[Patentpractice] Shout out to the office of petitions

[John Smith]

This is excellent news Margaret!

I had to file a petition for a design under similar circumstances and the
office of petitions came through for me also (petition with CPA filed 10
calendar days before issuance).

One caveat from my experience is to make sure the application is correctly
routed back to the examiner after petition grant.  Mine was stuck in limbo
between the office of petitions and the art unit.  The office of petitions
system said the app was returned to the art unit, but the art unit said
that the app was still at the office of petitions.  Further, Patent Center
still listed the previously assigned patent number while the application
was in this limbo, so that may be useful as an indicator.  IIRC, I believe
I ended up having to call some higher ups at the office of petitions and
art unit to get it straightened out.

Holding out hope that your path continues to be smooth!

Thanks,

John

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM Margaret Polson via Patentpractice <
patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> I feel like I used up all my luck?  I thought had almost no hope of
> getting it approved in time without spending hours on the phone with the
> office of petitions.  Instead, it was easy and it appeared that I did not
> even need to place the one call I did.
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> *From:* Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Rick Neifeld via Patentpractice
> *Sent:* Monday, September 29, 2025 5:26 PM
> *To:* For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal
> advice. <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>
> *Cc:* Rick Neifeld <richardneifeld at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Patentpractice] Shout out to the office of petitions
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> Margaret - Do you have any advice on the stock market?  Or horse races?
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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <
> patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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> Thank you Margaret for this point of light in such mixed times.  Great to
> hear that this went well for you.
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> Clearly today is a lucky day for you.  Maybe go out and buy a lottery
> ticket or two!
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> Again thank you.
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> Crl
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> On 9/29/2025 3:03 PM, Margaret Polson via Patentpractice wrote:
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> Given how much we have all bitched about the backlog at the office of
> petitions I just wanted to give a shout out to the office.  We had to file
> a notice of withdrawal from issue on a design patent and a CPA.  It was
> supposed to issue tomorrow, we filed the petition over the weekend.  The
> web forms do not work for design patents, you have to make a form for it.
> I was sure we would never get it granted in time, but they were already on
> the petition when I called them this morning and granted it this
> afternoon.
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> Margaret
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