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Design Day 2018 will be Wednesday, April 25, 2018. As usual it will take place in the auditorium in the Madison Building in Alexandria, Virginia.
Design Day always sells out. As soon as I learn of the signup opportunity I will post it in this blog. If you are planning to attend, please be sure to sign up right away before it sells out.
The search fee paid by US filers for the Korean International Searching Authority (for the first invention) will increase on April 1, 2018 from $1134 to $1218, an increase of about seven percent.
The nice inexpensive fee at ISA/KR for the second through n-th inventions will, however, remain unchanged at a mere ₩225000 (about $208 at today’s exchange rate). Continue reading “Korean search fee to increase April 1”
Our office, like most offices these days, is paperless. (Well, not exactly paperless. We go through many reams of paper per week. But I digress.) Being paperless, our important files are all maintained on file servers. Imagine how one’s office would be brought to its knees, or worse, if a such electronic files were to be lost! Which brings me to the concept of monthly disk health reports.
PCT Learning Center will sponsor a two-day program about PCT in Austin. This will be April 11-12. Note that I will not be a presenter at this program.
To learn more or to register, click here.
PCT Learning Center will sponsor a two-day program about PCT in Dallas. This will be April 9-10. Note that I will not be a presenter at this program.
To learn more or to register, click here.
There’s a nice opportunity to learn about PCT coming up soon in New Orleans. I will be teaching two and a half days about PCT, on April 18th through 20th. This program is sponsored by Patent Resources Group.
To find out more, or to register, click here.
There’s a great opportunity to learn about PCT, coming soon in Glendale, California.
I will be teaching a day and a half about PCT. This is part of a four-day program for IP Support Professionals. This is March 5-8, 2018. It is sponsored by Patent Resources Group.
For more information, or to register, click here.
There’s a great opportunity coming up to learn about PCT. It is a one-day program sponsored by the Schwegman firm and by WIPO. Wednesday, April 11. Yours truly will be the presenter.
It is astonishing (in a good way) that the Schwegman firm will be making this program available free of charge. If you know someone who is with the Schwegman firm, tell them “thanks”. I really mean this. Call them up or drop them an email, or thank them in person. This is really a nice thing that the Schwegman firm does for the patent community.
To find out more, or to register, click here.
How does one obtain patent protection in Montenegro through the PCT? This turns out to be a very interesting question. Continue reading “Montenegro and PCT”
https://www.uspto.gov/uspto-operating-status
Here is what the USPTO says:
While activities across much of the federal government ceased at 12:01 a.m. January 20, 2018, due to a lack of appropriated funding, the USPTO remains operational.
This is possible because the agency has access to prior year fee collections, which enables the USPTO to continue normal operations for a few weeks. Should the USPTO exhaust these funds before a government shutdown comes to an end, the agency would have to shut down at that time, although a very small staff would continue to work to accept new applications and maintain IT infrastructure, among other functions.
Further information regarding any adjustments to the USPTO’s operating status during a federal government shutdown will be posted on the USPTO website and delivered to the news media.