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1004 Actions Which Require the Attention of a Primary Examiner - 1000 Matters Decided by Various U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Officials
1004 Actions Which Require the Attention of a Primary Examiner
There are some questions which existing practice requires the primary examiner to be personally responsible for. The following actions fall in this category:
Final rejection ( MPEP § 706.07).
Proposing an interference ( MPEP § 2309).
Disposition of an amendment in an application in interference looking to the formation of another interference involving that application ( MPEP § 2364.01).
Calling Administrative Patent Judge's attention to a discovered reference which makes a claim corresponding to a count unpatentable ( 37 CFR 1.641, MPEP § 2341).
Rejection of a previously allowed claim ( MPEP § 706.04).
Classification of allowed cases ( MPEP § 903.07).
Holding of abandonment for insufficient reply ( MPEP § 711.03(a)).
Suspension of examiner's action ( MPEP § 709).
Treatment of newly filed application which obviously fails to comply with 35 U.S.C. 112 ( MPEP § 702.01).
Consideration of the advisability of a patentability report ( MPEP § 705.01(a)).
Withdrawal of final rejection ( MPEP § 706.07(d) and § 706.07(e)).
All examiner's answers on appeal ( MPEP § 1208).
Decision on reissue oath or declaration ( MPEP § 1414).
Decision on affidavits or declarations under 37 CFR 1.131 ( MPEP § 715.08) and under 37 CFR 1.132 ( MPEP § 716).
Decision as to acceptance of amendments, statements, and oaths or declarations filed under 37 CFR 1.48 ( MPEP § 201.03).
International Preliminary Examination Reports ( MPEP § 1879).
For a list of actions that are to be submitted to the Technology Center Directors, see MPEP § 1002.02(c) and § 1003.
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