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No. 24
RIDERS TO APPLICATIONS
The following outline of procedures should be followed when an application with a rider attachment is received for registration and the application is otherwise acceptable.
I.
Riders in General.
A.
What are Riders. Riders are extra slips or pages submitted by applicants containing information which continues or supplements the information included in their applications. Most commonly riders list additional authors whose names do not appear in the authorship line, or they contain statements of new matter that are too detailed or elaborate to be included in the new matter line on the application.
B.
Policy. An application accompanied by a rider will not be passed for registration.
II.
When to Annotate for a Rider.
A.
When the information on the rider is of a quantity that can be transferred to the application in a neat, legible manner, we will annotate.
B.
When the information on the rider is too voluminous to be accommodated on the application, but can be abbreviated in the applicant's language and without any appreciable loss of meaning or content, we may annotate.
C.
When transfer or abbreviation of the information is not feasible, we will request a new application. The following are examples of how typical cases should be handled when the rider is such that it cannot be transferred or abbreviated and we are writing for a new application:
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