Ant-Like Persistence

A member of the PCT Listserv (which you should join) asked:

WIPO (or the ISA) changed the title of my PCT application. But I can’t work out when/where/how/why it was done. The A2 publication has one title (the one we gave it). The A3 publication has a slightly different title. Interestingly, the change narrowed the title in a similar way to the way the Written Opinion said that the claimed invention should be narrowed. Any suggestions?

Continue reading “Someone changed the title of my PCT application?”

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 up for the Nineteenth Annual AIPLA PCT Seminar, which is a week and a half from now.  See this blog article for details.) Continue reading “Best Practices for docketing PCT”

There’s yet one more reason to sign up for the AIPLA PCT Seminar later this month.  (July 20-21 in San Francisco, July 23-24 in Alexandria, Virginia.)  If you sign up for the Seminar, this includes admission to a “primer” webinar on Tuesday, July 14.  The primer provides an introduction to the PCT system so that attendees are better prepared for the Seminar itself which is a bit more advanced.  You can see more information here.

What’s the Best Practice for filing a Demand and Article 34 amendment in a PCT application?  Continue reading “Best Practice for filing a Demand and Article 34 amendment”

What’s the Best Practice for filing an Article 19 amendment in a PCT application?  Continue reading “Best Practice for filing an Article 19 amendment”

Yesterday I blogged about how the choice of the Japanese searching authority for filers in RO/US seemed not to be well supported by USPTO in EFS-Web.  The EFS-Web page for payment of search fees did not list a choice for ISA/JP.  I reported that the USPTO’s Electronic Business Center (EBC) agreed it was missing and suggested that the way to pay the fee was to fax in Form 2038.

Now there is news from a nice person at the USPTO. Continue reading “Update on USPTO’s provisions for Japanese searching authority”

(Followup article has been posted.  Although the EBC did not know about it, there is a way to pay the ISA/JP fee in EFS-Web.)

Supposedly as of yesterday, PCT filers filing in RO/US were able to pick ISA/JP as their searching authority.  You can see the press release that says this.  And I blogged about this option back on June 19. But it looks like USPTO is dragging its feet on this. Continue reading “USPTO foot-dragging on implementation of ISA/JP”

Later this month are the AIPLA PCT Seminars.   You need to sign up if you have not already done so.  You can see the details here.  It’s Monday and Tuesday, the 20^th and 21^st, in San Francisco.  And it’s Thursday and Friday, the 23^rd and 24^th, in Alexandria, Virginia.

There are plenty of PCT seminars around, taught by people from USPTO and/or WIPO.  The way that the AIPLA PCT Seminars are different is that they have a seasoned faculty that includes speakers from USPTO and WIPO but also includes actual practitioners.  These people draw upon diverse backgrounds and provide an interactive discussion that teach things you won’t get anywhere else. Continue reading “Register now for AIPLA PCT Seminar later this month”

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 the PCT publication.  Continue reading “Best Practice when filing a PCT application – “pub preview””