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MPEP 504
Assignment of Application for Examination

Ninth Edition of the MPEP, Revision 07.2022, Last Revised in February 2023

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504    Assignment of Application for Examination [R-07.2022]

The Patents Service for Time and Application Routing (PSTAR) program assigns each nonprovisional application to an examiner. Provisional applications will not be examined.