In recent days, our email server for our listservs may have removed your email address from membership in one or another of the listservs. Assuming that you did not want this, what should you do? Continue reading “What to do if your email service provider has been bouncing our listserv postings”
Attend a two-presenter, 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado
Long-time PCT enthusiasts will appreciate that in recent years, there have been few opportunities in the US to get high quality PCT training with more than one experienced presenter on the dais.
Such PCT enthusiasts will likewise appreciate that in recent years, there have been few opportunities in the US to get high quality PCT training of such depth and breadth as to call for more than one day of training.
Now for the first time since before Covid, attend a multi-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in the US taught by two experienced presenters. This training will take place in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.
Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT!
Loyal readers of this blog are encouraged to subscribe, if they have not already done so. Loyal readers of this blog are also encouraged to use coupon codes (which expire July 28) for discounts on the registration fees:
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- coupon code BL1 – 2.5-day seminar $200 off
- coupon code BL2 – docketing $60 off
- coupon code BL3 – both courses, $260 off
For more information, or to register, click here.
Save the date! Next PCT Seminar September 22-24, 2026
(Update: now you can register for this PCT seminar. See this blog posting.)
Save the date! The next PCT Seminar will be September 22-24, 2026 near the Denver airport.
“the only other thing I can recommend is just use Word” – EBC advice
Well, the unspoken thing has just been spoken. “The only other thing I can recommend is just use [Microsoft] Word.”
Continue reading ““the only other thing I can recommend is just use Word” – EBC advice”
USPTO’s non-DOCX surcharge rears its ugly head again
(Update: 23 hours have passed since I opened ticket number 2-01001251 about Patent Center puking on a patent application prepared in Libre Office. Nobody from the USPTO got back to me during these 23 hours. Tomorrow is the priority date on which I need to get this patent application filed. I phoned up the EBC again just now, and was told “the only other thing I can recommend is just use [Microsoft] Word.” See followup blog article.)
The USPTO’s non-DOCX surcharge is now rearing its ugly head again. Let’s see if, between now and tomorrow, May 15, 2026, the USPTO people in charge of the non-DOCX penalty provide decent software support for the filing of a new patent application that was prepared using a word processor that is not Microsoft Word. Watch this blog to see how the USPTO handles this defect in Patent Center. Continue reading “USPTO’s non-DOCX surcharge rears its ugly head again”
PCT training in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 13
Are you attending the AIPLA Spring 2026 meeting at the San Francisco Fairmont hotel? If so, I invite you to attend some PCT training on Wednesday, May 13 from 4PM to 6PM in the French Room. Your presenters are Hanna Kang from WIPO and yours truly. We will talk about two topics:
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- choosing a Receiving Office, and
- choosing an International Searching Authority.
The training is sponsored by the PCT Issues Committee.
Here are the presentation slides for “choosing an ISA”.
The 2025 intellectual property toteboards have been posted
It is my honor to post:
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- the fourteenth annual US Design Patent Toteboard,
- the eleventh annual US Trademark Registration Toteboard,
- the eleventh annual US Utility Patent Toteboard, and
- the seventh annual US Plant Patent Toteboard.
You can see them here.
Good news for those who use ISA/EP and IPEA/EP
What we see today is some new user-friendliness on the part of the European Patent Office. EPO is now making it even easier than before for PCT applicants to receive communications electronically from ISA/EP and IPEA/EP. Continue reading “Good news for those who use ISA/EP and IPEA/EP”
Where my blog traffic comes from?
I find it interesting that nowadays, a lot of my blog traffic comes from Reddit. Continue reading “Where my blog traffic comes from?”
USPTO corrects its new web site
Two days ago I blogged (see blog article) about a hallucination on the USPTO’s new web site, namely the existence of a “provisional patent”. The web site said:
File a provisional patent
Now the USPTO has corrected the web site. Now the bullet point is:
File a provisional patent application