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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
There was a story this week in Tablet about Emile Berliner, who in 1870 emigrated to the USA at age 19 to avoid being drafted to fight in the Franco-Prussian…
This post isn't really patent or even IP related. Last year I wrote about how Ben & Jerry's announced it wouldn't renew its Israeli licensee's contract because the latter refused…
I'm prosecuting a case before the Israel PTO in which we requested suspension of examination. Under current ILPTO practice, when an applicant requests suspension of examination1, the ILPTO sends the…
As reported here previously, at the end of October, the Israel PTO announced a pilot program to issue Office Actions in English. The program was set to begin at the…
In 1995, the USA moved to a 20-years-from-earliest-filing-date regime. A few years later, in response to complaints that this effectively foreshortened patent term from the previous 17-years-from-grant if the USPTO…
Yesterday I wrote about an issue notification from the Israel PTO that didn't state when notice that the patent application had been accepted would be published in the Patents Journal. …
Those of us old enough to remember Bill Cosby before he fell from grace will recall his famous bit about Noah. It actually appeared on an LP as three separate…
In my previous post I mentioned the lack of sufficient technical support for the Israel PTO's electronic filing system. Case in point, a new one for me: the system won't…
The Israel PTO’s patent electronic filing system went online in December 2015, and its use became mandatory for corporate applicants and legal representatives in June 2016. It was a sub-optimal…
In days of old when dinosaurs roamed the land and my brother still maintained his 12:01 Tuesday blog, he wrote once (I think) about the fact that for a long…
[Note: this was originally posted at 11:40 local time. It's now 15:47 and it seems that some of the systems are back online. No explanation for the crash has been…
In the first half of 2020, particularly around Passover, there were shortages of butter in Israel. Given the centralized production of milk in Israel, what is surprising isn't that there…
Six years ago I blogged about my response to being invited (along with, presumably, every other IP practitioner on the planet) to a conference in Dubai, with which Israel did…
If you’re up on current events in the USA, skip to the next paragraph. If you don’t follow cultural and political developments in the USA, then you’re unaware that the…
This morning the Israel PTO announced that, beginning January 1, 2022, applicants for patents may receive their substantive examination reports (aka “office actions”, or “OAs”) in English. This service is…
Once upon a time the New York Times was a respected publication. These days it’s overpriced toilet paper (and not very soft at that, let alone perforated for easy use).…
The Israel PTO announced this morning by email that its computer systems will be offline beginning Thursday August 5 and continuing through 7 AM the following morning. This will include…
I reported earlier this year on the Israel PTO’s updating of its public patent database, and concomitant loss of some documents in the migration. This week, the ILPTO sent not…
It’s safe to assume that by now most readers of this blog have heard that ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s will cease selling in Judea and Samaria in 2022. …
This morning the MOJ and Israel PTO posted a call for suggestions for changes to the regulations governing patent oppositions in Israel, and the ILPTO sent out an email notifying…
I recently encountered a bug in the Israel PTO’s system for sending notices to applicants and practitioners. Once upon a time, the Israel PTO sent practitioners paper copies of correspondence.…
James Meigs has a piece in the newest edition of Commentary entitled "Thank God For Big Pharma". It doesn't say anything that's not already familiar to people involved in the…
Thank God for bureaucrats – where would we citizens of the modern state be without them? Nearly five-and-a-half years after rolling out its less-than-stellar electronic filing system for patents without…
On Thursday, May 20 at noon eastern time, the AIPLA Israel Practice Committee, in conjunction with the Israel Patent Attorneys Association, will be putting conducting an online session about provisional…
Today marks the end of the shloshim period following the passing of Judith Abrahams. Although I spoke with her a few times over the years, I don’t think I ever…
The USPTO has its Gazette, which publishes faithfully every Tuesday at 12:01 AM (a fact that provided the title for my brother’s entertaining but sadly now mostly-defunct blog). The Israel…
Anyone who grew up watching television commercials in the USA in the 1970’s and 1980’s is familiar with the phrase “new and improved”. This was the line used by marketing…
This morning the Israel PTO sent out a notice that its new patent search database will be going online this Thursday, March 11, and as a result, the electronic filing…
As reported previously here, here and here, late last spring the ILPTO proposed instituting a mechanism for the filing of provisional applications in Israel. In an effort to ostensibly gather…
I’ve blogged before about how a good thing became less good when it was codified in the statute, specifically §17(c) of the Israel Patent statute, enacted in 1995, which codified…
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.
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