Industrial Designs – Page 18 – Ant-Like Persistence

March 29, 2019

The seventh annual US Design Patent Toteboard is out

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.

March 20, 2019

Canadian Intellectual Property Office joins DAS for designs

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”

March 20, 2019

Georgia patent office joins the DAS system

This is a busy week for good news about participation in the DAS system. The Georgia patent office, whose formal name in English is the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia, has joined the DAS system. Continue reading “Georgia patent office joins the DAS system”

March 19, 2019

Broken links in “get your numbers in for the toteboards”

Hello readers. After comments from several people I went to look closely at my four recent posts:

Each blog article contains four important links for you to click on:

a link to the questionnaire where you can enter your numbers for the particular category in that particular blog post, and
crosslinks to the other three blog posts.

In each case the questionnaire link works fine so far as I am aware. But until today, each place where there was a crosslink to one of the other three blog posts, the crosslink was no good. It asked for a user ID and password instead of taking you to the desired page.

Thanks to alert readers, I have hopefully corrected the crosslinks.

Hopefully everybody will get their numbers in soon.

March 18, 2019

How long it takes these days to get a design patent filing receipt

How long is it taking these days for the Office of Patent Application Processing to mail out a Filing Receipt in a design case? I looked through some of our recently filed cases and here is what I found. Continue reading “How long it takes these days to get a design patent filing receipt”

March 10, 2019

Get your numbers in for the 2018 US design patent toteboard

It’s time to get your numbers in for the seventh annual US Design Patent toteboard.

Continue reading “Get your numbers in for the 2018 US design patent toteboard”

March 10, 2019

Whither Daylight Saving Time?

More than five hours have passed since my blog posting that points out that right now you probably have an extra hour for e-filing of stuff at the International Bureau of WIPO. Why do you have this extra hour? You have this extra hour because probably you are in the US and you set your clocks forward. And (this is the important part) the folks in Switzerland did not pick today to set their clocks forward. (They will set their clocks forward in about three weeks, on March 31.)

Anyway, during this past five hours I sort of figured that at least one alert reader would have posted a comment about the imminent demise of Daylight Saving Time. Yet, astonishingly, this has not happened! So I will now discuss the imminent demise of Daylight Saving Time. Continue reading “Whither Daylight Saving Time?”

March 10, 2019

e-filing at WIPO – you get an extra hour

It’s that time of year again. People in the US who sometimes e-file stuff at the International Bureau at WIPO will have memorized exactly what the local time is that works out to being midnight in Switzerland … and for the next three weeks, the answer to this question will be different from the usual answer. Continue reading “e-filing at WIPO – you get an extra hour”

March 2, 2019

Locarno classes are by now fashionable

What are Locano classes? What do I mean when I say that Locarno classes are by now fashionable?

Continue reading “Locarno classes are by now fashionable”

February 28, 2019

Register now for Design Day 2019

You will recall that back on January 13, 2019 I told you to save the date, namely Thursday, April 25.

Registration is now open for Design Day 2019. This will be at the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia.

This event always sells out weeks in advance. If you want to attend, you need to register right away.

To learn more, or to register, click here.

Yours truly is among the members of the planning committee for Design Day 2019. I can promise you that it will be a good use of your time to attend.