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No new amendments arrived, and I finished an Office Action on the amendment which was on my Expedited docket. I also wrote an Office Action on one of the three cases on my Amended docket, but I couldn’t post it for credit, since it was an Examiner’s Answer responding to an Appeal Brief. Instead, I posted it to my supervisor for consultation. If she signs it, and then a second supervisor signs it, I will be able to post it for credit, and then, at some future time, the Board of Appeals will decide how to rule on it. Meanwhile, I am still at three cases on my Amended docket, but down to zero on my Expedited docket.

I also finished a first action on my oldest Regular New application. This coming week, I hope to do a first action on another Regular New case. There’s just one week left in the third quarter.

Last Saturday, I did finish the first action on a Regular New case that I had been working on, and did so in time to post it for last biweek, so that was good.

Someone filed another amendment, bringing my Amended docket up to three cases. I’ve been working on the earliest files of the three, and hope to finish it today, and get it posted. We notoriously lazy government bureaucrats sometimes need to work unpaid overtime on weekends and holidays in order to meet our production quotas. I also got two cases on my Expedited docket this week, one of them being an After Final amendment, and the other a printer’s query pointing out errors in an Allowance of mine, leading me to churn out a Corrected Notice of Allowability. I did what was needed, and have cleared my Expedited docket.

I have two oldest Regular New cases, a truly new one, and a Request for Continued Examination case. I hope to do the RCE quickly, and then work on the entirely new application. I also have two interviews with patent attorneys scheduled for next week. Then there is a case on my Regular New docket that doesn’t belong there (not in my field), so I spent some time this past week communicating with people, and finding a home for it. I will now officially do a C star challenge to get it docketed to someone in a different Technology Center.

This week, I wrote and posted an Office Action on the one amendment that I had before; someone filed another amendment, so I’m back at one amendment on my Amended docket.

I’ve also been working on searching the prior art for my oldest Regular New application, but I haven’t actually started writing yet.

This week, I worked on an amendment, and finished an Office Action, so I’m down from four cases on my Amended docket to three. I am now working on my current oldest amendment.

I finished an Office Action on my oldest Regular New application.

This week, an After Final amendment showed up on my Expedited docket, so I dealt with that, and am now back to four amendments on my Amended docket, and nothing on my Expedited docket.

I also finished and posted an Office Action on the oldest (only) Request for Continued Examination case on my Regular New docket, and have done some work on the oldest non-RCE Regular New application.

Early last week, I finished an Office Action on my oldest amendment. Later in the week, a new amendment appeared, so I’m back to having four cases on my Amended docket.

I also worked on searching my oldest Regular New application, and began writing an Office Action, although I didn’t finish it. More work to be done this coming week.

This week, two amendments appeared on my Expedited docket. I have done an Office Action on one of them, so I am currently at four amendments, three on my Amended docket, and one on my Expedited docket.

I did some work searching and analyzing my oldest Regular New application, before putting it aside to deal with the Expedited cases. I also did some other work.

There is one week left before the end of the second quarter.

I called this weekly feature The Red Queen’s Race because I use to typically have a substantial number of amendments on my docket, and I was trying to keep the numbers down. It’s now starting to resemble the old days, since I received another amendment early this week, raising the total to five amendments on my Amended docket. I have been working on one of the older amendments, but I’m not finished yet. I hope to do some more searching, and post an Office Action this weekend.

I did finish an Office Action on my oldest Regular New application a couple of days ago, so that’s something accomplished.

This week, I finished and posted an Office Action on my Expedited case, so there’s nothing on my Expedited docket, and three amendments on my Amended docket.

I have also made some progress on my oldest Special New case, now my only Special New case.

This past week, two amendments appeared on my Amended docket, and are still there; I haven’t worked on them. I also got one After Final amendment on my Expedited docket, and I did work on that one, and finished an Office Action, so the case is no longer on my Expedited docket; I just have the two cases on my Amended docket.

I held an interview with an attorney, as he requested. Back on Saturday the 25th, I finished the Request for Continued Examination case on my Regular New docket, and posted that, so my production for last biweek looked good. This week, I worked on my oldest Special New case, and made progress, but without finishing the Office Action.

Here’s the political bonus: last week, I was teleworking on Friday, so when I didn’t finish an Office Action then, I worked on it Saturday, and finished it. This past week, I have been going in to the Patent Office in Carlyle every day, so my current case will probably not be finished Saturday. Instead of working in my own living room, I would need to make at least a forty minute commute each way to put in some more working time, so things won’t be done as fast, and I will be less productive. I suspect that the very stable genius and his friend Elon didn’t anticipate things like this.