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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
Last week the Israel PTO announced it would be holding a meeting at the ILPTO at 11 AM on Tuesday, September 5 to demonstrate how to use its new electronic…
Here’s another one that I heard today from a colleague in Israel. The issue (allowance) fee was paid in an Israel patent application for an application owned by a company. …
To anyone who's filed more than a handful of powers of attorney or assignments at the USPTO, it's well-known that the USPTO sometimes bounces these things for seemingly capricious reasons,…
Yesterday I discussed many of the problems with the Israel’s PTO’s treatment powers of attorney. Today I discuss the ILPTO’s proposed amendments to the Regulations regarding powers of attorney. The…
Last week the Israel PTO announced by email proposed amendments to the regulations (rules) governing certain aspects of practice before the Israel PTO in all four areas over which it…
In March I wrote about WIPO's DAS system for the electronic exchange of priority documents in patent, trademark and design applications, and wondered why the Israel PTO charges a fee…
Filed a patent prosecution highway (PPH) request with the Israel PTO at 13:30 this afternoon, asking that a patent application be examined out of turn because the claims are identical…
I have blogged previously (here, here and here) about the USPTO's continuing lies with respect to its "docx filing" program, but Carl Oppedahl has done a much better job of…
To IP professionals, "DAS" stands for "Digital Access Service", a service run by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As explained on WIPO's site: "The WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS)…
Patent renewal fees, also sometimes called maintenance fees or annuities, are a feature of most patent systems. Readers can look at economic-analysis-of-law textbooks for an explanation of the economic rationale…
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.
