A member of the PCT-L listserv recently asked: For a PCT application filed with the RO/IB, what is the Best Practice for getting a certified copy of my priority document to the IB? The Best Practice is to use WIPO’s Digital Access Service.
In Patentscope and ePCT, WIPO offers “permalinks”. These are web links that you can copy and use elsewhere, such as intranets and emails to clients. Similarly in European Patent Register, EPO offers such web links. Indeed the TSDR system of USPTO offers URLs that can be used this way. So why doesn’t USPTO offer …
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In this article I will describe the Best Practice for filing a Patent Cooperation Treaty patent application in the Receiving Office at the USPTO. (Note on June 12, 2015 — a nice person at WIPO offered suggestions for improvement of this article, all of which were very helpful, so I have updated this article.)
One of many nice things about the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) system is that you can do one-stop shopping for changes in the bibliographic data. (In a somewhat similar way, the Madrid Protocol and Hague Agreement systems provide one-stop shopping for assignments and owner address changes.) By filing a so-called Rule 92bis request, you can …
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Those who have heard me lecture about the Patent Cooperation Treaty are familiar with my tag line “trendy, modern, and up-to-date” (TMU). The idea of course is that we all surely do want to be TMU when serving clients. Using ePCT for example to administer our PCT applications. Well, I am delighted to report that …
Yes, it’s time to update your PCT-SAFE File Manager software. There is a vulnerability in an older version of SSL (secure sockets layer) and our friends at WIPO have released a new version of PCT-SAFE FM — version 3.51.065.241 — which avoids this vulnerability.
Just now I e-filed a PCT patent application in the Receiving Office of the International Bureau. I did this using WIPO’s ePCT system. And a mere sixty seconds later, I was able to click and see a draft of the front page of what will eventually be the eighteen-month publication, all the way down to …
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Regular users of USPTO’s Private PAIR and EFS-Web systems are reminded several times a day that the only way that they make use of the systems is by permitting a computer program called the Entrust java applet to run on their computer. But the Java system will block the Entrust applet in a future Java …
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The US and Europe do not agree on when to start and when to stop Daylight Saving Time. The US started DST on March 9, 2014, and Europe started DST today, March 30. This is important for US filers who file things at WIPO.
Many US patent filers always file their PCT applications in RO/US, and many US patent filers don’t know how to file a PCT application anywhere else (such as RO/IB). But during the four-day period from March 14 to March 17, smart US patent filers are filing their PCT applications in RO/IB using ePCT rather than …
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