Keep in mind that Switzerland will turn off daylight saving time today. Those who are filing documents at the International Bureau — documents that need a same-day filing date — should check to make sure they know what time it is in Switzerland as of today.
It is recalled that one of USPTO’s stated goals for Patentcenter is that before it shuts down EFS-Web (scheduled to occur on November 8, 2023), the USPTO will bring forward all of the functions and features of EFS-Web into Patentcenter. It is also a matter of common sense that each function and feature in Patentcenter …
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PCT enthusiasts now have two subjects to choose from for binge-watching. Just today I finished the video editing of the sixteenth webinar in the recently finished sixteen-webinar series on ePCT. As a consequence, as of today, a PCT enthusiast may, if desired, binge-watch more than nineteen hours of webinar video about ePCT. (You can see …
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Do you sometimes pick ISA/EP when you file a PCT application? Is it a source of frustration that the communications from ISA/EP arrive only slowly, via postal mail, rather than electronically? Would you like to learn how to set things up with an electronic EPO mailbox so that you can receive your ISA/EP communications electronically …
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when it is important to keep track of the fact that Daylight Saving Time is different in Switzerland from the way it is in the United States.
This blog article is directed to paralegals and legal assistants and secretaries and administrative assistants. I am going to make a stab-in-the-dark guess that at least one of your attorney bosses is avoiding learning about ePCT because they want to assume that you will be the one who keeps on top of knowing how to …
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It is discouraging to see a recently increased level of passive-aggressiveness on the part of the USPTO about its role as an Accessing Office in the DAS system. This blog article briefly describes four ways in which the USPTO has recently started acting as if it wishes that the DAS system did not exist at …
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It is completely sensible for a patent office to be interested in receiving characters rather than images when a patent application is being filed. There is the potential for everyone to benefit from successful submission of characters. But DOCX is not (and never can be) the right way to do it, since DOCX fails as …
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Hello readers. It will be recalled that in 2018 (see blog posting), the clock in the ePCT system looked like this:
Hello dear readers. There is an annual ritual which I keep hoping would eventually cease to be necessary, but yet again today the ritual presents itself. What I am talking about is the annual scheduling of four blog postings about Daylight Saving Time.
