[Pct] actual examiners do IPEA/US work? (was Different ISA and IPEA?)

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 6/9/2025 7:56 AM, Timothy Snowden via Pct wrote:
>
> The US IPRP seems to be good quality lately (with my very limited 
> experience with it), and /*now*/ that actual examiners are doing it 
> seems to be respected by the US, but I shy away from it in most cases 
> just because of the timing -- the one time I've done it in the past 
> few years (because clients were US first and not even sure they were 
> going to file outside of US but just wanted to preserve options), 
> USPTO didn't get it there in time for national stage.
>
(emphasis added)

This isn't a "now" thing.  Ever since the USPTO joined the PCT in 1978, 
actual Examiners (USPTO employees in the Examining Corps) have been 
doing IPEA/US work.  That has never changed in 47 years.


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