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Monthly Archives: June 2018

Calling an iNum telephone number

29th June, 2018 · oppedahl · 6 Comments

A decade ago some Internet geeks set up a new kind of telephone number — an “iNum” telephone number.  A regular telephone number always starts with a country code.  Calls to Switzerland for example use a country code of “41”.  Calls to North America use a country code of “1”.  Just by looking at the telephone number, you can see what country it is associated with.  But not iNum numbers. Continue reading →

Posted in Office Tech |

Getting a Super Patent

27th June, 2018 · oppedahl · 6 Comments

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Imagine you are counsel representing a patent owner in an infringement case.  Suppose you can say to the judge and jury:

Ladies and gentlemen, you have heard my learned opponent invite you to consider whether perhaps this patent should never have been granted because of prior art that was overlooked.  But you might be interested to know that during the time that this patent application was pending, prior art searching was carried out by not one, not two, not three, not four, but five patent offices.  The Examiners in these five patent offices were fluent in the Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Korean languages.  Before the claims were found to be patentable, these Examiners shared with each other the prior art that they found.  The Examiners from these five patent offices shared their thoughts as to whether the claims were patentable in view of the prior art that was found.  Only after all of these things took place did the patent office decide to grant a patent.  And this is the patent before you now.

I’d call such a patent a Super Patent.  Yes under US law any patent is to be presumed valid, but I suggest such a patent would enjoy a much greater presumption of validity.  Would you like to learn how to get such a Super Patent? Continue reading →

Posted in Patents, PCT |

ePCT training at Silicon Valley USPTO (free of charge)

26th June, 2018 · oppedahl · 7 Comments

WIPO will offer a free-of-charge all-day live in-person training program on the ePCT system.  This will be Friday, July 20, 2018, from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, at the Silicon Valley regional patent office, 26 South Fourth Street, San Jose, CA 95113. Continue reading →

Posted in PCT |

Pharma/biotech European patent claiming CLE free of charge!

22nd June, 2018 · oppedahl · 2 Comments

I am delighted to be able to invite people to attend a pharma/biotech continuing legal education program.  This remarkable program lets you hear from an important person in the biotechnology part of the European Patent Office, Dr. Klaus-Peter Döpfer, and a very experienced patent practitioner in the pharma/biotech field, Ms. Sandra Pohlman.  They will talk about smart ways to draft patent applications with EPO subject matter eligibility in mind.   Continue reading →

Posted in Patents |

PDX and DAS on Tuesday

17th June, 2018 · oppedahl · Leave a comment

Attend a webinar this coming Tuesday, June 19th.  The subject is PDX and DAS.  Or maybe you do not need to attend, because you already have mastery of PDX and DAS!  Those who have mastery of PDX and DAS should have no problem passing this DAS quiz. Continue reading →

Posted in Industrial Designs, Patents |

Not too late to sign up for the Denver PCT Seminar

12th June, 2018 · oppedahl · Leave a comment

There are a couple of seats left for the Denver PCT Seminar which starts tomorrow morning bright and early.

Details here.

As of right now we could even accommodate one or two walk-in registrations.

Posted in PCT |

Private in-house PCT and DAS Training

7th June, 2018 · oppedahl · Leave a comment

In a recent blog post I listed the remarkable number of opportunities in the next few months for public PCT and DAS training programs.  What readers might not know about is that in addition to the many PCT and DAS training programs that are provided to the general public, many PCT and DAS training programs take place privately at law firms and corporations, as I will describe. Continue reading →

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Upcoming opportunities to learn about PCT and DAS

7th June, 2018 · oppedahl · 1 Comment

It is remarkable how many upcoming opportunities there are to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the WIPO DAS system: Continue reading →

Posted in PCT |

PCT fun in Boston

6th June, 2018 · oppedahl · Leave a comment

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Today and tomorrow I am having a delightful time serving on the faculty of a PCT Seminar in Boston sponsored by the PCT Learning Center.

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See if you can pass a simple quiz on the DAS system

2nd June, 2018 · oppedahl · 5 Comments

Here’s a simple quiz about the DAS system.  Pass this quiz and it means you know quite a bit about DAS. Continue reading →

Posted in Industrial Designs, Patents |
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