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It is now possible to register for USPTO’s Design Day 2022. This is the fifteenth annual Design Day and it will take place on Thursday, April 21, 2022. (You will recall that on February 5, 2022 and again on March 2, 2022, (blog article and blog article) I told you to save the date.) This will be a virtual event, not in-person. This event is free of charge. Continue reading “Register now for USPTO’s Design Day 2022”
(Update: Forty-two Patent Practitioners have written to Director Vidal about this. See blog article.)
There is a recent development that the RO/TR (PCT Receiving Office of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office) will become a Depositing Office in the WIPO DAS system, with effect from June 1, 2022. Turkey’s decision to be trendy, modern and up-to-date in this regard brings to twenty-four the number of patent offices around the world whose Receiving Offices have become Depositing Offices in the DAS system.
This raises the natural question of what the progress is of the various PCT Receiving Offices in this important area. Which PCT Receiving Offices are trendy, modern and up-to-date? Which PCT Receiving Offices are laggards? It is instructive to rank the Receiving Offices based on how many applications get filed there, and then to check to see which of those ROs have taken the step of becoming a Depositing Office in the DAS system. Here is how things stand as of the present. (Preview: The USPTO fares poorly in this assessment.) Continue reading “Progress of PCT Receiving Offices towards participation in the DAS system”
The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will join the WIPO DAS system, with effect from June 1, 2022. Turkey’s participation will be as a Depositing Office, and the participation will be with respect to every possible type of application, as will be discussed. Continue reading “Turkey joins the DAS system”
If you want to do any of the good things in ePCT, you have to be logged in using two-factor authentication (“2FA”). (WIPO chooses to call this “strong authentication”.) One of the nice things is that WIPO offers several distinct kinds of 2FA that a user can choose from. Now WIPO has added yet another option for a type of 2FA that users can use. The newly added option is something they call “push notification”. It uses something called the ForgeRock Authenticator app. I think that many ePCT users will find this new “push notification” type of 2FA to be extremely quick and convenient and will end up choosing to use this kind of 2FA to the exclusion of all of the other kinds of 2FA. In this blog article:
If you have tried the ForgeRock Authenticator app with ePCT, please post a comment below.
Continue reading “WIPO provides another option for two-factor authentication in ePCT”
Yes, folks, the Ant-Like Persistence blog looks very different today from the way it looked yesterday.
The executive summary is: Stuff changed, and I had no choice but to deal with it, and I am sorry, but you my loyal reader will hopefully be a good sport about it, and now the blog looks different. And gradually I will hopefully be able to get the blog to the point where it looks somewhat like the way it looked before.
The geek detailed discussion is: Continue reading “The blog looks different today”
(The letter has been signed and has been sent to Director Vidal. You can see it here.)
Hello Colleagues. Here is a letter that I plan to send to Director Kathi Vidal. My goal is to send it on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. What this means is that I hope you will sign the letter between now and the close of business on Monday, April 25, 2022. Here are the “asks”: Continue reading “Please sign this PCT-related letter to the new Director of the USPTO”
The experience of booking a reception for an INTA-annual-meeting-related event is always quite odd. I just yesterday reached closure in the arduous process of booking the venue for the Tenth Annual e-Trademarks Listserv reception (see posting). It is quite weird dealing with the INTA annual meeting environment, as I will describe. Continue reading “What it is like organizing an event at INTA annual meeting time”
The Tenth Annual e-Trademarks Listserv Reception will take place on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 (7PM to 9PM) in Washington, DC at the time of the INTA annual meeting. Your host is yours truly. For more information, or to RSVP, click here.
One of the dumbest things that you can do when you are naming your intellectual property firm, it turns out, is picking a name that is more than 35 characters in length. If you make this mistake, it means you often can’t get paid.
A related dumb thing is arranging to have a street address that exceeds 35 characters in length. This, too, might mean that you can’t get paid.
It turns out that there is a simple and quick fix for this problem, as I will mention at the end of this blog article.
Back before the Internet happened, the way that a patient interacted with his or her primary care physician was, well, who can remember? It was so long ago. I guess it was mostly telephone calls, postal mail, and the occasional in-person visit. Nowadays for most of us, the chief mode of interaction is the “patient portal”. Recently my health insurance changed, and so I found myself interacting with a new (new to me) patient portal. Whoever designed this particular portal made a dumb mistake in the programming of its “add to calendar” function. The result was that when I showed up on time to my first get-acquainted appointment with my new primary care physician, I was told that I was an hour late and had missed my appointment. I will describe the programming mistake. Continue reading “How to get “add to calendar” wrong”