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When the Office is notified of a typographical or transliteration error in the spelling of an inventor's name, or a petition is granted approving a correction or a change in the order of the names of the inventors, or inventors are added or deleted under 37 CFR 1.48, the change should be noted in red ink in the left margin of the original oath or declaration. The notation should read "See Paper No. ____ for inventorship changes." The application (other than 09/ series applications) should be sent to the Office of Initial Patent Examination (OIPE) for correction on the file wrapper label and the PALM database regarding the inventorship. A brief explanation on an "Application Division Data Base Routing Slip" (available from the Technology Center (TC) technical support staff) should accompany the application file to OIPE. For 09/ series applications, the examiner should have the TC's technical support staff enter the correction in the PALM database and print a new PALM bib-data sheet, which will then be placed in the file wrapper.
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