USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in 2023

Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by meragrin_ on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:03PM (#32612099)

There's this one guy I've dealt with. He uses a editor he wrote himself. He'll convert his documents to Pages and then use Pages for any other conversion needed.

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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by moistly on Friday August 26, 2022 @11:22PM (#32615321)

Pages reminds me of using various desktop publishing apps. FrameMaker, Ventura, InDesign.

I used to be able to eke out accurate page layout in MS Word, but it was always fraught and more difficult. But if you’re not perfectionist about layout precision, MS Word provides the same meta-data encoding function through the application of style (‘this is a heading’, ‘this is a definition’, etc).

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Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in... by exikyut on Monday August 29, 2022 @11:27AM (#32639423)

Coool. What unique features does it have / how does it work / what does it look like / what were the real-world factors that contributed to the insanity of deciding to build it? xD

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