MPEP Section 1302.13, Signing

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1302.13 Signing [R-3]

The primary examiner and the assistant examiner involved in the allowance of an application will ** type their names on the Issue Classification sheet. The assistant examiner shall place his or her initials after his or her typed ** name. The primary examiner will place his or her signature in the appropriate box ** on the Issue Classification sheet so that the typed ** name can still be easily read. A primary examiner who prepares an application for issue types ** his or her name and signs the file wrapper only in the "Primary Examiner" box ** on the Issue Classification sheet. 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 Issue Classification Sheet will be listed in the printed patent.