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A US patent that issued recently (August 9, 2022) made me smile for several reasons. This is a truly remarkable patent, as I will discuss. Continue reading “A recently issued patent that will expire 51 years after its filing date”
(Update: on January 6, 2023, the Director indirectly responded to these two letters. You can read about it here.)
Hello readers. You will recall that a few days ago I urged you to consider signing two letters to USPTO’s Director Kathi Vidal (blog posting, October 7). Both letters have now been signed and have been sent to Director Vidal.
The chief person who made these letters possible is Krista Jacobsen, a patent practitioner in Silicon Valley. She drafted the letters and finalized them with suggestions from professional colleagues. Many practitioners signed the letters. Today she sent them to the Director. I hope readers will join me in being grateful to Krista for this work.
Of course what also made the letters possible is the many patent practitioners who signed the letters.
Let’s hope that Director Vidal will respond to Krista with good news of corrective steps that the USPTO will take to address the problems that are highlighted in the two letters.
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:
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
If you regularly make use of TEAS or PAIR or Patentcenter or EFS-Web, you probably find yourself checking the USPTO Systems Status and Availability web page (screen shot at right) from time to time.
Wouldn’t it be nice if somehow you could be notified automatically when that web page changes? Well, now you can be notified automatically, if you choose to participate in a beta test of my new change-detection system. Continue reading “How often do you check the Systems Status page?”
Yes, you heard it here first (blog article). On August 5, 2022, I was the first to tell you this very exciting news about the Polish patent office becoming trendy, modern, and up-to-date. Continue reading “Today is the day for the Polish patent office”
There are quite a few ways to set up two-factor authentication in ePCT. Last week there was a problem with the SMS-type 2FA in ePCT, and users who had failed to set up a second type of 2FA found themselves unable to log in. This offers a reminder that you should always have at least two types of 2FA set up with your WIPO user ID. I am delighted to report that I have successfully gotten it set up so that I can use my EPO smart card as a form of 2FA in ePCT. Continue reading “With ePCT, always have at least two kinds of 2FA”
From time to time I have commented upon nice things about ePCT. Here is one more. Continue reading “YANTAePCT (Yet Another Nice Thing About ePCT)”
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”
I am delighted to be able to report that the Polish patent office has become trendy, modern and up-to-date. Continue reading “Polish patent office becomes trendy, modern, and up-to-date”
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”