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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
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…
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…
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…
Further to yesterday's blog post, today the ILPTO published an English translation of its notice about work arrangements during the Coronavirus shutdown. Update March 27: the ILPTO published a further…
On Saturday night, March 21, the Israel cabinet agreed to reduce the number of public sector employees still working. Yesterday, March 22, the Israel PTO published a four-page explanation of…
This post arises from a question that was put to me by a colleague. He wanted to expressly abandon an Israel Patent Application, but when he went into the electronic…
It’s not unusual for a patent applicant to lose interest in an application. I see this most often in the context of failed clinical trials for a new drug; without…
In July 2012, Israel enacted legislation facilitating publication of patent applications 18 months after the earliest priority date. Unlike in the USA, where the move to 18-month publication did not…
This is the story of a US patent application that went abandoned and thus shouldn’t have been published, but which the USPTO published nevertheless because of an improper benefit claim,…
One of the nice things about the “electronic age” is that instead of having voluminous paper files to keep records, you can store all those documents on a drive that’s…
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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