This section covers disclaimers. A disclaimer is a statement filed by an owner (in part or in entirety) of a patent or of a patent to be granted (i.e., an application), in which said owner relinquishes certain legal rights to the patent. There are two types of disclaimers: a statutory disclaimer and a terminal disclaimer. This section provides coverage of both types of disclaimers as well as signing and supporting a disclaimer, processing in a Certificate of correction branch, withdrawing a recorded terminal disclaimer and other matters directed to terminal disclaimers.

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