The Red Queen's Race

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I still have the same four cases on my Amended docket as I did a week ago. However, one of those cases is actually an Appeal Brief; I met with my supervisor and another primary examiner (I'm a primary, I might mention, and have been since 2003) to hold a conference, and received approval to write an Examiner's Answer, so I did that. Once my supervisor and the other examiner sign off on it, it will be ready to be posted, which will remove it from my Amended docket, and send it on its way to the Board of Patent Appeals. I also took a look at anoer amendment, and hope to work on that soon.

I finished Office Actions on two Regular New cases this week; one of them was finished on Tuesday before three o'clock, so it was counted for the previous biweek, and the other was finished Thursday. I have been searching the prior art for a third Regular New.