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The primary examiner and the assistant examiner involved in the allowance of an application will print or stamp their names on the file wrapper in the appropriate boxes. The assistant examiner shall place his or her initials after his or her printed or stamped name. The primary examiner will place his or her signature in the appropriate box on the file wrapper so that the stamped or printed name can still be easily read. A primary examiner who prepares an application for issue prints or stamp his or her name and signs the file wrapper only in the "Primary Examiner" box. A line should be drawn through the "Assistant Examiner" box to make it clear that the absence of a name in the box was not an oversight.
Only the names of the primary examiner and the assistant examiner appearing on the face of the application file wrapper will be listed in the printed patent.
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