[Patentpractice] Difficulty with Priority Document Retrieval b/w JPO & USPTO

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 1/9/2025 1:37 AM, Pamela Brisky (Fujitsu) via Patentpractice wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have had several instances where the USPTO has been "unable" to 
> complete electronic retrieval of priority documents from the Japanese 
> Patent Office.  The USPTO states that they are receiving a message 
> when attempting the retrieval that says "no PDF file." After three 
> tries, they stop and don't make any further attempts.
>
> I've never encountered this issue before the last month or so and I 
> suspect the issue is on the USPTO end.
>
> Has anyone else had this happen to them? If so, what country?

And while we are on the topic ...

I expect that for each of these Japanese priority documents, you had 
already set up "tracking" in DAS, right?  So now what you can do is 
click in DAS to look at the Retrieval History.  Here is an example of an 
actual Retrieval History:

In this particular Retrieval History, we see that JPO, EPO, and USPTO 
each did successfully retrieve their electronic certified copy in 
November or December of 2024.

So now to turn to your Retrieval History for each of your Japanese 
priority documents ... what does it say for the US?  Does it say that 
the retrieval succeeded?  Does it say that the retrieval failed?

>
>
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