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Maybe you can’t say “Make America Great Again”?

(Trump files three more trademark applications:  followup blog post here.)

Today the USPTO granted US trademark registration number 4,773,272 to Donald Trump.  Yes, that Donald Trump.  You can see the registration certificate here.  (I blogged about the pending trademark application here.)  Oh to be a fly upon the wall, to hear whether the other presidential candidates are now being advised by their trademark counsel that from now until the November 2016 elections are over, they must avoid uttering those four words in sequence.

 

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USPTO gets it wrong on petitions to revive

We’ve had reason to review half a dozen cases in the past year in which, so far as we can see, the USPTO was completely wrong to dismiss a Petition to Revive.  In some cases the USPTO bounced the petition on the grounds that the statement that the delay was unintentional was not signed by the applicant, and in one case the USPTO bounced the petition on the grounds that the statement that the delay was unintentional was not signed by all of the applicants.  As I say, it appears the USPTO was completely wrong in its handling of the petitions to revive. Continue reading “USPTO gets it wrong on petitions to revive”

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Someone changed the title of my PCT application?

A member of the PCT Listserv (which you should join) asked:

WIPO (or the ISA) changed the title of my PCT application. But I can’t work out when/where/how/why it was done. The A2 publication has one title (the one we gave it). The A3 publication has a slightly different title. Interestingly, the change narrowed the title in a similar way to the way the Written Opinion said that the claimed invention should be narrowed. Any suggestions?

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Best Practices for docketing PCT

Here are a few thoughts about Best Practices for docketing and the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

(Thanks to alert reader Lynn F. McMiller who pointed out a typo in the article.  Lynn will be receiving a free copy of the Bodenhausen book.)

(By the way, if you have not already done so, I suggest you sign up for the Nineteenth Annual AIPLA PCT Seminar, which is a week and a half from now.  See this blog article for details.) Continue reading “Best Practices for docketing PCT”

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Yet another reason to sign up for the AIPLA PCT Seminar later this month

There’s yet one more reason to sign up for the AIPLA PCT Seminar later this month.  (July 20-21 in San Francisco, July 23-24 in Alexandria, Virginia.)  If you sign up for the Seminar, this includes admission to a “primer” webinar on Tuesday, July 14.  The primer provides an introduction to the PCT system so that attendees are better prepared for the Seminar itself which is a bit more advanced.  You can see more information here.

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Carl at National Association of Patent Practitioners annual meeting

As a reminder I will be a speaker at the annual meeting of the National Association of Patent Practitioners, this coming weekend in Denver.  On Saturday afternoon I will give an introduction to the Hague Agreement.  On Sunday afternoon I will give a presentation called Get Patents Fast!, discussing the various initiatives at the USPTO for getting patents fast.  I am told that NAPP will for the first time do some live streaming of its programming, offering a way to earn CLE credit remotely.  Continue reading “Carl at National Association of Patent Practitioners annual meeting”