Category: Patents

Hello folks.   Would you prefer it if the USPTO were to reduce how many mistakes it makes in official patent Filing Receipts?  Then please review and sign the following two letters:

• Krista Jacobsen’s letter about publication date errors in filing receipts has by now thirteen signatures.  The signers have collectively received over six thousand filing receipts in the past ten years, and have collectively paid over ten million dollars to the USPTO in the past ten years.
• Krista Jacobsen’s letter about missing FFL information has by now ten signatures.  The signers have collectively received over five thousand filing receipts in the past ten years, and have collectively paid over seven million dollars to the USPTO in the past ten years.

These letters will close for signature this next Monday at noon Eastern Time. I have signed both letters.  Why don’t you join those signers, by signing these two letters yourself?

Carl

This bit of news sort of snuck up on me.  Only today did I catch on that five days ago, the Iranian patent office (formally known as the Intellectual Property Center (IPC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran) became a Depositing Office in the DAS system for two kinds of priority documents.  Continue reading “Iranian patent office joins the DAS system as a Depositing Office”

WIPO has announced that version 2.1.2 of its WIPO Sequence software will be available tomorrow (Wednesday August 3, 2022).  You can see the announcement here.  Here are action items for ST26 users: Continue reading “Version 2.1.2 of WIPO Sequence software available tomorrow”

Hello dear readers.  In recent days I published two blog articles (July 15, 2022 and July 15, 2022) that are must-read articles for anybody who has filed any patent application on or after July 1, 2022 containing a sequence listing.  If you have filed any patent application (PCT or non-PCT) on or after July 1, 2022 that contains a sequence listing, and if you have not read those two blog articles, you should read them.  After that, you should return to this article and read this article.  This article has more information from nice people at WIPO about the ST26 issues that I raised in those articles.  Continue reading “Still more must-read for ST26 enthusiasts”

Just when you thought you were completely familiar with the USPTO e-commerce systems, you realize you were missing something important for all these years.  Yes, it turns out that for all of these years, the Public PAIR system has been used for filing of patent applications.  See this USPTO News Brief published today, which is quoted at right. Continue reading “PAIR was for filing patent applications?”