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Three upcoming PCT training opportunities – San Jose and Denver

Hello PCT enthusiasts.   Here are three upcoming live in-person PCT training opportunities.

    • San Jose, Friday, September 12, 2025.  One day of live, in-person PCT training at the San Jose patent office.  I will be among the faculty for this seminar.  For more information, or to register, click here.
    • Denver, Tuesday, September 16, 2025.  One day of live, in-person PCT training at the Denver patent office.  I will be among the faculty for this seminar.  For more information, or to register, click here.
    • Denver airport location, Tuesday, September 30, 2025 through Thursday, October 2, 2025.  2½ days of live, in-person PCT training from yours truly.  Fly to the Denver airport and take a free hotel shuttle to the seminar hotel.  For more information, or to register, click here.
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EBC foot-drags handling of Form 2248

USPTO form 2248
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(Update:  two more weeks have passed, bring the foot-dragging delay up to a full six weeks.  See blog article.)

It’s been a month now since I followed the instructions of the Electronic Business Center (EBC) and faxed Form 2248 to the USPTO (in two different patent application files).  As of today, a month has passed and the EBC has failed to act upon either of the Forms 2248.

What, you might ask, is Form 2248?  What is the problem for which Form 2248 is the solution?  You might ask yourself whether you have one or more active patent application files for which you ought to have sent in Form 2248.  How would you know?   What might one do to avoid getting into a situation where you are vulnerable to this “Form-2248 problem”?  Continue reading “EBC foot-drags handling of Form 2248”

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Window regulator success after problems

bad regulator
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Update:  in response to my complaint, it looks like the vendor might take corrective action so that future customers would not face a repeat of my very disappointing experience.  See blog article.

Hello dear readers.  It will be recalled (blog article) that I was working on a project to replace a window regulator in my car.  I am delighted to be able to report that the car window is now once again working properly.  It took far longer to accomplish than it should have taken, but now all is well with the window.  Hopefully soon I will be able to report corrective action by the maker of the replacement regulator.  Continue reading “Window regulator success after problems”

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PCT seminars in Denver and Dallas patent offices are now CLE accredited

Hello dear readers.  You already know that there are PCT seminars coming up at four patent offices (San Jose, Denver, Dallas, and Detroit).  And you already know that yours truly will be among the faculty for these four seminars.   The big news today is that I am pleased to see that CLE accreditation has been obtained for the seminars in the Denver patent office (click here) and the Dallas patent office (click here).

For more information, or to register for any of these four one-day seminars, click here.

I also encourage you to attend my upcoming 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport, and the related half-day seminar on PCT docketing (click here).  This will be September 30 to October 2, 2025.  These seminars have also been CLE-accredited (click here and here).

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Torque sticks and big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrenches

big cordless ½-inch impact wrench
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Over the course of many decades I have loosened and tightened motor vehicle lug nuts hundreds of times.  I have always done this with hand tools.

Now I have a big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrench and maybe now I will not be stuck having to use hand tools for lug nuts.

torque sticks
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All of a sudden I have no choice but to think about “torque sticks”.  Maybe you have strong feelings about torque sticks, in which case please post a comment below.  Maybe you have never heard of torque sticks.  Loyal readers know exactly where this is going.  What follows is a prolonged discussion of torque sticks as they related to big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrenches.  Continue reading “Torque sticks and big cordless ½-inch drive impact wrenches”

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Do you have bufferbloat?

buffer bloat test results
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Maybe you have bufferbloat, perhaps not being directly aware of it.  In a local area network (LAN) suffering from bufferbloat, the network can become practically unusable for many interactive applications like voice over IP (VoIP), media streaming, online gaming, and even ordinary web browsing.  This can happen no matter how much money you spend to get high-speed service from your ISP (internet service provider).

If you have bufferbloat, then the thing to do is to take the protective measure of installing and using SQM (“Smart Queue Management”) in your data router.   It might turn out that your data router is unable to do SQM in which case you might want to upgrade your router.

How can you figure out whether you have bufferbloat?  How can you fix it?

This blog article talks about these things.  Continue reading “Do you have bufferbloat?”

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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.