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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
So a news item last week in the patent world was that Saudi Arabia has now joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty (or in the formal language of the PCT, it…
This post has nothing to do with patents, but the photo below of yours truly in front of a dry cleaning establishment (courtesy of Scott Daniels of Westerman, Hattori, Daniels and Adrian and…
It snowed yesterday and today in Jerusalem. That’s not an unheard of occurrence, but it is infrequent. And the amounts of snow dropped on the country’s capital weren’t just a…
Pity the poor pro se procurer of patents, who has to put up not only with some of the putrescence promulgated by patent office personnel, but with his own paucity…
One of the most readily discernible features of observant Jewry is its adherence to the Jewish dietary laws, colloquially referred to as kashrut. In point of fact, kashrut is a…
As has been discussed here before, under the leadership of the previous Israel Patents Commissioner, Meir Noam, in 2008 the ILPTO announced that – contrary to what was required at…
I wrote some time ago about an offer I received to pay a fly-by-night outfit $1700 so that a client’s published PCT application could be included in a private database…
Ok, notwithstanding the catchy title, my intent here is not to indict all members of Congress who voted in favor the recently-enacted “America Invents Act”, the real title of which…
The Israel PTO will accept patent applications filed in Hebrew, Arabic or English (as discussed in an earlier post), but I’ve never filed a patent application in Hebrew. Nor, as…
I’m a fan of the USPTO’s electronic filing system (EFS) and Patent Application Information Retrieval system (PAIR) for patent applications. The former enables applicants to file applications and responses, and…
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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