At 07:18 AM 7/30/2002, stuart.m.kaback@exxonmobil.com wrote:
>How useful the OG has always been. There is absolutely no way in which its
>functions can be replaced by an electronic system which can NEVER provide
>the browsability of the printed product.
>
>The people at the USPTO who were responsible for the lack of a Gazette for
>pregrants should be deeply ashamed of themselves. The people at the USPTO
>who are responsible for the assassination of the patent OG deserve the
>deepest of opprobrium.
I wonder whether the USPTO considered fully its obligations under the Paris
Convention, and whether discontinuing the Gazette might be a breach of the
treaty.
>Article 12 [Special National Industrial Property Services]
>
>(1)Each country of the Union undertakes to establish a special industrial
>property service and a central office for the communication to the public
>of patents, utility
>models, industrial designs, and trademarks.
>
>(2)This service shall publish an official periodical journal. It shall
>publish regularly
>
>(a)the names of the proprietors of patents granted, with a brief
>designation of the inventions patented;
>
>(b)the reproductions of registered trademarks.
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