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Hello dear readers. Now you get to determine where the next few live in-person PCT seminars will take place. The way you get to determine this is by responding to this survey. Continue reading “You get to determine the next few cities for PCT seminars!”
I just released the second edition of my book Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing. Amazon says this book is now the #1 best seller in Adult & Continuing Education. Not only that, but if you purchase this book, I will receive a royalty of about $48. As of right now, you would only have to pay about $21 to purchase the book from the US Amazon.com site. Continue reading “Now #1 best seller on Amazon in Adult & Continuing Education”
Hello readers. I just released the second edition of Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing. Like the original edition, it is priced at $89 and I earn a royalty of about $48 per book. But what I don’t understand is that Amazon has placed this book on sale for about $21. Continue reading “Odd Amazon pricing for second edition of my PCT Forms and Docketing book”
Hello readers. If you paid a government fee to the USPTO during any of the times listed below, and if you tried to protect yourself by authorizing any later fees due to be drawn from your USPTO Deposit Account, apparently your effort to protect yourself has failed. Continue reading “USPTO makes mistake with Deposit Account authorizations”
The mail room at the USPTO is, politely stated, a striking example of a service failure. Continue reading “USPTO mail room works unacceptably slowly”
Why should you attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January? Continue reading “Why you should attend my live, in-person PCT seminar in January”
It will be recalled that there was a webinar yesterday (November 26) about Making best use of PCT Declarations in your PCT application. Unfortunately there were some technical problems at various points during the webinar. I will thus be reprising the webinar on Tuesday, December 10. For more information, or to register, visit https://blog.oppedahl.com/pct-webinars/ .
Regular readers of this blog are well aware that I almost never use two exclamation points in a headline. Today, however, is a day for such emphasis. Yes, the German patent office has joined the DAS system as a Depositing Office. Continue reading “German patent office has joined DAS!!”
In about seven hours I will be presenting a free-of-charge webinar entitled Making best use of PCT Declarations in your PCT application. As of right now, about 462 people have registered for this webinar. This subject matter is of potential interest to any PCT enthusiast anywhere in the world. Attendees come from every continent except Antarctica.
To learn more, or to register, visit the WIPO web site here.