"Your patent Attorney then has to go back and, one by one,explain why the quoted patent does not apply."
'Doc'....in the patent application in question....it was the applicants very own attorney who CITED the other patents within the body of the application as being PRIOR ART...LOL
and again...the patent application has NOT been rejected...a search report does NOT in itself REJECT a patent application...
Now......two additional IMPORTANT dates to digest:
1) The date the ISR-International Search report was received 2) The EARLIEST PRIORITY date