Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - MPEP

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1300 Allowance and Issue

1300 Allowance and Issue
-    1301 Substantially Allowable Application, Special
-    1302 Final Review and Preparation for Issue
-    -    1302.01 General Review of Disclosure
-    -    1302.02 Requirement for a Rewritten Specification
-    -    1302.03 Notice of Allowability
-    -    1302.04 Examiner's Amendments and Changes
-    -    -    1302.04(a) Title of Invention
-    -    -    1302.04(b) Cancellation of Nonstatutory Claim
-    -    -    1302.04(c) Cancellation of Claims to Nonelected Invention
-    -    -    1302.04(d) Cancellation of Claim Lost in Interference
-    -    -    1302.04(e) Cancellation of Rejected Claims Following Appeal
-    -    -    1302.04(g) Identification of Claims
-    -    -    1302.04(h) Rejoinder of Claims
-    -    1302.05 Correction of Drawing
-    -    -    1302.05(a) Original Drawings Cannot Be Located
-    -    1302.06 Prior Foreign Application
-    -    1302.07 Use of Retention Labels to Preserve Abandoned Companion Applications
-    -    1302.08 Interference Search
-    -    1302.09 Classification, Print Figure, and Other Notations
-    -    1302.10 Issue Classification Notations
-    -    1302.11 Reference to Assignment Division
-    -    1302.12 Listing of References
-    -    1302.13 Signing
-    -    1302.14 Reasons for Allowance
-    1303 Notice of Allowance
-    -    1303.01 Amendment Received After Allowance
-    -    1303.02 Undelivered
-    -    1303.03 Not Withheld Due to Death of Inventor
-    1304 Amendments After D-10 Notice
-    -    1304.01 Withholding From Issue of "Secrecy Order" Applications
-    1305 Jurisdiction
-    1306 Issue Fee
-    -    1306.01 Deferring Issuance of a Patent
-    -    1306.02 Simultaneous Issuance of Patents
-    -    1306.03 Practice After Payment of Issue Fee ; Receipt of Issue Notification
-    1307 Change in Classification of Cases Which Are in Issue
-    1308 Withdrawal From Issue
-    -    1308.01 Rejection After Allowance
-    -    1308.02 For Interference Purposes
-    -    1308.03 Quality Review Program for Examined Patent Applications
-    1309 Issue of Patent
-    -    1309.02 "Query/Printer Waiting" Cases

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