Category: Industrial Designs

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Listervs have been migrated to a new server

(Update:  Microsoft is behaving badly about this.  See blog article.)

Hello to the members of the various listservs hosted by Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC.   Yesterday I migrated the listservs to a new server.  For many members of the listservs, hopefully this will go largely unnoticed after a few test postings of yesterday and today.  But for some members, this will be extra work and trouble.  I am sorry about this.

Here are details.

Whitelisting.  Previously the listservs were on a server at IP address 162.255.116.157.  Now the listservs are on a server at IP address 66.29.132.148.  Maybe you had previously set up a whitelisting entry in your email system to allow messages from 162.255.116.157 to reach you.  If so, you may find that now you need to set up a whitelisting entry in your email system to allow messages from 66.29.132.148 to reach you.  (Update:  Microsoft is behaving badly about this.  See blog article.)

Member password.  This migration caused a reset of your password for your subscription to the listserv.   To get your password figured out again, you might find it necessary to go to one of the eleven links below (for the listserv that you need to reset the password in) and click on the link, and follow the process for resetting your password.

Digest numbering.  If you are a digest subscriber, you will see that this migration has reset the digest numbering to volume 1.

I am sorry about the extra work and trouble.

Links to user information pages for the listservs.  The listservs affected by this server migration include:

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Argentina intellectual property office becomes even more trendy, modern and up-to-date

click to visit INPI web site

Today is the day!  Yes, today is the day (see previous blog article) on which the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina becomes a Depositing Office for national industrial design applications and national trademark applications.  Continue reading “Argentina intellectual property office becomes even more trendy, modern and up-to-date”

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No web-based Issue Fee payment for Hague applications

It is recalled that one of USPTO’s stated goals for Patentcenter is that before it shuts down EFS-Web, the USPTO will bring forward all of the functions and features of EFS-Web into Patentcenter.  It is also a matter of common sense that each function and feature in Patentcenter that works for one application type needs to be implemented for all other relevant application types.   This blog article reports that the USPTO is now doubling down on a baffling refusal to correct a defect in Patentcenter relating to the payment of Issue Fees in Hague (35-series) applications.  Continue reading “No web-based Issue Fee payment for Hague applications”

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Argentina intellectual property office becomes more trendy, modern and up-to-date

click to visit INPI web site

The National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) had already been trendy, modern, and up-to-date, having joined the DAS system on October 1, 2019 (blog article).  Today’s news is that INPI has become even more trendy, modern and up-to-date.  It now participates in DAS in more ways.  Continue reading “Argentina intellectual property office becomes more trendy, modern and up-to-date”

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Today is the day — Italy becomes an Accessing Office in DAS

You heard it here first (blog article, July 13, 2023)!  Today is the day that the Italian Patent and Trademark Office becomes an Accessing Office in the DAS system for the following kinds of applications:

    • national industrial design applications
    • national patent applications
    • national trademark applications
    • national utility model applications
    • PCT international applications

Continue reading “Today is the day — Italy becomes an Accessing Office in DAS”

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What reel and frame numbers have to do with bitcoin and blockchain and shared ledgers

For their entire careers, US patent and trademark practitioners have lived and breathed a world of “reel and frame numbers” that are somehow intimately connected with the recordation of patent and trademark assignments.  What exactly are reel and frame numbers, and how is it that reel and frame numbers relate closely with bitcoin and blockchain and shared ledgers?  Continue reading “What reel and frame numbers have to do with bitcoin and blockchain and shared ledgers”