How would one create a "Notify USPTO of Foreign Filing" task that will generate for a US patent application with a Non-Publication Request filed AND a foreign application is filed that claims priority to that US application?
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How would one create a "Notify USPTO of Foreign Filing" task that will generate for a US patent application with a Non-Publication Request filed AND a foreign application is filed that claims priority to that US application?
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@RichardS3059 I have a follow-up question about this topic. Is there a way for the ReferenceDate of the "Request non-pub rescission" task to be the filing date of the non-US application? The task I created uses the US application filing date instead of the non-US application filing date as the reference date.
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@RichardS3059 Sounds good. Thank you for coming up with this idea. - Jessamy
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Currently, we do not have a way to do this. However, we have passed this on to engineering for future consideration.
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@JessamyN2308 Here's a way I think might work. Create a user checkbox field named something like USNonpublicationRequest. Check the box in the US matter if true. When you create a non-US app where a non-pub request was filed, check that box i the foreign matter, too. Then create a "Request non-pub recission" task that is triggered by the filing date field in the non-US app gets any value while that checkbox is checked. Make sure that the task setup checks the "only create in any related US app" box. That should generate the task in the relevant US app.
Alternatively, you could skip the checkbox in the foreign app, and just auto-generate the task in the related US app any time you file a foreign app, but then you close the US task with not needed.
It's not ideal, but it might be better than nothing. To do more would require AppColl to implement a way for one task to cause the creation of a task in another matter, depending on a condition in the other matter.
