By Donald Zuhn — In a notice published last week in the Federal Register (87 Fed. Reg. 25226), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will allow Applicants to submit an applicant-generated PDF version of applications filed in DOCX format along with the DOCX file when filing an application using the Office’s Patent Center interface. In August of 2020, the Office announced that for applications that are not filed in DOCX format after January 1, 2022, such filings would carry a surcharge of $400 for large entities under 37 C.F.R. § 1.16(u). Last November, the Office announced that…
