37 CFR § 1.824 — Form and format for a nucleotide and/or amino (MPEP Coverage Index) – BlueIron IP
37 CFR § 1.824 Form and format for a nucleotide and/or amino
This page consolidates MPEP guidance interpreting 37 CFR § 1.824, including 70 rules from the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. It is provided as guidance, with links to the ground truth sources. This is information only, it is not legal advice.
Summary
37 CFR 1.824 establishes precise technical requirements for documenting and electronically submitting genetic sequence information in patent applications.
What this section covers
- Outline specific requirements for documenting nucleotide and amino acid sequences in patent applications.
- Define technical specifications for sequence listing submissions in patent documentation.
Key obligations
- Require a separate computer-readable form (CRF) of the Sequence Listing for patent applications.
- Include a specific statement in the specification that incorporates the Sequence Listing by reference.
Practice notes
- Ensure precise formatting of sequence data to meet USPTO computational requirements.
- Verify that sequence listings comply with specific technical standards for electronic submission.
Official MPEP § 1.824 — Form and format for a nucleotide and/or amino
Source: USPTOLast Modified: 10/30/2024 08:50:22
1.824 Form and format for a nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence submissions as an ASCII plain text file
[Editor Note: This rule is applicable to applications containing a nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence filed prior to July 1, 2022. See §§ 1.831 through 1.835 for rules applicable on or after July 1, 2022.]
- (a) A “Sequence Listing” under §
1.821(c)(1)
and the CRF required by §
1.821(e)
submitted as an ASCII plain text file may be created by any means,
such as text editors, nucleotide/amino acid sequence editors, or
other custom computer programs; however, the ASCII plain text file
must conform to the following requirements:
- (1) Must have the following compatibilities:
- (i) Computer compatibility: PC or Mac ®; and
- (ii) Operating system compatibility: MS–DOS ®, MS-Windows ®, Mac OS ®, or Unix ®/Linux ®.
- (2) Must be in ASCII plain text, where:
- (i) All printable characters (including the space character) are permitted; and
- (ii) No nonprintable (ASCII control) characters are permitted, except ASCII CRLF or LF as line terminators.
- (3) Must be named as *.txt, where “*” is one character or a combination of characters limited to upper- or lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores and does not exceed 60 characters in total, excluding the extension. No spaces or other types of characters are permitted in the file name.
- (4) Must contain no more than 74 printable characters in each line.
- (5) Pagination is not permitted; the ASCII plain text file must be one continuous file, with no “hard page break” codes and no page numbering.
- (1) Must have the following compatibilities:
- (b) The ASCII plain text file must contain a copy of a
single “Sequence Listing” in a single file and be submitted
either:
- (1) Electronically via the USPTO patent electronic filing system, where the file must not exceed 100 MB, and file compression is not permitted; or
- (2) On a read-only optical disc(s), in
compliance with §
1.52(e)
, where:
- (i) A file that is not compressed must be contained on a single read-only optical disc;
- (ii) The file may be compressed using WinZip ®, 7-Zip, or Unix ®/Linux ® Zip;
- (iii) A compressed file must not be self-extracting; and
- (iv) A compressed ASCII plain text file that does not fit on a single read-only optical disc may be split into multiple file parts, in accordance with the target read-only optical disc size, and labeled in compliance with § 1.52(e)(5)(vi) .
[Added, 55 FR 18230, May 1, 1990, effective Oct. 1, 1990; revised, 63 FR 29620, June 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1998; revised, 65 FR 54604, Sept. 8, 2000, effective Sept. 8, 2000 (effective date corrected, 65 FR 78958, Dec. 18, 2000); revised, 86 FR 57035, Oct. 14, 2021, effective Nov. 15, 2021]
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