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Here’s a new one on me — I am curious if other users of USPTO’s Patent Center have seen this one. “AuthApiError: Failed to fetch”. Continue reading “USPTO web page says “AuthApiError: Failed to fetch””
Here are seven upcoming Patent Cooperation Treaty webinars: https://blog.oppedahl.com/pct-webinars/ .
Yes, I realize the subject line doesn’t actually narrow things down very much, in the sense that many USPTO announcements are poorly worded in one way or another. But this one is breathtaking in the extremity of its poor wording. See if you can catch it:
Planned maintenance
Customer Interaction Platform Contact Center Transition
The USPTO will transition our contact centers to a new platform beginning at midnight ET on Monday, October 28 and ending at midnight ET on Tuesday, October 29.
Users may experience longer wait times during the transition period.
(emphasis in original.) Continue reading “poorly worded USPTO announcement”
Are you in the DC area? Do you use the Patent Cooperation Treaty? Have you not already signed up for the PCT Seminar that will take place this next Monday in Alexandria, Virginia? If so, then cancel your plans for Monday and sign up for the PCT Seminar that will take place this next Monday in Alexandria, Virginia!
This is the best PCT seminar money can buy. Except that it is free of charge. The presenters include experts from WIPO. I will also be among the presenters.
To learn more, and to register click here.
I am delighted to be able to report that Uruguay has deposited with the IB of WIPO its instrument of accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Continue reading “Uruguay has joined the PCT”
As I mentioned a couple of days ago (blog article), there will be a live in-person PCT seminar in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday, October 28, 2024. I am delighted to be able to mention that yours truly will be among the faculty of this seminar. For more information, or to register, click here.
(Update: the registration link is now available – click here.)
There will be a live in-person PCT seminar in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday, October 28, 2024. This seminar, mentioned in the recent WIPO PCT Newsletter, will be an all-day event. WIPO will soon provide a registration link for the seminar. For now, save the date in your calendar. Be sure to subscribe to this blog, and be sure to subscribe to the PCT listserv, to hear about it when the registration link becomes available.
In a previous blog article I bemoaned the unacceptable flakiness in the function of the USPTO’s Central Fax Number. In this blog article I bemoan the unacceptable sluggishness of the USPTO’s workflow for handling of inbound faxes. Continue reading “Sluggishness of USPTO workflow for inbound faxes”
USPTO’s central fax number is flaky and the subsequent USPTO workflow is unacceptably sluggish. Continue reading “Flakiness of USPTO’s central fax number”
There has always been a problem that some Examiners fish for unnecessary continuations and RCEs. If an applicant can be teased into filing a continuation or an RCE, the Examiner picks up two more “counts”.
One of the USPTO’s initiatives to try to reduce this problem happened in 2013 — the After Final Consideration Program (AFCP). Now after a ten-year run, the USPTO has announced (Federal Register notice) that it will discontinue AFCP.
During the ten years that AFCP was available, our firm used it many dozens of times. I estimate that in perhaps 25% of cases, it did save us from having to file an otherwise unnecessary continuation or RCE. Now with the AFCP initiative gone, we will surely face renewed levels of fishing for continuations and RCEs by some Examiners.