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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
The Israel PTO's web site includes a page that has links to the Patents Statute and the relevant implementing Regulations, of which there are three sets: the 1968 regulations that…
In May I wrote about the problem with the way in which the Israel PTO notified patentees of the initial renewal fees that are due within three months of the…
I wrote last year about the decision by Ben & Jerry’s not to renew its license agreement with Avi Zinger’s company, American Quality Products, when that license expires at the…
Since May 30, the Dilbert comic strip has been running a thread about the Dilbert's employer transitioning to a big pharma company. Patents have thus far been spared Scott Adams'…
Patent renewal (or maintenance) fees in Israel are due for five periods of time: for years 0-6, 7-10, 11-14, 15-18, and 19-20 of a patent’s lifetime. Normally, the fee for…
In the mid-1990’s, as the internet was becoming ubiquitous, there was talk about moving to a paperless office. Nearly 30 years later, many businesses are paperless. The patent offices of…
It's always nice to open up PAIR and see this: Would be nicer if the appeal hadn't been necessary in the first place. And if the examiner got dinged (or…
Today the Israel PTO posted a notice that as of June 1, WIPO will no longer support the PCT-SAFE software that people need to use to file at the Israel…
The Babylon Bee is a Christian online publication that publishes satire on a wide variety of topics. In response to yesterday's confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS, it ran…
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.…
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.
