Category: PCT

(Update:  fifteen weeks have passed, bring the foot-dragging delay up to almost four months.  See blog article.)

It’s been a month now since I followed the instructions of the Electronic Business Center (EBC) and faxed Form 2248 to the USPTO (in two different patent application files).  As of today, a month has passed and the EBC has failed to act upon either of the Forms 2248.

What, you might ask, is Form 2248?  What is the problem for which Form 2248 is the solution?  You might ask yourself whether you have one or more active patent application files for which you ought to have sent in Form 2248.  How would you know?   What might one do to avoid getting into a situation where you are vulnerable to this “Form-2248 problem”?  Continue reading “EBC foot-drags handling of Form 2248”

Hello dear readers.  You already know that there are PCT seminars coming up at four patent offices (San Jose, Denver, Dallas, and Detroit).  And you already know that yours truly will be among the faculty for these four seminars.   The big news today is that I am pleased to see that CLE accreditation has been obtained for the seminars in the Denver patent office (click here) and the Dallas patent office (click here).

For more information, or to register for any of these four one-day seminars, click here.

I also encourage you to attend my upcoming 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar in beautiful Colorado, near the Denver airport, and the related half-day seminar on PCT docketing (click here).  This will be September 30 to October 2, 2025.  These seminars have also been CLE-accredited (click here and here).

It will be recalled that I rescheduled my PCT seminars to new dates, namely September 30 to October 2, 2025 (click here for more information or to register).   I commented (see blog article) that this was for a very fun and interesting reason that I hoped to write about presently.  Now I will tell you the fun and interesting reason why I rescheduled my PCT seminars — it was to enable four PCT/ePCT training opportunities at which I will be a speaker.

Here is a remarkable opportunity to get a day of PCT training in any of four locations:

• • San Jose – Friday, September 12, 2025
  • Denver – Tuesday, September 16, 2025
  • Dallas – Friday, October 24, 2025
  • Detroit – Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The faculty for these one-day seminars includes people from WIPO and from the USPTO and yours truly.

These seminars are free of charge and they offer a remarkable opportunity for live and in-person training from WIPO people and USPTO people and from yours truly.

You can download the program here.  To register, click here.

I also invite you to attend my 2½-day live in-person Patent Cooperation Treaty seminar:

• • Aurora, Colorado – September 30, 2025 to October 2, 2025

For more information, or to register, click here.

I also invite you to attend my half-day live in-person seminar on PCT docketing:

• • Aurora, Colorado – October 2, 2025

For more information, or to register, click here.

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