Based on statements of the USPTO's Bob Spar at our AIPA symposium at the
ACS meeting earlier this week, your intelligence w.r.t. EFS-to-print-to-OCR
appears to be absolutely correct.
Stu
"Drew Patty"
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el.com> cc:
Sent by: Subject: RE: A new monstrosity
owner-piug-l@der
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04/11/02 12:00
PM
Please respond
to rap
I have heard via another list that patent applications which are
electronically filed (via EFS) are being printed off by the PTO and
then the printed version of the case is OCR'd to prepare the
application for publishing....! If this is true, it's no wonder that
things are getting screwed up in publication of applications. Imagine
all of the human error potential when XML files are printed to paper
and that paper is then scanned in order to place the content in
electronic format, the format from whence the content came. [I have a
mental image of multiple print jobs going to a laser printer and the
papers getting mis-matched as a staffer pulls the papers off the
printer, only to later get scanned as a full application.] If this
process is in fact the one being used at present, I'm amazed that
electronic filing was rolled out so prematurely.
It may be a little off topic, but I would be interested to know if
many of the chemical patent information specialists on this list know
if their patent attorney colleagues are using EFS at all, and if so
whether they have heard good or bad things about the experience.
Regards,
Drew Patty
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-piug-l@derwent.co.uk [mailto:owner-piug-l@derwent.co.uk]On
Behalf Of stuart.m.kaback@exxonmobil.com
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 9:46 AM
To: piug-l@derwent.co.uk
Subject: A new monstrosity
Friends,
Some months ago (November) I called to your attention a wildly
mismatched
US Pregrant Publication, with a front page from Company A and body
from
Company B. I have a new one, but this time the body parts are
assembled
differently.
The publication is US2002/0037961-A1 of March 28, 2002. Its title and
specification belong together, and clearly come from some Japanese
source,
one which I haven't attempted to identify. The rest of the front page
(including the abstract, inventorship, priority details) match the
proposed
claims, and come from Dow Chemical.
Somebody's going to have to find a way to prevent this sort of thing
from
happening. In the meantime, the November mismatch was still there on
the
USPTO website last I checked (mid-March). Somebody's going to have to
find
a way to correct such blunders should they happen. And withing a
reasonable frame of time.....not months and months and months after
notification of the error.
Stu Kaback
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