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    <CFRTITLE>37</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>1</VOL>
    <DATE>2007-07-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2007-07-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>Filing claim information.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>41.110</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 41.110</HEADING>
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      <PARENT HEADING="Title 37" SEQ="4">Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER I" SEQ="3">UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="2"/>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 41" SEQ="1">PRACTICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart D" SEQ="0">Contested Cases</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 41.110</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Filing claim information.</SUBJECT>
    <P>(a) <E T="03">Clean copy of claims.</E> Within 14 days of the initiation of the proceeding, each party must file a clean copy of its involved claims and, if a biotechnology material sequence is a limitation, a clean copy of the sequence.</P>
    <P>(b) <E T="03">Annotated copy of claims.</E> Within 28 days of the initiation of the proceeding, each party must:</P>
    <P>(1) For each involved claim having a limitation that is illustrated in a drawing or biotechnology material sequence, file an annotated copy of the claim indicating in bold face between braces ({}) where each limitation is shown in the drawing or sequence.</P>
    <P>(2) For each involved claim that contains a means-plus-function or step-plus-function limitation in the form permitted under 35 U.S.C. 112(6), file an annotated copy of the claim indicating in bold face between braces ({}) the specific portions of the specification that describe the structure, material, or acts corresponding to each claimed function.</P>
    <P>(c) Any motion to add or amend a claim must include:</P>
    <P>(1) A clean copy of the claim,</P>
    <P>(2) A claim chart showing where the disclosure of the patent or application provides written description of the subject matter of the claim, and</P>
    <P>(3) Where applicable, a copy of the claims annotated according to paragraph (b) of this section.</P>
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