The Red Queen’s Race
Feb. 16th, 2024 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenThere were no non-RCE amendments this week, so I’m still at zero amendments on my Amended docket, but two applicants filed Requests for Continued Examination, which went to my Regular New docket, so I had an oldest non-RCE Regular New, and an oldest RCE Regular New case this week.
I finished Office Actions on both of them. I also did a minor Office Action on yet another Regular New, that one being a written restriction requirement, which means that I told the applicant, “You have two inventions here, and searching both would be an unreasonable burden on the examiner, so choose which one you want examined this time.” Whichever the applicant doesn’t choose now, he can file a divisional application on.
I have also started searching for prior art relevant to yet another Regular New application, but haven’t gotten very far with it.
I finished Office Actions on both of them. I also did a minor Office Action on yet another Regular New, that one being a written restriction requirement, which means that I told the applicant, “You have two inventions here, and searching both would be an unreasonable burden on the examiner, so choose which one you want examined this time.” Whichever the applicant doesn’t choose now, he can file a divisional application on.
I have also started searching for prior art relevant to yet another Regular New application, but haven’t gotten very far with it.
