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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/9/2025 1:37 AM, Pamela Brisky
(Fujitsu) via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We have had several instances where the USPTO has
been "unable" to complete elect<span>ronic retrieval of
priority documents from the Japanese Patent Office. The
USPTO states that they are receiving a message when
attempting the retrieval that says "no PDF file." After
three tries, they stop and don't make any further attempts. </span><span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>I've never encountered this issue before
the last month or so and I suspect the issue is on the USPTO
end. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>Has anyone else had this happen to them? If
so, what country?</span></div>
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<p>Just to help to define the full picture of the USPTO situation
... In each of the instances that you are describing:</p>
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<li>do you have "tracking" set up in DAS for the Japanese priority
document?</li>
<li>do you have a Certificate of Availability for the Japanese
priority document?</li>
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<li>attached is a real DAS cert for a non-US priority document.
In it, you can see several things of interest. You can see
that it lists "US" among the list of Offices that can retrieve
the electronic certified copy using the DAS access code. You
can see that it says the retrieval has been possible since
October 11, 2013. <br>
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<li>in the CofA for each of your Japanese priority documents,
does it explicitly list "US" as one of the Offices that are
certified as being able to retrieve?</li>
<li>in the CofA for each of your Japanese priority documents,
what date does it recite as the "date of availability"?</li>
<li>for each of your Japanese priority documents, does the date
upon which the USPTO claims it was unable to retrieve fall
before or after the "date of availability"?</li>
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