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This week, one allowed case appeared on my Expedited docket, because I had made minor errors in the Notice of Allowance, so I responded to that. Since then, I have been at zero cases on my Amended and Expedited dockets.

I finished a first action on my oldest Regular New application, and have been working on another Regular New.

This week, an amendment appeared on my Expedited docket, so I dropped the other stuff I was working on to consider it and write an Office Action. I also worked on the one amendment on my Amended docket; I left a couple of voicemail messages for the patent attorney, suggesting that we might be able to amend the claims further to make them allowable, but perhaps he had started a long Veterans’ Day weekend early, as I didn’t hear back from him. Maybe next week. For now, I have one amendment on my Amended docket.

I had a designated oldest Regular New case, but it was a continuation of an application which another examiner had worked on, and the other examiner agreed to accept it, so my supervisor transferred it to him. I have been working on another Regular New, but I haven’t finished with it.

I got another amendment this week, bringing the total on my Amended docket to three.

I haven’t worked on my amendments to any major extent, but I have been working on my oldest Regular New case. The abstract of a non-patent literature article looks interesting, and I’m waiting for STIC (that’s the Scientific and Technological Information Center) to get me the full article. I may work on an amendment or two while waiting for that.

I now have an amendment on my Amended docket, and haven’t done much with it yet.

During the half of this week that I was officially working, I finished and posted an Office Action on my oldest non-RCE Regular New application. I also have an oldest Request for Continued Examination Regular New case, and a Special New case; I have started work on the latter. After these, there may be time for amendments.

No new amendments appeared this week, and I wrote Office Actions on two of the three amendments that I had, so I’m down to one amendment on my Amended docket.

I have been working on my oldest Regular New application, and have made progress, but am not finished. Normally, I would have to finish and post it by the end of September 30, but, as some examiners were delayed by computer problems, the Patent Commissioner is giving us until the end of Monday. I will nonetheless try to finish my Office Action as soon as I reasonably can, so I can start working on my production for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2024. I do need to turn in the case I’m working on for my production for the second half of FY 2023 to be minimally adequate.

Oh, and I may be coming down with a cold. My throat was scratchy Friday afternoon, so I walked to a drugstore a few blocks from the Patent Office, and bought a supply of zinc gluconate lozenges, which may do me some good.

This week, I got two new amendments on my Amended docket, and didn’t get around to either of them.

I’ve been working on my oldest Regular New case, but am not finished with it yet.

This past week, I finished Office Actions on both of the amendments on my Amended docket, so I’m down to zero amendments.

On Saturday, I finished an Office Action on a Regular New case, and got that counted for last biweek. Then I found myself with two oldest Regular New cases, one of them a Request for Continued Examination. I finished and posted an Office Action on the RCE case, and I offered the other oldest Regular New to an examiner who had worked on a related case; he accepted, so it’s now off my docket. I have been working on a different Regular New application, but I haven’t finished it.

This week, I finished an Office Action on one of my amendments, and a new amendment showed up for another application, so I’m back to two amendments on my Amended docket.

I also finished and posted a first action on my oldest Regular New application. That first action took less time than first actions usually do, but the searching and other work for the amendment absorbed extra time.

This week, I received two new amendment on my Amended docket, and didn’t write any Office Actions on amendments, so I’m now up to four amendments. I am working on one of those cases.

I also finished an Office Action on my oldest Regular New application, so that’s something. Also, it has been just over six months since I did a first action rejection on one of my applications, and there doesn’t seem to be a response, so I hope to be able to confirm abandonment, which will boost my production for the final quarter of Fiscal Year 2023.

I heard back from a patent attorney about the case on my Expedited docket, and was able to finish an Office Action on that. I also got another amendment on my Amended docket, so I’m up to three there, and zero on my Expedited docket.

And I have been working on my oldest Regular New application.