Industrial Designs – Page 20 – Ant-Like Persistence

August 28, 2018

The ID5 Offices that have not yet joined DAS

The ID5 is the big five Offices for protection of industrial designs. The Offices are the USPTO, the EUIPO (formerly known as OHIM), JPO (the Japanese patent office), KIPO (the Korean intellectual property office) and SIPO (the Chinese patent office).

Conspicuous by its absence from DAS is EUIPO. I keep hearing that EUIPO will join DAS Real Soon Now. I do hope that EUIPO will follow through with this.

USPTO is not, at the present time, a Depositing Office in DAS for design applications. USPTO has promised that Real Soon Now it will become a Depositing Office for designs. I do hope that USPTO will follow through with this.

JPO is not, at the present time, a Depositing Office in DAS for design applications. I also hope that JPO will follow through soon with this.

August 28, 2018

September 1 and US design applications claiming priority from Chinese applications

There’s a big change that will happen four days from now for the US design applicant who claims priority from a Chinese design application.

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August 8, 2018

WIPO’s new Global IP Platform

WIPO is developing a new Global IP Platform or GIPP. The goal of the GIPP is to provide a personalized home page for a user of WIPO’s web site, with easy-to-find links to the various database and e-commerce systems provided by WIPO. The user can set up an array of widgets or tiles providing access to the particular databases and systems that are of interest to the user. Continue reading “WIPO’s new Global IP Platform”

July 19, 2018

Canada joins Hague Agreement

On Monday, July 16, 2018 Canada deposited its Instrument of Accession to the Hague Agreement.

Normally what one would expect from this event is that the Agreement would enter into effect from October 16, 2018 (three months thereafter). But that is not what is going to happen. Continue reading “Canada joins Hague Agreement”

July 13, 2018

Can a Hague application claim priority from a Hague application?

Recently a colleague asked whether a second Hague application (international design application) can claim priority from a first Hague application. This is a very interesting question. The answer is yes, it can, under certain circumstances, as I will explain. Continue reading “Can a Hague application claim priority from a Hague application?”

July 13, 2018

Why would anyone convert a US provisional application to a non-provisional?

There is a procedure for converting a US provisional patent application into a non-provisional patent application. The practitioner who follows this procedure (instead of simply filing a non-provisional with a domestic benefit claim) will put the client in the position of incurring an extra government fee and losing some patent term.

So why would anyone ever carry out this procedure? There is a real-life situation where this might be the clever thing to do, as I learned the other day from a smart member of the EFS-Web listserv.

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June 17, 2018

PDX and DAS on Tuesday

Attend a webinar this coming Tuesday, June 19^th. The subject is PDX and DAS. Or maybe you do not need to attend, because you already have mastery of PDX and DAS! Those who have mastery of PDX and DAS should have no problem passing this DAS quiz. Continue reading “PDX and DAS on Tuesday”

June 2, 2018

See if you can pass a simple quiz on the DAS system

Here’s a simple quiz about the DAS system. Pass this quiz and it means you know quite a bit about DAS. Continue reading “See if you can pass a simple quiz on the DAS system”

June 1, 2018

A smart thing that USPTO customers should do now

(Please also see a followup blog article here.)

Those who make use of Private PAIR and EFS-Web are accustomed to USPTO’s very clunky way of accomplishing two-factor authentication, namely the poorly designed Entrust Java Applet (EJA). USPTO has now formally announced (see excerpt at right from a slide in a USPTO webinar yesterday) that it will replace EJA with a much more user-friendly approach. The goals of today’s blog article are: