<Also note that the "Litigation Search" ('148) is not stated as "CONCLUDED"as I have read on this board but as "CONDUCTED" as per USPTO site since 06/10/08>

First, you are making the assumption that they update the transaction history before they acutually do the work, as opposed to after it is done. Second, I don't know the update process is, but conducted is past tense. They may well be still reviewing the output of the search, but IMO the search itself would not take more than a couple of hours at most. Doubt "conducted search" enccompases any review or analysis of the output, only that the search was done. All IMHO Opty