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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
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…
Yesterday (April 23), the Israel PTO notified members of its email distribution list of the publication of a memorandum of proposed new legislation (a tazkir hok) that would change principally…
Having introduced a new interface for filing patent applications back in September 2023 (see here, here, here, here and here), today the Israel PTO announced that it will soon be…
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…
Today I received from the Israel PTO identical letters in two different patent applications. In both applications, we requested suspension of examination back in 2023, when the procedure was for…
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…
Yesterday the ILPTO sent out a notice regarding revised fees that will come into effect on January 1, 2025. All fees are rising by about 3.5%, rounded to the nearest…
In case you wanted to speak to someone at the Israel PTO tomorrow, they just announced via an unsigned email that they're closed for business. No, not in anticipation of…
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.
