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• Reminder: RCE Docketing Change Effective November 15, 2009

  
  Patent Docs — Authority: 496
  By Christopher P. Singer -- As reported a few weeks ago, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a pre-OG Notice regarding the way it will docket requests for continued examination (RCE) beginning on November 15, 2009. For any RCE that is filed on or after that date, the Office will place that RCE on an examiners ...
  11 hours ago

• Bilski Arguments Complete at the US Supreme Court

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  At 2pm ET on November 9, 2009, Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled the session to a close announcing that the case had now been submitted. The arguments were good, and the Court was most assuredly hot, peppering both sides with question after question seeking to probe the issues. It is clear that [...]Related posts: ...
  19 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

• 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

• One Upmanship

  
  Patent Prospector — Authority: 103
  Inventors and small companies, flush with money burning a hole in their pockets, regularly file an excess of crappy patent applications. Belatedly recognizing this inviolable fact, the patent office now promises to shoot you in the head faster if youll shoot yourself in the foot first. Under Secretary of Commerce ...
  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

• Invitation to Submit Briefs to IPO re Software Patent Policy in Israel

  
  The IP Factor — Authority: 425
  Following the successful recent round-table discussion at the Israel Patent Office, see: http://blog.ipfactor.co.il/2009/11/02/round-table-on-software-patents-at-the-israel-patent-office/ the Israel Patent Office has requested that interested parties submit position papers. The catch is that they are limited to ...
  5 days ago

• Gene Quinn Declared Patent Twit of the Week

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  I just so happened to stumble across an interesting article declaring me Patent Twit of the Week.  Normally one would not be proud of being declared a “twit,” but I have to say that I am enormously proud of this recognition.  It seems that The Center for a Stateless Society has declared me a patent [...]Related ...
  5 days ago

• Israel PCT Receiving Office – have your say!

  
  The IP Factor — Authority: 425
  The Israel Patent Office has published a questionnaire offering users of the PCT Receiving Office in Israel the opportunity to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the service provided and to comment on tentative plans to go paper-less.  I, for one, have always found Head of Receiving Office, Dr. ...
  6 days ago

• Could Gene Patents Become a Thing of the past?

  
  The IP Factor — Authority: 425
  U.S. Federal Judge Robert Sweet (Manhattan) has agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The lawsuit has been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenged patents held by Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research ...
  6 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

• Global alert against ‘Monsantosizing’ our food

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 549
  Global alert against ‘Monsantosizing’ our food Written by Chris Davenport Wednesday, 21 October 2009 UN General Assembly to discuss patents on seeds and right to food 21 October 2009. Today a global alert is being filed by farmers and development and environmental ...
  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 ...
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• Israel Patent Office Announces 2009 Student Patent Essay Competition Winners

  
  The IP Factor — Authority: 425
  Earlier this year, the Israel Patent Office has launched a prize for IP Essays submitted by students of college degrees. The first prize was won by  Mr class=”mceItemHidden”> Gadi Shevach Nevo of Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, for his essay entitled “Patent Trollers and Policy for Patent Infringment ...
  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

• Did Nokia Sue Apple Before Apple Could Sue Nokia?

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 681
  Analysts mulling over Nokia’s IP infringment suit against Apple seem to be of two minds about how the action will play out. There are those, like Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics and Ben Wood at CCS Insight, who warn that Apple (AAPL) is on dangerous ground here at best. It’s almost impossible to build a ...
  2 weeks ago

• USPTO Schedules Roundtable Discussion on Worksharing

  
  Patent Docs — Authority: 496
  By Donald Zuhn -- In a Federal Register notice published on Wednesday (74 Fed. Reg. 54028), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it plans to hold a roundtable discussion to "obtain input from diverse sources in the patent community and/or the public sector to evaluate views on work sharing." The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Apple applies for patent on OS with embedded advertising (Macworld.com)

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 454
  Macworld.com - “Want to launch Microsoft Office? Sure, but first a word from our sponsor.” That somewhat surreal scenario could become a reality, based on a patent application filed by Apple, which was published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. If this is ever implemented on your Apple ...
  2 weeks ago

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