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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
Once upon a time, patents only became public upon issuance. Then someone realized that it might be good if patent applications were published earlier in the patenting process. Among other…
According to Forbes, KFC (the company that us old guys still refer to as "Kentucky Fried Chicken", just like we still talk about the Sears Tower) posted this video yesterday…
One of the aspects of being a patent attorney that I enjoy is learning how seemingly simple things we take for granted in modern life are not so simple. I’m…
Yesterday, the Israel PTO published a "Call for Comments" about possible changes to the Patent Statute. Formally, it was the Justice Ministry that published the document, but enough of the…
Last week I went to log into my ePCT account. WIPO gives you a choice of doing with or without "strong" identification, but only the latter allows you take certain…
Classic joke: Schwartz dies, and as his family is going through his things, in the pocket of one of his suits they discover a 15-year-old claim check for a pair…
We've refrained from ragging on the ILPTO electronic filing system for a while. Partly that's because criticizing IL-EFS is like shooting fish in a barrel, partly that's because no one…
This is longish post, prompted by a comment made by Dennis Crouch at his PatentlyO blog. Since much of it deals with the background of the Hatch-Waxman amendment, with which…
The Israel PTO announced last week that its PPH and PCT-PPH agreements with the European Patent Office, which were due to expire in January 2021, have been extended indefinitely. These…
Yesterday I wrote about Tom Lehrer dedicating his songs to the public. Turns out that his output includes a song that’s a wonderful illustration of technological obsolescence. But a word…
We refer to patents, trademarks and copyrights as "intellectual property" in part because they have attributes of what we normally think of as tangible property. Just as ownership of…
Not really. But the ILPTO's emailing today of a link to the recent announcement that Trinidad & Tobago has joined the Madrid Protocol reminded me of this classic Bill Murray…
The letter below came to my attention recently. It was sent out by two professors in administrative positions at one of Israel’s institution of higher education. Can you spot the…
I’ve been writing this blog on and off for over ten years, and I don’t think that until now I’ve strayed beyond IP-related things. I guess there’s a first time…
An applicant who is entitled to file a PCT application may file using his "home" patent office as the PCT Receiving Office (RO), or, if local law allows filing outside…
A friend passed on this link to me. It’s for an organization that exists to give credentials to patent searchers. Searching the corpus of prior publications, and assessing the results,…
After years of lacking an official internet presence, Gary Larson recently relented and starting posting his old Far Side cartoons on a daily basis. Several of these have an IP…
The news outlets in Israel recently ran stories about the discovery of ancient copper smelting furnaces in what is today Beer Sheva (“ancient” meaning 6500 years old). You can read…
There's a patent agent firm in Israel that used to require its employees – including professional staff – to wear RF ID badges. Maybe it still does. Today's Dilbert cartoon…
Fans of Mel Brooks (may he live to be 120), and his movie Blazing Saddles in particular, will well recall the scene in which the new sheriff in town, Bart…
Two years ago, I blogged about how something that started out as a good idea of the Israel PTO was eventually written into the statute and then interpreted by the…
Today the Israel PTO held the second of two Zoom calls about its proposal to enable the filing of a provisional application in Israel. I participated in the first call…
Ok, that question is unfair. Obviously, a party CAN file a patent application in Israel that claims priority from a PCT application, as opposed to being the national phase of…
Yesterday, as part of its initiative to institute a provisional Israel patent application, the ILPTO held a Zoom chat. I’ll report on the parts of that chat that pertain to…
Fans of Monty Python will recognize the title of this post as referring to one of the troupe’s classic and most beloved sketches, in which an overzealous policeman accosts the…
A few months ago, Israel made headlines for implementing, for the first time, the state's right to grant a compulsory license for pharmaceuticals. Today, the Israel PTO concluded another first,…
Two years ago, I wrote a post on this blog entitled “Why we do our first filings outside of Israel”. I wrote it in response to the complaint of a…
The Israel PTO announced today that effective July 1, 2020, applicants for registered designs in Israel will be able to make use of DAS. (The ILPTO notified WIPO of this…
I tend to think of the USPTO as being significantly more rule-burdened (i.e. bureaucratic) than the ILPTO. This is, perhaps, a natural outgrowth of the USPTO being a significantly larger…
Ex parte examination of patent, trademark and design applications is usually just a matter between the examiner and applicant, but sometimes ex parte matters need to be decided by the…
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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