Which ePCT topics you want me to teach sooner than others!

Yesterday I posted a blog article asking readers to let me know which ePCT topics they want me to teach sooner than other topics. I listed fifteen topics. I provided a very long and tedious questionnaire by which readers could indicate their personal rankings of the fifteen topics, as “urgent” or “average urgency” or “not urgent”. Fifty-four readers responded, for which I am quite grateful. Here you can see what they said:

	urgent	average urgency	not urgent
filing a new US PCT application in RO/US using ePCT	21	17	16
ePCT actions and communications with the IB	19	22	12
filing a new US PCT application in RO/IB using ePCT	18	25	11
docketing of PCT applications and making use of ePCT notifications	17	19	17
External signatures and PCT declarations	16	25	12
Making sure your US priority documents are available to DAS, best practices for filing US priority documents, Certificates of Availability, setting up alerts	16	19	18
Getting to know your ePCT workbench, portfolios, office profiles, cloning, ePCT actions	15	22	16
using ePCT to e-file in ISAs and IPEAs, filing Demands	15	22	16
doing 92bis changes	15	22	16
Publication front page preview, generating reports of outstanding Forms ISA/202, generating reports of applications with outstanding priority documents	9	28	16
Getting pending PCT applications into your workbench, going back to January 1, 2009, archiving old applications	9	22	23
Shared address books, collaborative workflow, sharing with clients, sharing with outside counsel	9	20	23
Intro to ePCT, why ePCT is important, getting a user ID and password, setting up 2FA	9	13	31
sequence listings and ePCT	9	13	31
Handshakes, eOwners, eEditors, eViewers, access rights groups, employee first day of work, employee last day of work	7	23	23

I will try to take these responses somewhat into account as I plan the sequence of the webinars. One thing is that some of the topics are, to some extent, reliant upon other topics for example as prerequisites. So I will present some topics before others for this reason.

I am very grateful to the fifty-four readers who took the time to fill out the long and tedious questionnaire. You know who you are!

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Dear Carl
I think there is a need for some sort of multi factor formula to sort topics. You should assign a weight to each selection (urgent = 1 , average urgency = 0.5 , not urgent = 0).
Then, calculate each row score, for instance:
Row 1 -> filing a new US PCT application in RO/US using ePCT = (1*21) + (0.5*17) = 29.5
Row 3 -> filing a new US PCT application in RO/IB using ePCT = (1*18) + (0.5*25) = 30.5
As has been shown row 3 has more score than row 1
just kidding 🙂