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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alice Corporation v CLS Bank. The question before the court is whether or not an otherwise patent-eligible invention becomes patent-ineligible…
So many things going on in the patent world here and in the USA to write about, but so much work, so little time to blog. There’s been a lot…
Last week I wrote about the disappearance of lists of ILPTO decisions and announcements from its web site, and their replacement with a non-functional search engine. It appears that the…
Today Don Zuhn at PatentDocs posted about a report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association, which lists the universities worldwide that received the most…
In an announcement sent out yesterday by email and which is buried on the PPH page on the ILPTO’s website (as explained yesterday’s post, don’t try finding it on the…
In order to fulfill his duties, which include deciding inter partes disputes concerning patent and trademark applications and registrations (e.g. oppositions and cancellation proceedings), the ILPTO Commissioner has quasi-judicial powers. …
Yesterday the ILPTO published the latest installment of the Patents Journal (the local equivalent of the USPTO Gazette), which includes various bits of information, including patents that have lapsed for…
In previous posts I've quoted my colleague who refers to Israel as a country with 21st century technology and a 19th century patent office. I usually mention this when complaining…
In January this year, when snow forced the closure of the ILPTO, the office put out a notice that deadlines that came due on that day would still have to…
Israel has three different procedures for expediting the examination of patent applications. One of these procedures, section 17(c) of the statute, concerns substantive examination of the application. Under 17(c), the…
Earlier this year the Israel PTO announced that it would be inaugurating a new PCT patent prosecution highway (PCT-PPH) program. With itself. Seriously. Henceforth, if one of the claims of…
In US patent practice, the conclusion of ex parte patent prosecution is marked the issuance of a Notice of Allowance, at which point (a) the applicant has three months to…
Being a patent practitioner comes with certain liability risks. There are many dates to keep track of (the one-year anniversary of the earliest priority date, dates of public disclosures and…
A recurring theme on this blog is the topic of divisional applications in Israel, specifically the impropriety of the Israel PTO’s decision a few years ago to limit the time…
When I was growing up, a Mercedes was considered to be a well-made status symbol. When I was in college, my experience at a summer job stocking spare parts at…
It’s been a while since I wrote about how the Israel PTO deals with the issue of “overlap” between the claims of applications, but that doesn’t mean the issue has…
The previous post here discussed the absurd situation that prevails at the ILPTO, under which one can pay ILPTO fees online but must still send the ILPTO a physical copy…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the above statement is how a colleague of mine characterizes Israel. A few years ago I discussed one case in point, in which…
Lots of verbiage was spent in the run-up to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Myriad Genetics decision last week, lots has already been spent since the decision, and lots more will…
So a news item last week in the patent world was that Saudi Arabia has now joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty (or in the formal language of the PCT, it…
Coming up next week we have Memorial Day on Sunday night and Monday, followed immediately by Independence Day on Monday night and Tuesday. Unlike Memorial Day in the USA,…
Mr. and Mrs. Gabbai live in Ashdod. They developed a three-layer mattress, which they asserted helps prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In 2007 they filed a US patent application…
This morning the Israel PTO sent out an update regarding applicants' reporting of prior art to the ILPTO. Similar to the USA, Israel imposes a duty of disclosure throughout the…
This post has nothing to do with patents, but the photo below of yours truly in front of a dry cleaning establishment (courtesy of Scott Daniels of Westerman, Hattori, Daniels and Adrian and…
It snowed yesterday and today in Jerusalem. That’s not an unheard of occurrence, but it is infrequent. And the amounts of snow dropped on the country’s capital weren’t just a…
For those weirdos who find the Israel patent regulations to be a scintillating topic for discussion (and for those who are just gluttons for punishment), here are a two more…
On November 25, amendments to the Patent Regulations were published; earlier this week the ILPTO published a notice regarding the new amendments. Both documents make good reading, if counting sheep isn’t working…
Pity the poor pro se procurer of patents, who has to put up not only with some of the putrescence promulgated by patent office personnel, but with his own paucity…
On October 31, it was announced that the Israel PTO and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) had entered into a pilot PPH program. That's probably not so relevant for…
I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.
