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[Jonathan]

Are both options, or either, only available to do if requested when an application is firstly filed? Re-stated, post-filing - can these options be exercised (before examination commences, of course).

This statement is throwing me for a loop, seems to imply the petition can only be done at initial filing: "Key requirements include the following: (1) the application must be filed via EFS-Web with a petition to make special"

Source of statement: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/file/accelerated/comp_chart_dom_accel.pdf - 1st page of document.

[bleedingpen]

Must be done at the time of filing