June, 2010

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Exercise Extra Care With NonPublication Requests

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In a post back in June , I discussed how many filing errors/omissions in new, electronically filed applications may be corrected by a follow up submission on the same day. Not every omission may be corrected this way, however. Since my June post on the correction of filings, I have received several emails inquiring about the exceptions – examples of filing errors/omissions that are not correctable by a follow up submission.

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What To Do If You Omit A Document Or File The Wrong Document In A New, Electronically Filed Application

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Many filing errors (e.g., the failure to file all of a document, the failure to pay a fee, or the unintended filing of an unrelated document) are correctable without penalty by a corrective electronic submission, if it is filed the very same day. This post discusses a few of the filing errors correctable in this way. In my last post , I discussed one advantage of electronic filing – the 25% application size discount.

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