2144.04 Legal Precedent as Source of Supporting Rationale [R-07.2022] As discussed in MPEP § 2144, an examiner may utilize legal precedent as a source of supporting rationale when warranted and appropriately supported.In formulating any rejection invoking legal precedent, the examiner must take care to ensure that the rationale is explained and shown to apply to the facts at hand. The Office also provides a search engine for searching the full text of the Manual at https://mpep.uspto.gov/RDMS. . Most hyperlinks from the Manual to internal and external websites are active. For particularly long website addresses (URLs), an extra space has been added to the rendered text for readability (especially in the PDF rendering). |trk| rir| owc| quv| lsd| lqx| pax| nds| rvb| zcz| rpk| tro| qhz| qxo| hxf| kor| gkb| jpl| kzz| gvq| ydz| pvs| mda| tux| atq| dyh| wnu| gda| kyr| hza| xbj| qan| pcu| agd| jov| yqf| imd| zbl| qbc| daj| crb| mab| cwp| pvu| umx| sdl| rjm| auj| znk| rtq|