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USPTO MPEP › Chapter 0500 - Receipt and Handling of Mail and Papers › MPEP § 504

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The Patents Service for Time and Application Routing (PSTAR) program

assigns each nonprovisional application to an examiner. Provisional applications will not

be examined.

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