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The existence of this draft partially reduces the total work needed to prepare and file the response; however, the draft must be thoroughly updated to account for intervening developments in the prosecution record, finalized, and subjected to full partner review before it can be filed

If OWS intends to pursue patent protection in additional jurisdictions — such as South Korea, China, Taiwan, or other commercially significant markets for silicon-photonic semiconductor components — the national-phase entry filings and associated government fees must be authorized and funded before this date

While this deadline is approximately twelve months away, JPO examination requests require strategic decisions regarding claim scope and prosecution approach, and the associated government fees must be budgeted in advance

The cap was presumably set based on assumptions about a steady-state, low-activity patent maintenance posture, but the accumulation of deferred deadlines over seventeen months of dormancy has created a compressed timeline in which multiple significant actions must be taken in rapid succession

That said, at an absolute minimum, OWS must authorize and fund the Application A1 response before March 9, 2025

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