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practitioners have noticed that there has been a clerk in the
Issue Branch who tirelessly marks up IDSs as shown below. The
clerk\u2019s initials are TDR.</p>
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USPTO has now burden-shifted this markup task to applicants, and
wrongly so. See <a
href="https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-shifts-another-burden-to-applicants-ids-citations/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.oppedahl.com/uspto-shifts-another-burden-to-applicants-ids-citations/</a>.<br>
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