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(Update: see the comment below. The event is now sold out.)
Every year, the USPTO Design Day sells out. This year will be no exception. As of right now, only two openings are left.
To find out more, or to register, click here.
The 2017 US Toteboards have been published. These toteboards have the goal of listing the firms that obtained US design patents, US trademark registrations, and US utility patents for clients. You can see:
A few days ago the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered an opinion in the case of Doceram v. CeramTec. This is an industrial designs case exploring how you may know the scope of protection for an article as a function of the extent to which the appearance of the article is solely dictated by its technical function. Continue reading “A design decision from Europe”
Registration is now open for USPTO Design Day 2018.
Design Day 2018 will take place Wednesday, April 25 in the Madison auditorium at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.
This event always sells out. So if you are planning to attend, don’t delay. Register now. Continue reading “Register now for USPTO Design Day 2018”
See the Office of Personnel Management announcement which says:
FEDERAL OFFICES in the Washington, DC area are CLOSED. Emergency and telework-ready employees required to work must follow their agency’s policies, including written telework agreements.
I wrote:
The USPTO is closed today, Friday, March 2, 2018.
Normally at this time of year such a closure would be due to a dusting of snow. But the reason for the closure is “high wind”.
Oh, and at the risk of stating the obvious, this means that any response or action that would have been due today will be timely if filed by this coming Monday, March 5, 2018.
But people are telling me they think the USPTO is actually open today. If this is true, then maybe the resetting of response dates to Monday won’t happen after all.
I will investigate further.
Today WIPO announced that starting today ( February 28, 2018) the Hague Agreement e-filing interface and international application form DM/1 have a new item to allow the provision of an access code via DAS. What does this mean? How will it affect you? Is there anything bad that will happen to practitioners who don’t know about this or fail to make use of this new item?
Continue reading “Hague Agreement, DAS, and four-character access codes”
If an applicant pursues US design protection using the Hague Agreement system, there are several mistakes to avoid, as I will discuss. Continue reading “Traps for the unwary in a Hague application that designates the US”
The goal of this toteboard is to list the firms that helped clients to obtain US design patents in 2017. It will rank the firms according to the number of US design patents obtained. Respondents are asked to report only US design patents for which the firm is listed on the front page of the granted patent. Please respond by Thursday, March 8, 2018.
You can see the previous Toteboards here.
To respond to be listed in the 2017 US Design Patent Toteboard, click here.
It’s also time for the third annual US Utility Patent Toteboard. To learn how to respond to be listed in that tote board, click here.
It’s also time for the 2017 US Trademark Registration Toteboard. To learn how to respond to be listed in that tote board, click here.
Design Day 2018 will be Wednesday, April 25, 2018. As usual it will take place in the auditorium in the Madison Building in Alexandria, Virginia.
Design Day always sells out. As soon as I learn of the signup opportunity I will post it in this blog. If you are planning to attend, please be sure to sign up right away before it sells out.
It will be recalled (see my blog article of December 14, 2017) that most USPTO patent fees will increase, some substantially, on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. This presents an opportunity to save money. If there is some fee that you were considering paying on or after January 16, maybe you should pay it earlier, for example on Monday, January 15.