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Here are the recordings of the two recent webinars on risks of DOCX e-filing

Here are the recordings of the two recent webinars on risks of DOCX e-filing.  (Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings of the more recent webinars are now available.)

  • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of Microsoft Word – Tuesday, April 18, 2023.  The recording is now available and you can see it here.   The duration is 1 hour and 35 minutes.  You can download the presentation materials here.
  • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of non-Microsoft word processors — Wednesday, April 19, 2023.  The recording is now available and you can see it here.   The duration is 1 hour and 31 minutes.  You can download the presentation materials here.
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Here is the recording of today’s webinar on risks of DOCX e-filing

Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.

Hello folks.  Today I presented a webinar on the risks of using the USPTO’s DOCX e-filing system.  The recording is now available and you can see it here.   The duration is 1 hour and 35 minutes.  You can download the presentation materials here.

Keep in mind there will be another live webinar tomorrow on mostly the same subject matter.  Click here for more information or to register.

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Join the over 900 who have registered for the webinars about DOCX patent filing risks

Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.

By now, over 900 have registered for these two webinars:

    • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of Microsoft Word – Tuesday, April 18, 10AM Mountain Time.
    • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of non-Microsoft word processors — Wednesday, April 19, 10AM Mountain Time.

The webinars are free of charge.  The email addresses include attendees from many Fortune 200 companies and from most of the well-known patent firms in the US.

Oddly, no one with an “@uspto.gov” email address seems to have registered.

For more information or to register, click here.

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Reducing professional risk with USPTO’s DOCX initiative — two webinars

Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.

The USPTO continues to present webinars, by now every two days or so, containing pants-on-fire lies about “the DOCX standard” and how safe it supposedly is to file US patent applications according to the USPTO’s DOCX initiative. As of the present time, USPTO’s stated plan is to start charging a $400 surcharge on June 30, 2023 for those filers who fail to use the DOCX initiative.

Attend either or both of two upcoming webinars to get the other side of the story.  Attend either or both of the two webinars to appreciate the professional liability risks of filing in DOCX.  Attend either or both of the two webinars to learn how to reduce the professional liability risks.

To learn more about the webinars, or to register, click here.

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Five more ePCT webinars available for signup

Many readers have signed up for the first eight webinars about ePCT.  (Details here.)  Now I have scheduled dates for five more of the webinars.  Here are the dates and times, and here are the links to register:

    • Webinar 9.  Thursday, April 27, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  Filing a new US PCT application in RO/IB using ePCT.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 10.  Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  ePCT actions and communications with the IB.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 11.  Thursday, May 11, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  External signatures and PCT declarations.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 12.  Thursday, May 18, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  Sequence listings and ePCT.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 13.  Thursday, June 1, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  Docketing of PCT applications and making use of ePCT notifications.  Click to register.  Suggested companion purchase.
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Time of day at the IB returns to normal for US filers

Two weeks ago I blogged (see blog posting) that US filers filing PCT applications in RO/IB needed to pay extra close attention to what time it is in Switzerland.  (And it was the same for e-filers in the Madrid Protocol system.)  The reason is that in the US, Daylight Saving Time happened on March 12.  But did not happen on that day in Switzerland.  This meant that for the past two weeks, a US-based filer in (for example) the Mountain Time zone would be able to e-file in RO/IB as late as 5PM and still get a same-day filing date.  This differed from the usual drop-dead time of 4PM.

Today (March 26, 2023) is the day that Daylight Saving Time happens in Switzerland.  The consequence of this is that the time difference between the US filer’s time zone and the time in RO/IB is back to normal.  So for a US-based filer in the Mountain Time zone, the drop-dead time returns today to the usual 4PM.

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front-page attorney docket search in Patentcenter has an undocumented feature

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In a previous blog article I discussed the front-page attorney docket number search in Patentcenter.  I pointed out that in the legacy system (PAIR) it was possible to check a box to enter a partial docket number to get one or more matches.  In that previous blog article I noted the conspicuous absence of a corresponding check box in Patentcenter’s front-page attorney docket number search.  I am indebted to alert reader Marc V Richards for somehow figuring out that there is an undocumented feature that sort of makes up for the absence of that check box.  It turns out that you can do wildcard searches.  Continue reading “front-page attorney docket search in Patentcenter has an undocumented feature”

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Are you in one of these 13 countries?

Are you in one of these 13 countries?

    1. Austria
    2. Denmark
    3. Estonia
    4. Eurasian Patent Organization (yes I realize this is not a country)
    5. Georgia
    6. Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    7. Italy
    8. Latvia
    9. Monaco
    10. Morocco
    11. New Zealand
    12. Republic of Korea
    13. Türkiye

If so, can you please let me know whether your DAS Depositing Office charges a fee for a DAS access code?  Please see this page where I am trying to collect all of the answers that kind readers have provided.