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When the printer finds an apparent error in an application, the file is returned to the Office with an attached "Query/Printer Waiting" slip noting the supposed error.
The Publishing Division forwards such "query/printer waiting" applications to the Technology Center (TC) Director's secretary. The secretary acts as a control center in each TC and forwards the applications to the examiner by the appropriate route. The application should be taken up and acted on immediately and returned to the TC Director's secretary within 72 hours (excluding weekends and holidays). Either necessary corrective action should be taken or an indication should be made that the application is considered to be correct as it stands.
If the examiner concurs in the criticisms, the errors should, if possible, be corrected in clean red ink and initialed or be corrected by examiner's amendment. See MPEP § 1302.04.
Delays in making corrections may sometimes be avoided if the applicant or his or her representative is telephoned immediately, and the error is corrected by amendment under 37 CFR 1.312, where appropriate.
The applications are picked up from the secretary's office by the messenger and returned to the Publishing Division for forwarding to the printer.
THESE APPLICATIONS SHOULD NOT BE MAILED TO THE PUBLISHING DIVISION.
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