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Covers what applicants and assignees must include for publication, how reissue and design patents differ, and what trade-mark notices accompany the Gazette. Explains examiner restrictions on testifying as patent experts and rules affecting former examiners’ registration or reinstatement after resignation. Describes records maintained in examining divisions and outlines the transition to periodic examiner performance reports.","(  \n(  \n# Chapter 1700 Miscellaneous\n\napplicant,and of the assignee,if any,the filingdate,and serial number of the application,thepatent number,the title of the invention,thenumber of patent claims,and the class and sub-class,one of the figures of the drawing(ifany),except in the case of a plant patent,and one ormore claims,of every patent in a week's issue.In the case of a reissue patent there are pub-lished the additional data of the serial numberand date of the original patent and original ap-plication;and in the case of the design patent,the term of the patent.Various trade-marknotices and publications are also included.  \n1701 Examiners May Not Testify as Patent Experts1702 Restrietions on Examiners Resigning From theOfice  \n1703 Official Gazette  \n1704 Records Kept in Examining Divisions  \n1705 Examiner's Work Report and Actions To BeCounted  \n1701 Examiners May Not Testify asPatent Experts  \nInasmuch as publc policy does not permit Exam-iners to decide,as judges in the Patent Offlce,ques-tions upon which they have been retained to giveopinions as expert witnesses in patent cases in thecourts,every Examiner who shall testify as an ex-pert in a patent case pending in any court will bedismissed,unless he shall have so testified involun-tarily,upon compulsion by competent judicial au-thority,and without retainer or preparation.(Notice of March 6,1880.)  \nThe above material forms the body of theGazette;but asthis is the officialjournalrelatingto patents and trade-marks,the first few pagesof the Gazette are devoted to other matters,suchas:notices to parties the Office has been unableto reach by mail,disclaimers,certain adversedecisions in interferences,a statement of thecondition of work in the Patent Office,changesin Rules,disbarment of attorneys,and selecteddecisions of the Board of Appeals,of the Com-missioner of Patents,and of the United StatesCourts,and all of the decisions in patent caseof the U.S.Court of Customs and Patent Ap-peals and of the U.S.Court of Appeals,for theDistrict of Columbia Circuit,together withsome trade-mark decisions,a list of adjudicatedpatents and notices of patent and trade-marksuits.These pages,in addition to appearing inthe bound volume of each number of the Ga-zette,are published in leaflet form for separatedistribution.One of these 0.G.leaflets isplaced on each Examiner's desk when the Of-ficial Gazette is published.  \n1702 Restrictions on Examiners Re-signing From the Office  \nEatract from Rule 841,Registration of Attorney andAgents.(g)Former ezaminers.No person who hasserved in the examining corps of the Patent Office willbe registered after termination of his services,nor,ifregistered before such service,be reinstated,unless heundertakes(1)not to prosecute or aid in any mannerin the prosecution of any application pending in anyexamining division in which he served,on the date heleft said division;and(2)not to prepare or prosecutenor to assist in any manner in the preparation or prose-cution of any applieation of another filed within twoyears after the date he left suchdivision,and assignedto such division,without the specifie authorization ofthe Commissioner,Associated and related classes inother divisions may be required to be included in theundertaking or designated classes may be excluded.Inease application for registration or reinstatement ismade after resignation from the Ofice,the applicantwill not be registered,or reinstated,if he has preparedor prosecuted,or assisted in the preparation or prosecu-tion of any such application as indicated in thisparagraph.  \n1704 Records Kept in ExaminingDivisions  \nThe principal records kept in the examiningdivisions are two sets of cards,Form PO-205which are arranged numerically and FormPO-206,of which those awaiting action arearranged by individual examiners.Each cardcontains data concerning the 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