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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/14/2024 2:08 PM, Timothy Snowden
via Pct wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Another vote for
email body reporting. There are some very good foreign
associates that still do all their reporting in a separate
letter. I've found that a) it takes me and our docketing staff
more time, b) it is more frequent for a possible action item
to be missed / delayed, c) it takes up more file storage. I
have found no positives. <br>
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<p>Yes the foreign agents who send a one-line email that says please
see attached (PDF) letter of instructions. It always makes lots
and lots of extra work for me. Invariably what happens is I need
to reply to it, and it says five or a dozen things in the PDF
letter, each of which would benefit from my interleaved
responses. And the PDF letter is sometimes an image scan,
because (I guess) they feel it is important to capture the
blue-ink physical signature.</p>
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<p>So when the time comes for me to reply, with my interleaved
topic-specific responses, I have to convert the PDF letter into
ordinary text that shows up as "quoted" text in the body of my
response. And I then interject my topic-specific responses.</p>
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<p>If the instructions from foreign counsel had been <i><b>in the
body of</b></i> their email to me, the response from me might
have taken five or ten minutes. Instead the response from me
takes twenty or thirty minutes.</p>
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<p>The extra time does find its way into the invoices that I send to
those foreign firms. So I don't actually lose money on that time
burden.</p>
<p>But to take Timothy's point, yes the extra-steps-required process
of dealing with the PDF instructions does lead to extra
opportunities for me to miss something. Like the little place,
tucked away in some corner of the PDF instructions letter, where
they quietly mention that the applicant is or is not a small
entity. Or whatever.</p>
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