[Patentpractice] Office Action Predictions

[Karen S. Canady]

I have a divisional application filed 2 years ago that the client wanted to monitor (in order to contact the examiner once it was assigned). The first action prediction letters started out saying 7 months (in June 2022), then it shifted to 6 months (August 2022), then 5 months (May 2023). The last time I checked was in October 2023, still at “5 months”. Almost 7 months after that last check, still no action, no examiner assigned to the case.

I would assume that calling the Case Resolution Team would be the same, but perhaps I’m wrong. It seems they have no ability to predict these.

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Subject: [Patentpractice] Office Action Predictions

My assistant spoke to the Applications Assistance Unit this morning.  Apparently, office action prediction letters are no longer available and the First Office Action Estimator tool is disabled permanently.  (Not that either of these were particularly reliable.)  Also, the estimates by Technology Centers in the Official Gazette (https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/official-gazette/official-gazette-notices-2024) appear to be obsolete.

If you want any idea about when you can expect an Office Action, you can call the Case Resolution team at 571-272-1720 and supposedly they can give you a timeline.  My assistant tried calling and got voicemail.

Does anyone have any other ideas of where to get this information?  Has anyone had any success with the Case Resolution team?

Karen Dana Oster
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