MPEP § 818.02(c) — Election By Optional Cancelation of Claims

Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024 · last revised R-07.2015

Where applicant claims two or more independent or distinct inventions and as a result of amendment to the claims, he or she cancels the claims to one or more of such inventions, leaving claims to one invention, and such claims are acted upon by the examiner, the claimed invention thus acted upon is elected.