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		<title>How Important Is Docketing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proper docketing in our discipline requires schedule management skills, huge attention to detail and a solid fundamental knowledge of IP prosecution with the know-how to look up rules when they are not clear.  Why?  Here is an example of what can happen if your docketer is not totally familiar with the rules and regulations of our world:]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/experts-quill/how-important-is-docketing/</link>
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		<title>IP Prosecution Firms&#8230; Brace For Impact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[prospectors the world over have taken notice and are frantically assembling snazzy IP prosecution outsourcing bandwagons in the hopes of grabbing market share. While this scenario might be considered amusing, I cannot help but ponder the significance of what may result.]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/experts-quill/ip-prosecution-practices-brace-for-impact/</link>
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		<title>Solid Infrastructure via Meticulous Preparation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a saying in Texas: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t like the weather&#8230; wait around a few minutes.&#8221; Courtesy of the National Football League bestowing local Arlington with the privilege of hosting Super Bowl XLV, the whole world got to see just how bizarre the weather can get here. In the span of 48 hours we went from cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/and-now-for-something-completely-different/solid-infrastructure-via-meticulous-preparation/</link>
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		<title>When is that application due?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have a provisional application that was filed on November 6, 2009 and your client wants to file both a U.S. utility and a PCT application claiming priority to the provisional.  November 6, 2010 is a Saturday, so you think that you can file both applications on Monday, November 8, 2010 because of the Sat/Sun/Holiday rule in the US, right?  Well … maybe so and maybe not.   ]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/workaround-workshop/when-is-that-application-due/</link>
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		<title>Priority &#8211; Article 4A of the Paris Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article 4A(1) of the Paris convention states that “any person who has duly filed an application … in one of the countries of the Union, or his successor in title, shall enjoy  ... a right of priority….”]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/workaround-workshop/929/</link>
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		<title>Why purchase an authentic product instead of &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago I was at a presentation given by a trademark expert about counterfeits.  I learned a lot that I didn’t know.  In particular, it seems that one method of funding used by terrorists is selling counterfeit goods. ]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/and-now-for-something-completely-different/why-purchase-an-authentic-product-instead-of/</link>
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		<title>Hedy Lamarr was an inventor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedy Lamarr's patent for the Secret Communication System was so innovative that it is being cited in present-day patents.]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/and-now-for-something-completely-different/hedy-lamarr-was-an-inventor/</link>
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		<title>Assignments are more important now than ever!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If an EP application is filed in the name of anyone other than the current, correct &#038; official owner of all of the priority application(s), the priority date can be lost.  Be sure that the assignment is signed prior to the filing of any foreign applications.]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/workaround-workshop/assignments-are-more-important-now-than-ever/</link>
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		<title>What is a PCT?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A PCT application is basically a virtual “place holding” application for an invention, and is applicable for a specifically limited amount of time in specific countries or groups of countries that are members of the Patent Cooperation Treaty as of the filing date of the application.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/experts-quill/what-is-a-pct/</link>
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		<title>What is a “BYPASS APPLICATION?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The name “Bypass Application” came about by how a US/PCT application is filed – i.e., when a bypass application is filed, the National Stage of a PCT application is bypassed.  The basic differences between a Bypass and regular National Stage of a PCT application are discussed.]]></description>
		<link>http://ipparalegals.com/media/blogs/workaround-workshop/what-is-a-%e2%80%9cbypass-application%e2%80%9d/</link>
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