The Red Queen’s Race
Oct. 31st, 2025 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenAn amendment has appeared on my Amended docket; I have not yet worked on it.
I finished an Office Action on my oldest Regular New case (not a Request for Continued Examination case) earlier this week. I have been working on a Request for Continued Examination case that is on my Regular New docket, and have made progress, but have not finished writing the Office Action.
I also confirmed abandonment of a case on my Rejected docket, which I rejected more than six months ago.
I have applied to work part-time, which means that I will not have to churn out as many Office Actions, and I will be paid less. Keeping up with the Red Queen has been difficult enough; the people appointed by the current administration have announced changes that will make it harder, in an effort to squeeze more production out of examiner, and reduce the backlog of unexamined cases. These are not illegitimate goals, but it remains to be seen whether they can be attained, or if making it harder for examiners will result in more of them quitting, taking retirement earlier than they had planned, or being fired. Compared with some people in this country, I don’t have much to complain of personally, but I have expressed unfavorable opinions of Dishonest Donald and his crew of myrmidons on other grounds, and now I am not happy with what they are doing at the Patent Office.
I finished an Office Action on my oldest Regular New case (not a Request for Continued Examination case) earlier this week. I have been working on a Request for Continued Examination case that is on my Regular New docket, and have made progress, but have not finished writing the Office Action.
I also confirmed abandonment of a case on my Rejected docket, which I rejected more than six months ago.
I have applied to work part-time, which means that I will not have to churn out as many Office Actions, and I will be paid less. Keeping up with the Red Queen has been difficult enough; the people appointed by the current administration have announced changes that will make it harder, in an effort to squeeze more production out of examiner, and reduce the backlog of unexamined cases. These are not illegitimate goals, but it remains to be seen whether they can be attained, or if making it harder for examiners will result in more of them quitting, taking retirement earlier than they had planned, or being fired. Compared with some people in this country, I don’t have much to complain of personally, but I have expressed unfavorable opinions of Dishonest Donald and his crew of myrmidons on other grounds, and now I am not happy with what they are doing at the Patent Office.
