Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP

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700 Examination of Applications

705.01 Instructions re Patentability Reports

When an application comes up for any action and the primary examiners involved (i.e., from both the requesting and the requested Technology Center (TC)) agree that a Patentability Report is necessary, and if the TC Director of the requesting TC approves, the application is forwarded to the proper TC with a memorandum attached, for instance, "For Patentability Report from TC -- as to claims --." For Image File Wrapper (IFW) processing, see IFW Manual.

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