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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
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…
The ILPTO announced today that as of May 1, 2019, it will be a part of WIPO’s Digital Access Service. (An announcement to this effect appeared on WIPO’s site more…
Israel does not require patent applicants to file first in Israel (unless their inventions concern certain defense or nuclear technologies). And as a result, more often than not the first…
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,…
Suppose you’re an Israeli company with a newly-drafted patent application. You think it’s got an enabling disclosure and clear claims, and it’s not something likely to get flagged as defense-related…
Last week the Israel PTO published two more “Commissioner’s circulars” (חוזרי רשם in Hebrew) to add to the burgeoning number of such expressions of ILPTO policy. A jar of Jelly…
Following the adoption of significant amendments to the Israel patent statute on July 9 and their coming into force (mostly) on July 12, on July 25 the Israel PTO published…
On June 20, the USPTO announced on its web site that it had agreed with the Israel PTO to undertake a pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) project, beginning July 1,…
This morning, during my daily check of correspondence from the USPTO on private PAIR, I found a fascinating letter, the text of which is reprinted below. Turns out that 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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