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Title 37 - PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTSChapter I - UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCESubchapter A - GENERALPart 1 - RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASESSubpart B - NATIONAL PROCESSING PROVISIONS
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Section 1.83 - Content of drawing

37 C.F.R. § 1.83

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Section 1.83 - Content of drawing
(a) The drawing in a nonprovisional application must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims. However, conventional features disclosed in the description and claims, where their detailed illustration is not essential for a proper understanding of the invention, should be illustrated in the drawing in the form of a graphical drawing symbol or a labeled representation (e.g., a labeled rectangular box). In addition, tables that are included in the specification and sequences that are included in sequence listings should not be duplicated in the drawings.
(b) When the invention consists of an improvement on an old machine the drawing must when possible exhibit, in one or more views, the improved portion itself, disconnected from the old structure, and also in another view, so much only of the old structure as will suffice to show the connection of the invention therewith.
(c) Where the drawings in a nonprovisional application do not comply with the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, the examiner shall require such additional illustration within a time period of not less than two months from the date of the sending of a notice thereof. Such corrections are subject to the requirements of § 1.81(d) .

37 C.F.R. §1.83

31 FR 12923, Oct. 4, 1966, as amended at 43 FR 4015, Jan. 31, 1978; 60 FR 20226, Apr. 25, 1995; 69 FR 56541, Sept. 21, 2004; 78 FR 62405, Oct. 21, 2013

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