If you try hard enough, can you think of some activity you could pursue for an eight-hour day that would be more fun than spending that day with, say, a hundred other people discussing the finer points of the Patent Cooperation Treaty? Yeah, right, loyal readers, you know what I am talking about. It would not be easy to top that! Continue reading “A fun PCT day in Minneapolis!”
Reminder: webinar tomorrow
A reminder of a webinar tomorrow — pros and cons of using any of four approaches to obtain US patent protection in connection with a PCT application:
- enter US national phase from the PCT
- file a bypass continuation from the PCT
- claim priority from a US non-provisional application
- file a US non-provisional application at the same time as the PCT application
For more information or to register, click here.
How “Espacenet” is pronounced
How is “Espacenet” pronounced? Continue reading “How “Espacenet” is pronounced”
Those little numbers on the front page of a patent
Those letters at the end of patent numbers
Just now a loyal reader of my blog asked what those letters and numbers mean at the end of patent numbers. Here are some examples:
My reader wondered, what does “A2” mean? What does “A1” mean? Continue reading “Those letters at the end of patent numbers”