Dear Colleagues --
Do you have a story about a Power of Attorney from hell?
One of you wrote me that "OMG Powers of Attorney are the bane of my existence." Well they used to be easy. Then along came those silly unpublished ADS rules and the PTO's "we'll bounce your Power
and we won't give you a name at the bottom of the bounce letter, and many of the rules we apply exist nowhere in writing. Have fun."
Can you gen up some anecdotes by 5PM (eastern) Friday? Write them so that I can just cut and paste verbatim into an exhibit. I will anonymize, of course.
-- The
primary point to illustrate is that "3 minutes for a Power of Attorney is entirely
implausible."
-- A secondary point, less important, is "The PTO's
unwritten rules of implementation create costs that are entirely unnecessary."
-- Maybe "I used to file Powers of Attorney in every application. In the last few years, it's become such a pain that I don't any more. Not having Power of Attorney creates problems for me from time to time, but in an effort to reduce costs, I shortcut on Power of Attorney and take on the excess cost when the situation arises."
If you can give two or three sentences of anecdote, that would be helpful -- you know how stories make the point so much more vividly than statistics.
Thank you.