Back in April of 2015 I wrote that picking a streaming media stick for road warrior use had just gotten easier. As of April of 2015, the only media stick that was well suited to hotel wifi (where you have to log in on a web page to connect to the Internet) was the Amazon Fire TV Stick. But now there is one more streaming media stick option for the road warrior. Continue reading “Now a second media stick option for the road warrior”
Bad experience with Financial Manager
The other day I sent a Section 71 document (a ten-year trademark renewal document) by means of the TEAS system to a foreign client for e-signature. The next day the TEAS system reported that the document had been e-signed. All that remained was for me to pay the $100 government fee. I figured this would be easy. I figured wrong. The Financial Manager system made it very difficult. The Financial Manager system locked my account and it was a lot of trouble getting things working again. Here are the details: Continue reading “Bad experience with Financial Manager”
What does this triangle do?
This photograph shows an electrical power distribution line in beautiful Summit County, Colorado, at an altitude of about 9100 feet above sea level. The first reader to post a comment correctly explaining the function of the white triangle will win a nice piece of swag — an Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC digital voltmeter.
Photos and video from the Sixth Annual E-Trademarks listserv reception
The Sixth Annual E-Trademarks Listserv reception took place on May 24, 2016 at B B King’s Blues Club in Orlando at the time of the INTA annual meeting.
To see photos and video from the reception, click here. If you enjoyed yourself at the reception, please post a comment below.
Time to sign up for the 20th annual AIPLA PCT Seminar
The 20th annual AIPLA PCT Seminar is now open for registration.
This will be Monday and Tuesday, July 25 and 26, in Alexandria, Virginia.
As a reminder the AIPLA PCT Seminar is different from other PCT Seminars in many ways. One way that it is different is that it offers not only patent office speakers but also practitioners. There are speakers from Europe and from China who will talk about using the PCT to get protection in EPO and in China.
Yours truly is one of the speakers.
For more information, or to sign up, or to book a hotel room at the seminar hotel, click here.
Kuwait joins the PCT
Kuwait has joined the PCT. Here you see Ambassador Jamal M. I. Al-Ghunaim and Director General Francis Gurry at the ceremony which took place June 9. 
[photo credit: WIPO]
This brings the number of PCT members to 149. Continue reading “Kuwait joins the PCT”
Uploading JPG files to your Hague case
As patent practitioners have known for many years, if you were to try to upload a JPG file into EFS-Web, the system would puke on the file.
Until now, as I will explain. It requires a bit of background. In November of 2014 the USPTO answered a question that had been on everyone’s lips for many months, namely “What will the series code be for Hague cases?” The answer turned out to be 35. A year and a half passed, and in February of 2015 the USPTO assigned the first application number to a Hague case. (It was 35/500001.) What many people might not know is that if the application that you open in EFS-Web happens to be a “35” case, you can upload a JPG file. Here is a screen shot that shows this:
What is the problem for which this new capability is the solution? Continue reading “Uploading JPG files to your Hague case”
Comments are in on proposed TTAB rules
June 3 was the last date on which a would-be commenter could comment upon the TTAB’s proposed rules published April 4, 2016. I am pleased to be able to report that the E-Trademarks Listserv (ETL) was among the commenters. Other commenters included “the big four”, that is, IPO, ABA-IPL, INTA, and AIPLA. You can see all sixteen comments here. The ETL comments focused on three issues:
- whether it is a good idea for the TTAB to once again resume responsibility for carrying out service of process (a responsibility that had been shifted to the plaintiff in 2007);
- TTAB’s proposed requirement that the plaintiff figure out what email address the TTAB should use when carrying out service of process via email; and
- TTAB’s proposed limiting the number of Requests to Admit to 75.
I’ll summarize the positions taken by the various commenters on these three issues. Continue reading “Comments are in on proposed TTAB rules”