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    <div class="WordSection1">A listserv member asks to post anonymously
      ...</div>
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          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">I request
          your thoughts concerning a request to correct a filing receipt
          for failure to properly list the priority claim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Here are the
          facts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">PPA1 filed
          12/02/21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">PPA2 filed
          06/14/22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">PPA3 filed
          10/10/22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">NPA1 filed
          11/23/22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">CON1 filed
          5/8/23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">NPA1 issued
          08/01/23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Filing
          receipt for CON1 only lists the claim to NPA1 serial number.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">It does not
          include the claims to the PPAs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">The USPTO is
          telling me the petition to correct is denied because of the
          way the PPAs are recited in the ADS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Here\u2019s what
          the ADS looks like for the claim to the PPA1 (the claims to
          the other PPAs are the same):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Prior app
          status                    Expired<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Application
          number              ---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Continuity
          type                      Claims benefit of provisional<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Prior app
          number                 63xxxxxx<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Filing
          date                              12/02/21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">The USPTO
          employee is telling me the reason the benefit claim is
          improper is because there is not a number, but instead dashes,
          for the \u201cApplication number\u201d.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Is the USTPO
          employee correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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