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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Trademark Examiner at the USPTO.  I’ve been here 27 years.

I can answer these questions.  There is considerable training and ramp up time. After the class portion of the training you have a mentor that reviews all your work before you can send it out.  They will tell if stuff is missing, if your search isn’t thorough, etc.  You are under a mentor for at least a year if not more.

I WAH and have been at home since 2004.  My W-L balance is amazing.  I work 40 hours a week but if I have to take the dog to the vet or need to go to my son’s school for something, I do it and make up the time later.  As long as my numbers stay up and my quality is good, I have that freedom.

We are unionized m, so we have more protections than other attorney feds. The work can get monotonous but so can many other jobs.  You always know what is expected of you.  There are plenty of opportunities to move up and to other places within Trademarks.

We are fee funded so when Congress shuts down the government, we carry on as usual and get paid as usual.

I worked a bit harder this year due to the added incentives they gave us to hit some goals and earned about 23K extra this year.

Personally, I think it is a pretty good place to work.

I’ll come back on to answer more questions if you have them.[/quote]

This sounds pretty amazing. Was there a new production plan sometime in last decade that made the job more challenging? Is it easy to get "errors"? Do most people make outstanding? Or do some people struggle to make the competent or whatever the term is for just getting by?[/quote]

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