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Update: the webinars are now imminent. See a followup article.
Hello dear ePCT enthusiasts! Here are fifteen upcoming webinars that I will be presenting in the next few months on ePCT topics. Note that this is not the same as the upcoming fifteen webinars about PCT. This is fifteen upcoming webinars about ePCT. Note the “e”. Continue reading “Upcoming ePCT webinars (not the same as upcoming PCT webinars)”
I am astonished (in a good way) to see that just a few minutes ago we surpassed 1600 registrations for the Schwegman Lundberg Woessner 2022 Virtual PCT Training Seminar. This Seminar is a series of fifteen webinars that will commence two days from now, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. Continue reading “More than one thousand six hundred signups for the PCT webinar series”
What a walk down memory lane! In one of the patent practitioner listservs, a member today asked where they could purchase heavy-duty trifold patent file folders. Continue reading “Trifold patent file folders”
Here are the results for the 2021 US Tote Boards.
The firm ranked first in filing of granted US plant patents in 2021 is Randall | Danskin. The runner-up is Koenig IP Works, PLLC. This is the third annual US Plant Patent Tote Board.
The firm ranked first in filing of granted US design patents in 2021 is Banner Witcoff. The runner-up is Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP. This is the tenth annual US Design Patent Toteboard.
The firm ranked first in filing of granted US utility patents in 2021 is Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. The runner-up is Sughrue Mion PLLC. This is the seventh annual US Utility Patent Toteboard.
The firm ranked first in filing of granted US trademark registrations in 2021 is Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. The runner-up is Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. This is the seventh annual US Trademark Registration Toteboard.
To see the 2021 US utility patent toteboard, click here.
Several alert readers have pointed out to me a typographical error in yesterday’s blog article Welcome developments with DAS – Denmark. I incorrectly indicated that DPTO’s effective date for becoming an Accessing Office and a Depositing Office for utility models was September 17, 2021. The correct date was November 30, 2021. The first kind reader to spot this error and to report it to me was Debra Collier, located in Switzerland. Prompted by her I have corrected the blog article. Thank you to Ms. Collier!
Sign up to attend a webinar on February 10, 2022, at 3 p.m. (Central European Time) about Best practices for recording of changes (Rule 92bis).
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(Corrected on February 3, 2022 to show that the effective date is November 30, 2021, not September 17, 2021.)
This is a busy time for good news about DAS. One piece of good news about DAS is that the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DPTO) became an Accessing Office and a Depositing Office in DAS for utility model applications on November 30, 2021.
DPTO was already a Depositing Office for national patent applications and RO/DK was already a Depositing Office for PCT applications. And DPTO was already an Accessing Office for national patent applications. The big news here is that DPTO recently became both an Accessing Office and a Depositing Office for utility model applications.
This offers a reminder for those readers who are perhaps not as familiar with utility models as with other forms of intellectual property protection. It reminds us that Denmark offers utility model protection. WIPO has a very helpful web page that discusses utility models and lists the seventy-six Offices where utility model protection is available.
This is a busy time for good news about DAS. One piece of good news about DAS is that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) became a Depositing Office in DAS for patent applications on February 1, 2022.
CIPO was already a Depositing Office for national industrial design applications. There are actually two distinct pieces of good news about this development on February 1, 2022:
This is a busy time for good news about DAS. One piece of good news about DAS is that the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland will become an Accessing Office in DAS on February 17, 2022. It will participate as an Accessing Office with respect to the following: