Things we hate about the USPTO - Annoying press release practices (09:55) - Quick – when does the new USPTO electronic filing system go live? Is it this Friday, March 17th (as originally reported by the Office in the online training session for the new private PAIR), Thursday (as suggested by yesterday’s press release), or next... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 23 February
USPTO.gov suggestion: zip the TMEP (11:21) - The MPEP is provided zipped up in three nice "chunks"...ready for easy downloading. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.html The TMBP is provided in a zipped format too. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ttab/tbmp/ However, the TMEP isn't provided like that. If you want a local copy of the TMEP... | 0 Trackbacks
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Friday 17 February
Annoying EPO Practice: Form 1205A (11:06) - Yesterday I received a phone call from a client who had just received a registered letter from the European Patent Office entitled "Noting of loss of rights pursuant to Rule 69(1) EPC." The letter went on to state that his... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 13 February
Things We Hate...time for a name change? (17:08) - Is it just me, or is the "things we hate" title quite hateful? I didn't really intend it to come out that way. It was originally intended as a way for us to list things we wished were different about... | 0 Trackbacks
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Things We Hate About the USPTO.GOV Website: Who is the Current Commissioner for Trademarks? (16:07) - Trivia question: Who is the current Commissioner for Trademarks? Shouldn't the answer be on the USPTO's "Commissioner for Trademarks" page? It isn't: The correct answer is: Lynne G. Beresford. At least the Commissioner of Patents page lists John Doll as... | 0 Trackbacks
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Monday 12 December
Things We Hate About The USPTO.gov Website: Trademark "Sessions" (01:11) - Rethink(IP) reader (and frequent commenter on our previous "hate" posts) Adam Rosi-Kessel [blog] brings you his www.uspto.gov annoyance: The fact that you can't bookmark a trademark search page is a real annoyance. That is, if you go to http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm, click... | 0 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 7 December
Things We Hate About The USPTO.gov Website: search navigation (19:55) - Here's one thing that drives me nuts...patent searching on the USPTO site. Let's say I go to the USPTO's search page and search for patents to Idaho inventors. I would type "is/ID" and hit the Enter key. That would give... | 0 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 22 November
Who says the USPTO is not listening? (08:56) - Did you catch this? Last week, Steve posted another “thing we hate about the USPTO.gov web site.” In that rant, Steve detailed one of our favorite frustrations about the web site — the fact that, before Sunday, you had to... | 2 Trackbacks
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Sunday 20 November
Things We Love About the USPTO.gov Website (11:20) - First, Then,...guess what starts working? Try going to http://uspto.gov NOW. (hint: it works) See my previous "hate" entry regarding this issue here.... | 0 Trackbacks
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Thursday 17 November
Things We Hate About the USPTO.GOV Website, #4 (16:53) - USPTO's website is http://www.uspto.gov. Guess what happens when you go to http://uspto.gov. If you guessed "The page cannot be displayed," give yourself 10 points. If you've ever typed in uspto.gov and received the same error before, give yourself and additional... | 1 Trackbacks
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Things we hate about the uspto.gov website - #2 (14:12) - Let the uspto.gov bashing continue. One of my biggest pet peeves about the site is the linkfarm structure of several key pages. Look at the main “Patents” page, for example: Is there a better example of... | 1 Trackbacks
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Monday 10 October
Things We Hate About the USPTO.GOV Website, #1 (13:29) - We've joked a number of times internally about things we hate about the USPTO's website and how we should compile a list of grievances. Today I stumbled onto one of the things I "hate" and it spurred me to start the... | 1 Trackbacks
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