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hey there Gary Scher with Innovation Cafe really quickly talking with you about how to understand what’s called an office action when you’re trying to get a patent the way the patent office communicates with you is by sending you a written office action when you first submit a patent application you get a non-final office action and then you get in possibly the biggest misnomer of all time a final office action usually those first two are rejections but you file something called a request for continued examination and get to start over with a non-final office action it is not uncommon for high value patents especially complicated ones to have five six even seven office actions prior to allowance so when you go in to file for your patent be aware that you might have to be paying lawyers fees or using your own time to respond to many office actions before you finally get your patent but they’re still worth getting they’re awesome keep inventing stay awesome catch you next time