Note: Even though examiners engaged in reclassifying are confident of their ability to classify and arrange on better principles than those that have been applied thus far in the classification, they ought, nevertheless, to follow those principles under which one-half of the patents have been classified. Until the Commissioner of Patents orders examiners to classify on other principles, it is expected they will follow those now established.
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