Category: Trademarks

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Ninth Annual E-Trademarks Listserv Reception Tuesday, May 21, 2019 in Boston

Will you be in Boston at the time of the INTA meeting?  I already told you to save the date (February 17, 2019 blog post) for the E-Trademarks reception.  Now the venue and time of day are also set.

The Ninth Annual E-Trademarks listserv reception will take place on Tuesday, Mary 21, 2019.  This will be at The Black Rose (restaurant web site).  The event will run from 6PM to 9PM.

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05/21/2019 06:00 PM
05/21/2019 09:00 PM
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e-Trademarks listserv reception
for members of the listserv and their guests
The Black Rose, 160 State Street, Boston, MA 02109

This reception is for members of the E-Trademarks listserv, and for guests of members of the listserv.

Please RSVP here.

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We are renting out the entire second story of the restaurant (photo at right).  Here is the location of the event.

There is one other important event during this time that you need to know about:  Meet the Bloggers XV.

 

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Broken links in “get your numbers in for the toteboards”

Hello readers. After comments from several people I went to look closely at my four recent posts:

Each blog article contains four important links for you to click on:

  • a link to the questionnaire where you can enter your numbers for the particular category in that particular blog post, and
  • crosslinks to the other three blog posts.

In each case the questionnaire link works fine so far as I am aware.  But until today, each place where there was a crosslink to one of the other three blog posts, the crosslink was no good.  It asked for a user ID and password instead of taking you to the desired page.

Thanks to alert readers, I have hopefully corrected the crosslinks.

Hopefully everybody will get their numbers in soon.

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Get your numbers in for the 2018 US trademark registration toteboard

It’s that time of year again.  A year ago we published the 2017 US Trademark Toteboard and before that, the 2016 US Trademark Registration Tote Board and before that, the 2015 US Trademark Registration Tote Board.  Now it’s time to get your numbers in for the fourth annual US Trademark Registration Tote Board.

The goal of this toteboard is to list the firms that helped clients obtain US trademark registrations in 2018.  The toteboard seeks to list US trademark registrations granted in 2018.    The closing date for the questionnaire will be Thursday, March 21, 2019.

You can see the previous Toteboards here.

To learn more and to report your numbers for the 2018 US Trademark Registration tote board, please click here.

It is also time to report your numbers for the 2018 US Design Patent tote board and the 2018 US Utility Patent tote board and the 2018 US Plant Patent tote board.

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Whither Daylight Saving Time?

More than five hours have passed since my blog posting that points out that right now you probably have an extra hour for e-filing of stuff at the International Bureau of WIPO.  Why do you have this extra hour?  You have this extra hour because probably you are in the US and you set your clocks forward.  And (this is the important part) the folks in Switzerland did not pick today to set their clocks forward.  (They will set their clocks forward in about three weeks, on March 31.)

Anyway, during this past five hours I sort of figured that at least one alert reader would have posted a comment about the imminent demise of Daylight Saving Time.  Yet, astonishingly, this has not happened!  So I will now discuss the imminent demise of Daylight Saving Time. Continue reading “Whither Daylight Saving Time?”

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Who charges how much for foreign payments?

As readers of this blog are by now well aware, my most recent obsession area of inquiry has been the sending and receiving of international bank wires.  More or less by accident I have stumbled upon smart ways to receive international bank wires.  As I describe in this blog article, more or less by accident our situation is that for our patent firm, we now receive our incoming foreign bank wires free of charge through Afex.com, and for my personal bank account, I receive my incoming foreign bank wires free of charge because the bank is USAA.

As for the foreign sender of funds, if the foreign sender of money to our patent firm happens to be a customer of Afex.com, they can send money to us and they will likewise not have to pay any fee (other than perhaps a currency conversion fee).

But how about sending bank wires?  Who charges more and who charges less for sending bank wires to foreign countries?  Here is a specific example of what it would cost to send about ten thousand dollars to Switzerland by any of three different providers.  I find the price differences to be striking. Continue reading “Who charges how much for foreign payments?”

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Today is a snow day at the USPTO

Today, Wednesday, February 20, 2019 is a snow day.  This means that any document that you needed to file today at the USPTO will be timely if you file it by tomorrow, Thursday, February 21.

(This might be as good a time as any to subscribe to this blog.)

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USPTO will be closed Monday January 14, 2019

The USPTO will be closed on Monday, January 14, 2019 because of a dusting of snow.  (OPM announcement.)

The small amount of snow giving rise to this closure would not even be noticed in other parts of the US such as the high altitudes of Colorado where Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC is located.  (Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC will be open as usual on Monday, January 14, 2019.)

The closing of the USPTO means that any response that would be due on Monday, January 14, 2019 will be considered timely if it is filed by Tuesday, January 15, 2019.