheet8 rules
MPEP § 323.01(b) — Typographical Errors in Recorded Assignment Document4 rules
MPEP § 323.01(c) — Assignment or Change of Name Improperly Filed and Recorded by Another Person Against Owner’s Application or Patent7 rules
MPEP § 323.01(d) — Expungement of Assignment Records7 rules
MPEP § 324 — Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action in Application Filed Before September 16, 201283 rules
MPEP § 325 — Establishing Right of Assignee To Take Action in Application Filed On or After September 16, 2012101 rules

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