Buy Avandia Without Prescription http://patents101.com/2009/01/what-is-the-examiners-motivation-part-1-2/ Patents101, Hyra IP's Patents Blog Wed, 16 May 2012 16:53:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Buy Avandia Without Prescription http://patents101.com/2009/01/what-is-the-examiners-motivation-part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Clifford D. Hyra Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:42:16 +0000 http://patents101.com/?p=58#comment-74 That is a good point. It can be difficult to tell whether an Examiner is deliberately doing something or is being forced to do it by a primary or supervisor. The production system is certainly not the only cause of poor examination. However, Examiners will often try to clue you in when they are having trouble with the higher-ups, telling you they have to take your proposed amendment to their primary/SPE or telling you what their primary/SPE had to say about something. I've even had examiners tell me straight out that their SPE told them they would never let them allow the case. Obviously, at that point an appeal is in order. Controlling the timing of your interviews and responses may be less useful under those circumstances, since the Examiner is not controlling the examination. However, other tactics like interviews and appeals are invaluable as they may let you get directly to the supervisor. That is a good point. It can be difficult to tell whether an Examiner is deliberately doing something or is being forced to do it by a primary or supervisor. The production system is certainly not the only cause of poor examination. However, Examiners will often try to clue you in when they are having trouble with the higher-ups, telling you they have to take your proposed amendment to their primary/SPE or telling you what their primary/SPE had to say about something.

I’ve even had examiners tell me straight out that their SPE told them they would never let them allow the case. Obviously, at that point an appeal is in order. Controlling the timing of your interviews and responses may be less useful under those circumstances, since the Examiner is not controlling the examination. However, other tactics like interviews and appeals are invaluable as they may let you get directly to the supervisor.

]]> Buy Avandia Without Prescription http://patents101.com/2009/01/what-is-the-examiners-motivation-part-1-2/comment-page-1/#comment-73 jay ryan Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:06:13 +0000 http://patents101.com/?p=58#comment-73 When I worked at the PTO years ago, it was not uncommon for an Examinator to be willing to allow a case but to made to persist in an obtuse rejection by a supervisor. Also, in addition to requiring production, all levels of PTO management would impose policies that made it difficult to allow cases (usually under the guise of "quality.") So it's not always the Examinator's decision when your client gets a boneheaded rejection. When I worked at the PTO years ago, it was not uncommon for an Examinator to be willing to allow a case but to made to persist in an obtuse rejection by a supervisor. Also, in addition to requiring production, all levels of PTO management would impose policies that made it difficult to allow cases (usually under the guise of “quality.”) So it’s not always the Examinator’s decision when your client gets a boneheaded rejection.

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