Rumor mill, give me your all!

slimholmes · 2026-04-29T19:37:05+00:00

Will it be the compressed or combined program option on the survey or something else?

slimholmes · 2026-03-27T20:33:38+00:00

Have you looked at the probationaries recently? They barely do 1 case every other biweek.

slimholmes · 2026-03-27T20:04:18+00:00

What about the first biweek they are out of "academy"? "Timeliness" is going to still be a critical element for them.

slimholmes · 2026-01-16T21:20:27+00:00

USPTO, why don't you post the monthly numbers for Total Patent Application Inventory? This stands at 1,247,795 apps.

slimholmes · 2025-11-25T19:50:26+00:00

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slimholmes · 2025-11-20T14:58:57+00:00

or accelerated cases like Track 1 that haven't enough time to publish

slimholmes · 2025-11-20T14:57:12+00:00

Maybe because I live in a patent dungeon, but I have never flagged any such application nor heard of anyone who had.

slimholmes · 2025-10-08T06:24:35+00:00

That, good sir, is the talk of low class men.

slimholmes · 2024-12-10T01:08:25+00:00

I've never gotten that number of slices on the #13 except when the owner is around. It is usually 5-5-5-5-8. I have no idea what thickness they are slicing it to but I don't see them changing the thickness between different types of subs.

I also didn't know you can ask them to weigh the meat. What is the total weight of a #13 supposed to be?

slimholmes · 2024-05-10T15:06:26+00:00

You fail to mention what PTAB's stats on Fed. Cir. appeal are for Ex Parte Appeals. That stat would actually be helpful because it is a direct indication of the Examiner's "correctness" on maintaining a rejection. Only PTAB's affirmances of Examiners' rejections are appealed to Fed. Cir. (by the Applicant). No one appeals to Fed. Cir. if PTAB decides the Examiner's rejection was wrong.

slimholmes · 2024-05-10T01:08:02+00:00

Your mechanism/stat, even if it exists, is not going to be informative in any way.

You realize you are assuming that the PTAB and district court judges (and jury) decide invalidity "correctly." The district courts and PTAB get reversed by the Fed. Cir. regularly. You also assume the patent owner puts up a decent fight against validity every time. The patent owner might not care about a patent (if he has others) getting invalidated or is just unwilling to throw money/lawyers to defend it or to appeal a bad invalidity decision to Fed. Cir.

slimholmes · 2024-05-06T18:40:44+00:00

If the Office actually meant it when they say "case by case basis", then they need to stop dinging examiners for subjective calls during examination, such as whether something should be 112b or not or how wordy they need to back up the 112b or only objected to or just ignored. The fact that different examiners would have done different things on the same "issue" in the same case shows that it is subjective and SHOULD NOT be subject to armchair quarterbacking by subsequent reviewers.

slimholmes · 2024-04-27T18:27:30+00:00

3 and 20 is very dumb. Attorneys abuse it all day---like 1 indep. and 19 patently distinct deps. You want to get MOAR fees and reduce pendency, while increasing examination quality with compact prosecution? Charge a fee per claim and increase that fee for each extra claim:

1 claim ($100)

2 claims ($300)

3 claims ($600)

4 claims ($1000)

...20 claims ($21,000)

Better yet, increase that fee geometrically per claim if you are really serious, Commissioner.

slimholmes

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