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No amendments this week, so I finished a first Office Action on a case from my Regular New docket, and then started another Regular New case.

I’ve done two Office Actions during the first biweek of the second quarter. Things could be worse, but I still need to get production up for the quarter. Fortunately — maybe — there is a case which I rejected a little more than six months ago, with no response showing up. If no amendment appears, I’ll call the attorney in a week or so, hoping to confirm that it’s been allowed to go abandoned. An abandonment will help me look more productive.

This evening, I finished and posted an Office Action on the only amendment on my Amended docket, so I’m down to zero amendments.

I finished and posted Office Actions on both my oldest Regular New application, and another Regular New case. My production for the quarter could be better, but it was at least at an adequate level, and I will be permitted to remain a civil service drudge for another three months. I plan to eat a late dinner, and celebrate the tolerably successful conclusion of the quarter with a small post-prandial glass of port.

I began with two amendments on my Amended docket, and today I finished Office Actions on both of them, so, for the moment, I have caught up with the Red Queen, and have zero amendments.

Earlier this week, I finished an Office Action on my oldest Regular New application, so I’m doing tolerably well for now. There is one more biweek left in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2025, so I will have to work hard to make sure that my production for the whole quarter is good enough.

I did not get any amendments this week, and I have been working on the one amendment which I have on my Amended docket, but for now it’s still there.

I have finished a first Office Action on one of my Regular New applications, so my production for the past biweek actually looks pretty good. Now I have to do well during the remaining two biweeks of the first quarter.

I acquired a second amendment on my Amended docket this week, and, although I participated in an Appeal conference on the older of the two amendments, I did not actually write an Examiner’s Answer or other response, so I’m still at two amendments. I also got two cases on my Expedited docket this week; one was an information disclosure statement in an allowed application, listing one more document which the applicant wanted me to consider, and the other was an amendment, which showed up on my Expedited docket instead of my Amended docket because the case had been made special. I dealt with both of these, and so my Expedited docket is down to zero.

I have also worked on my oldest Regular New (non-RCE) application. I’m not finished, but I hope to get out an Office Action before midnight Saturday, making my production for the biweek look relatively good.

This week, someone filed an After Final amendment on a case; this showed up in my Expedited docket, so I dealt with it, and now my Expedited docket is back down to zero cases. Two ordinary amendments appeared on my Amended docket, so now I’m up to three amendments there.

I have been working on my oldest Regular New case, which involves considering hundreds of prior art patents and other documents on multiple Information Disclosure Statements, so that’s been keeping me busy.

Also, an application that I did a first action rejection on last spring is now a little past its six month date. I’ll let it wait a bit longer, but I hope to confirm abandonment, and get credit for that.

I managed adequate, although not excellent, production for the fourth quarter, and therefore for the whole Fiscal Year, and then I went out to Thai Square for dinner to celebrate. I ate tofu with bean sprouts (and a little other vegetable matter), and then sticky rice with black beans for dessert.

I went in to the Patent Office complex in Carlyle on Tuesday, put in a day’s work, and then came home and ate dinner. I decided to celebrate having a job for a while longer by opening my bottle of Grand Marnier (which I bought several years ago, and is still more than half full), and poured myself a drink. The splash which I had poured into a wineglass was more than I wanted, so after a few sips, I put the glass into the refrigerator for tomorrow evening. Brandy should not be drunk like wine, still less like lemonade, and I don’t have a high tolerance for alcohol.

I might manage a level of production to be proud of, not just scrape by as adequate, but the past few years, higher-ups have demanded that examiners jump through more hoops to do Office Actions, without getting more time to do them.

This week, one amendment appeared on my Expedited docket; the applicant just wanted to correct one misspelling in a set of patent claims that I had allowed, so I approved that. There is nothing on my Amended docket.

This week, I also finished an Office Action on a Regular New case, and I finished and posted an Office Action on a case that had showed up on my Special New docket. I had in fact done most of the work earlier, but the case had not been in a status enabling me to post it; now that’s taken care of.

There are ten days left in the Fiscal Year, and I am going to have to be productive, probably by finishing an Office Action on the Regular New case which I am now working on, and then doing the same with another Regular New. Wish me luck.

No amendment showed up this week, so I’m still at zero.

I’ve made progress on a Regular New case, but I’m not finished. The case is rather a mess.

This week, I did not receive any amendments, so I still have zero on my Amended docket. Someone has filed an amendment in response to a first action rejection which I wrote a few months ago, but so far it hasn’t been processed, and the case is still in my Rejections docket.

I finished an Office Action on one of my Regular New cases, and I have been working on another one. Also, I did something called a C star challenge, in order to adjust the way one of my Regular New cases is classified.