Yesterday the USPTO announced that, in the wake of Congress granting the Commissioner additional powers as part of its COVID-19 response bill, the PTO would grant extensions of some deadlines. The patent announcement is here and the TM announcement is here. For a comprehensive discussion, see Don Zuhn's write-up at www.patentdocs.org. The catch is that in order to get an extension, you need to make a statement saying that the delay was corona-related. My comment, posted at patentdocs:
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They could have just said all deadlines are pushed off by 30 days, or pushed off until a certain date, like other countries have done, but no, this is the USPTO, it knows better, it can't learn from anyone else, it had to make it complicated. And unclear.
I'm looking for the part of the announcement that says, "This material will be incorporated into the next USPTO professional licensing exam. Examinees will now be responsible for three sets of laws, pertaining to three different time periods: pre-AIA, AIA, and corona."
In the words of the late Shel Silverstein, "Some kind of help is the kind of help we all can do without."