Before you sign your application it is important to check all the documents making up the application one more time.

Online Filing's built-in validation mechanism checks whether all the mandatory information has been included, but it does not check
whether or not the content of the documents is correct.

Online Filing offers a number of different options for signing your application. The most frequently used options are:

• the smart card
• the alphabetical signature (name between two slashes).

The same rules apply as in "the paper world". In other words, professional representatives and applicants are entitled to sign,
but administrative employees are not.

As with conventional forms, one or more attorneys may sign. If both alphabetical and smart card signatures are used within one office,
the following applies:

All signatories - with the exclusion of the last person to sign - should sign using their alphabetical signature. Only the last person to sign
should sign using their smart card.

Once the application has been signed, it is bundled and "sealed" for non-repudiation. That means that no further changes can be made
without it having to be signed again.

In the following scenario we will show you an application being signed for non-repudiation by an attorney.

More details about this and other modes of signing can be found in the Online Filing User Guide.