<div dir="ltr"><div>About the DOCX-vs-preliminary-amendment notice of Friday...<br></div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="line-height:1.4">presented in DOCX training sessions</span>" -- does anyone know more about this anecdote? Can you fill me in? Is it reflected in slides that anyone captured? I have a window of opportunity for the next couple days, if someone can give me somehting fairly concrete.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 3:10\u202fPM Dan Feigelson 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"><img src="https://gcfagjf.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/tr/op/zDgACWlQ7MermvWykPqCLi_TP8Y_QOl1jXDNczTRRnlOKCQ6GBfNsQdRmcY-Qx1LjeWHNt_cFcab2Y-jfaQW-dSiXKWTfZEbF2698dsZ68QCeo-PdAopGMdsKVxq986qSBSe2_UcK_NE2rwfc7DtMlZpawzmM3B-wOxE5wyQtZ_q6n4lv_MfIP1IXMfwXuAo45iXN7mXzvAAOhgivVqVQnrNq3M6mdm7PLf5" width="1" height="1"><div dir="ltr"><div>"Oh, hey, we misled you, but the onus is on you to ask us to waive the fee that we imposed on you as a result of our mistake. And we don't promise that we'll waive the fee, so you might just be wasting your time."</div><div><br></div><div>The sooner Vidal is gone from the PTO, the better. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 11:20\u202fPM U.S. Patent and Trademark Office <<a href="mailto:subscriptioncenter@subscriptions.uspto.gov" target="_blank">subscriptioncenter@subscriptions.uspto.gov</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><u></u>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span>USPTO notice </span><span>c</span><span>larif</span><span>ying</span><span> the </span><span>r</span><span>equirement for the </span><span>n</span><span>on-DOCX </span><span>s</span><span>urcharge</span></span><span> </span>
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