MPEP Section 603.01, Supplemental Oath or Declaration Filed After Allowance

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603.01 Supplemental Oath or Declaration Filed After Allowance [R-7]

Since the decision in Cutter Co. v. Metropolitan Electric Mfg. Co., 275 F. 158 (2d Cir. 1921), many supplemental oaths and declarations covering the claims in the application have been filed after the applications were allowed. Such oaths and declarations may be filed as a matter of right and when received they will be placed in the file by the Office of **>Data Management<, but their receipt will not be acknowledged to the party filing them. They should not be filed or considered as amendments under 37 CFR 1.312, since they make no change in the wording of the papers on file. See MPEP § 714.16.