June 2018 – Page 2 – Ant-Like Persistence

June 1, 2018

A smart thing that USPTO customers should do now

(Please also see a followup blog article here.)

Those who make use of Private PAIR and EFS-Web are accustomed to USPTO’s very clunky way of accomplishing two-factor authentication, namely the poorly designed Entrust Java Applet (EJA). USPTO has now formally announced (see excerpt at right from a slide in a USPTO webinar yesterday) that it will replace EJA with a much more user-friendly approach. The goals of today’s blog article are:

describe the new system, and
explain what you can do right now to be ready for it well in advance.

Continue reading “A smart thing that USPTO customers should do now”

June 1, 2018

Netherlands joins DAS!

It is recalled that on May 5, 2018 I blogged about the imminent development of the Netherlands Patent Office joining the DAS system. Today is the day! The participation of the Netherlands Patent Office in DAS is as a depositing Office and as an accessing Office. The participation is as to patent applications and PCT applications.

This brings to 19 the number of DAS participating Offices.

June 1, 2018

Danish patent office is now an Accessing Office in DAS

The list of Accessing Offices in the DAS system continues to grow. As I blogged on May 26, 2018, the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) had announced that it would soon become an Accessing Office in the DAS system. Today is the day! As of today, DKPTO is an Accessing Office in DAS. Continue reading “Danish patent office is now an Accessing Office in DAS”