r/patentexaminer

Anyone knows when do we get PBA Q3 award?

It’s now Q4 and still no payment for PBA in Q2? Why does it take over 3 months to pay us what we’re owed/earned?

Did anyone else notice that (per the email today) you can now only get the timeliness award for Q4 if you do 85 hours worth of actions off the New or Special New tab?

Without getting into the debate of if anyone should be trying to get this award at all…that’s a high bar to clear for those of us in a high restriction area who get most production off the amended tab. I know the DM award had a production requirement too but I don’t believe it was from the New cases exclusively. I guess it’s a sneaky way to get us to move all the RCEs that are sitting around thanks to the policy changes.

Not exactly feeling highly incentivized to go after this one.

Per our undersecretary's email extolling our country's 250th holiday and how wonderful the celebrations on campus were, many people may have noticed that there was a comment that today, July 3rd would be a no-bank telework day.

Instead of giving an early dismissal as many other agencies are having we get to work from home.

This stings to all production employees who put in plenty of voluntary overtime and where admin leave time helps with production requirements; for workers that have pride in the work, you're not going to leave your widget half done on the factory floor. You are more apt to use the free hours to rest and work in the next widget with better quality.

Management doesn't get this. They are at least consistent however. They believe anyone teleworking at home is basically not working and has the day off. To management, giving someone non-bank telework hours is the equivalent of off the books admin leave.

That may be true for the folks over in Madison, but the vast number of patent and trademark examiners work hard at home and put in more hours.

This sadly is just another example of management not understanding their own workforce.

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I have to admit it's been a few years since I needed he crosswalk tool, so maybe this is old news to many, but I wanted to find the CPC classification to a corresponding USPC class and my bookmark link didn't work, so I went into the CAT tool and there wasn't any tab for CPC Crosswalk.

Did the tool get taken offline at some point? If it's still there, how do I find it?

Gee I wonder why they are "revising" the survey? Take a look at the questions they removed. Could it be more obvious?

Edit: These are proposals. Not implemented yet.

I believe the results of this survey will be used to make my agency a better place to work

How satisfied are you with your involvement in decisions that affect your work?

How satisfied are you with the information you receive from management on what is going on in your organization?

Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your organization?My workload is reasonable.

Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your job?

How satisfied are you with the recognition you receive for doing a good job?

I am given a real opportunity to improve my skills in my organization.My talents are used well in the workplace

I recommend my organization as a good place to work

Every time I don't get something right away the first time, he barks at me. Additionally, when he would return my first office action, he told me to fix the issues and submit it back right away for credit. Therefore, I never thought to ask him or other team members for verification before re-submitting the first few times.

Can anyone else relate? I found that breaking down the claims by limitation really helped me, though I always seem to be missing some procedural requirement before re-submitting.

EDIT: I did, in fact, toggle a setting somewhere. Thanks y'all.

Help. I'm going crazy. Did I accidentally toggle a setting somewhere, or did they roll out a MAJOR modification of our primary search tool without first soliciting feedback/input?

Example: I search "sodium chloride". When I click on the prior art in the results pane, the document viewer now only shows paragraphs excerpts containing "sodium chloride". E.g. if it only shows up in Paragraphs 1 and 15, it shows ONLY those paragraphs without the intervening paragraphs 2-14.

Help lol. I think I’m smart enough for this job, but definitely a slower learner. I am past probationary, but still feel lost and dumb a lot of the time. What should I do?

Are we getting this Friday off for the 4th of July?

I am teleworking and attempted to join the livestream event around 12:45, but it already said “This event has ended”. Did I miss it? The email said from noon to 2pm, so I assumed I could catch the latter half of it and still claim the hour. Anyone else in this boat?

Edit: so can we still claim this hour or what 🫣

I think this question had been asked before. What will happened after 3 restorations?

EDIT: for clarifying… I went to a hiring pool for the title.. I had used one out of three restorations already. I just wanted to know what happened after three restorationsx

Do we know if we’re getting paid early again this week?

Every.single.application. 112b's. Everywhere. Let's just willy nilly call 3 similar things 4 different names for funsies across all the claims!!!

Only heard on this subreddit that it was cancelled but never heard from a SPE or upper management. Are we still doing these?