(Note that if you are going to file by fax, USPTO has a special fax number just for payment of issue fees.) (Update as of 11:30 AM Eastern Time … the 10:30 AM repair time came and went with all patent systems still broken, and now the USPTO status page does not offer any particular …
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In this article I will describe what I think are Best Practices for filing of US provisional patent applications.
In a recent blog post I listed the remarkable number of opportunities in the next few months for public PCT and DAS training programs. What readers might not know about is that in addition to the many PCT and DAS training programs that are provided to the general public, many PCT and DAS training programs …
It is remarkable how many upcoming opportunities there are to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the WIPO DAS system:
(Please also see a followup blog article here.) Those who make use of Private PAIR and EFS-Web are accustomed to USPTO’s very clunky way of accomplishing two-factor authentication, namely the poorly designed Entrust Java Applet (EJA). USPTO has now formally announced (see excerpt at right from a slide in a USPTO webinar yesterday) that it …
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The ePCT system has a very helpful feature which permits you to see a preview of what will eventually be the first page of your published PCT application. This feature was mentioned in an article in the Practical Advice section of a recent issue of the PCT Newsletter. I am delighted to be able to tell …
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If you try hard enough, can you think of some activity you could pursue for an eight-hour day that would be more fun than spending that day with, say, a hundred other people discussing the finer points of the Patent Cooperation Treaty? Yeah, right, loyal readers, you know what I am talking about. It would …
Today WIPO announced that starting today ( February 28, 2018) the Hague Agreement e-filing interface and international application form DM/1 have a new item to allow the provision of an access code via DAS. What does this mean? How will it affect you? Is there anything bad that will happen to practitioners who don’t know about this or fail …
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The USPTO did a bad thing the other day. It told its customers, falsely, that the only way to do time-based one-time passwords is to use Oracle’s app. USPTO says “you must have the Oracle Mobile Authenticator app on your mobile device” to do one-time passwords. This is flatly false and it wrongly favors a …
It will be recalled (see blog post of November 3, 2017) that the search fee to be paid by a US filer selecting ISA/RU was scheduled for a fee increase today, December 6, 2017. The fee increase, from $482 to $698, has indeed taken place. You do not need to worry about accidentally paying the incorrect …
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