Patent Tech Tips
The blog focuses on ways to use technology to help patent practitioners and support staff. Ethical and legal issues involving technology are also covered.
Author: Larry Kasoff is a registered patent attorney.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Patent Law • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology
Recent Posts from Patent Tech Tips
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Exclude Dictionary Part 3: The Annoyances
Now that you have been introduced to the exclude dictionary, here are the annoyances/drawbacks: The exclude dictionary is set per computer user and across all of Microsoft Office. Thus, you can’t easily have a separate…
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Exclude Dictionary Part 2: Other Uses of An Exclude Dictionary
Yesterday’s posting discussed using the exclude dictionary feature of Microsoft Office to reduce patent profanity in your patent applications and Office Action responses. Here are some other uses of the exclude dictionary feature: reducing embarrassing typos…
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Exclude Dictionary Part 1: Using An Exclude Dictionary to Prevent Patent Profanity
Any experienced patent prosecutor can tell you that there are words or phrases that shouldn’t be used (or should be used with extreme caution) in a patent application or Office Action response. For example, words…
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Spliting Multi-part PAIR PDF Files
When downloading multiple pieces of correspondence from PAIR in a single download, the USPTO usually outputs the documents into a single PDF file with each piece of correspondence seperately bookmarked. For an easy way to…
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USPTO Requests Volunteers to Test the Online Continuing Education for Practitioners (”CEP”) System
I haven’t seen any of the other patent blogs or patent-related email lists mention it so this may be the under-reported patent story of the week. Regardless, given the audience of this blog is very…
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Yet Another Blog (YAB) for Patent Practitioners: Do we really need another?
Welcome to Patent Tech Tips, a new blog about using technology to make life easier for the patent practitioner and associated support staff. In addition, ethical and legal concerns surrounding such technology use will also…