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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/2/2025 12:48 PM, Suzannah K.
Sundby via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Facts:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>National Phase application was filed
with pages and pages of tables <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Application allowed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Got a Notice to Correct Application
Papers because font of Tables too small <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Increasing the font size makes the
total pages close to 900 pages, which requires 11 ADDITIONAL
units of application size fees from what was previously
paid.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I have the tables in ASCII format
(prepared for a CON).<span> </span> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Question: In response to the Notice,
can we amend the specification to delete the embedded tables
and provide in ASCII format (by amending the specification
to incorporate the ASCII tables)?</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I understand extra page fees are
calculated as 3 KB = 1
<span class="GramE">page</span>, which significantly
decreases the amount of fees to something like 2 additional
units of application size fees. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I called patent publications (waited
over an hour), they transferred me to \u201ccase resolution team\u201d
for post-allowance stuff, who simply said they don\u2019t know.<span>
</span>I thus called <span class="SpellE">OPLA</span> and
got no one and hence left a message hours ago.</span></p>
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<p>I wonder if MPEP § 1893.03(f) would be of any help? Here is what
I filed recently in one of my national-phase cases.<br>
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<p>Request that Notice to File Corrected Application Papers be
withdrawn<br>
The undersigned has now received a Notice to File Corrected
Application Papers dated May 28, 2025.<br>
It is signed by <redacted> in the Publication Branch.<br>
The Notice says "The figure label for FIG. 6 is not oriented in
the same direction as the figure." The<br>
Notice purports to require that the applicant respond with an
amendment to the drawings.<br>
The Publication Branch is requested to comply with MPEP §
1893.03(f) which says:<br>
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<p>The USPTO may not impose drawing requirements during the
examination of a national stage<br>
application beyond those imposed by the Patent Cooperation
Treaty ( e.g., PCT Rule 11).<br>
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The present application is a national phase application. It is
thus apparent that the Notice to File<br>
Corrected Application Papers was improper.<br>
So as to comply with MPEP § 1893.03(f), the Publication Branch is
requested to withdraw the Notice<br>
to File Corrected Application Papers.<br>
Respectfully submitted,<br>
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