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How successful have USPTO’s DOCX training webinars been?

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The USPTO has by now presented at least one hundred forty-five webinars urging applicants and practitioners to e-file their US patent applications in DOCX format instead of PDF format.   This has amounted to more than six webinars per month in the past 24 months (see graph at right).  To promote these webinars, the USPTO has carried out at least fifty email blasts amounting, I imagine, to well over half a million outbound email messages.   What is USPTO’s success rate at convincing applicants and practitioners to switch from PDF to DOCX?  Continue reading “How successful have USPTO’s DOCX training webinars been?”

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Here are the recordings of the two recent webinars on risks of DOCX e-filing

Here are the recordings of the two recent webinars on risks of DOCX e-filing.  (Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings of the more recent webinars are now available.)

  • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of Microsoft Word – Tuesday, April 18, 2023.  The recording is now available and you can see it here.   The duration is 1 hour and 35 minutes.  You can download the presentation materials here.
  • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of non-Microsoft word processors — Wednesday, April 19, 2023.  The recording is now available and you can see it here.   The duration is 1 hour and 31 minutes.  You can download the presentation materials here.
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Here is the recording of today’s webinar on risks of DOCX e-filing

Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.

Hello folks.  Today I presented a webinar on the risks of using the USPTO’s DOCX e-filing system.  The recording is now available and you can see it here.   The duration is 1 hour and 35 minutes.  You can download the presentation materials here.

Keep in mind there will be another live webinar tomorrow on mostly the same subject matter.  Click here for more information or to register.

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Join the over 900 who have registered for the webinars about DOCX patent filing risks

Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.

By now, over 900 have registered for these two webinars:

    • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of Microsoft Word – Tuesday, April 18, 10AM Mountain Time.
    • Professional Liability Risks of Filing in DOCX – for users of non-Microsoft word processors — Wednesday, April 19, 10AM Mountain Time.

The webinars are free of charge.  The email addresses include attendees from many Fortune 200 companies and from most of the well-known patent firms in the US.

Oddly, no one with an “@uspto.gov” email address seems to have registered.

For more information or to register, click here.

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Reducing professional risk with USPTO’s DOCX initiative — two webinars

Update:  two more recent webinars took place and recordings are now available.

The USPTO continues to present webinars, by now every two days or so, containing pants-on-fire lies about “the DOCX standard” and how safe it supposedly is to file US patent applications according to the USPTO’s DOCX initiative. As of the present time, USPTO’s stated plan is to start charging a $400 surcharge on June 30, 2023 for those filers who fail to use the DOCX initiative.

Attend either or both of two upcoming webinars to get the other side of the story.  Attend either or both of the two webinars to appreciate the professional liability risks of filing in DOCX.  Attend either or both of the two webinars to learn how to reduce the professional liability risks.

To learn more about the webinars, or to register, click here.

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Five more ePCT webinars available for signup

Many readers have signed up for the first eight webinars about ePCT.  (Details here.)  Now I have scheduled dates for five more of the webinars.  Here are the dates and times, and here are the links to register:

    • Webinar 9.  Thursday, April 27, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  Filing a new US PCT application in RO/IB using ePCT.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 10.  Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  ePCT actions and communications with the IB.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 11.  Thursday, May 11, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  External signatures and PCT declarations.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 12.  Thursday, May 18, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  Sequence listings and ePCT.  Click to register.
    • Webinar 13.  Thursday, June 1, 2023, 10AM Mountain Time.  Docketing of PCT applications and making use of ePCT notifications.  Click to register.  Suggested companion purchase.
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quantum physics and potato batteries

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I have aways sort of vaguely assumed that at some point in my youth I must have sat in a class in which the teacher made a potato battery and used it to light up a light bulb.  Recently I got it into my head that it might be interesting to reconstruct that old classroom demonstration.  But events of the past few days, recounted in this blog article, make me think that the old classroom demonstration must have never actually happened.  I must have just read about it in books and I must have sort of assumed that you could do, in real life, anything that is described in a book.  After many false starts, I did eventually manage to light up a light with a potato battery.  Continue reading “quantum physics and potato batteries”