Inherented Cases

So in comes a few inhered amendments which would be award 0.25 counts for a final or 0.5 counts for allowance. As we all know, you work in good faith giving your best effort in the given allotted amount of time.

For each case pretty much this happens:

I reviewed the entire case history and new amendments/arguments. I think the prior examiner's primary reference was kind of meh (and agree with the attorneys thoughts on it) and I found a MUCH better primary reference. A lot of time is already taken up getting familiar with the case and searching because I didn't initially examine it - when I analyze the time it will take to re-map a new set of prior art rejections with the better art, I realize that will not be feasible within the time the agency has allotted for this action. I did a cursory search to make sure there's no dead-on USC102 and just allowed it...because that was the appropriate action allowed for in the given allotted time.

This is what happens when the agency thinks inherited cases don't require any more time and don't provide any, and you encounter somebody like me, who will track cumulative using chess clock to make sure I'm not taking advantage of.