When the Japanese Patent Office introduced its CDROM in 1993, the CDROM
became the official publication. Demand for paper gazettes was to be
satisfied by aftermarket publishers.
Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> 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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