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<font face="Times New Roman">Responding to "</font><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E2841;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Another
trap for the unwary is that the auxiliary pdf file must be
uploaded in a special spot in Patent Center and not in the same
place where you upload all of the other files and the document
description must be “Auxiliary PDF of application,” and the
corresponding document code is AUX.PDF."<br>
The "special spot," and when it appears in the filing process, is
shown graphically by slide 28 in <br>
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<a
href="https://www.neifeld.com/pubs/Avoiding%20Failed%20Patent%20Application%20Filings,%202023%20Slides.pdf">"Avoiding
Failed Patent Application Filings, 2023 Slides, Presented at the
NAPP annual meeting July 19, 2023" Rick Neifeld, July 19, 2023.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/23/2024 12:32 PM, Masson, Roger M.
via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:0f06cc2b35114231bad563f05400d6f7@hinshawlaw.com">Another
trap for the unwary is that the auxiliary pdf file must be
uploaded in a special spot in Patent Center and not in the same
place where you upload all of the other files and the document
description must be “Auxiliary PDF of application,” and the
corresponding document code is AUX.PDF.</blockquote>
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