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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am personally TYPING the python script from an MS dos window - instead of opening in Adobe reader and TYPING in where is displayed on my screen 'what you see is what you get' AS i sign.</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 08:30:30 PM GMT+3, Timothy Snowden via Patentpractice <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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<p>The Office accepts DocuSign, etc. --> is this any different?
Are you personally inserting the signature?</p>
<div id="yiv6276820412yqt45937" class="yiv6276820412yqt1889852471"><div class="yiv6276820412moz-cite-prefix">On 9/30/2025 11:10 AM, William Ahmed
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<div dir="ltr">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">person "signs in my name"
(e.g. paralegal), this is NO GOOD.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">MY PROPOSAL --> signing
many many documents can get tedious. </div>
<div dir="ltr">I want write a python script
which opens a pdf, applies an s-signature, and saves the
updated signed form.</div>
<div dir="ltr">[in reality, Chat GPT would
write the python script]</div>
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<div dir="ltr">For example, let's say online
software prepares a unsigned IDF form --> <span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">There would be a command
prompt --></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>python signIDS.py
"/William Ahmed/" <span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf</span></span></span><br clear="none">
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<div dir="ltr">The python script would
inject that s-signature into <span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf
in the correct location </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and
output a file <span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456SIGNED.pdf</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">VERY
VERY IMPORTANT -- I would manually type the command
prompt.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Some might say 'this is not more efficient' - please
leave this issue aside.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some
might say - nobody would know - please leave this
issue aside.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">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">IF NO --> MODIFIED
QUESTION --> <span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: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">Thanks,</div>
<div dir="ltr">Bill</div>
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