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8.35Provisional Rejection, Nonstatutory Double Patenting - No Secondary Reference(s)

Claim [1] provisionally rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claim [2] of copending Application No. [3] (reference application). Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because [4] . This is a provisional nonstatutory double patenting rejection because the patentably indistinct claims have not in fact been patented.

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