37 C.F.R. § 1.132 : Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights — UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE — GENERAL — RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES — NATIONAL PROCESSING PROVISIONS —AFFIDAVITS OVERCOMING REJECTIONS — Affidavits or declarations traversing rejections or objections

When any claim of an application or a patent under reexamination is rejected or objected to, any evidence submitted to traverse the rejection or objection on a basis not otherwise provided for must be by way of an oath or declaration under this section.

37 C.F.R. §1.132

65 FR 57057, 9/20/2000