How are lengthy “Sequence Listings” published in patents and patent application publications?
Lengthy “Sequence Listings” (i.e., at least 600 Kb or about 300 typed pages) are no longer printed with paper and composed electronic image versions of patents and patent application publications. Instead, they are published only in electronic form and made available on the USPTO sequence homepage. As stated in the MPEP: The “Sequence Listing” will…
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The USPTO has specific procedures for handling lengthy tables in patent documents and publications: Tables on more than 200 consecutive pages or large numbers of tables submitted as ASCII plain text files or on read-only optical discs will not be printed as part of the patent document. These lengthy tables will be published separately on…
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