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What is the statement that you must swear to when filing an IDS after the relevant deadline(s)?

8/5/2017

 
If you must accompany your IDS with a statement, then that statement must be one of the two statements listed in 37  CFR 1.97(e):
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(1) That each item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was first cited in any communication from a foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application not more than three months prior to the filing of the information disclosure statement; 

or

(2) That no item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was cited in a communication from a foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application, and, to the knowledge of the person signing the certification after making reasonable inquiry, no item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was known to any individual designated in § 1.56(c) more than three months prior to the filing of the information disclosure statement.

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