[Patentpractice] PDF forms issue

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 4/19/2024 9:27 AM, Michael Dryja wrote:
> The one thing that Acrobat has going for it is that I haven’t found 
> another PDF editing program that permits you to import format data 
> via XML in order to generate ADSs and IDSs.

I am sure you did not intend it, but it turns out that you did not word 
the previous sentence accurately.

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 /*no PDF editing 
program other than paid-for, recurring-cost Acrobat*/ permits you to 
import format data via XML in order to generate ADSs and IDSs.

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