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A longstanding member of the PCT listserv asked: It used to be that for a PCT, along with Request RO101, we would file a transmittal form for USPTO: PTO-1382 (Rev. 04-2010). Yet none of my readings about ePCT or your blog mentions that. Has it gone away?
Yesterday for the first time I encountered a particularly nice feature in WIPO’s Digital Access Service (DAS). The feature has been there for some time but yesterday was the first time I actually saw it work. The feature is that you can set up a sort of “tripwire” and when some Office retrieves a certified …
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A member of the PCT listserv asked: On a US application filed yesterday with non-US inventors (no US assignee) and a PCT filing deadline of today, we filed through the USPTO and got a PCT application number, we just could not upload it as a PCT-Safe Zip file. The USPTO PCT Helpline said it was …
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Here are a few thoughts about Best Practices for docketing and the Patent Cooperation Treaty. (Thanks to alert reader Lynn F. McMiller who pointed out a typo in the article. Lynn will be receiving a free copy of the Bodenhausen book.) (By the way, if you have not already done so, I suggest you sign …
What’s the Best Practice for filing a Demand and Article 34 amendment in a PCT application?
What’s the Best Practice for filing an Article 19 amendment in a PCT application?
When you file a PCT application, of course one of the things that you will do is take steps so that you can view your PCT application in ePCT. Once the newly filed PCT application is visible to you in ePCT, then there is a Best Practice to be followed, namely proofreading the preview of …
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A member of the PCT-L listserv recently asked: For a PCT application filed with the RO/IB, what is the Best Practice for getting a certified copy of my priority document to the IB? The Best Practice is to use WIPO’s Digital Access Service.
In Patentscope and ePCT, WIPO offers “permalinks”. These are web links that you can copy and use elsewhere, such as intranets and emails to clients. Similarly in European Patent Register, EPO offers such web links. Indeed the TSDR system of USPTO offers URLs that can be used this way. So why doesn’t USPTO offer …
Continue reading “A feature USPTO needs to add – permalinks”
In this article I will describe the Best Practice for filing a Patent Cooperation Treaty patent application in the Receiving Office at the USPTO. (Note on June 12, 2015 — a nice person at WIPO offered suggestions for improvement of this article, all of which were very helpful, so I have updated this article.)