<div dir="ltr"><div>I think the secret to claiming that number is that the Examiners respond with "this was handled under the after final procedure, as if no AFCP had been filed" in some significant percentage of cases and those cases are not classified as having an "AFCP request."<br></div><div><br></div><div>But while I rarely get examiner initiated calls for AFCP filings even though my template includes a request for a call, most Examiners will accept an applicant initiated call with an AFCP. Not that it helps much. I usually still get a "needs further search" type response, unless my amendment is just clean-up from essentially allowed claims.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Judith<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 12:02\u202fPM pbrisky--- via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6006280713449389472">
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<p class="MsoNormal">The USPTO claims that 50% of all AFCP requests (out of the 60k annually) made by applicants have been granted interviews. Anecdotally this has not been our observation. I am wondering if anybody has numbers to either refute the USPTO's
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