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Daniel Feigelson

I'm an Israel-based patent practitioner who practices before both the Israel and U.S. Patent Offices

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Installment Number I’ve Lost Count

I wrote in April and May about the Israel PTO’s update to its patent electronic filing system, in particular about how there were many glitches in the system, even as the Office claimed everything was hunky dory. This post is about two ongoing problems with the electronic filing system: the... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at America-Israel Patent Law

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On Barnard Babies and Columbia Crazies

The craziness on American college campuses continues apace: in February babies at Barnard tried to take over the president’s office, yesterday some crazies at Columbia did the same in a library…during study period for finals. Because they hate Jews (taking over building is the logical thing to do when you... Continue reading

Posted May 8, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel PTO Says Its Updated Patent Electronic Filing System is Fixed. Israel PTO Doesn’t Tell the Truth.

Earlier today, the ILPTO said that its patent electronic filing system is fixed (announcement at right). One of my cases in Israel received an OA on December 31, 2024. The deadline to respond is therefore four months to later, viz. until April 30, 2025. Today. (See below.) So I went... Continue reading

Posted Apr 30, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel PTO Patent Electronic Filing System Still Not 100%

1. A few minutes ago the Israel PTO sent out the notice to right, confirming what I wrote yesterday: that its new-and-improved system is timely sending out automatically-generated warning letters, but which provide warning about the wrong action that ostensibly needs to be taken. Took them a while to catch... Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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We’re Back Online, But…

Both the ILPTO’s patent electronic filing system and database are back online. But there’s at least one interesting glitch here. In the demonstration session yesterday, they explained that whereas in the past, if you missed certain deadlines, the office would eventually send a letter telling you that you missed the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel PTO Patent Electronic Filing System is Still Offline.

Yesterday the Israel PTO announced that its new patent electronic filing system would be online today as of 13:30. As predicted, the system wasn't online then and still isn't online now. So if you have to file something today at the Israel PTO, good luck. At least the ILPTO had... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel PTO Electronic Patent Filing and Search To Be Offline April 28

The Israel PTO just announced that its patent electronic filing system and the patent database will be offline tomorrow, April 28, from 07:00 to 13:00. When they tried this in September 2023, they said the system would offline from midnight to 10:30. But it wasn't ready by the appointed hour.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Proposed Amendments to the Israel Patents Statute 2025, Part 1: The April Ambush

Yesterday (April 23), the Israel PTO notified members of its email distribution list of the publication of a memorandum of proposed new legislation (a tazkir hok) that would change principally the Patents Statute. The deadline for comments (via a link on that same page) is 23:59 on May 1 –... Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Another New Israel PTO Patent Electronic Filing System - Deja Vu All Over Again!

Having introduced a new interface for filing patent applications back in September 2023 (see here, here, here, here and here), today the Israel PTO announced that it will soon be introducing yet ANOTHER new electronic filing system. Oh frabjus day! Calloo! Callay! I hope that this time, the entire system... Continue reading

Posted Apr 21, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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"In Praise of Big Pharma" in Commentary Magazine

Excellent piece in this month's Commentary on the assault on the pharmaceutical industry. And it doesn't even mention patents! Two good quotes: "...it is possible that the average consumer of popular culture in 21st-century America will see more negative depictions of pharmaceutical companies than of Islamist terrorists, the Chinese Communist... Continue reading

Posted Mar 31, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Why Is the ILPTO Asking for Excess Page Fees That I Already Paid?

Filed a divisional application at the ILPTO. The ILPTO’s electronic filing system populated all the relevant fields with information from the parent case. As the application has more than 100 pages, I told it how many excess pages there were (250) and it calculated the total fees due – NIS... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Why Doesn't the Israel PTO List the Amount of Renewal Fees in Its Reminder Letters?

Most practitioners who are responsible for patent renewal fees include these deadlines in their docketing systems. Nevertheless, as with everything else for which there's a deadline, redundancy is a good thing. Which is why it's nice that the Israel PTO sends warning letters a few months before patent renewals are... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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This Is Why We Have To Explain or Label Patent And Design Drawings

For all its discussions of different topics, the Talmud contains only a few that relate to what today we would classify as intellectual property, and there's no notion of a patent in the Talmud. Nevertheless, once in a while my professional background proves useful in my study of the Talmud.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Bad Advice Abounds: Some Advise To File A CIP, Even When It’s A Bad Move (Which It Usually Is)

One of the unique features of US patent practice is the existence of continuation applications. Back when US patents issued for 17 years from the grant date (and were not published prior to grant, a point to which I’ll return below), this meant that one could have a series continuation... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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“Clarification” Letter About Suspensions From Israel PTO

Today I received from the Israel PTO identical letters in two different patent applications. In both applications, we requested suspension of examination back in 2023, when the procedure was for the applicant to first request suspension and for the Israel PTO to then send a letter shortly before the commencement... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel PTO's Electronic Filing System Again Rears Its Fascistic Head

Last year we submitted claims in an application identical to those allowed at the EPO, and told the examiner that when the European Patent granted, we'd file a request for allowance under section 17(c) of the statute. The examiner then issued a notice of allowance under 17(c). Since the notice... Continue reading

Posted Feb 3, 2025 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel Patent, Design and Trademark Fees Going Up January 1, 2025

Yesterday the ILPTO sent out a notice regarding revised fees that will come into effect on January 1, 2025. All fees are rising by about 3.5%, rounded to the nearest shekel. Thus the fee for a new patent application (or national phase entry) will go from 2264 shekels to 2344... Continue reading

Posted Dec 30, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Another Example of How Not To Advertise One's Services

Over the past several weeks I have received multiple copies of an unsolicited ad from what I assume is an India-based outfit called "Novel Patent Services". I often get these kinds ads, from different companies, usually offering drawing services, or paralegal services, or search services, and in some cases help... Continue reading

Posted Dec 26, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Israel PTO: Suprise! We're Closed Tomorrow!

In case you wanted to speak to someone at the Israel PTO tomorrow, they just announced via an unsigned email that they're closed for business. No, not in anticipation of snow. Something about an end-of-year meeting for all ILPTO personnel. Does this mean deadlines are pushed off? Of course not:... Continue reading

Posted Dec 22, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Current USPTO Director Listens to Former USPTO Directors and Withdraws Proposed Rule for Terminal Disclaimers

I have written in the past about terminal disclaimers (TDs) under US law (e.g. here and here). Briefly, a TD promises that (a) the term of the patent that issues from the subject application will not extend time-wise beyond the term of an earlier patent that is specified in the... Continue reading

Posted Dec 4, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Has Israel Captured Marvin the Martian?

Anyone my age will recall Marvin the Martian, the Loony Toons character who wanted to blow the earth into nothingness using his “Eludium PU-36 explosive space modulator”, but whose nefarious plans were foiled by Bugs Bunny. Marvin, of course, is fictional, but apparently Israel has invented what the folks at... Continue reading

Posted Dec 3, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Follow-Up to "Letters Crossing in the (e-)Mail"

As a follow-up to yesterday's post: 1. I eventually got the acknowledgement of the filing of the POA. 2. The ILPTO sent out the same notice again today, so the problem still isn't fixed. 3. Thank you Israel Patent Office for sending out a notice. At least now we know... Continue reading

Posted Nov 21, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Letters Crossing the (e-)Mail

I have complained in the past about the time it takes for the Israel PTO to generate acknowledgement receipt for things that are filed electronically (as well as the fact that the ILPTO sends the filer a copy of the document filed, instead of issuing a hash function value like... Continue reading

Posted Nov 20, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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The Patent Law Treaty And Succot’s Four Species

Ten and half years ago (exactly!) I wrote about the connection between the (quasi-) legal fiction used in selling leavened products before Passover and US copyright law. Today I’m going to discuss another (quasi-) legal fiction, one that arises in the context of Succot, and its similarity (or rather, dissimilarity)... Continue reading

Posted Oct 22, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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Are Toxic Bullet Cartridges Next For Hizbullah?

Here in Israel we’re amazed by the exploding pagers and exploding radios of the last two days, in terms of the technological and logistical abilities, not to mention the chutzpa, of carrying it off. And of course we’re laughing at all those terrorists whose attempts to avoid the possible pitfalls... Continue reading

Posted Sep 18, 2024 at America-Israel Patent Law

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