1302.13 Signing [R-3]
The primary examiner and the assistant examiner involved in the allowance of an application will type their names on the Issue Classification sheet. The assistant examiner shall place his or her initials after his or her typed name. The primary examiner will place his or her signature in the appropriate box on the Issue Classification sheet so that the typed name can still be easily read. A primary examiner who prepares an application for issue types his or her name and signs the file wrapper only in the "Primary Examiner" box on the Issue Classification sheet. A line should be drawn through the "Assistant Examiner" box to make it clear that the absence of a name in the box was not an oversight.
Only the names of the primary examiner and the assistant examiner appearing on the Issue Classification Sheet will be listed in the printed patent.