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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…
Most practitioners who are responsible for patent renewal fees include these deadlines in their docketing systems. Nevertheless, as with everything else for which there's a deadline, redundancy is a good…
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…
There was a piece last week in The American Spectator that argues that the 1998 SCOTUS decision Clinton v City of New York is the worst supreme court decision ever.…
Following up the previous two posts (here and here) re docx: First, David Boundy says that tomorrow there will be a Federal Register Notice in which the PTO delays by…
Last month I wrote about USPTO Director Kathy Vidal’s statement in October (at the AIPLA Annual meeting) that the PTO was going to deign to continue to let applicants file…
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…
[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…
Today is the eve of Passover, making this a short work week here in Israel, for those of us fortunate enough to still be working during this COVID-19 thing –…
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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