You left out what is probably, potentially, the most important thing. The 60-day clock will run out for our (non-)response/statement re: the '336, and the PTO examiner may put a quick end to the current re-exam. The '336 would then be unencumbered.

This is the possible event I await. Sometime after 1/15/10. That would indeed make for a happy new year.

JMHO, And Happy New Years to all. Advice: stay off the streets - it's amature night. There's nothing worse than inexperienced drunk drivers! (I KNOW - not politically correct).

SGE