<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">An examiner in a recent interview told me that<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none"> the examining corps just received a memo indicating that they are only permitted one interview for a \u2018round,&#39; which means from filing through RCE.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none">The Patent Examiner subreddit confirms: </span></font></div><div><font size="2"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(70,120,134);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:underline;display:inline;float:none"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/comments/1nw58wc/stakeholders_they_just_effectively_limited_you_to/">https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/comments/1nw58wc/stakeholders_they_just_effectively_limited_you_to/</a></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(70,120,134);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:underline;display:inline;float:none"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2">Commenters are suggesting that patent attorneys need to step up and push to change this policy, because otherwise we&#39;ll be getting a lot of interview denials.</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2">I hope this memo predates the new head of the PTO, but I fear it does not.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Judith</font></div></div>