[Patentpractice] Unable to connect to any USPTO phone numbers

[Michael Dryja]

Wonderful.  

> On Mar 10, 2025, at 12:14 PM, Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com> wrote:
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> On 3/10/2025 12:49 PM, Michael Dryja via Patentpractice wrote:
>> Is anyone having this issue?  As of 11:47 am PT on Monday, March 10, for the past hour when I’ve tried calling any Examiner it either gives me three fast beeps (using my T-Mobile cell phone) or rings and rings and rings and hangs up (using my Phone.com <http://phone.com/> Voip line).
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>>  - Mike Dryja.
> Yes it's not just you.   I have called an Examiner and the Examiner's SPE.
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> From my office phone direct extension, the call to the SPE rings and rings, and clicks to a different ring cadence, (maybe migrating to voice mail?) and then hangs up on me.
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> From a personal phone number (VOIP), the call to the SPE rings a while and then says "the number you are calling from has been flagged as spam.  If you believe this to be in error, please press 1 to report the problem."  I press 1 and it hangs up on me.
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> I call from my cell phone and the recorded message is "the number you have dialed has calling restrictions and so the call cannot go through".  And it hangs up on me.
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