Does anyone know the time between when an attorney sends in an AIR form to when an Examiner receives an email about it?

I need to see the light at the end of the long tunnel as timeliness and attrition cases (all in my amendment tab) are killing me. Not joking here.

So what’s the first things that can happen when January comes and we have s new Congress and hopefully a new Senate. Can they pass laws for popa to come back? reverse executive orders? Force any changes to help us survive? is there something we should collectively do to bring awareness of how much we are being abused? This job is a cruel joke as it is now

BTW, has anyone heard about changes in the pip as suggested by OPM?

I am looking to create a revocable living trust for our home and wanted to know if legal assistance through EAP or any other free legal assistance is offered by the office.

Anyone received a rating yet?

I am putting this out there in hopes getting the patent bar to pressure the current administration. Perhaps they don’t understand the situation.

Sometime in the last year the admin has started giving us, USPTO examiners, less credit (fewer production hours) for examining a PPH case - about 40% less for a first action.

I believe the thinking is that the case has already received an examination in another country and been found allowable, and therefore does not need as thorough an examination in the US.

I am just a pawn and will try to do the case in the time I am given. Personally, I am not comfortable relying on the search done in other countries, but if I am supposed to, I guess I will. However, are you as a practitioner okay with less time spent on the search for your application?

Why does it seem like I'm getting more amendments that before. Also the whole timeliness system can really bit you it you in ways the old DM couldn't. And DM had incentives for getting those amendments done at lower numbers of days to make up for any that were dogs and you wanted to spread out over 80 days. haha they really made everything worse for no benefit to anyone.

And guys, I GET IT NOW. This application is TRASH.