General
What are the names of the 3 teams working on processing patents?
JADE, PEGA, CONVERSIONS
What is Triage?
The sorting of physical documents into one or several logical documents
What does the snowflake mean on Triage?
All logical documents have been selected-not-used
What is the most important step in the PEGA process?
Triage
Are tomatoes officially a fruit or a vegetable?
A fruit
Who is the CEO/President of FSC Edge?
David Goodman
If an OATH is missing an inventor's signature, what should you do?
Escalate
What do we look for to decide if "L_OATH_DELEGATION" is selected?
"Substitute" Declaration
After PEGA receives and processes a patent, in what order is it sent to Conversions and JADE?
JADE first, Conversions second
This animal is the only mammal that drinks blood, what is it?
Vampire bat
Which company is the Parent Company of FSC Edge?
Luminess
What does the responsive to date refer to?
Any documents submitted prior or on the date have been approved by examiner, others have not and are not usable
Which page of the NOA can we find the responsive to date?
Page 5
What kind of patent type functions differently from the other two?
Design patents
About how old is the United States of America?
~246 years old
What is the company that FSC Edge gained their contract with?
USPTO
What do we look for when deciding whether a CLM document is our main?
- Sentence stating "this listing replaces all prior versions"
- Only one completed document
What is the LAST document that we triage before validating?
SPEC
What is the primary doc code for WIPO/PCT forms?
371P
Why is the sky blue?
Light scattering in the earth's atmosphere
What does WIPO stand for?
World Intellectual Property Organization
When would we use "Selected" for L_PLT on the ABST document
When the document is a WIPO
Which 4 documents are sent to conversions from PEGA?
ABST, CLM, DRW, SPEC
There are 4 key groups/teams that make up PEGA, what are they?
Triage, Subcases, Ticket Analysis, File Maintenance
This book by a female author is widely considered to be the genesis of the science fiction genre:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley