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<p>Oh yes RCEs. </p>
<p>As recently as a few weeks ago, it seemed that the LIEs pretty
consistently would turn around an RCE within two business days.
But yes I went and looked and the most recent RCE that we filed
took seven days to reach the Examiner.</p>
<p>Thank you for posting.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/9/2025 9:07 AM, Julie Eslick
wrote:<br>
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We filed a Response/RCE on October 1 and as of yesterday it still
had not been entered. Status was still "Final Rejection mailed".<br>
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Julie A. Eslick <br>
IP Paralegal Specialist<br>
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP - Phoenix, AZ USA<br>
T: +1 602 364 7028<br>
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Subject: [Patentpractice] taking much longer for a response to a
non-final office action to get entered and forwarded to the
Examiner?<br>
<br>
Hello folks. Is it just me, or is it recently taking much longer
for a response to a non-final office action to get entered and
forwarded to the Examiner?<br>
<br>
And not just responses to non-final office actions?<br>
<br>
Also taking much longer for a response to a final office action to
get entered and forwarded to the Examiner?<br>
<br>
In a recent case in Tech Center 2900, I filed a response on
September 25 and it did not get forwarded to the Examiner until
October 8. It took<br>
13 days to get forwarded.<br>
<br>
In other recent cases in other Tech Centers, I have seen
forwarding delays of 7 to 10 days.<br>
<br>
I fear that this is getting to be the new normal.<br>
<br>
In the old days it was commonplace that a response would get
forwarded to the Examiner promptly -- within two or three days.
Sometimes it would only take one day.<br>
<br>
The job title of the people who do this "entering and forwarding"
is LIE<br>
-- legal instruments examiner.<br>
<br>
I can imagine that one factor explaining the new delays might be
due to September 30 having passed and some LIEs who accepted the
"fork in the road" are now gone. Although I guess many of the
USPTO people who accepted the "fork in the road" would have ceased
work long before September 30.<br>
<br>
I can imagine that this new long delay in forwarding to the
Examiner might be different from one Tech Center to the next. One
Tech Center might have lost more LIEs than another.<br>
<br>
Is it just me, or have others also been seeing new delays in
forwarding to the Examiner?<br>
<br>
Carl<br>
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