Posts Tagged ‘IP’

Extremely important.  Docketing is what keys our actions in IP prosecution.  Every patent or trademark application has due dates (usually many, many due dates) which if missed could result in the abandonment of an application.  Some missed dates are recoverable while some are not.  Of those that are recoverable, reinstatement can be quite expensive and require untold hours of additional work.

**This article is an update of the IPconnect blog article dated October 14th, 2010 and supersedes that article.**

You have a provisional application that was filed on June 15, 2012 and your client wants to file both a U.S. utility and a PCT application claiming priority to the provisional.    June 15, 2013 is a Saturday, so you think that you can file both applications on Monday, June 17, 2013 because of the Sat/Sun/Holiday rule in the US, right?

It’s July and that means that I start thinking about Christmas presents (oh my!).  I was recently at a block sale (no, the block wasn’t for sale  🙂  it was a bunch of people who got together to sell stuff in one location) at which there were about 15 or 20 vendors.  One of the vendors was selling an expandable carry-on fight bag with wheels for $1.00.  One woman walked by pulling one of the bags and gushed at how good of a deal she got[1].  However …