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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2025 1:14 PM, Carl Oppedahl
wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2025 12:49 PM, Michael Dryja
via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:14C5A9C6-2769-4261-9BAF-EDD2652982E4@dryjapat.com">Is
anyone having this issue? As of 11:47 am PT on Monday, March
10, for the past hour when I\u2019ve tried calling any Examiner it
either gives me three fast beeps (using my T-Mobile cell phone)
or rings and rings and rings and hangs up (using my <a
href="http://Phone.com" moz-do-not-send="true">Phone.com</a> Voip
line).
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<div> - Mike Dryja.</div>
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<p>Yes it's not just you. I have called an Examiner and the
Examiner's SPE.</p>
<p>From my office phone direct extension, the call to the SPE
rings and rings, and clicks to a different ring cadence, (maybe
migrating to voice mail?) and then hangs up on me.</p>
<p>From a personal phone number (VOIP), the call to the SPE rings
a while and then says "the number you are calling from has been
flagged as spam. If you believe this to be in error, please
press 1 to report the problem." I press 1 and it hangs up on
me.</p>
<p>I call from my cell phone and the recorded message is "the
number you have dialed has calling restrictions and so the call
cannot go through". And it hangs up on me.</p>
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<p>When I could not get through to the SPE, I dialed the Director of
the Tech Center. Nope. The call disconnects.<br>
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<p>It is impossible to get through on the phone number for Coke
Morgan Stewart, the Director of the USPTO.</p>
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