The complete Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) as clean, structured Markdown with internal cross-linking.
| Folder | Contents | Files |
|---|---|---|
mpep/ |
MPEP sections, front matter, form paragraphs, appendix stubs, indexes | ~790 |
35-usc/ |
Title 35 United States Code — Patent Laws (individual sections) | ~220 |
37-cfr/ |
Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations — Patent Rules (individual sections) | ~820 |
All internal links are portable relative Markdown links. Clone, drop into any Markdown-aware tool, and links just work.
# Clone the corpus
git clone https://github.com/patentutils/mpep-md.git
# Read a section
cat mpep-md/mpep/2143.md
# Look up a statute
cat mpep-md/35-usc/102.md
# Look up a rule
cat mpep-md/37-cfr/1-52.md
# Search across the corpus
grep -r "obviousness" mpep-md/mpep/An Obsidian-native version with [[wikilinks]] is available at patentutils/mpep-ob.
The MPEP is a work of the United States Government, in the public domain per 17 U.S.C. § 105. This repository's compilation is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. See PROVENANCE.md for details on what was done.