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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.
Update: two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.
By now, over 900 have registered for these two webinars:
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.
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.
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:
Continue reading “What ChatGPT says about USPTO’s DOCX initiative”
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.
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”
(Update: an alert reader has discovered an undocumented feature of Patentcenter that takes a step in the direction of fixing trouble ticket CP12. See blog article.)
The USPTO people are probably going to say that in the March 17, 2023 version of Patentcenter, they think they have fixed trouble ticket CP12. But they have not fixed trouble ticket CP12. Continue reading “CP12 has not been fixed”
Are you in one of these 13 countries?
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.
It will be recalled that the Patentcenter listserv has secured an hour-long meeting with USPTO’s Chief Information Officer, Jamie Holcombe, on Thursday, March 23. This will run from 11AM to noon Eastern Time. I reported this to you in a blog article dated February 7, 2023. There are two developments about this. Continue reading “The upcoming meeting with USPTO about Patentcenter redux”