[Patentpractice] PDF forms issue

[Michael Dryja]

I am surprised that other PDF editing programs haven’t offered this functionality.  

> On Apr 19, 2024, at 8:36 AM, Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl.com> wrote:
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> 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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