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Four PCT/ePCT training opportunities

It will be recalled that I rescheduled my PCT seminars to new dates, namely September 30 to October 2, 2025 (click here for more information or to register).   I commented (see blog article) that this was for a very fun and interesting reason that I hoped to write about presently.  Now I will tell you the fun and interesting reason why I rescheduled my PCT seminars — it was to enable four PCT/ePCT training opportunities at which I will be a speaker.

Here is a remarkable opportunity to get a day of PCT training in any of four locations:

    • San Jose – Friday, September 12, 2025
    • Denver – Tuesday, September 16, 2025
    • Dallas – Friday, October 24, 2025
    • Detroit – Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The faculty for these one-day seminars includes people from WIPO and from the USPTO and yours truly.

These seminars are free of charge and they offer a remarkable opportunity for live and in-person training from WIPO people and USPTO people and from yours truly.

You can download the program here.  To register, click here.

I also invite you to attend my 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar:

    • Aurora, Colorado – September 30, 2025 to October 2, 2025

For more information, or to register, click here.

I also invite you to attend my half-day live in-person seminar on PCT docketing:

    • Aurora, Colorado – October 2, 2025

For more information, or to register, click here.

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Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado

 

(The purpose of this posting is to let you know that I have changed the dates for these upcoming PCT seminars.  They were previously set for September 9-11, 2025.  I have rescheduled the seminars to take place three weeks later, namely September 30 to October 2, 2025.  This is for a very fun and interesting reason that I hope to write about presently.)

Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.  Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.  

Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.

For more information, or to register, click here.

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26 free-of-charge training opportunities for PCT and ePCT

Hello dear readers.

Just now sort of by accident I stumbled upon a WIPO web page External PCT Training Resources.  I don’t know how long it has been there, but just now is when I saw it for the first time.

This page lists over two dozen recorded lectures on a wide variety of PCT and ePCT topics.  For each recorded lecture there is a link to a recording of the lecture and a link to a PDF of the presentation materials.

I am fascinated and honored to see that nearly all of the links are for lectures presented by yours truly.

Meanwhile if you would like to attend an upcoming live in-person PCT seminar in beautiful Colorado, click here.

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Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado

Update!  These seminars have been rescheduled and will now take place on Tuesday, September 30 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.

Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.  Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.  

Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 9 30, 2025  to Thursday, September 11 October 2, 2025.

For more information, or to register, click here.

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USPTO’s Trademark Center is broken for logo applications

January 18, 2025 was the day that the USPTO shut down TEAS for the filing of new US trademark applications.  Starting that day, the only way to file a US trademark application has been Trademark Center.

And now, as of a couple of days ago, Trademark Center has been broken for trademark applications in which the mark is a logo (rather than standard characters).  The practitioner prepares the application and sends it to the client for review and possible e-signature.   The client clicks on the link to review the application, and within seconds, Trademark Center jumps abruptly to its main page.  It is impossible for the client to review or e-sign the application.

This was first reported two days ago by an alert trademark practitioner in the E-Trademarks Listerv, which is a community of over a thousand trademark practitioners.

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Vegetative electron microscopy

I am fascinated to learn that the term “vegetative electron microscopy” is starting to pop up in published academic papers.  And that there is no such thing as “vegetative electron microscopy”.  It seems that some early AI systems picked up this term as a sort of OCR scanning error.  And now lots of present-day AI systems keep repeating the term to each other.  And now maybe the term will never go away.