Submissions to JPTOS should adhere to the following citation style:

Issued Patents and Trademarks. T1.2.

• Issued Patents. U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 col. 2, l. 30 (filed Dec. 14, 1977). 
  • Also ok. Cryptographic Commc'ns Sys. & Method, U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 col. 2 l. 30 (filed Dec. 14, 1977) (issued Sept. 20, 1983). 
  • Also OK to use Patent “Column:Line(s)” format, per PTAB/Fed. Cir. practice. 
    • U.S. Pat. No. 4,405,829, 2:30–32 (filed Dec. 14, 1977).
  • Use filed and/or issued date, depending on what makes sense in context. 
• Issued Trademarks. INTERNATIONAL WALKIE TALKIE, Registration No. 3,016,449.
• Commissioner Reports. Ex parte Latimer, 1889 Dec. Comm'r Pat. 123.

Patent and Trademark Applications. 

• Patent Applications. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 12/341,910 (filed Dec. 11, 2005).
• TM Applications. U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 77/341,910 (filed Dec. 1, 2007).
• PG PUB. U.S. Pre-Grant Pub’l. No. 2007/0035812 A1 [0002] (published Feb. 15, 2007). 
  • See PG-PUB US 2007/0035812 A at [0002].

PTAB/TTAB Decisions. 

• SAP Am., Inc. v. Versata Dev. Grp., Inc., No. CBM2012-00001 (P.T.A.B. June 11, 2013).
• Ex parte Baggett, No. 2007-2648 (B.P.A.I. Mar. 10, 2008).
• Ex parte Fallaux, No. 2008-2251, 2008 WL 2463014 (B.P.A.I. June 17, 2008).
• Bos. Red Sox Baseball Club, Ltd. v. Sherman, 88 U.S.P.Q.2d (BL) 1581 (T.T.A.B. 2008).

Office Communications.

From the Office

• Non-Final Office Actions.
  • Non-Final Office Action dated Oct. 3, 2010, U.S. Patent App. No. 12/123,321 at 5:11–55.
  • See Non-Final Act. 6:1–10.
• Final Office Actions.
  • Final Office Action dated Jan. 3, 2011, U.S. Pat. App. No. 12/123,321 at 2:1–10.
  • Final Act. 6:1–10.
  • “U.S. Patent App.” is an appropriate abbreviation for “U.S. Patent Application”
• Notice of Allowance.
  • Notice of Allowance dated Oct. 24, 2005, U.S. Patent App. No. 11/079,670.

To the Office

• Appeal Brief. 
  • Appeal Brief dated Apr 3, 2005, U.S. Patent App. No. 11/079,670. 
  • Appeal Br. 17.
• Atty Responses to OA. 
  • Response to Office Action dated Apr 3, 2004, U.S. Patent App. No. 11/079,670.
• Etc, including Appeal Brief, Response Brief, Response to Petition. 
  • Short Description Of Whatever It Is dated Sept 19, 2006, U.S. Patent App. No. 11/079,670.

PTO Memorandum. 

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Formulating a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection and Evaluating the Applicant's Response to a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection (May 4, 2016).
  • May 2016 Memorandum at 3.

Federal Register Notices. R14.2. 

• 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Notice, 84 Fed. Reg. 50 (Jan. 7, 2019) (“2019 PEG”). 
• 2014 Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility, 79 Fed. Reg. 74,619 (Dec. 16, 2014). 
• October 2019 Update: Subject Matter Eligibility, available at https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/peg_oct_2019_update.pdf.

Internet Citations. R18.2.2.

• Dennis Crouch, USPTO Grants, Patently-O (July 10, 2020), https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/07/uspto-grants.html.
• About Us, USPTO, https://www.uspto.gov/about-us (last accessed July 20, 2021).

Articles. (Periodicals). R16.

• Kim Lane Scheppele, Foreword: Telling Stories, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2073, 2082 (1989).
• Barry C. Sanders, Erratum: Entangled coherent states, 46 Phys. Rev. A 2966 (1992), https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.45.6811.
• Note for Shorter Works in Collection, R15.5. 

All other citations should follow The Bluebook (21st) recommended formatting.  

Publication Date: 2020