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<p>What Scott said.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2024 10:01 AM, Scott Nielson
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The problem is that the USPTO IDS and ADS documents use
something called "Dynamic XFA," which is proprietary to Adobe.
It is not part of the PDF specification so other companies do
not have the information needed to make their products fully
compatible. If Adobe released the XFA specification, then other
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com"><patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com></a> on behalf of
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2024 9:45 AM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Michael Dryja <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mike@dryjapat.com"><mike@dryjapat.com></a>; For patent
practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] PDF forms issue</font>
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<div style="line-break:after-white-space">I am surprised that
other PDF editing programs haven\u2019t offered this functionality. <br
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:carl@oppedahl.com"><carl@oppedahl.com></a> wrote:</div>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2024 9:27 AM,
Michael Dryja wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">The one thing that Acrobat has
going for it is that I haven\u2019t found another PDF
editing program that permits you to import format data
via XML in order to generate ADSs and IDSs.
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<p>I am sure you did not intend it, but it turns out
that you did not word the previous sentence
accurately.</p>
<p>The USPTO did something that is anti-competitive, and
that unnecessarily forces customers to license
expensive recurring-cost commercial Acrobat software.
What the USPTO did was construct its recent versions
of its fillable official USPTO PDF forms in such a way
that <i><b>no PDF editing program other than
paid-for, recurring-cost Acrobat</b></i> permits
you to import format data via XML in order to generate
ADSs and IDSs.
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