On December 29, 2022, to the relief of many practitioners and applicants, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office delayed the effective date of its controversial incentivized transition to DOCX format ...

In an email News Brief distributed today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reminded stakeholders that starting at 12:01 am (ET) on January 17, the filing of new, non-provisional utility patent ...

This has been a frequent complaint by users of Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier word processing software since Microsoft launched Office 2007, and introduced the .docx format. “At the beginning of ...

“We found significant delays in the processing of patent applications with actual or perceived (i.e., uploaded documents ‘missing’ from the official file) DOCX-related errors.” In apparent response to ...

Microsoft introduced the DOCX format, which ends with the extension .docx, in 2007 as an upgrade to its popular word-processing program, Word. DOCX files' incompatibility with earlier versions of Word ...

“Although DOCX fees are currently set to go into effect next January, multiple extensions to that deadline as well as the indefinite extension to the PDF filing option indicate that this issue and ...

Google Docs is a great app for creating documents on the go. Make it even more usable by adding the ability to create .docx files. Jack Wallen shows you how. Did you know that you can now create .docx ...

Every few years, Microsoft updates the file format used by Word, creating untold havoc in the process. So what happens if, say, a client sends you a Word 2007 file and you're still plugging along with ...

Microsoft Word DOCX files support a variety of graphical features and formatting-related options. These help provide a professional look and feel for business documents, as well as an efficient ...