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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Email from POPA says examiners are safe to continue work from home. [/quote]
But supervisors are screwed?[/quote]

Supervisors and anyone non-bargaining, like OGC, OCFO, etc.

Yes, we're screwed.

And we take zero appropriated funds. So you're saving exactly nothing by doing this and if/when people leave.[/quote]

+1 Most Americans don't know that USPTO is fully funded by fees for patents and trademarks. No tax dollars, at all.

This is going to have a disastrous impact on American IP even if it's non-bargaining employees required to RTO. It's hard enough to recruit talent leaders in any position. Think about IT and cybersecurity positions.[/quote]

Pretty sure Leon plans to RIF most feds anyway and replace them with AI. PTO examiners who stare at computers all day reviewing seem like a prime target for AI replacement. [/quote]

That would be a hell of an AI system[/quote]

I wonder what sort of nonsense an AI examiner would hallucinate?  As a patent practitioner, at least I might find it amusing appealing something like that.[/quote]

It would certainly make for interesting work for us on the ex parte appeals.

A reasonable case could be made that we should move to a system where you have to request examination, and that you would have to do so before bringing suit under the patent.  That would me that only commercially important patents would be examined, and would hopefully result in more thorough examinations, as the Examiners would have (much) more time to search and examine each case on their docket.  But that - in a normal world at least - would require legislative change.
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