# MPEP § 901.05(b): Other Significant Data

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## Section

- **Citation:** MPEP § 901.05(b)
- **Heading:** Other Significant Data
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Agency guidance
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** USPTO MPEP / Chapter 0900 - Prior Art, Search, Classification, and Routing / MPEP § 901.05(b)

## Text

I.
NUMBERS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ON THE FIRST PAGE OF
PATENT AND LIKE DOCUMENTS INCLUDING INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (INID NUMBERS)
The purpose of INID Codes (“INID” is an acronym for
“
I
nternationally agreed
N
umbers
for the
I
dentification of (bibliographic)
D
ata”) is to provide a means whereby the various data
appearing on the first page of patent and like documents or in patent gazettes can
be identified without knowledge of the language used and the laws applied. They
are now used by most patent offices and have been applied to U.S. patents since
August 4, 1970. Some of the codes are not pertinent to the documents of a
particular country and some which are pertinent may, in fact, not be used. INID
codes for industrial designs are similar to, but not identical to, those used for
patents and like documents. INID codes for industrial designs are provided
separately below.
INID Codes and Minimum Required for the Identification
of Bibliographic Data for Patent and Like Documents (based on WIPO Standard
ST.9)
(10)
Identification of the patent, SPC or patent
document
°(11) Number of the patent, SPC or patent document
°(12) Plain language designation of the kind of
document
°(13) Kind of document code according to WIPO Standard
ST.16
°(15) Patent correction information
°°(19) WIPO Standard ST.3 code, or other identification, of
the office or organization publishing the document
Notes
:
(i) For an SPC, data regarding the basic patent should be
coded by using code (68).
(ii) °° Minimum data element for patent documents only.
(iii) With the proviso that when data coded (11) and (13),
or (19), (11) and (13), are used together and on a single line, category
(10) can be used, if so desired.
.3 code, or other identification, of
the office or organization publishing the document
Notes
:
(i) For an SPC, data regarding the basic patent should be
coded by using code (68).
(ii) °° Minimum data element for patent documents only.
(iii) With the proviso that when data coded (11) and (13),
or (19), (11) and (13), are used together and on a single line, category
(10) can be used, if so desired.
(20)
Data concerning the application for a
patent or SPC
°(21) Number(s) assigned to the application(s), e.g.,
“Numéro d’enregistrement national,” “Aktenzeichen”
°(22) Date(s) of filing the application(s)
°(23) Other date(s), including date of filing complete
specification following provisional specification and date of exhibition
(24) Date from which industrial property rights may have
effect
(25) Language in which the published application was
originally filed
(26) Language in which the application is published
Notes:
(i) Attention is drawn to the Appendix 3 of WIPO Standard
ST. 9 which contains information on the term of protection and on the date
from which industrial property rights referred to under code (24) may have
effect.
(ii) The language under code (25) and (26) should be
indicated by using the two-letter language symbol according to International
Standard ISO 639:1988.
(30)
Data relating to priority under the Paris
Convention and other agreement not specifically provided for
elsewhere
°(31) Number(s) assigned to priority application(s)
°(32) Date(s) of filing of priority application(s)
°(33) WIPO Standard ST.3 code identifying the national
industrial property office allotting the priority application number or the
organization allotting the regional priority application number; for
international applications filed under the PCT, the code “WO” is to be
used
(34) For priority filings under regional or international
arrangements, the WIPO Standard ST.3 code identifying at least one country
party to the Paris Convention for which the regional or international
application was made
Notes
:
plication number or the
organization allotting the regional priority application number; for
international applications filed under the PCT, the code “WO” is to be
used
(34) For priority filings under regional or international
arrangements, the WIPO Standard ST.3 code identifying at least one country
party to the Paris Convention for which the regional or international
application was made
Notes
:
(i) With the proviso that when data coded (31), (32), and
(33) are presented together, category (30) can be used, if so desired. If an
ST.3 code identifying a country for which a regional or international
application was made is published, it should be identified as such using
INID Code (34) and should be presented separately from elements coded (31),
(32) and (33) or (30).
(ii) The presentation of priority application numbers
should be as recommended in WIPO Standards ST.10/C and in ST.34.
(40)
Date(s) of making available to the
public
°°(41) Date of making available to the public by viewing,
or copying on request, an unexamined patent document, on which no grant has
taken place on or before the said date
°°(42) Date of making available to the public by viewing,
or copying on request, an examined patent document, on which no grant has
taken place on or before the said date
°°(43) Date of making available to the public by printing
or similar process of an unexamined patent document, on which no grant has
taken place on or before the said date
°°(44) Date of making available to the public by printing
or similar process of an examined patent document, on which no grant or only
a provisional grant has taken place on or before the said date
°°(45) Date of making available to the public by printing
or similar process of a patent document on which grant has taken place on or
before the said date
ant has
taken place on or before the said date
°°(44) Date of making available to the public by printing
or similar process of an examined patent document, on which no grant or only
a provisional grant has taken place on or before the said date
°°(45) Date of making available to the public by printing
or similar process of a patent document on which grant has taken place on or
before the said date
(46) Date of making available to the public the claim(s)
only of a patent document
°°(47) Date of making available to the public by viewing,
or copying on request, a patent document on which grant has taken place on
or before the said date
°(48) Date of issuance of a corrected patent document
Note
:
°°Minimum data element for patent documents only, the
minimum data requirement being met by indicating the date of making
available to the public the patent document concerned.
(50)
Technical information
°(51) International Patent Classification or, in the case
of a design patent, as referred to in subparagraph 4(c) of WIPO Standard
ST.9, International Classification for Industrial Designs
(52) Domestic or national classification
°(54) Title of the invention
(56) List of prior art documents, if separate from
descriptive text
(57) Abstract or claim
(58) Field of search
Notes
:
(i) The presentation of the classification symbols of the
International Classification for Industrial Designs should be made in
accordance with paragraph 4 of WIPO Standard ST.10/C.
(ii) With regard to code (56) attention is drawn to WIPO
Standard ST.14 in connection with the citation of references on the front
page of patent documents and in search reports attached to patent
documents.
ch
Notes
:
(i) The presentation of the classification symbols of the
International Classification for Industrial Designs should be made in
accordance with paragraph 4 of WIPO Standard ST.10/C.
(ii) With regard to code (56) attention is drawn to WIPO
Standard ST.14 in connection with the citation of references on the front
page of patent documents and in search reports attached to patent
documents.
(60)
References to other legally or procedurally
related domestic or previously domestic patent documents including
unpublished applications therefor
°(61) Number and, if possible, filing date of the earlier
application, or number of the earlier publication, or number of earlier
granted patent, inventor's certificate, utility model or the like to which
the present document is an addition
°(62) Number and, if possible, filing date of the earlier
application from which the present patent document has been divided up
°(63) Number and filing date of the earlier application of
which the present patent document is a continuation
°(64) Number of the earlier publication which is
“reissued”
(65) Number of a previously published patent document
concerning the same application
(66) Number and filing date of the earlier application of
which the present patent document is a substitute, i.e., a later application
filed after the abandonment of an earlier application for the same
invention
(67) Number and filing date of a patent application, or
number of a granted patent, on which the present utility model application
or registration (or a similar industrial property right, such as a utility
certificate or utility innovation) is based
(68) For an SPC, number of the basic patent and/or, where
appropriate, the publication number of the patent document
Notes
:
on for the same
invention
(67) Number and filing date of a patent application, or
number of a granted patent, on which the present utility model application
or registration (or a similar industrial property right, such as a utility
certificate or utility innovation) is based
(68) For an SPC, number of the basic patent and/or, where
appropriate, the publication number of the patent document
Notes
:
(i) Priority data should be coded in category (30).
(ii) Code (65) is intended primarily for use by countries
in which the national laws require that republication occur at various
procedural stages under different publication numbers and these numbers
differ from the basic application numbers.
(iii) Category code (60) should be used by countries which
were previously part of another entity for identifying bibliographic data
elements relating to applications or grants of patents which data had
initially been announced by the industrial property office of that
entity.
(70)
Identification of parties concerned with
the patent or SPC
°°(71) Name(s) of applicant(s)
(72) Name(s) of inventor(s) if known to be such
°°(73) Name(s) of grantee(s), holder(s), assignee(s) or
owner(s)
(74) Name(s) of attorney(s) or agent(s)
°°(75) Name(s) of inventor(s) who is (are) also
applicant(s)
°°(76) Names(s) of inventor(s) who is (are) also
applicant(s) and grantee(s)
Notes
:
(i) °°For patent documents for which grant has taken place
on or before the date of making available to the public, and gazette entries
relating thereto, the minimum data requirement is met by indicating the
grantee, and for other documents by indication of the applicant.
(ii) (75) and (76) are intended primarily for use by
countries in which the national laws require that the inventor and applicant
be normally the same. In other cases (71) or (72) or (71), (72) and (73)
should generally be used.
(80)
Identification of data related to
International Conventions other than the Paris Convention and to
legislation
(90)
with respect to SPC’s
indication of the applicant.
(ii) (75) and (76) are intended primarily for use by
countries in which the national laws require that the inventor and applicant
be normally the same. In other cases (71) or (72) or (71), (72) and (73)
should generally be used.
(80)
Identification of data related to
International Conventions other than the Paris Convention and to
legislation
(90)
with respect to SPC’s
(81) Designated State(s) according to the PCT
(83) Information concerning the deposit of microorganisms,
e.g., under the Budapest Treaty
(84) Designated Contracting States under regional patent
conventions
(85) Date of commencement of the national phase pursuant to
PCT
Article 23(l)
or
40(l)
(86) Filing data of the PCT international application,
i.e., international filing date, international application number, and,
optionally, the language in which the published international application
was originally filed; or in the case of design patents, registration data of
the Hague Agreement international application, i.e., international
registration date and international registration number
(87) Publication data of the PCT international application,
i.e., international publication date, international publication number, and,
optionally, the language in which the application is published
(88) Date of deferred publication of the search report
(91) Date on which an international application filed under
the PCT no longer has an effect in one or several designated or elected
States due to failure to enter the national or regional phase or the date on
which it has been determined that it had failed to enter the national or
regional phase
(92) For an SPC, number and date of the first national
authorization to place the product on the market as a medicinal product or
plant protection product
(93) For an SPC, number, date and, where applicable,
country of origin, of the first authorization to place the product on the
market as a medicinal product or plant protection product within a regional
economic community
ional or
regional phase
(92) For an SPC, number and date of the first national
authorization to place the product on the market as a medicinal product or
plant protection product
(93) For an SPC, number, date and, where applicable,
country of origin, of the first authorization to place the product on the
market as a medicinal product or plant protection product within a regional
economic community
(94) Calculated date of expiry of the SPC or the duration
of the SPC
(95) Name of the product protected by the basic patent and
in respect of which the SPC or the extension of the SPC has been applied for
or granted
(96) Filing date of the regional application, i.e.,
application filing date, application number, and, optionally, the language
in which the published application was originally filed
(97) Publication data of the regional application (or of
the regional patent, if already granted), i.e., publication date,
publication number, and, optionally, the language in which the application
(or, where applicable, the patent) is published
(98) For an SPC, data concerning the
application for an extension of the duration, the revocation of an extension
of the duration and the correction of the duration
Notes
:
(i) The codes (86), (87), (96), and (97) are intended to be
used:
• on national documents when identifying one or more of the
relevant filing data or publication data of a PCT international application,
or of the regional application (or of the regional patent, if already
granted), or
• on regional documents when identifying one or more of the
relevant filing data or publication data of the PCT international
application or of another regional application (or the regional patent, if
already granted).
ng one or more of the
relevant filing data or publication data of a PCT international application,
or of the regional application (or of the regional patent, if already
granted), or
• on regional documents when identifying one or more of the
relevant filing data or publication data of the PCT international
application or of another regional application (or the regional patent, if
already granted).
(ii) All data in code (86), (87), (96), or (97) should be
presented together and preferably on a single line. The application number
or publication number should comprise the three basic elements as shown in
the example in paragraph 17 of WIPO Standard ST.10/B, i.e., the two letter
code identifying the republishing office, the document number, and the kind
of document code.
(iii) When data to be referenced by INID Codes (86) or (87)
refer to two or more regional and/or PCT applications, each set of relevant
filing or publication data of each such application should be displayed so
as to be clearly distinguishable from other sets of relevant data, e.g., by
presenting each set on a single line or by presenting the data of each set
grouped together on adjacent lines in a column with a blank line between
each set. When data to be referenced by codes (86), (87), (96), or (97)
refer to two or more PCT international applications and/or regional
applications (or regional patents, if already granted), each set of relevant
filing or publication data of each such application (or granted patent)
should be displayed so as to be clearly distinguishable from other sets of
relevant data, e.g., by presenting each set on a single line or by
presenting the data of each set grouped together on adjacent lines in a
column with a blank line between each set.
(iv) The languages under codes (86), (87), (96), and (97)
should be indicated by using the two-letter language symbols according to
International Standard ISO 639:1988.
to be clearly distinguishable from other sets of
relevant data, e.g., by presenting each set on a single line or by
presenting the data of each set grouped together on adjacent lines in a
column with a blank line between each set.
(iv) The languages under codes (86), (87), (96), and (97)
should be indicated by using the two-letter language symbols according to
International Standard ISO 639:1988.
(v) The country of origin in code (93), if mentioned,
should be indicated by using the two letter code according to WIPO Standard
ST.3.
(vi) The document “Terms of Protection”, which provided
information related to code (24), has been moved to the Archives.
II.
NUMBERS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ON THE FIRST PAGE OF
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (INID NUMBERS)
INID codes for industrial designs are similar to, but not
identical to, those used for patents and like documents. INID codes for industrial
designs may be of most interest to design patent examiners.
INID Codes and Minimum Required for the Identification of
Bibliographic Data for Industrial Designs (based on WIPO Standard
ST.80)
(10) Data concerning the registration/renewal
°(11) Serial number of the registration and/or number of
the design document
°°(12) Plain language designation of the kind of published
document
°(14) Serial number of the renewal where different from
initial registration number
°(15) Date of the registration/Date of the renewal
(17) Expected duration of the registration/renewal
(18) Expected expiration date of the
registration/renewal
°°(19) Identification, using the two-letter code according
to WIPO Standard ST.3, of the authority publishing or registering the
industrial design.
Note:
°°Minimum data element for design documents only
(20) Data concerning the application
°(21) Serial number of the application
°(22) Date of filing of the application
°(23) Name and place of exhibition, and date on which the
industrial design was first exhibited there (exhibition priority data)
(24) Date from which the industrial design right has
effect
ng or registering the
industrial design.
Note:
°°Minimum data element for design documents only
(20) Data concerning the application
°(21) Serial number of the application
°(22) Date of filing of the application
°(23) Name and place of exhibition, and date on which the
industrial design was first exhibited there (exhibition priority data)
(24) Date from which the industrial design right has
effect
(27) Kind of application or deposit (open/sealed)
(28) Number of industrial designs included in the
application
(29) Indication of the form in which the industrial design
is filed, e.g., as a reproduction of the industrial design or as a specimen
thereof
(30) Data relating to priority under the Paris
Convention
°(31) Serial number assigned to the priority
application
°(32) Date of filing of the priority application
(33) Two-letter code, according to WIPO Standard ST.3,
identifying the authority with which the priority application was made
Notes:
(i) With the proviso that when data coded (31), (32) and
(33) are presented together, category code (30) can be used, if so desired.
(ii) For international deposits made under the Hague
Agreement, the two-letter code “WO” is to be used.
(40) Date(s) of making information available to the
public
(43) Date of publication of the industrial design before
examination by printing or similar process, or making it available to the
public by any other means
(44) Date of publication of the industrial design after
examination, but before registration, by printing or similar process, or
making it available to the public by any other means
(45) Date of publication of the registered industrial
design by printing or similar process, or making it available to the public
by any other means
(46) Date of expiration of deferment
(50) Miscellaneous Information
°(51) International Classification for Industrial Designs
(class and subclass of the Locarno Classification)
(52) National classification
it available to the public by any other means
(45) Date of publication of the registered industrial
design by printing or similar process, or making it available to the public
by any other means
(46) Date of expiration of deferment
(50) Miscellaneous Information
°(51) International Classification for Industrial Designs
(class and subclass of the Locarno Classification)
(52) National classification
(53) Identification of the industrial design(s) comprised
in a multiple application or registration which is (are) affected by a
particular transaction when not all are so affected
°(54) Designation of article(s) or product(s) covered by
the industrial design or title of the industrial design
°°(55) Reproduction of the industrial design (e.g.,
drawing, photograph) and explanations relating to the reproduction
(56) List of prior art document, if separate from
descriptive text
(57) Description of characteristic features of the
industrial design including indication of colors
(58) Date of recording of any kind of amendment in the
Register (e.g., change in ownership, change in name or address, renunciation
to an international deposit, termination of protection)
Notes:
(i) Code (52) should be preceded by the two-letter code,
according to WIPO Standard ST.3, identifying the country whose national
classification is used (the two-letter code should be indicated within
parentheses).
(ii) °°Minimum data element for design documents only.
(60) References to other legally related application(s) and
registration(s)
(62) Serial number(s) and, if available, filing date(s) of
application(s), registration(s) or document(s) related by division
WIPO Standard ST.3, identifying the country whose national
classification is used (the two-letter code should be indicated within
parentheses).
(ii) °°Minimum data element for design documents only.
(60) References to other legally related application(s) and
registration(s)
(62) Serial number(s) and, if available, filing date(s) of
application(s), registration(s) or document(s) related by division
(66) Serial number(s) of the application, or the
registration, of the design(s) which is (are) a variant(s) of the present
one
Note:
Category code (60) should be used by countries which were
previously part of another entity for identifying bibliographic data
elements relating to applications or registrations of industrial designs,
which data had initially been announced by the industrial property office of
that entity.
(70) Identification of parties concerned with the
application or registration
°°(71) Name(s) and address(es) of the applicant(s)
(72) Name(s) of the creator(s) if known to be such
°°(73) Name(s) and address(es) of the owner(s)
(74) Name(s) and address(es) of the representative(s)
(78) Name(s) and address(es) of the new owner(s) in case of
change in ownership
Note:
°°If registration has taken place on or before the date of
making the industrial design available to the public, the minimum data
requirement is met by indicating the owner(s); in other cases, by indicating
the applicant(s).
(80) Identification of certain data related to the
international deposit of industrial designs under the Hague Agreement
Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs and data related
to other international conventions.
Information regarding designated Contracting
Parties/Contracting Parties concerned
(81) Contracted Partied Concerned
I Contracted Parties designated under the
1934 Act
II Contracted Parties designated under the
1960 Act
III Contracted Parties designated under the
1999 Act
(82) Statements contained in the international
application
ustrial Designs and data related
to other international conventions.
Information regarding designated Contracting
Parties/Contracting Parties concerned
(81) Contracted Partied Concerned
I Contracted Parties designated under the
1934 Act
II Contracted Parties designated under the
1960 Act
III Contracted Parties designated under the
1999 Act
(82) Statements contained in the international
application
(83) Indication as to whether there is a
possibility of review or appeal
(84) Designated Contracting State(s) under regional
convention.
Information regarding the owner(s)
(85) Habitual residence of the owner(s)
(86) Nationality of the owner(s)
(87) Domicile of the owner(s)
(88) State in which the owner(s) has (have) a real and
effective industrial or commercial establishment
(89) “Applicant’s Contracting Party”
Note:
The data to be referenced by INID codes (81) to (88) should
be indicated by using the two-letter code according to WIPO Standard
ST.3.

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