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.  

 

The Bluebook, 21st Edition by Colum. L. Rev., Harv. L. Rev., U. Pa. L. Rev. & Yale L.J.

Publication Date: 2020 

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