(Followup article has been posted. Although the EBC did not know about it, there is a way to pay the ISA/JP fee in EFS-Web.)
Supposedly as of yesterday, PCT filers filing in RO/US were able to pick ISA/JP as their searching authority. You can see the press release that says this. And I blogged about this option back on June 19. But it looks like USPTO is dragging its feet on this. Continue reading “USPTO foot-dragging on implementation of ISA/JP”