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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”
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).
The speakers will be:
To register, click here.
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:
By now I am astonished (in a good way) to see that more than 1300 people have registered so far for this series of fifteen webinars about the Patent Cooperation Treaty, a series that will commence on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.
My first topic for this blog article are a couple of related questions about this webinar series that came in the other day from a first loyal reader. He asked:
Is this geared more towards attorneys (i.e., strategic considerations) or paralegals (e.g., filing requirements)? If for attorneys, is it for newer attorneys not familiar with the PCT, or would someone with 25+ years of experience benefit?
A second topic for this blog article is a question that came in from a second loyal reader located outside of the US. She asked:
Will your presentations be focused on considerations that apply only to US practice and options and choices available only to US applicants? Can you let me know which portions to skip if they will not be of interest to me as a non-US filer?
These are all really good questions. I will try to answer these questions as best I can in this blog article. Continue reading “Who should attend the SLW Institute 2022 Virtual PCT Training Seminar?”
Hello dear readers. I am gobsmacked (in a good way) to see how many have registered for the upcoming series of fifteen webinars about the Patent Cooperation Treaty. (It will be recalled that this webinar series is sponsored by the SLW Institute. If you wish to register for the webinar series, click here.) As of right now the number who have registered is well over one thousand.
The people who have registered come from over sixty countries, and hail from every continent except Antarctica. The pie graph at right shows where some of our registrants come from. More than ¾ of the registrants are from the Americas, which is not a big surprise given that the time of day that I picked for the webinars is a time of day that probably works best for people in the Americas.
Saying this another way, an attendee from Asia or Africa or Australia or Europe will probably need to set an alarm clock or otherwise make pretty exceptional arrangements to be awake and alert and at their desk at the time of day that these webinars will take place.
I offer a bit of reassurance for those who are in Asia or Africa or Australia or Europe. You might be worried that despite your best efforts, you might snooze through one or another of the webinars. What if your alarm clock fails to sound on some particular date when you wanted it to sound? What if your regular daily responsibilities were to make it impossible to be awake on some particular day at the (admittedly very inconvenient) hour of the day of one of these webinars?
The hopefully reassuring bit of news is that our very nice organizers at the SLW Institute will be capturing recordings of each of the webinars. We will work out some kind of routine for posting a raw video recording of each webinar soon after the webinar has taken place. And of course you will have been able to download the presentation materials. This means that if you were to snooze through, say, webinar number 3, you could pick a time to focus on printing out the presentation materials for that webinar, and for watching the recording of webinar number 3, and you could get that done in advance of the live presentation of webinar number 4. In this way you could keep up and hopefully not miss out on important material as we go along.
This is very important because the things we will be learning are cumulative. Each webinar depends on materials that we will cover in previous webinars. Another way to say that is that there will be many webinars that are prerequisites for webinars that follow.
I hope that everybody will be very diligent, carefully marking the times of each of the fifteen webinars in their personal calendars.
We have people attending who come from all of these places and more:
Folks, I am delighted to see that there are now over one thousand signups for the PCT webinar series.
It is not to late to sign up. See this blog article to find out more and to sign up.
Hello loyal readers. I had received quite a few inquiries from readers who saw what I posted about this series of fifteen webinars about the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and who were not sure they could commit to attending all fifteen sessions. Here is some good news about this. Continue reading “Good news for those who have been hesitant to commit to fifteen hours of PCT webinars”
WIPO has launched a new web page called PCT Success Stories (click here). The idea is that you might have invented something and filed a PCT application on the invention, and the PCT application might later have helped the invention be a success. You could let the folks at WIPO know about it, and they could share the success story. There is for example a place on the web page where you can click and upload a photograph of your invention. Continue reading “Who has a PCT success story to share?”