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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
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of Michael Dryja via Patentpractice <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2024 9:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Michael Dryja <mike@dryjapat.com>; For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<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 id="x_lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage">
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<div>On Apr 19, 2024, at 8:36\u202fAM, Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com> 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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