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        these may be a gold mine for you:</p>
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      <p style="margin-block: 0px 20.4px; margin-bottom: 20.4px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.wipo.int/pct/en/training/external-training.html" style="border-block-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-inline-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-left-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-right-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-top-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); caret-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); color: rgb(0, 102, 204); column-rule-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); outline-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration-line: underline; text-emphasis-color: rgb(0, 102, 204);" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.wipo.int/pct/en/training/external-training.html</a></p>
      <p style="margin-block: 0px 20.4px; margin-bottom: 20.4px; margin-top: 0px;">On
        3/20/2025 8:26 AM, Jeffrey Semprebon via Pct wrote:</p>
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                <div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 19, 2025
                  at 4:30\u202fPM Charlene L. Odom via Pct &lt;<a href="mailto:pct@oppedahl-lists.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">pct@oppedahl-lists.com</a>&gt;
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                        <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal">(a) In the future, file PCT
                          applications at ePCT and RO/IB so you get the
                          error checking.&nbsp; An ounce of prevention and
                          small extra fees (WIPO won't give you the
                          small entity discount -- so what) is worth a
                          pound of cure.-0-<span style="color:red">To
                            confirm we would select IB instead of US to
                            do the filing?</span></p>
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                <div>You can still file in the US (and may have to, if
                  the invention was made in the US and an FFL has not
                  been obtained). You should still use the ePCT system
                  to prepare the Request filing package to be submitted
                  to the USPTO via Patent Center. ePCT should check the
                  priority applications to catch such errors, IF the
                  provisionals have been made available to the DAS
                  system.<br>
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                    <span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">Jeffrey
                      E. Semprebon</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">
                    <font face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px">Registered Patent
                        Agent (mechanical) looking for remote work</span></font></div>
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                    <span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">72
                      Myrtle Street</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">
                    <span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1px">Claremont,
                      New Hampshire 03743</span><br>
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