MPEP § 909.01 — Assignment, Transfer and Classification Challenges under Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)

Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024 · last revised R-07.2022

The titles “management” and “assigned examiner,” as used in this Chapter 900, include in their definition any person designated by them to act on their behalf.

Assignment of a patent application in the Cooperative Patent Classification system is determined by the C-Star (C*) designations assigned to the application. C* is a binary designation given to the family level Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) symbol(s) on an application that are representative of the claimed subject matter in an application. See MPEP § 905.03.