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stands allowed, compliance with any requirement or objection as
to form.
In making such final rejection, the examiner repeats or
states all grounds of rejection then considered applicable to
the claims in the application.
Interviews with examiners may be arranged, but an
interview does not remove the necessity for response to Office
actions within the required time, and the action of the Office
is based solely on the written record.
If two or more inventions are claimed in a single
application, and are regarded by the Office to be of such a
nature that a single patent should not be issued for both of
them, the applicant will be required to limit the application
to one of the inventions. The other invention may be made the
subject of a separate application which, if filed while the
first application is still pending, will be entitled to the
benefit of the filing date of the first application. A
requirement to restrict the application to one invention may be
made before further action by the examiner.
As a result of the examination by the Office, patents are
granted in the case of about two out of every three
applications for patents which are filed.
AMENDMENTS TO APPLICATION
Following are some details concerning amendments to the
application:
The applicant may amend before or after the first
examination and action as specified in the rules, or when and
as specifically required by the examiner.
After final rejection or action amendments may he made
canceling claims or complying with any requirement of form
which has been made but the admission of any such amendment or
its refusal, and any proceedings relative thereto, shall not
operate to relieve the application from its condition as
subject to appeal or to save it from abandonment.
If amendments touching the merits of the application are
presented after final rejection, or after appeal has been
taken, or when such amendment might not otherwise be proper,
they may be admitted upon a showing of good and sufficient
reasons why they are necessary and were not earlier presented.
No amendment can be made as a matter of right in appealed
cases. After decision on appeal, amendments can only be made as
provided in the rules.
The specifications, claims, and drawing must be amended
and revised when required, to correct inaccuracies of
description and definition of unnecessary words, and to secure
correspondence between the claims, the description, and the
drawing.
All amendments of the drawings or specifications, and all
additions thereto, must conform to at least one of them as it
was at the time of the filing of the application. Matter not
found in either, involving a departure from or an addition to
the original disclosure, cannot be added to the application
even though supported by a supplemental oath or declaration,
and can be shown or claimed only in a separate application.
The claims may be amended by canceling particular claims,
by presenting new claims, or by amending the language of
particular claims (such amended claims being in effect new
claims). In presenting new or amended claims, the applicant
must point out how they avoid any reference or ground rejection
of record which may be pertinent.
Erasures, additions, insertions, or alterations of the
papers and records must not be made by the applicant.
Amendments are made by filing a paper, directing or requesting
that specified changes or additions be made. The exact word or
words to be stricken out or inserted in the application must be
specified and the precise point indicated where the deletion or
insertion is to be made.
Amendments are "entered" by the Office by making the
proposed deletions by drawing a line in red ink through the
word or words canceled and by making the proposed substitutions
or insertions in red ink, small insertions being written in at
the designated place and larger insertions being indicated by
reference.
No change in the drawing may be made except by permission
of the Office. Changes in the construction shown in any drawing
may be made only by submitting new drawings. A sketch in
permanent ink showing proposed changes, to become part of the
record, must be filed for approval by the Office before the new
drawings are filed. The paper requesting amendments to the
drawing should be separate from other papers.
If the number or nature of the amendments render it
difficult to consider the case, or to arrange the papers' for
printing or copying, the examiner may require the entire
specification or claims, or any part thereof, to be rewritten.
The original numbering of the claims must be preserved
throughout the prosecution. When claims are canceled, the
remaining claims must not be renumbered. When claims are added
by amendment or substituted for canceled claims, They must be
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