Patent Law: US Code

The United States Code (USC) brings together (codifies) by subject or area all the current federal laws. Laws are then further arranged by title (volume) and part or section number. The laws pertaining to copyright are found at 35 U.S.C.

• An easy-to use and search version of title 35 of the U.S. Code is available from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University.
  
• A downloadable version of title 35 of the U.S. Code from the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Law Revision Counsel is is also available.
• Another verson of title 35 of the U.S. Code is also available at the legal site Findlaw.

Please note: The codified version of the U.S. Code available at these public sites is only effective as of a certain date. Newer laws may not yet be incorporated into the Code. Always check to see the effective date of the title of the Code you are using.

U.S.C Title 35--Patents

-CITE- 35 USC Sec. 100 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 35 - PATENTS PART II - PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS CHAPTER 10 - PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS -HEAD- Sec. 100. Definitions -STATUTE- When used in this title unless the context otherwise indicates - (a) The term "invention" means invention or discovery. (b) The term "process" means process, art or method, and includes a new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material. (c) The terms "United States" and "this country" mean the United States of America, its territories and possessions. (d) The word "patentee" includes not only the patentee to whom the patent was issued but also the successors in title to the patentee. (e) The term "third-party requester" means a person requesting ex parte reexamination under section 302 or inter partes reexamination under section 311 who is not the patent owner. -SOURCE- (July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(9) [title IV, Sec. 4603], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-567.) -MISC1- HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Paragraph (a) is added only to avoid repetition of the phrase "invention or discovery" and its derivatives throughout the revised title. The present statutes use the phrase "invention or discovery" and derivatives. Paragraph (b) is noted under section 101. Paragraphs (c) and (d) are added to avoid the use of long expressions in various parts of the revised title. AMENDMENTS 1999 - Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106-113 added subsec. (e). EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1999 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 106-113 effective Nov. 29, 1999, and applicable to any patent issuing from an original application filed in the United States on or after that date, see section 1000(a)(9) [title IV, Sec. 4608(a)] of Pub. L. 106-113, set out as a note under section 41 of this title. -End-

SAMPLE SECTION OF THE U.S. CODE: TITLE 35 USC 100.

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