The Red Queen’s Race
Dec. 7th, 2018 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenI got one amendment this week, and I didn’t work on any, so I now have seven amendments, all on my Amended docket.
I’ve been working on on my one Special New case; I’m not finished, but I hope to be before Monday at 3:00
PM. This, by the way, is my first ever 16 series case. As an explanation, the Patent Office assigns applications eight digit numbers, and when I was first hired, I was put to work on 08 series cases, like 08/567,123, to make up a number. Later, we moved on to 09 series cases; the first case to be published as a patent with my name as primary examiner (not assistant examiner) was application 09/152,837, published as U.S. Patent 6,594,634. Regular New cases for me to work on are now 15 series applications, although I still have 14 series and earlier cases as amendments.
But this Special New is my first 16 series case; the inventor paid a fee and submitted a petition to get it worked on earlier than it would be normally.
I’ve been working on on my one Special New case; I’m not finished, but I hope to be before Monday at 3:00
PM. This, by the way, is my first ever 16 series case. As an explanation, the Patent Office assigns applications eight digit numbers, and when I was first hired, I was put to work on 08 series cases, like 08/567,123, to make up a number. Later, we moved on to 09 series cases; the first case to be published as a patent with my name as primary examiner (not assistant examiner) was application 09/152,837, published as U.S. Patent 6,594,634. Regular New cases for me to work on are now 15 series applications, although I still have 14 series and earlier cases as amendments.
But this Special New is my first 16 series case; the inventor paid a fee and submitted a petition to get it worked on earlier than it would be normally.
