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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
Filed a divisional application at the ILPTO. The ILPTO’s electronic filing system populated all the relevant fields with information from the parent case. As the application has more than 100…
Most practitioners who are responsible for patent renewal fees include these deadlines in their docketing systems. Nevertheless, as with everything else for which there's a deadline, redundancy is a good…
For all its discussions of different topics, the Talmud contains only a few that relate to what today we would classify as intellectual property, and there’s no notion of a…
One of the unique features of US patent practice is the existence of continuation applications. Back when US patents issued for 17 years from the grant date (and were not…
Today I received from the Israel PTO identical letters in two different patent applications. In both applications, we requested suspension of examination back in 2023, when the procedure was for…
Last year we submitted claims in an application identical to those allowed at the EPO, and told the examiner that when the European Patent granted, we'd file a request for…
Yesterday the ILPTO sent out a notice regarding revised fees that will come into effect on January 1, 2025. All fees are rising by about 3.5%, rounded to the nearest…
Over the past several weeks I have received multiple copies of an unsolicited ad from what I assume is an India-based outfit called "Novel Patent Services". I often get these…
In case you wanted to speak to someone at the Israel PTO tomorrow, they just announced via an unsigned email that they're closed for business. No, not in anticipation of…
I have written in the past about terminal disclaimers (TDs) under US law (e.g. here and here). Briefly, a TD promises that (a) the term of the patent that issues…
Anyone my age will recall Marvin the Martian, the Loony Toons character who wanted to blow the earth into nothingness using his “Eludium PU-36 explosive space modulator”, but whose nefarious…
As a follow-up to yesterday's post: 1. I eventually got the acknowledgement of the filing of the POA. 2. The ILPTO sent out the same notice again today, so the…
I have complained in the past about the time it takes for the Israel PTO to generate acknowledgement receipt for things that are filed electronically (as well as the fact…
Ten and half years ago (exactly!) I wrote about the connection between the (quasi-) legal fiction used in selling leavened products before Passover and US copyright law. Today I’m going…
Here in Israel we’re amazed by the exploding pagers and exploding radios of the last two days, in terms of the technological and logistical abilities, not to mention the chutzpa,…
I wrote last year noting that there were apparently no patent applications filed, ever, listing Shifa “Hospital” in Gaza as the applicant. Today on a whim I looked for patent…
I don’t do trademark prosecution, but the issue of possible trademark protection is something I often discuss with clients. One of the ways I illustrate how successful marks convey distinctiveness…
I’ve written several times in the past about suspension of patent examination at the Israel PTO (here, here, here and here). In June, the ILPTO announced a new policy for…
A few years ago I wrote a blog entry entitled “How To Rip Off Your Clients Without Them Knowing They’re Being Had”. Basically, the issue is that in Israel, the…
The USPTO today sent out an announcement about its new Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) form SB/08a, the form an applicant uses to inform the USPTO about prior publications that are…
Last week I wrote about the Board of Directors of the Columbia Law Review taking down the CLR's website because of hanky-panky by the student editors surrounding the acceptance of…
Yesterday, the Israel PTO sent out a notice that, in translation, reads as follows: “After several years of successful cooperation with the company Similari in the area of prior art…
I have never been a fan of law reviews or law review articles. Law reviews are the only form of ostensibly academic journalism of which I'm aware in which the…
Revised June 6 The Israel PTO announced yesterday that applicants who file applications in Israel that claim priority from a provisional patent application may on that basis request expedited examination…
When the Israel PTO moved to electronic filing in June 2016, no one had thought about the importance of providing the filer with confirmation that a filing had been made…
There have been many videos of “protestors” on US college campuses in recent weeks that display how spoiled – and detached from reality – these students are. There was the…
Well, that seems to be the message from the Israel PTO, which earlier today sent out an email to its distribution list, informing us of this important fact, with a…
Once upon a time, the Israel PTO let patent applicants request suspension of examination at almost any point in time during the examination process, and it didn’t cost anything. You…
I’ve written in the past about petitions to revive Israel patents (or patent applications) that went abandoned for failure to take some action, most often failure to pay a renewal…
As a follow-up to my post of a few weeks ago about the examiner who asserted that an amendment we filed was non-compliant because he found it difficult to read…
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.
