[Patentpractice] National phase under 371 -- what's required?

[Dan Feigelson]

They have had this in Israel for almost a year now. You go to enter
national phase, you enter the PCT application number, and the system it
populates the screen with all the info it pulls from WIPO. And it's
immediately apparent if you've got the right case or not. If not, go back
and correct the number. And you're given the option of using the documents
as on file at WIPO, or filing your own version (e.g. if you want to make
claim amendments upon national phase entry).

I guess with that huge two billion dollar budget to upgrade the USPTO's IT,
they couldn't figure this one out.


On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 7:10 PM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <
patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Inspired by the listserv member (thank you Orvis PC) I have added Feature
> Request FR55
> <https://patentcenter-tickets.oppedahl.com/patentcenter-feature-requests/#FR55>.
>
>
> I note that of the 54 Patent Center feature requests that have been
> outstanding now for over a year, precisely *zero of them* have been
> implemented thus far.
> On 8/1/2024 9:59 AM, Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> The listserv member is, I think, making a sly reference to ePCT.  When you
> enter, say, a priority application number into ePCT, it automatically runs
> off to DAS and cross-checks the digits that you entered against the
> (hopefully) identical digits that are already in the DAS system.  If they
> match, you get a smiley face from ePCT.  If they fail to match, you get a
> frowny face from ePCT.  The alert filer who gets a frowny face from ePCT
> can then look to see whether (for example) a couple of digits got
> transposed.  The validation goes so far as to cross-check the application
> number and the (purported) filing date and the two-letter code for the
> office where the filer says the priority application was filed.
>
> Used to be that the public face of PCT at the USPTO was Mike Neas.  Later
> he got promoted to some other part of the USPTO and now he does not do PCT
> any more.  But shortly before his promotion, he said that he had been
> urging the IT people to add a feature to EFS-Web so that when the filer
> enters the PCT number into the first screen of EFS-Web, it would ... wait
> for it .... automatically run off to Patentscope and cross-check the digits
> that you entered against the (hopefully) identical digits that are already
> in Patentscope.  If they match, you get a smiley face from EFS-Web.  If
> they fail to match, you get a frowny face from EFS-Web.  Not only that,
> what he was asking the IT people included ... wait for it ... would they
> please display the invention title and applicant name and first inventor
> name.  So the filer could get tipped off if the filer had entered an
> incorrect PCT number.
> On 8/1/2024 9:47 AM, Orvis wrote:
>
> If only there was a way for software filing systems to do error checking
> when application numbers and other data are entered online.
>
> Aug 1, 2024 11:16:24 AM Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice
> <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com> <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>:
>
>

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