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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
The ILPTO’s filing system for patents underwent a substantive re-design in 2025, and it still leaves much to be desired. One of its biggest problems is that it doesn’t immediately…
We’re Back! This blog used to be hosted by a company called Typepad. Typepad shut down about a year ago, and I didn’t get around to re-starting the blog until…
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. …
As another follow-up to last week's posts about the Toronto International Film Festival hiding behind bogus assertions of concern about copyright infringement as an excuse not to screen "The Road…
Fellow patent practitioner Lee Golden did what I did not do, namely read the Canadian Copyright statute. He notes that the terrorists with the GoPro cameras likely don't even have…
I don’t think that hitherto I’ve seen IP used as an excuse for Jew-hatred, but we’re living in interesting times. The Jerusalem Post and others report today that the Toronto…
If you grew up in the Detroit area from the 1970’s until 2009, you knew the name Bill Davidson: he was the owner of the Detroit Pistons, who won back-to-back…
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…
I’ve mentioned previously that my wife’s building at Weizmann was rendered unusable as a result of some ballistic missiles the fun-loving Moslems running Iran gifted us. What I didn’t mention…
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…
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…
Excellent piece in this month's Commentary on the assault on the pharmaceutical industry. And it doesn't even mention patents! Two good quotes: "…it is possible that the average consumer of…
Filed a divisional application at the ILPTO. The ILPTO’s electronic filing system populated all the relevant fields with information from the parent case. As the application has more than 100…
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…
For all its discussions of different topics, the Talmud contains only a few that relate to what today we would classify as intellectual property, and there's no notion of a…
One of the unique features of US patent practice is the existence of continuation applications. Back when US patents issued for 17 years from the grant date (and were not…
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…
Over the past several weeks I have received multiple copies of an unsolicited ad from what I assume is an India-based outfit called "Novel Patent Services". I often get these…
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.
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