After many years of foot-dragging, Apple is reluctantly making end-to-end encryption available for RCS messaging. Continue reading “End-to-end RCS encryption soon to come to iPhones”
End-to-end RCS encryption soon to come to iPhones
PCT training in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 13
Are you attending the AIPLA Spring 2026 meeting at the San Francisco Fairmont hotel? If so, I invite you to attend some PCT training on Wednesday, May 13 from 4PM to 6PM in the French Room. Your presenters are Hanna Kang from WIPO and yours truly. We will talk about two topics:
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- choosing a Receiving Office, and
- choosing an International Searching Authority.
The training is sponsored by the PCT Issues Committee.
Here are the presentation slides for “choosing an ISA”.
The 2025 intellectual property toteboards have been posted
It is my honor to post:
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- the fourteenth annual US Design Patent Toteboard,
- the eleventh annual US Trademark Registration Toteboard,
- the eleventh annual US Utility Patent Toteboard, and
- the seventh annual US Plant Patent Toteboard.
You can see them here.
Good news for those who use ISA/EP and IPEA/EP
What we see today is some new user-friendliness on the part of the European Patent Office. EPO is now making it even easier than before for PCT applicants to receive communications electronically from ISA/EP and IPEA/EP. Continue reading “Good news for those who use ISA/EP and IPEA/EP”
My luggage tracking tag ended up in Portugal
Update: I switched from nylon ties to steel cable to attach a luggage tracking tag to a suitcase. See blog article.)
I use luggage tracking tags. As you can see from the map at right, it looks like my medium-sized suitcase is at Porto Airport in Portugal. Actually the suitcase is with me right now at home in the mountains of Colorado. What explains this? Continue reading “My luggage tracking tag ended up in Portugal”
Where my blog traffic comes from?
I find it interesting that nowadays, a lot of my blog traffic comes from Reddit. Continue reading “Where my blog traffic comes from?”
Today, Google cut off another 48 members of the e-Trademarks listserv
For more than thirty years I have sponsored The Listservs. Each listserv is an email discussion group. I have sponsored listservs for patent practitioners, for trademark practitioners, and for industrial design protection practitioners. I have sponsored listservs for users of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and for users of Patent Center. And today, Google cut off 48 members of the e-Trademarks listserv.
What is Google doing wrong and what can be done about it? Continue reading “Today, Google cut off another 48 members of the e-Trademarks listserv”
USPTO corrects its new web site
Two days ago I blogged (see blog article) about a hallucination on the USPTO’s new web site, namely the existence of a “provisional patent”. The web site said:
File a provisional patent
Now the USPTO has corrected the web site. Now the bullet point is:
File a provisional patent application
Adding a barometric pressure sensor to a Meshtastic rooftop solar node
Recently I added an environmental sensor to a rooftop solar meshtastic node. This provides telemetry of temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure. In this article I describe what was required to accomplish this. Continue reading “Adding a barometric pressure sensor to a Meshtastic rooftop solar node”
USPTO hallucinates the “provisional patent”
(Update: two days after this blog posting, the USPTO corrected its hallucination. See blog post.)
There is no such thing as a “provisional patent”. Everyone knows this. Everyone except, it turns out, the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Continue reading “USPTO hallucinates the “provisional patent””