[Patentcenter] Billable Hours Lost

[Judith S]

Yesterday because I was so irritated at the number of issues I had, I
tracked my time paying an issue fee. Something that should have been 10
minutes to sign & review the form & submit, it took me over an hour,
including multiple reloads, changing entity size on PC-PAIR, fixing the
assignee issue, and everything through the process of submission.  I charge
a flat fee for issue fee payments & associated work, so my clients won't
see this on their invoice.

Judith

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:00 AM pbrisky--- via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Hi
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> We don’t bill here since we are in-house, generally speaking.  Has anyone
> started to calculate how much time these issues are costing them/their
> clients?  We have received bills from law firms in the past that included
> the time they spent uploading the application to EFS (this was a long time
> ago).
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> Pamela Cei Brisky
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> Senior Patent Paralegal, Docketing Manager
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> *Fujitsu North America, Inc*.| Fujitsu Intellectual Property Center
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> pbrisky at fujitsu.com |571-216-2112
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