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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
I have a case that received a notice of allowance from the Israel PTO. The “acceptance fee” (equivalent to the “issue fee” in the USA) is due October 10, 2025. …
What’s The Point of An Electronic Record That Can Be Arbitrarily Changed And Doesn’t Even Reflect The Record When It’s Not Changed? At the end of April I wrote about…
Last month I wrote about some of the ongoing problems with the Israel PTO’s patent electronic filing system. On July 1, on just two days’ notice, the ILPTO held a…
Some years ago, the Israel PTO started publishing a set of “Examination Guidelines” (“EGs”). These are like the USPTO’s Manual of Patent Examination Practice (MPEP), but the modern State of…
I wrote in April and May about the Israel PTO’s update to its patent electronic filing system, in particular about how there were many glitches in the system, even as…
Earlier today, the ILPTO said that its patent electronic filing system is fixed (announcement at right). One of my cases in Israel received an OA on December 31, 2024. The…
1. A few minutes ago the Israel PTO sent out the notice to right, confirming what I wrote yesterday: that its new-and-improved system is timely sending out automatically-generated warning letters,…
Both the ILPTO’s patent electronic filing system and database are back online. But there’s at least one interesting glitch here. In the demonstration session yesterday, they explained that whereas in…
Yesterday the Israel PTO announced that its new patent electronic filing system would be online today as of 13:30. As predicted, the system wasn't online then and still isn't online…
The Israel PTO just announced that its patent electronic filing system and the patent database will be offline tomorrow, April 28, from 07:00 to 13:00. When they tried this in…
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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