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So anyway. The shutdown.
It's making my job more complicated. I needed to respond to something that came from the World Intellectual Property Organization by January 26th. If I don't reply by then, a small company will lose its protection in a number of countries around the world. Only wrinkle is that I respond to WIPO through the USPTO. They rubber stamp what I have to say and forward it along to Geneva.
I filed my document this morning, almost a month before the deadline, but if the USPTO doesn't get to it before their funding runs out in a week or so, I will miss the WIPO deadline and the company loses.
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