Having gone back and looked again at Eggberts post (that this replies to), this becomes a bit confusing.

We know that the re-exams were in progress, and per the PTO guidance I posted, the files are to stay in the examiner's office until the re-exam is concluded. Once effort is fully concluded, and the Cert is published, the files go to the Record Room.

So some of these file moves make no sense. Specifically the moves of the '148 files (as I could understand the moves of the '584 and '336 in the context of the guidance).

I am now officially baffled.

The only thing that I could imagine that might explain the confusion (making it non-confusion) is the existence of Efiles (electronic files) - where there is paper to be compiled with Efiles. If the examiner could do his work using Efiles, the associated paper could reside in storage until the effort was concluded, then the paper files pulled to the Record Room to be consolidated with Efile data, then returned to storage. This would explain it. But this is a fairly hokey explanation, I admit.

However, this may be a "forrest/trees" thing, with the key being the moves to the Record Room and to long term storage.

But then there are those pesty questions about where are the certs. Has anyone check that info recently?

SGE