Month: February 2015

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Save the date — AIPLA PCT Seminars in July 2015

(See more recent blog posting with brochure and registration information.)

AIPLA has set the dates and locations for the Patent Cooperation Treaty seminars that will happen this coming July 2015.   Here they are:

  • July 20-21 (Monday and Tuesday) in San Francisco
  • July 23-24 (Thursday and Friday) in Virginia

Those who have attended AIPLA PCT Seminars in the past know that these seminars are very different from the usual “just the facts” PCT seminar.  These seminars have the benefit of spirited interaction among all of the presenters, including experienced patent practitioners from the US and from other countries.

Save the dates on your calendar.

Your blogger will be one of the presenters.

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Results are in — the 2014 US Design Patent Toteboard

Yes, the results are in.  The Ant-Like Persistence blog is delighted to be able to present the 2014 US Design Patent Toteboard.  This toteboard lists the forty-three highest ranked firms according to the number of US design patents which they obtained for clients.  One corporation also chose to respond and is listed in the toteboard.  These filers between them obtained about 24% of all of the US design patents in 2014.

You can also see corresponding toteboards for 2013 and 2012.

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Followup to “Four Consecutive Fridays”

(There is a followup posting.)

On January 26 I blogged here about the earthquake that happened on January 15, in which the Swiss Franc jumped some 30% in value.  I talked about how this earthquake affected the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.  I mentioned that the legacy approach to currency exchange rate shifts entailed a time lag of as much as three or four months, a time lag that would cost WIPO some millions of dollars.  I mentioned that the various patent offices around the world, in their role as PCT Receiving Offices, might or might not choose to accommodate WIPO by implementing new fee amounts sooner.  I wrote to USPTO and to EPO to urge them to accommodate WIPO in this way.  Here’s what I heard back from those patent offices …

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