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July 14, 2016

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Hey Don,

I wish I could say that this Post-Prosecution Pilot Program was a positive response by the USPTO, but I can't. It just comes across as yet another PR campaign by the USPTO management to act like their doing something to address significant prosecution problems, especially in notoriously "anti-patent" Art Units such as 3600. Until I see/hear otherwise, I've got a very jaundiced view of this new program.

In my experience, proper requests under the AFCP 2.0 request program are often avoided by Examiner's arguing that additional searching is necessary - even if amendments are copied directly from dependent claims.

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