Enable e-Office Action Processing

AppColl receives e-Office Action emails from the USPTO and then automatically creates prosecution history items and docketing tasks for U.S. and PCT patent matters. You may use this to supplement the process of importing XML files from Patent Center to update patent matters. Please Note: Processing of e-Office Actions will not change any of the bibl...

e-Office Action Document Download and Automatic Patent Center Update (AppColl PM Plus)

Please note: This feature is only available in AppColl PM Plus. Click here for pricing and details on the plus features. AppColl automatically retrieves Patent Center documents associated with e-Office Action emails. For example, if an e-Office Action email states that a Non-Final Office Action was communicated, AppColl retrieves this document from ...

e-Office Action Task Creation

Whenever AppColl receives an e-Office Action email from the USPTO, it creates an event-type task for the matter with a name starting with 'USPTO e-Office Action:'. This indicates that AppColl received an e-Office Action email for the matter. AppColl then generates action-type tasks, triggering on this event-type task. If some open tasks are generate...

What Happens if AppColl Receives an e-Office Action for a Matter That's not in my Account?

If AppColl processes an e-Office Action email from the USPTO for a matter that cannot be found in your account, AppColl will send an email to your Account Administrator with a copy of the e-Office Action UNLESS you or your account administrator have the following box checked in your Settings on the Matters tab. Select the Auto-create matter in e-Off...

Determine Which e-Office Actions Have Recently Been Processed by AppColl

When e-Office Action processing is enabled in your account, AppColl creates a new Tasks module report called 'USPTO e-Office Actions in Last 7 Days'. You can run this report from the Tasks module or the Reports module to see all e-Office Actions processed in the last 7 days.  In the Tasks module, locate the Select Report dropdown menu in the Change ...