MPEP Section 508.02, Papers Received After Patenting or Abandonment

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This document contains Section 508.02 ("Papers Received After Patenting or Abandonment") of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (the "M.P.E.P."), Eighth Edition, Eighth Revision (July 2010). This page was last updated in January 2011. You may return to the section index to find a particular section. Alternatively, you may search the MPEP using the search box that appears on the left side of every page of BitLaw--you may restrict your search to the MPEP on the search results page.

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508.02 Papers Received After Patenting or Abandonment [R-2]

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