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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
So we filed a preliminary amendment in a US national phase application in early 2022, as a pdf made from an MS Word file that had the changes tracked –…
Last week, the USPTO's computer systems crashed. Not just on the patent side, but also the trademark side Sometimes you could get in, sometimes you couldn't…eventually I found myself completely…
So I filed a national phase application, and then shortly thereafter – before notice of the filing the application published – the client instructed me to file some amendments to…
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.