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USPTO says that if you check this box, the second authentication factor will not be not needed during signin for the next 24 hours.
This is, of course, false. Or more accurately, it is almost always false. The check box does occasionally save the USPTO customer from having to carry out two-factor authentication when logging in to a USPTO system. But usually it does not work. Continue reading “Does this check box ever actually work?”
Right on schedule, the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (“INPI-AR”) has indeed today joined the DAS system. INPI-AR is now operating as an Accessing Office in DAS with respect to patents and utility models and industrial designs. Here is an excerpt from an exemplary Certificate of Availability from DAS showing availability of a design application:
Readers will recall that I blogged about this on August 19, 2019.
This welcome development brings the number of participating DAS Offices as of October 1, 2019 to twenty-four.
Yet another intellectual property office has joined DAS for industrial designs. IP Australia will become both an Accessing Office and a Depositing Office for designs on November 1, 2019.
This brings to nine the number of Depositing Offices for designs. This brings to eight the number of Accessing Offices for designs. The Accessing Offices for designs are:
Conspicuously absent among the ID5 are:
In this blog article I will introduce the reader to a USPTO initiative for US design patent applications called “rocket docket”. (The formal name for this initiative is “exepedited examination for designs”.) Using this initiative, a successful applicant might get a case allowed in less than a month. What are the pros and cons of using rocket docket? Continue reading ““Rocket docket” for US designs”
Design Day XIII wrapped up at about 5PM, at which point the attendees headed over to the aptly named Trademark Bar. I was delighted to have had many opportunities during the day and at this beverage break to meet with colleagues and friends in the design community.
I am delighted to report that USPTO is providing really excellent wifi at today’s Design Day.
Here is Design Day XIII — a room full of design geeks and design nerds. This includes dozens of design Examiners from the USPTO, hundreds of design practitioners, and many industrial designers.
For the past three weeks the situation for e-filing at WIPO has been that the local time to e-file so as to get a same-day filing date in Switzerland has been different from usual. But today the people in Switzerland have turned their clocks forward. So things are back to normal.
For example if you are in the Mountain time zone, once again as of today you will be counting toward 4PM local time to get a same-day filing date in Switzerland. (For the past three weeks the answer was 5PM.)
It is my honor to post the seventh annual US Design Patent Toteboard. This toteboard lists the firms that obtained the most US design patents in 2018.
As I look at this list, I see many firms which were doing design patent law long before it was trendy.
First place went to Banner & Witcoff. Banner & Witcoff has been in first place for seven years in a row (since the very first US design patent toteboard).
Second place went to Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch. Birch, Stewart has been in the top ten for the past six years.
(My firm was in nineteenth place.)
You can see the other 2018 toteboards here.
I am delighted to see that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has joined the DAS system for industrial designs. Continue reading “Canadian Intellectual Property Office joins DAS for designs”