Excellent article for practitioners (and their bookkeepers) doing work for foreign clients — ABA Law Practice Magazine on Dollars to Dinars: Billing and Collecting in a Global Market
The world is flat. Thomas Friedman made the case for it in his best-seller of that title, and every day the news brings more evidence that the global [...]
Tag Archive: International
Foreign clients — Billing and Collecting
Don’t forget, a number of PCT changes are effective today
Via an email reminder from the USPTO:
Certain Fee Increase and Revised Transmittal Letter to the United States Receiving Office (form PTO-1382)
Effective 09 November 2007, the amount of the search fee for the USPTO to act as the International Searching Authority will increase to $1800 for all international applications. The Office will no longer provide [...]
Forthcoming Changes to Patent Practice in Canada
And we thought patent reform only happen in the US.
An attorney with the Canadian firm of Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP was kind enough to send me a memorandum ( Download forthcoming_changes_in_canadian_patent_practice.pdf) which thoroughly discusses the proposed amendments, including:
Canada’s small entity regime;
harmonization of sequence listing descriptions with the Patent Cooperation Treaty [...]
What Foreign Countries Should I File My Patent Application In?
It’s a question we all regularly hear from clients: “what foreign countries should I file my patent application in? Add this chart to your list of visual aids for explaining the topic to your clients:
Countries GDP as US States
Idaho Seminar on China & IP
The University of Idaho’s ILSA (International Law Students Association) has put together an interesting panel
discussion on International Intellectual Property issues, primarily focusing on China. The seminar includes an USPTO Roadshow on “How your Government works to protect your intellectual property rights abroad†as well as a panel discussion:
John Koeppen — USPTO Attorney – Advisor Office [...]
Practice Tip: Foreign Corporate Entities
For those of us who do considerable work (patents, trademarks) for foreign intellectual property law firms, Wikipedia has a great listing of “Types of companies.”
A great tool to use when you need to satisfy an “entity type” rejection for, in example, explaining whether an Australian LTD is a “company” or a “corporation.”
PCT Deadline Calculator
Did you know there is an on-line PCT Time Limit Calculator at the WIPO site?
PCT Alerts: email notices of published PCT Applications
Interesting service sent in by a reader: “PCT Alerts, a free e-mail alerts service for people wanting to keep watch on publication of PCT Patents! Upon registering, you will receive an email alert as soon as the requested PCT Patent is published by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).”
Foreign Filing Licenses around the World
Awareness of Foreign Filing Requirements For Inventions Originating Outside the United States Can Prevent Adverse Consequences [pdf]. By Aaron Wininger and Marc Sockol (Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP). [Via PLI's Lawyer's Toolbox Vol. 4.4, RSS feed]
Determining PCT Deadlines – Pipers’ solution
Pipers (www.piperpat.com) has a new (PCT Reminder service) for keeping track of all those important event dates in filing, prosecuting and Nationalizing PCT (and Patent Convention Applications). The service is Free and has been enthusiastically received by many in the IP community."
It includes a calculator for determining PCT deadlines:
Update: fixed broken links. 2006.01.11 [...]
