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urgent question outstanding for those who file utility patent
applications at the USPTO is, are they stuck with no choice but
to pay the $400 penalty to preserve the safe and trusted legacy
PDF filing path, or is there any chance that the “DOCX with
auxiliary PDF” path might present an acceptable level of
professional liability risk so that the client could avoid the
$400 penalty? Maybe the USPTO will clarify this. <br>
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://blog.oppedahl.com/maybe-uspto-will-clarify-the-docx-safeguard/</a>
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