Update: The book is now finalized and you can see it here and here.
I’m working on a new book. It’s entitled Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing. Right now it is in what I might term beta testing. The book is version 0.8. I am providing copies of the book to some folks free of charge in the hopes that they will take a look at the book and maybe make suggestions or corrections. Then I will finalize the book and release it for general sale. Continue reading “New book: PCT Forms and PCT Docketing”
Wednesday, December 25, 2019 will be a federal holiday in the District of Columbia. This means the USPTO will be closed. This means that any action that would be due at the USPTO on December 25 will be timely if it is done by Thursday, December 26, 2019.
(Update: three years later it seems the DO/EO/US people need to be reminded about PCT Declaration Number 4. See blog article.)
I am providing some training material free of charge to the USPTO. The training material, which relates to PCT Declaration Number 4 under PCT Rule 4.17, is prompted by a mistake that a nameless person at the USPTO made in one of our cases today. Continue reading “Training material for the USPTO”
I am told that not very many applicants make use of the two Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) programs at the USPTO. Each of the programs offers a fast-track way to get a strong patent. The more I think about CSP, the more I wonder why the programs get such little use. In this blog article I will describe the programs and I will offer my thoughts as to how an applicant might go about deciding whether or not to make use of the programs. Finally I will mention the actual numbers of times the two CSP programs have gotten used by applicants. Continue reading “Collaborative Search Pilot”
Every month or so, in recent years, we receive from the USPTO a Notice to File Corrected Application Papers (NTFCAP) in a recently filed patent application that says our drawings are not good enough. What we find to be frustrating and annoying about this is that invariably the application is a continuation or a divisional of an application in which the drawings were good enough. Today I filed a request to have such a Notice withdrawn. Here is what I wrote: Continue reading “Drawings that are good enough and then not good enough”
2020 is a leap year. What got me thinking about this is a sentence that I just wrote in an email message to instructing counsel in Turkey for a US case that our firm is handling:
We now have an Office Action and it is attached. To avoid abandonment a response must be made by February 29, 2020.
Which prompts a discourse on the inadequacy of integers. All but the most diehard blog readers are invited to skip the following. Continue reading “2020 is a leap year”
(Updated to describe shipment of digital multimeters.)
Readers may recall my recent blog article about woes with outbound emails from our listserv server.
Alert listserv member Diane L. Gardner of Mastermind IP Law P.C. posted this comment to that blog article:
From my IT provider:
They do not have a spf record.
And her IT provider was absolutely right. I had not attended to setting up an SPF record on our new dedicated server. I ought to have done that sooner. Prompted by her posting, we added the SPF record. Here is the record:
v=spf1 +mx +a +ip4:162.213.248.195 ~all
We have sent two of our digital multimeters to Diane — one for her and one for her IT provider. Thanks to both of you!
We also corrected a PTR (reverse DNS lookup) record. The PTR record is “195.248.213.162.in-addr.arpa.” pointing to “server1.oppedahl-lists.com.”.
There’s a chance these two changes might help a little.
We already had and still have a DKIM record. The DKIM record is “server1.oppedahl-lists.com.” pointing to “v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=[public key]”.
Update: The book is now finalized and you can see it here and here.
