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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Has anyone else noticed that provisional application numbers are not sequentially in order?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Prov 1, filed in January is 63/625###.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Prov 2, filed the next day in January is 63/557###.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Prov 3, filed a full month after Prov 2 is only 10 digits greater than Prov 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">A client has asked about this, so I wonder if anyone in the group knows why the numbers are not in order. All three applications were electronically filed by the same paralegal sponsored
by the same practitioner, and with the same PTO customer number.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif">Cathy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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