By Christopher P. Singer --
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today (January 30, 2007) presented a webinar that detailed certain issues relating to document indexing and descriptions of filings submitted with the USPTO via EFS-Web. The seminar provided helpful explanations and tips regarding how to describe submissions properly so that they are more quickly processed and available on private PAIR. The USPTO provides summary documents, tutorials, and training for EFS Web, document indexing tips, as well as document indexing tips and helpful informational links here. In particular, document descriptions can be found here.
In addition, the Priority Document Exchange (PDX) program between the U.S. and European Patent Offices is now in full swing. The Japanese Patent Office is expected to integrate into this program sometime this coming summer. Applicants wishing to request that the USPTO either provide or request a priority document to or from the EPO are advised to use forms provided by the Office. Applicants should use form PTO/SB38 for documents coming from the EPO to the USPTO, and form PTO/SB39 for documents going to the EPO from the USPTO.
For additional information regarding the PDX program, please see our previous reports (January 18 and January 19).
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