Manual of Patent Examining Procedure: 9th Ed. (Vol. 5): Original Ninth Edition (MPEP Original 9th Edition) by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (a.k.a. MPEP): Original 9th Edition (March 2014) (A work in 7 volumes) This Manual is published to provide U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent examiners, applicants, attorneys, agents, and representatives of applicants with a reference work on the practices and procedures relative to the prosecution of patent applications before the USPTO. It contains instructions to examiners, as well as other material in the nature of information and interpretation, and outlines the current procedures which the examiners are required or authorized to follow in appropriate cases in the normal examination of a patent application. Kentaro Sato (Editor)