Understanding the procedural timeline in a patent application process

Filing and prosecution a patent application with USPTO takes two abilities: the legal ability to understand the patent law and make use of the knowledge to your advantage and the operational ability to follow the strict procedural time lines with interacting with USPTO. 

Many blogs and textbooks aim to help you to understand the legal issues of patent law practice.  For understanding the procedural timeline in USPTO, I found that the USPTO Patent Application Initiatives Timeline is very help.  The USPTO Patent Application Initiative displays various programs and initiatives that are available to applicants during each phase of the application process.   Here is the weblink: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/patapp-initiatives-timeline.jsp

Here is the timeline summary:

Thanks for reading.
Connie
cwan@patentonomy.com