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• Examining US patent examinations

  
  IPKat - news and fun for everyone! — Authority: 558
  Stanford Professor Mark Lemley is probably the most prolific academic writer on IP at the moment. In his latest (well, latest when I hit post – it might well be his second latest paper by the time the post is published) paper, he takes an empirical look at US patent examination. For the paper, he and co-author ...
  21 hours ago

• Making the Case Against First to File

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  NOTE: This was originally written as a comment to my article Much Ado About Nothing Over First to File.  It is posted here as an article with the permission of Ron Katznelson.************************I generally respect those who have the capacity to change their opinions based on substantial relevant evidence and a ...
  1 day ago

• Much Ado About Nothing Over First to File

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  Just about 24 hours ago I posted an article relating to my changing position with respect to first to file, and already there is something of a firestorm.  I understand there are those who feel I have abandoned them and adopted a naive view of the world. But excuse me for recognizing the new tone [...]Related posts: ...
  2 days ago

• Apple patent application details simple "Grab and Go" sync

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  -: Software , Odds and ends , Bluetooth , Apple Apple, being the innovative corporation that it is, applies for patents many times per year. While many of these items may never make it to market, the company is proactive in making sure that possible patents are filed as soon as possible in order to protect the ...
  2 days ago

• Secretary Locke Promises Strongest IP Protection in the World

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  I am just getting back from two days at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, having attended the 14th Annual Inventors Conference.  There is much to report, and much to write about, and I will continue to digest, analyze and write about what I saw and my impressions in the days to come.  It [...]Related ...
  3 days ago

• Kappos Talks Patent Reform at USPTO Inventors Conference

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  The 14th Annual Inventors Conference is presently ongoing at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.  The conference started yesterday and continues today.  I am here at the USPTO presently, and I was here yesterday as well and had an opportunity to hear Patent Office Director David ...
  3 days ago

• Apple ‘Grab & Go’ sync patent application features… Engadget

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  Apple’s applied for and gotten a ton of patents this year, and while most of them are fairly boring, we’re intrigued by this recently-revealed application for a “Grab & Go” sync system — and not just because one of the diagrams references Engadget. The idea is to simplify sync by pre-packaging sets of ...
  4 days ago

• Apple Grab & Go sync patent application features... Engadget

  
  Engadget — Authority: 880
  Apples applied for and gotten a ton of patents this year, and while most of them are fairly boring, were intrigued by this recently-revealed application for a "Grab & Go" sync system -- and not just because one of the diagrams references Engadget. The idea is to simplify sync by pre-packaging sets of data into ...
  4 days ago

• Apple ‘Grab & Go’ sync patent application features… Engadget

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  Apple’s applied for and gotten a ton of patents this year, and while most of them are fairly boring, we’re intrigued by this recently-revealed application for a “Grab & Go” sync system — and not just because one of the diagrams references Engadget. The idea is to simplify sync by pre-packaging sets of ...
  4 days ago

• Gene Patents: Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 128
  A federal court case in New York might be one of the biggest landmark cases in modern legal history. The ACLU is challenging Myriad Genetics’ patents on the BRCA genes, which are related to breast and ovarian cancer.  In recent years, major biotechnology companies have sequenced and patented about 20% of the human ...
  5 days ago

• District Court Rules ACLU Gene Patent Challenge May Proceed

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  In one of the worst opinions I have ever read from any federal court, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled earlier today that the ACLU challenge against the Myriad Genetics patents and the United States Patent and Trademark Office for issuing patents can proceed. Procedurally ...
  1 week ago

• PPH Agreements to Leverage PCT Reports on Patentability

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  Last month a two-day international symposium sponsored by WIPO concluded with broad agreement on the need to pool efforts at the international level to address the problem of backlogs in patent applications at patent offices around the world.  In 2007, the last year for which complete worldwide statistics are ...
  1 week ago

• No Holds Barred: IPWatchdog Addresses Ethical Charges

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  By now many in the inventor community know that I resigned my position on the UIA Board and stepped down as UIA Vice President as a result of my being uncomfortable with the perceived and growing cozy relationship the UIA was pursuing with Invent Help, one of the most notorious of all invention scams.  I [...]Related ...
  1 week ago

• USPTO Looks to Reduce "Stress" of Data Delivery, Seeks High-Volume Dissemination for Future

  
  The 271 Patent Blog — Authority: 459
  Currently, the USPTO is looking to unload about 2 petabytes (i.e., 2000 terabytes) of patent-related data sets to an outside vendor in an effort to segregate public data from the examiner systems, and to make "virtually all public information from the USPTO accessible on the Internet. " Importantly, the PTO wants to ...
  1 week ago

• CAFC Rules Patent Applicant’s Own Copyrighted Manuscript Not Publicly Accessible

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  The recent case of In re Lister is a painful reminder of the potential for “self-inflicted wounds” under the “printed publication” bar of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) .  Fortunately, the patent applicant in Lister was able to skirt around this “hazard” of his own making.The patent applicant, Dr. Richard ...
  1 week ago

• Patent Reexamination in the Life Sciences

  
  Patent Baristas — Authority: 415
  At today’s session of BIO’s IPCC Conference , Gregory Morse of the Central Reexamination Unit of the US Patent and Trademark Office gave a presentation of the process for handling re-exams.  Comparing ex parte and inter partes , Morse showed that the time for processing to first action is inching up although ...
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• Liquidware Labs Launches Stratusphere 4.5, Gains Patent

  
  Virtualization.com — Authority: 135
  Liquidware Labs today announced the availability of version 4.5 of its’ flagship product, Stratusphere, and the award of its’ fourth patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).LWL is seeing a huge upsurge in the deployments of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and hosted virtual desktops (HVD) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Generic Savings Vs. Patent Deadlines: A Reader Poll

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 589
  At a time when saving big bucks on health care is such a hot issue, should Congress alter patent laws to save a company a lot of money from generic competition because it missed a basic, but crucial filing deadline by one day? Tim Carney at The Washington Examiner raises the case of The Medicines Company , which ...
  2 weeks ago

• USPTO Designates New PTDL, But What About Online?

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  The United States Patent and Trademark Office a few days ago announced the designation of the Ryan-Matura Library of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, as a Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL). The patent and trademark depository library program began in 1871 when federal law first provided ...
  2 weeks ago

• Controversy boils on Wikipedia, Craig Newmark of Craigslist and Top Wikipedia Editors Chime In

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  Wikipedia’s top editors are contemplating a change to a general rule of allowing anyone to edit.
  2 weeks ago

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