(See followup article here.) Weeks and months ago USPTO delivered webinars and other outreaches in which it demonstrated the soon-to-be-functioning Global Dossier public access system. Today the system got released. You can see it here. Its chief advantage for US filers will be that it will provide English-language access to information in the Japanese, Korean, and …
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A member of the PCT listserv asks: A colleague recently filed a PCT application with the USPTO and we’ve been receiving the notifications (such as the “Notification of the International Application Number and of the International Filing Date”, Form PCT/RO/105) by hard copy. Is it possible to receive electronic versions of notifications concerning a PCT …
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When you e-file an image in a USPTO e-filing system, what often happens is that the USPTO mangles the image. I will describe some of the things that can go wrong and will give a few tips on minimizing the extent of the mangling.
Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC, and its predecessor firms, has been serving clients now for over twenty-two years. This got me thinking of some of the firm’s milestones over the years. Here are some of the high points:
A longstanding member of the PCT listserv asked: It used to be that for a PCT, along with Request RO101, we would file a transmittal form for USPTO: PTO-1382 (Rev. 04-2010). Yet none of my readings about ePCT or your blog mentions that. Has it gone away?
Yesterday for the first time I encountered a particularly nice feature in WIPO’s Digital Access Service (DAS). The feature has been there for some time but yesterday was the first time I actually saw it work. The feature is that you can set up a sort of “tripwire” and when some Office retrieves a certified …
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A member of the PCT listserv asked: On a US application filed yesterday with non-US inventors (no US assignee) and a PCT filing deadline of today, we filed through the USPTO and got a PCT application number, we just could not upload it as a PCT-Safe Zip file. The USPTO PCT Helpline said it was …
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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 …
What’s the Best Practice for filing a Demand and Article 34 amendment in a PCT application?
What’s the Best Practice for filing an Article 19 amendment in a PCT application?
