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Did you try calling the LIE and the SPE?</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 23, 2025 3:32 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <suzannah@canadylortz.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] NO SOUP FOR YOU!</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Okay, Ive waited about a
<span class="x_GramE">week</span> and Im still irritated up the wazoo about this and think that if I concede and play along with the stupidity, it will cost potential PTA days.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thus, Im going to respond and tell the USPTO to do their freaking job and also file a Petition under 1.181(a)(3).<span style="">
</span>(But for the fee, I would do a 1.182 petition but I dont waste my money <span class="x_GramE">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I note that the MPEP portions on claim status identifiers indicate that the USPTO
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<span class="x_SpellE">ashat</span> asserting that whether to accept the alternative identifier is at their discretion.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So Does anyone (<span style="background:yellow">Im looking at you David</span> :) have a rule or statute I can cite for the premise that for over 10 years I have used the same status
identifiers for other clients and not once have they been refused entry such that their refusal now in this case is arbitrary and capricious and therefore violates [RULE/STATUTE] ?</span></p>
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<p>There you go again using technical terminology. :)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="">On 9/15/2025 1:35 PM, Suzannah K. Sundby via Patentpractice wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Someone please save me from responding with a reply refusing to change the status identifier and demanding that the USPTO DOES ITS FREAKING JOB.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b>From:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2025 4:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Goldberg, Judi <a href="mailto:jgoldberg@leydig.com"><jgoldberg@leydig.com></a>; For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice.
<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com></a>; Randall Svihla
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<b>Subject:</b> RE: NO SOUP FOR YOU!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">The person who flagged was with Legal Instruments meaning it never got to the Examiner (as I understand)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b>From:</b> Goldberg, Judi <<a href="mailto:jgoldberg@leydig.com">jgoldberg@leydig.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2025 4:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>; Randall Svihla <<a href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com">rsvihla@nsiplaw.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: NO SOUP FOR YOU!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">The MPEP allows for the following identifiers. That being said, the examiners are being
<b>much</b> pickier. I recently had some NPL refs in an IDS not be considered because the publisher or publishers location werent included in the cite (which I had previously only done when citing a book, not a journal article.) It buys them more time to
delay examining the application.</p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzannah K. Sundby via Patentpractice<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2025 3:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Randall Svihla <<a href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com">rsvihla@nsiplaw.com</a>>; For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] NO SOUP FOR YOU!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">LIE, Terry Bryant.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b>From:</b> Randall Svihla <<a href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com">rsvihla@nsiplaw.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2025 4:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>>; For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: NO SOUP FOR YOU!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Ridiculous. Was it signed by the Examiner, or an LIE?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b>From:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2025 4:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Randall Svihla <<a href="mailto:rsvihla@nsiplaw.com">rsvihla@nsiplaw.com</a>>; For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: NO SOUP FOR YOU!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Filed September 1, 2025.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 15, 2025 4:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: NO SOUP FOR YOU!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Annoying. When did you file a response? It may have come up for action and the Examiner didn't want to work on it because it's the end of the fiscal year so he got it off his docket this way.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">37 CFR 1.121(c)(3):</p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">(3) <i>When claim text in clean version is required.
</i>The text of all pending claims not being currently amended shall be presented in the claim listing in clean version,
<i>i.e.,</i> without any markings in the presentation of text. The presentation of a clean version of any claim having the status of original," "withdrawn" or "previously presented" will constitute an assertion that it has not been changed relative to the
immediate prior version, except to omit markings that may have been present in the immediate prior version of the claims of the status of "withdrawn" or "previously presented." Any claim added by amendment must be indicated with the status of "new" and presented
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">MPEP 714(C):</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 6 (withdrawn): A process for molding a bucket.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 8 (currently amended): A bucket with a green<u>blue</u> handle.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 9 (withdrawn): The process for molding a bucket of claim 6 using molten plastic material.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 10 (original): The bucket of claim 8 with a wooden handle.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 12 (previously presented): A bucket having a circumferential upper lip.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 13 (not entered)</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Claim 14 (new): A bucket with plastic sides and bottom.</p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">(E) <b>Acceptable Alternative Status Identifiers:</b> To prevent delays in prosecution, the Office may waive certain provisions of <b><a href="https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9020-appx-r.html#d0e323020">37
CFR 1.121</a></b> and accept alternative status identifiers not specifically set forth in <b><a href="https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9020-appx-r.html#d0e323020">37 CFR 1.121(c)</a></b>. Accordingly claim listings that include alternative status
identifiers as set forth below will be accepted if the amendment otherwise complies with <b><a href="https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9020-appx-r.html#d0e323020">37 CFR 1.121</a></b>. See <i>Acceptance of Certain Non-Compliant Amendments Under
37 CFR 1.121(c),</i> 1296 OG 27 (July 5, 2005).</span></li></ul>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Original Claim; and Originally Filed Claim</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Canceled without prejudice; Cancel; Cancelled; Canceled herein; Previously cancelled; Canceled claim; Deleted; and Previously canceled</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b>The Office may also accept additional variations of the status identifiers provided in <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9020-appx-r.html#d0e323020">37 CFR 1.121(c)</a> not listed above if an Office
personnel determines that the status of the claims is accurate and clear. When accepting alternative status identifiers, the examiner is not required to correct the status identifiers using an examiners amendment.</b> Applicant will not be notified and will
not be required to submit a corrective compliant amendment. The examiner does not need to make a statement on the record that the alternative status identifiers have been accepted.</p>
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