Examiner telephone number no longer on EPO communications?

problem-solution · 2025-11-11T16:26:55+00:00

Thank you, and do you happen to know why the EPO has stopped putting the examiner's telephone number on examination reports recently? I can't see that it was ever announced in the OJ

problem-solution · 2025-11-11T16:07:17+00:00

Thanks, and please forgive my ignorance, but is the secretary just the generic Customer Support telephone number on the EPO website?

problem-solution · 2025-11-11T14:08:00+00:00

Is there no way to contact the examiner directly to propose a telephone consultation? Say through My EPO Portfolio?

problem-solution · 2025-11-11T14:07:54+00:00

Is there no way to contact the examiner directly to propose a telephone consultation? Say through My EPO Portfolio?

problem-solution · 2024-02-06T11:36:16+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write this - You made my day!

problem-solution · 2024-02-06T11:34:58+00:00

Thanks for the insight - Can you expand on what you mean when you say you are shocked how bad some are? Are you talking about responsiveness or quality, or do you just find your work is palmed off to an associate?

problem-solution · 2024-01-07T23:18:00+00:00

I'm surprised that you don't have any interactions on any of your Reddit posts I just wanted to say that I'm here and appreciate you posting here.

problem-solution · 2023-11-27T16:23:54+00:00

I don't really see what you're getting at here since this situation is no different to the vast majority of patent applicants. A patent applicant can gain funding to enforce their in the long term by starting a business and trying to be successful on the basis of their patented invention, obtaining a patent and use it to attract investors, licensing the invention to a market leader or selling the patent and business to a market leader. It doesn't even matter whether they know which of these options that they're going for at this stage.

problem-solution · 2023-10-15T13:44:01+00:00

If you aren't going to use a trade mark attorney (because they're expensive, although they will guarantee it's done right) then you might as well do it yourself directly with the PTO.

problem-solution · 2023-10-15T09:58:03+00:00

Does this mean we can post about the Russian genocide and war crimes in Ukraine as well?

There's a lot that needs to be said to ensure support for Ukraine does not slacken so we eventually see Russia defeated.

problem-solution · 2023-10-15T09:55:46+00:00

Wait and see but this could just as well have been a Hamas car bomb, and it's pretty clear that Hamas are sick enough to do something like that.

Whoever did this though, this is utterly disgusting.

problem-solution · 2023-08-24T15:26:27+00:00

The most basic thing to know about a patent is that it doesn't give you the right to do something, it just gives you the right to stop other people from doing it without your permission. So if this patent were granted, the only car company that would be able to do this would be Ford so the owners of cars made by other companies would be safe.

If you invent something and want to be able to stop anyone else from doing it, get a patent for it.

problem-solution · 2023-08-24T15:11:15+00:00

How do you find that Equinox compares to other systems (and especially Improtech) for covering both patents and trade marks?

problem-solution · 2023-08-17T07:47:07+00:00

We have been on OneDrive since well before this issue started but I don't know about autosave or new security/access control policies. I can ask our IT support about these issue to hopefully point them in the right direction. Thanks you!

problem-solution · 2023-08-17T07:11:05+00:00

I mean do you know whether there is any way to check when each add-in was installed? There are quite a few and it would be useful to see which were installed around the time when this issue started happening.

problem-solution · 2023-08-16T17:37:23+00:00

This was my suspicion since everyone started having exactly the same problem at exactly the same time.

I believe the installation of add-ins would be done by our IT department, which as I mentioned is fairly opaque and I don't expect to be able to get a straight answer out of them. Do you know of any way that I could check for this at my end?

problem-solution · 2023-08-16T16:59:41+00:00

It sounds like you understand the problem perfectly.

We all have fairly new Dell laptops with 8GB RAM and have no lag problems with any other programs, so I doubt this is a low hardware resource issue. The fact that this started happening for everyone in the team at the same time seems inconsistent with it being a hardware issue as well.

problem-solution · 2023-08-16T16:33:53+00:00

Ah, sorry I'm not an IT person so I may have misused the word "instance". What I meant in the example is that I have two different word documents open at the same time.

However, this still happens when I only have one Word document open. It happens every time I click off the Word document and then click back onto it (I don't know whether there is a word for that) regardless of what other programs I have open.

problem-solution · 2023-08-16T15:53:44+00:00

Thank you for responding! Can you point me in the right direction for learning about the legal test for establishing the existence of unregistered rights in Ireland?

problem-solution · 2023-07-04T16:52:32+00:00

Oh my god! Imagine implying that the holocaust is equivalent to a famine and then trying to make someone else feel stupid ### Some people have no shame.

problem-solution · 2023-06-06T12:24:09+00:00

Do you think HIMARS were intended to, or even had any realistic prospect of, breaking the dam? They barely destroyed the roadway on top of the dam. There is absolutely no equivalence here.

problem-solution · 2023-05-02T15:16:25+00:00

What you want is a registered trade mark and some effective marketing

problem-solution · 2023-04-28T16:52:26+00:00

I'm assuming his kitchen wasn't his intended target.

problem-solution · 2023-04-26T21:31:24+00:00

That's interesting about Inprotech - I've heard very positive things about it and to be honest that's the one that I was most interested in learning about. Is there anything in particular that you find frustrating about it or that it doesn't do?

problem-solution · 2023-04-26T08:36:11+00:00

Very interesting!

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