Category: PCT

Long-time PCT enthusiasts will appreciate that in recent years, there have been few opportunities in the US to get high quality PCT training with more than one experienced presenter on the dais.

Such PCT enthusiasts will likewise appreciate that in recent years, there have been few opportunities in the US to get high quality PCT training of such depth and breadth as to call for more than one day of training.

Now for the first time since before Covid, attend a multi-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in the US taught by two experienced presenters.  This training will take place in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.

Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT!

Loyal readers of this blog are encouraged to subscribe, if they have not already done so.  Loyal readers of this blog are also encouraged to use coupon codes (which expire July 28) for discounts on the registration fees:

• • coupon code BL1 – 2.5-day seminar $200 off
  • coupon code BL2 – docketing $60 off
  • coupon code BL3 – both courses, $260 off

For more information, or to register, click here.

(Update:  now you can register for this PCT seminar.  See this blog posting.)

Save the date!  The next PCT Seminar will be September 22-24, 2026 near the Denver airport.

Are you attending the AIPLA Spring 2026 meeting at the San Francisco Fairmont hotel?  If so, I invite you to attend some PCT training on Wednesday, May 13 from 4PM to 6PM in the French Room.  Your presenters are Hanna Kang from WIPO and yours truly.  We will talk about two topics:

• • choosing a Receiving Office, and
  • choosing an International Searching Authority.

The training is sponsored by the PCT Issues Committee.

Here are the presentation slides for “choosing an ISA”.

What we see today is some new user-friendliness on the part of the European Patent Office.   EPO is now making it even easier than before for PCT applicants to receive communications electronically from ISA/EP and IPEA/EP.  Continue reading “Good news for those who use ISA/EP and IPEA/EP”

Starting four days from now, on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, I will be presenting fifteen lectures about the PCT.  Thanks to sponsorship from WIPO, these lectures will be free of charge.  For more information, or to register, click here.

It is now 15 weeks ago that I followed instructions from the EBC and used fax to send in a Form 2248 in two of my PCT cases.  (See blog article.)  Yes, more than three months have now passed during which EBC continues to fail to act upon either of the Forms 2248 that I sent to them.

Hello PCT enthusiasts!

There was already a good reason to make plans to attend the PCT seminar that will take place next week in Detroit — namely the opportunity to hear from very nice WIPO people (and from me) about the PCT and ePCT.   (For more information or to register click here.)

Now there is an additional good reason to make plans to attend.  There will be a networking reception afterwards!  It is sponsored by the Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association.

Hello PCT enthusiasts!  Who would like to participate in a day of Patent Cooperation Treaty (and ePCT) training?  It will take place this coming Tuesday, October 28, in the Detroit patent office.  I am one of the faculty members for this training.  For more information, or to register, click here.

Hello PCT enthusiasts!  Who would like to participate in a day of Patent Cooperation Treaty (and ePCT) training?  It will take place this coming Friday, October 24, in the Dallas patent office.  I am one of the faculty members for this training.  For more information, or to register, click here.