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If you want to do any of the good things in ePCT, you have to be logged in using two-factor authentication (“2FA”). (WIPO chooses to call this “strong authentication”.) One of the nice things is that WIPO offers several distinct kinds of 2FA that a user can choose from. Now WIPO has added yet another …
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Update: the webinars are now imminent. See a followup article. Hello dear ePCT enthusiasts! Here are fifteen upcoming webinars that I will be presenting in the next few months on ePCT topics. Note that this is not the same as the upcoming fifteen webinars about PCT. This is fifteen upcoming webinars about ePCT. Note the …
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WIPO will be providing a two-hour overview of ePCT and its functionalities. Attendees will be shown how to do several important things, including: how to file PCT applications online, how to perform online Actions, how to share access rights, and how to best manage applications by using the many practical features offered by ePCT. The …
On April 7, 2021 I presented a webinar entitled Worry-free use of ePCT with EFS-Web and e-filing PCT applications at the USPTO. (I publicized it in this blog article on March 23, 2021.) More than 400 people attended. Now a video recording of the webinar is available, an hour and 49 minutes in duration. You can …
Now the video recording is available for viewing. Read about it here. This webinar explains how and why it is that you no longer need to worry about whether it is okay to use ePCT when filing PCT applications at the USPTO.
Dear readers, I am delighted to be able to report that the USPTO did the right thing this past week about ePCT. The executive summary of it is that the USPTO had published a Federal Register notice on May 6, 2016 that put a cloud over the use by US applicants of ePCT. The cloud …
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Back in autumn of 2018, the alpha testers of Patentcenter told the Patentcenter developers, over and over again, please go and look at ePCT to see how they do it. Please look at the feature list for ePCT, said the alpha testers, and design your database structures so that you can implement the same features …
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Yesterday I blogged about the fact that Europe and US do their daylight saving time changes on different weekends: E-filing at WIPO – you get an extra hour. This prompted Ann Bardini of WIPO to write to me to offer a reminder of some of the features of ePCT that help users to keep track …
For many years the Best Practice for filing in RO/US has been to use a ZIP file as the way to provide the PCT Request to EFS-Web. Originally the only way create the ZIP file was PCT-SAFE. Three years ago WIPO announced that ePCT would be available starting on June 1, 2016 as a second …
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WIPO will offer a free-of-charge all-day live in-person training program on the ePCT system. This will be Friday, July 20, 2018, from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, at the Silicon Valley regional patent office, 26 South Fourth Street, San Jose, CA 95113.