Patent & IP news for January 30, 2010

EQEs - Watch Out! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat spotted this morning the latest issue of the EPO Official Journal.  There isn't really anything of much interest, assuming you have been paying attention to announcements such as Montenegro becoming an extension ...

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Invention Promoters and the American Inventors Protection Act from www.ipwatchdog.com

Invention promotion firms, sometimes referred to as invention submission companies, have been widely criticized in numerous circles, including political circles in Washington, DC, for many years. The American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) was enacted into ...

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Intellect Wireless sues Apple in ND Illinois from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Robin Wauters at TechCrunch wrote:

The complaint [filed by Intellect Wireless in ND Ill on 28 Jan 2010] states that Apple infringed on the company's patents when it provided wireless portable communication devices (you ...

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Coming trademark fight over "Who dat" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

David Cariello at The League notes a coming trademark fight over "Who Dat," related to the NFL's New Orleans Saints.

WWL-TV had reported that several t-shirt shop owners had been told [by the NFL ...

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THE USPTO REQUESTS USE OF A NEW VERSION OF EFS-WEB FILLABLE E-IDS FORM from patentablydefined.com

© 2010, Michael E. Kondoudis Earlier this month, the USPTO announced a new version (2.1.17) of its EFS-Web fillable e-IDS form (Form PTO/SB/08A). This new version permits up to 300 combined citations ...

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Just-n-examiner on new count system from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The just-n-examiner blog talks about "how" the USPTO is handling the new count system:

For a while, examiners' production will be tracked under both the old and new count systems, with the examiner being graded ...

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