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<p>The Office accepts DocuSign, etc. --> is this any different?
Are you personally inserting the signature?</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/30/2025 11:10 AM, William Ahmed
via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">BACKGROUND -- we know that
s-signature must be manually applied by the person (e.g.
applicant, practitioner) herself/himself. If another </div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">person "signs in my name"
(e.g. paralegal), this is NO GOOD.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">MY PROPOSAL --> signing
many many documents can get tedious. </div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I want write a python script
which opens a pdf, applies an s-signature, and saves the
updated signed form.</div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">[in reality, Chat GPT would
write the python script]</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For example, let's say online
software prepares a unsigned IDF form --> <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There would be a command
prompt --></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>python signIDS.py
"/William Ahmed/" <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf</span></span></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The python script would
inject that s-signature into <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf
in the correct location </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and
output a file <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456SIGNED.pdf</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">VERY
VERY IMPORTANT -- I would manually type the command
prompt.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br>
Some might say 'this is not more efficient' - please
leave this issue aside.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some
might say - nobody would know - please leave this
issue aside.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">MY QUESTION -- is this a
bonafide s-signature? After all, I am manually typing in a
command to sign THAT form -- not a secretary.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">IF NO --> MODIFIED
QUESTION --> <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Let's
say I open the pdf file, review it without modifying it,
and close the unsigned IDS file and THEN run the python
script. Would that change things?</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks,</div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bill</div>
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