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Section 1.4(d)(2) is amended to provide that the presentation to the Office (whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating) of any paper by a party, whether a practitioner or non-practitioner, constitutes a certification under ß 10.18(b), an
This permits the elimination of the verification requirement in 37 C.F.R. 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.27, 1.28, 1.48, 1.52, 1.55, 1.102, 1.125, 1.137, 1.377, 1.378. The absence of a required verification has been a source of delay in the prosecution of applications
Section 1.4(d)(1)(ii) is also amended to include the phrase "direct or indirect copy" to clarify that the copy of the document(s) constituting the correspondence submitted to the Office may be a copy of a copy (of any generation) of the original document(
These requirements are based on the philosophy that applicants are telling the truth, rather than that applicants are pressured to not tell the truth.
