On May 6, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice, proposing to amend the Rules of Practice in Patent Cases to allow electronic submissions of patent term extension (PTE) applications,...more
In a Director’s Forum blog post published December 10, 2021, the USPTO announced plans to issue proposed rule changes relating to the format in which U.S. patents are issued, making electronic patents the norm, with something...more
USPTO to Offer Seminars on DOCX - In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed today, November, 12, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will be offering several seminars on how to use DOCX for EFS-Web...more
In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed on July 2, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that PKI authentication for EFS-Web and Private PAIR has been permanently disabled. The Office had previously announced in...more
USPTO Implements New System for Ordering Certified Copies of Documents - In a notice posted on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website last month, the Office announced that it was implementing the Certified Copy...more
In a Patent Alert e-mail distributed earlier today, February 14, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that "[d]ue to recent technical issues, the PKI authentication and migration deadlines associated with the...more
Last month, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu issued a notice on the "Authentication Changes for Registered Users of EFS-Web and Private PAIR." Although most of the information provided in the Director's...more
USPTO Introduces New Homepage - In a USPTO Alert e-mail distributed today, October 25, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the release of a new homepage, which the Office indicated was "part of a larger...more
Under U.S. patent law, while there is no duty to perform a search of relevant art, inventors and those associated with filing or prosecuting patent applications as defined in 37 C.F.R. § 1.56 have a duty to disclose to the...more
USPTO Announces Interim Authentication Method for EFS-Web and Private PAIR - On September 13, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced via a Patent Alert e-mail that a new authentication option for EFS-Web and...more