Snow is expected.  Living at 940 m above sea level, we had over half a meter last year, with power cuts, water pipes frozen, etc. I must admit, therefore, that I am rather less excited and enthusiastic about this than my 12-year-old son.

The Israel Patent Office has announced that it will be closed on 7th and 8th January 2014. All deadlines are extended to the next working day.

They say that “It’s an ill wind that does nobody any good.”

The Israel Patent Office is closed on Friday and Saturday anyway. This means that Applicants with a patent, design or trademark deadline of 7th or 8th January can file on Sunday 11th January 2015.

This works for the Paris deadline for filing PCT applications as well, but it should be noted that the USPTO may have a problem with a national phase of a PCT application that claims priority from a US provisional application.

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