Category: PCT

Hello dear readers.

Just now sort of by accident I stumbled upon a WIPO web page External PCT Training Resources.  I don’t know how long it has been there, but just now is when I saw it for the first time.

This page lists over two dozen recorded lectures on a wide variety of PCT and ePCT topics.  For each recorded lecture there is a link to a recording of the lecture and a link to a PDF of the presentation materials.

I am fascinated and honored to see that nearly all of the links are for lectures presented by yours truly.

Meanwhile if you would like to attend an upcoming live in-person PCT seminar in beautiful Colorado, click here.

Update!  These seminars have been rescheduled and will now take place on Tuesday, September 30 to Thursday, October 2, 2025.

Attend a 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport.  Maybe also attend an optional half-day program specifically directed to docketing of the PCT.  

Seminar dates: Tuesday, September 9 30, 2025  to Thursday, September 11 October 2, 2025.

For more information, or to register, click here.

More than five years ago the patent community asked the USPTO to make its PCT Receiving Office a Depositing Office in the DAS system.  And even now, more than five years later, the USPTO has not yet done so.  Continue reading “The USPTO’s PCT Receiving Office needs to join DAS”

Hello readers.  It will be recalled (see here and here and here) that I offered readers the opportunity to pick where I should conduct the next live in-person PCT seminars.  I collected responses for the past week and a half.   Each respondent was asked to say what city they wanted to suggest, and was asked to say how many attendees they thought they might send to the seminar.

I have now closed the survey form.   The survey received 54 responses.

At the time that I posted this survey, I figured I must be smarter than everybody else — surely I knew which two locations would turn out to be the right places to conduct the next seminars.  But the two locations I was so sure of (Alexandria, VA and San Jose, CA) did not even end up in the top five positions in the ranking.  Go figure.  Now you can see the top-ranked cities in the survey results. Continue reading “Where the next live in-person PCT seminars should take place?”

Hello PCT enthusiasts.  There are only a few days remaining for you to help to determine where the next few live in-person PCT seminars will be.   I will close the survey maybe next Monday or so.  As of right now, the top-ranked locations are:

• • Phoenix, AZ
  • San Diego, CA
  • Boston, MA
  • Chicago, IL

Hello dear reader.  This is your opportunity to purchase a discounted copy of Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing, second edition.  Instead of the usual $89 price, you get get this copy for $59 off.   What’s the hitch?  The hitch is that the table of contents is defective if the book was printed prior to January 19, 2025 (see blog article).  And you get to purchase one of these defective copies at a $59 discount.  Continue reading “Specially discounted copies of second edition of PCT Forms and Docketing book”

Hello PCT enthusiasts.  As I blogged a couple of days ago, you get to pick where the next live in-person PCT seminars will be.  I opened the survey about 48 hours ago.  As of right now, the top-ranked locations are:

• • Phoenix, AZ
  • Chicago, IL
  • San Diego, CA
  • Boston, MA

I will keep the survey open for about another week.  It will be interesting to see if some other cities move upwards in the ranking.

Hello dear reader.  Are you one of the 312 people who purchased a copy of Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing (second edition) between December 20, 2024 and today (January 18, 2025)?   If so, then first of all thank you very much!  I earned a royalty from your purchase.  But second of all,  I am sorry to say that your copy of this book has a defective table of contents.  Continue reading “Corrected table of contents for Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing (second edition)”

(Update:  you can read about early survey results.)

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!”