Hello readers. If you paid a government fee to the USPTO during any of the times listed below, and if you tried to protect yourself by authorizing any later fees due to be drawn from your USPTO Deposit Account, apparently your effort to protect yourself has failed. Continue reading “USPTO makes mistake with Deposit Account authorizations”
USPTO mail room works unacceptably slowly
The mail room at the USPTO is, politely stated, a striking example of a service failure. Continue reading “USPTO mail room works unacceptably slowly”
Why you should attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January
Why should you attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January? Continue reading “Why you should attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January”
Why dinosaurs and humans both have a radius and ulna
A few days ago I got to see Apex, which is thought to be the largest and one of the most complete stegosaurus specimens ever uncovered. I am sure that most museumgoers had the same reaction I had, which was a sense of profound wonder at the fact that the stegosaurus (and indeed nearly all dinosaurs) had a radius and ulna below the elbow of each forelimb, exactly like humans (and nearly all mammals), and had a tibia and fibula below the knee of each hindlimb, again exactly like humans.
Given that dinosaurs and mammals are different branches of the evolutionary family tree, separated for tens of millions of years, how can this possibly have worked out this way? Continue reading “Why dinosaurs and humans both have a radius and ulna”
Four more days to get a discounted seminar registration
Additional opportunity to learn about PCT declarations
It will be recalled that there was a webinar yesterday (November 26) about Making best use of PCT Declarations in your PCT application. Unfortunately there were some technical problems at various points during the webinar. I will thus be reprising the webinar on Tuesday, December 10. For more information, or to register, visit https://blog.oppedahl.com/pct-webinars/ .
German patent office has joined DAS!!
Regular readers of this blog are well aware that I almost never use two exclamation points in a headline. Today, however, is a day for such emphasis. Yes, the German patent office has joined the DAS system as a Depositing Office. Continue reading “German patent office has joined DAS!!”
Join the over 450 people who are registered for this free PCT webinar
In about seven hours I will be presenting a free-of-charge webinar entitled Making best use of PCT Declarations in your PCT application. As of right now, about 462 people have registered for this webinar. This subject matter is of potential interest to any PCT enthusiast anywhere in the world. Attendees come from every continent except Antarctica.
To learn more, or to register, visit the WIPO web site here.
Tuesday: free-of-charge webinar about PCT Declarations
This Tuesday, attend a free-of-charge webinar about best practices for use of PCT Declarations. This webinar will be of interest to PCT enthusiasts everywhere in the world, not only in the US.
To register, click here.
Trying since July to get this blog to work with Bluesky
Hello dear reader. It was on July 23, 2024 (blog post) that I first tried to get my blog set up so that it would auto-post to Bluesky. By now it seems I have succeeded (Bluesky). Another notable intellectual property blog that has succeeded is The TTABlog (Bluesky). The World Intellectual Property Organization has succeeded (Bluesky).