[Note from Carl Oppedahl: I received this text from a reader who suggested that I post it as a guest blog article. It is posted anonymously, for reasons that will become clear. Maybe you find it as interesting to read as I did!] This is a long e-mail, but I hope that you will read …
The European Patent Office (EPO) will sponsor three seminars for US‑based patent practitioners, paralegals and their administrative staff.
The fee to be paid by a US PCT filer for a search carried out by IP Australia dropped today, from $1722 to $1631. I mentioned this in a previous blog post. You will not need to worry about accidentally paying an incorrect fee amount, because the e-filing systems have already been updated to reflect the …
When you file a PCT application in a Receiving Office other than the RO/IB, the Receiving Office will consider whether it is “competent” to handle that particular PCT application. If the RO determines that it is non-competent, it will transfer the application to the RO/IB for further processing. (The application does not lose its filing …
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A long time ago the way to log in was with a user ID and password. Then people started using two-factor authentication (2FA or “something you have, and something you know”). USPTO’s particularly poor choice for 2FA was the Entrust Java Applet. After a while some organizations started using a text message on a cell …
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One month remains, folks, to sign up for my PCT seminar that will take place in Silicon Valley, California, on October 16-18, 2018. This will be a unique learning opportunity for practitioners and paralegals alike who wish to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty, or who wish to refresh their knowledge of the PCT, or …
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As of September 7, 2018, Uganda is now a 30-month country. Said differently, the time limit for DO/UG is now 30 months.
This was once an unlisted page, not intended for the general public. The persons for whom this page was intended were: USPTO people alpha testers of Patent Center Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC people others to whom Carl has provided this URL. Now I have made this page public. It provides historical perspective on what …
If your PCT clients sometimes pick ISA/KR (the Korean Intellectual Property Office or KIPO), then you might like to learn about a very handy new way to communicate with ISA/KR. The handy new way to communicate with ISA/KR is through ePCT, as I will describe.
Just now I tested the SSL security ratings for some of the law firms that obtain large numbers of US design patents for their clients (blog article here). This prompted me to look at some patent office web sites. Here are the results:
