[Patentpractice] PDF forms issue

[Carl Oppedahl]

What Scott said.


On 4/19/2024 10:01 AM, Scott Nielson via Patentpractice wrote:
> The problem is that the USPTO IDS and ADS documents use something 
> called "Dynamic XFA," which is proprietary to Adobe. It is not part of 
> the PDF specification so other companies do not have the information 
> needed to make their products fully compatible. If Adobe released the 
> XFA specification, then other software companies could make their 
> software compatible.
>
> *Scott Nielson*
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> *Cc:* Michael Dryja <mike at dryjapat.com>; For patent practitioners. 
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> *Subject:* Re: [Patentpractice] PDF forms issue
> 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:
>>
>> 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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