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This photo shows a charging station in Baker, California. At left are twelve Electrify America supercharging spots. At right are forty Tesla charging spots. Behind this is a construction area where there will soon be fifty more Tesla charging spots. All of these charging spots are shaded by canopies made of, you guessed it, photovoltaic solar panels. The Tesla charging station also has battery storage. Continue reading “Supercharging station with lots of plugs”
On May 3, 2023, I urged you (blog article) to attend a webinar presented by two partners in the Fitch Even law firm, entitled Terrifying Tales of the USPTO’s DOCX Filing System. Hopefully you attended that webinar.
But if you missed the live webinar, the good news is that Terrifying Tales of the USPTO’s DOCX Filing System is now available as a recording. To view the recording, click here.
You can also view recordings (click here) of my two recent webinars on the malpractice risks associated with use of the USPTO’s DOCX e-filing system.
Folks, I am reminded that there are bright and alert and nice people in the world.
I encountered a problem in Patentcenter recently. (For reasons that will become clear, in this posting I am going to avoid discussing the particular problem in detail.) I posted the problem in https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/ as usual, giving it a new patentcenter trouble ticket number starting with “CP”. This was one of those trouble reports where a screen shot is part of explaining what the problem is that is being reported. Continue reading “A nice person at the EBC”
Here is a letter that I sent today to the Director and the Commissioner:
Hello Director Vidal and Commissioner Udupa and Deputy Commissioner Seidel:
By now there have been many webinars scheduled and presented that are intended to help the patent community understand the risks of filing US patent applications using the USPTO’s DOCX initiative. These include:
You can see the May 10 recording here (1:29 in length) and you can download the presentation materials here.
I invite you and request you to let me know if you think there were any factual inaccuracies in the May 10 webinar. If there were any inaccuracies in that webinar, I will publish corrections.
Carl Oppedahl
Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC
(Update: now you can sign up for the four webinars! )
At this link you can see a plan for four webinars. The goal is to cover the PCT forms that PCT applicants and agents receive most often. Each webinar will be 90 minutes in length. The goal is to cover the forms listed and discussed in Oppedahl on PCT Forms and PCT Docketing, shown at right.
The question is, would anybody actually want to attend these four webinars? That’s what I would like to know. I invite people to post a comment below.
Hello readers! On Wednesday, May 10, 2023 I presented a webinar about the malpractice risks of e-filing a patent application in DOCX format under the USPTO’s DOCX initiative, for those who use Microsoft Word. On Friday, May 12, 2023 I presented a webinar about the malpractice risks of e-filing a patent application in DOCX format under the USPTO’s DOCX initiative, for those who use non-Microsoft word processors.
The webinars got recorded, and the recordings have now been edited into usable format for later viewing. You can see the May 10 recording here (1:29 in length) and you can download the presentation materials here. You can see the May 12 recording here (1:10 in length) and you can download the presentation materials here.
Hello readers! On Wednesday, May 10, 2023 I presented a webinar about the malpractice risks of e-filing a patent application in DOCX format under the USPTO’s DOCX initiative. The webinar got recorded, and the recording has now been edited into usable format for later viewing. You can see the recording here and you can download the presentation materials here. (Update: the recording of the May 12 webinar is also now available.)
The USPTO requires each trademark applicant to reveal its own email address when filing a US trademark application. The USPTO promises that if the applicant is represented by an attorney, then only the attorney’s email address will be revealed to the public, and:
Tthe email address listed in the owner field for trademark applicants who are represented by a qualified U.S. attorney will not be publicly viewable.
(TMEP § 803.05(b)). But, rather predictably, the USPTO has broken this promise. It turns out that the USPTO reveals the applicant email address to the public. Continue reading “USPTO breaks its promise about protecting trademark applicant email addresses”
On July 1, 2023, the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania will become even more trendy, modern and up-to-date. That is the date that the Lithuanian patent office will commence participation in the DAS system in four new ways:
The Lithuanian patent office has already been a participant in the DAS system since January 1, 2023 in these ways:
The two-letter code (ISO-3166 code) for this Office is “LT”. The web site of the Lithuanian patent office may be seen here.
(Update: a recording of the Terrifying Tales webinar is now available.) Those who are considering filing a patent application at the USPTO in DOCX should inform themselves of the professional liability risks of doing so. A first way to learn about this is to watch recordings of my recent webinars about this. A second way will be to attend Terrifying Tales of the USPTO’s DOCX Filing System, presented by two partners in the Fitch Even law firm. The webinar, which is free of charge, will take place on May 23. To find out more about that webinar, or to register, click here.