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Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado

 

(The purpose of this posting is to let you know that I have changed the dates for these upcoming PCT seminars.  They were previously set for September 9-11, 2025.  I have rescheduled the seminars to take place three weeks later, namely September 30 to October 2, 2025.  This is for a very fun and interesting reason that I hope to write about presently.)

Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.  Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.  

Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.

For more information, or to register, click here.

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26 free-of-charge training opportunities for PCT and ePCT

Hello dear readers.

Just now sort of by accident I stumbled upon a WIPO web page External PCT Training Resources.  I don’t know how long it has been there, but just now is when I saw it for the first time.

This page lists over two dozen recorded lectures on a wide variety of PCT and ePCT topics.  For each recorded lecture there is a link to a recording of the lecture and a link to a PDF of the presentation materials.

I am fascinated and honored to see that nearly all of the links are for lectures presented by yours truly.

Meanwhile if you would like to attend an upcoming live in-person PCT seminar in beautiful Colorado, click here.

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Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado

Update!  These seminars have been rescheduled and will now take place on Tuesday, September 30 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.

Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.  Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.  

Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 9 30, 2025  to Thursday, September 11 October 2, 2025.

For more information, or to register, click here.

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USPTO’s Trademark Center is broken for logo applications

January 18, 2025 was the day that the USPTO shut down TEAS for the filing of new US trademark applications.  Starting that day, the only way to file a US trademark application has been Trademark Center.

And now, as of a couple of days ago, Trademark Center has been broken for trademark applications in which the mark is a logo (rather than standard characters).  The practitioner prepares the application and sends it to the client for review and possible e-signature.   The client clicks on the link to review the application, and within seconds, Trademark Center jumps abruptly to its main page.  It is impossible for the client to review or e-sign the application.

This was first reported two days ago by an alert trademark practitioner in the E-Trademarks Listerv, which is a community of over a thousand trademark practitioners.

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Vegetative electron microscopy

I am fascinated to learn that the term “vegetative electron microscopy” is starting to pop up in published academic papers.  And that there is no such thing as “vegetative electron microscopy”.  It seems that some early AI systems picked up this term as a sort of OCR scanning error.  And now lots of present-day AI systems keep repeating the term to each other.  And now maybe the term will never go away.