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Please sign this letter about DOCX

Hello colleagues.  Yesterday I posted a draft comment letter about USPTO’s DOCX initiative.  Colleagues provided very helpful suggestions and corrections.  With the benefit of the suggestions and corrections, the letter is now “locked”.  It won’t change again.  You can see it here.

Right now the letter has 42 signatures.  The signers have, directly or through their firms or corporations, filed more than 26000 US patent applications in the past ten years.  The signers have, directly or through their firms or corporations, paid more than $38 million in fees to the USPTO in the past ten years.

Please consider adding your signature to those who have already signed it.

7 Replies to “Please sign this letter about DOCX”

  1. Hi Oppedahl,

    I could not find a place to sign or to add my name to the list… I could read the letter, I could not sign it. I will try again tomorrow.

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    1. Please look for this sentence: “Please consider signing the letter if you have not already done so.  To do that, click here.”

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    1. Please look for this sentence: “Please consider signing the letter if you have not already done so.  To do that, click here.”

      Reply
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  4. “Suppose that a Greek letter mu (“µ”) became an “m” in a numerical prefix in a math formula, as happened to one of us when we filed a patent application in DOCX format rather than PDF format.” – if you make a mu by typing an M with font symbol, is the character in a character-coded PDF file a mu or an M?

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    1. I mean, a symbol that looks like the Greek letter mu (“µ”) on screen can be a M in ASCII code but formatted with the font that is called “Symbol” in Windows and wherein the letters are displayed as Greek letters.

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