Send us your question about a USPTO Office Action, a deadline or a rejection. We reply to real questions with real answers.
If you have the Office Action, uploading it is faster than describing it — we can read the dates and the grounds directly. If you do not, or if your question is about something else entirely, use the form and tell us what you are trying to work out. Urgent deadline questions should say so in the first line; we treat a reply period closing inside thirty days as urgent.
I have one question and I do not want a sales call.
Ask it. If the answer is short, you get a short answer. If the answer is that you need a registered practitioner, we will say that too.
The mailing date of the Office Action, if you have it — it determines everything about timing.
The application number, if you know it.
Whether the document says FINAL.
Where the applicant is located.
What decision you are trying to make.
Email is not a secure channel. If you need us to look at your Office Action, use the upload flow, which stores the document in private encrypted storage.
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Within one business day for ordinary questions. Cases where a reply period closes within thirty days are flagged as urgent and handled first.
No, and nobody honest can. We can tell you what the Office Action says, what the deadline is, and what the realistic options are. Predicting the outcome of prosecution is not something we do.