---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 41.7"
title: "37"
number: "41.7"
heading: "Management of the record."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/41.7"
---

# §41.7. Management of the record.

- (a) The Board may expunge any paper directed to a Board proceeding, or filed while an application or patent is under the jurisdiction of the Board, that is not authorized under this part or in a Board order, or that is filed contrary to a Board order.
- (b) A party may not file a paper previously filed in the same Board proceeding, not even as an exhibit or appendix, without Board authorization or as required by rule.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), 3(a)(2)(A), 21, 23, 32, 41, 134, 135, and Public Law 112-29.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 50003, Aug. 12, 2004, unless otherwise noted.