Category: Industrial Designs

The mail room at the USPTO is, politely stated, a striking example of a service failure.  Continue reading “USPTO mail room works unacceptably slowly”

Yes, I realize the subject line doesn’t actually narrow things down very much, in the sense that many USPTO announcements are poorly worded in one way or another.  But this one is breathtaking in the extremity of its poor wording.  See if you can catch it:

Planned maintenance
Customer Interaction Platform Contact Center Transition
The USPTO will transition our contact centers to a new platform beginning at midnight ET on Monday, October 28 and ending at midnight ET on Tuesday, October 29.
Users may experience longer wait times during the transition period.

(emphasis in original.)  Continue reading “poorly worded USPTO announcement”

I am pleased to present the 2023 toteboards:

• • Twelfth annual US Design Patent Toteboard
  • Ninth annual US Trademark Registration Toteboard
  • Ninth annual US Utility Patent Toteboard
  • Fifth annual US Plant Patent Toteboard

Three days from now will be the end of your opportunity to get your numbers in for the 2023 Toteboards (blog article).

So far we have the following results:

• • For the Trademark toteboard, we have 27 responses accounting for 6321 trademark registrations.
  • For the US plant patent toteboard, we have 5 responses accounting for 137 US plant patents.
  • For the US design patent toteboard, we have 20 responses accounting for 2111 US design patents.
  • For the US utility patent toteboard, we have 22 responses accounting for 11531 US utility patents.

If you have not already gotten your numbers in, now is the time to do it (blog article).

Hello colleagues.   It is time to get your numbers in for the 2023 toteboards.  The toteboards have a goal of recognizing the intellectual property firms that filed the most US utility patent applications, filed the most US design patent applications, filed the most US plant patent applications, and filed the most US trademark applications, and saw them through to issuance and registration.

The submission forms will close toward the end of the day on Friday, February 9, 2024.    Please don’t dawdle with this.  Please just hand in your numbers and be done with it.

The 2023 toteboards will get published in February of 2024.  Every year, we publish the toteboards, and after that, some firm comes in begging and pleading to hand in its numbers late.  Please don’t do that.  Please hand in your numbers no later than Friday, February 9, 2024!

How to do toteboard searches.

You can see the past toteboards, including the 2022 toteboards, here.

• • To hand in your numbers for the Ninth Annual utility patent toteboard, click here.
  • To hand in your numbers for the Ninth Annual trademark toteboard, click here.
  • To hand in your numbers for the Twelfth Annual design patent toteboard, click here.
  • To hand in your numbers for the Fifth Annual plant patent toteboard, click here.

(Update:  be sure to look at Richard Schafer’s comment below, about how to whitelist in Microsoft’s system.)

Hello to the members of the various listservs hosted by Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC.   Five days ago I migrated the listservs to a new server.  For many members of the listservs, it looks like this migration has gone largely unnoticed after a few test postings of yesterday and today.  But for some members, this migration has not worked out well, because of the behavior of their email service provider, which is called “Outlook” from Microsoft.  Continue reading “Listervs have been migrated to a new server redux”