Patent & IP news for January 2, 2011

Donald R. Fraser, 1927-2010. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

 

It is with a sense of deep sadness that we must report that our partner, mentor, colleague and friend, Donald R. Fraser, passed away on December 28, 2010 in Ft. Myers, Florida after a brief ...

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“Intellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional Cultures": a review from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Feeling cultural, or even a bit traditional?  A new World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) publication “Intellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional Cultures: Legal Issues and Practical Options for Museums, Libraries and Archives” was launched ...

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Don't File a Patent from www.patenthawk.com

John D. Smith is a one-man patent sales prevention department: "A patent is really just an expensive and worthless piece of paper. Attorneys are like a bottomless cup that you keep pouring money into. The ...

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Wikipedia References Increase 81 Percent in 2010 from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com

The number of US patents that cite Wikipedia increased again in 2010. Approximately 1,461 patents issued last year contain one or more references to Wikipedia articles, 81 percent more than in 2009. Although this ...

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New Federal Circuit patent decisions blog from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Lots of blogs discuss new patent decisions from the Federal Circuit, so there is probably something for everyone. I find some of them to be too academic for my taste, others are too cutesy, and ...

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Top 10 Mistakes in Arguing on Appeal to the BPAI from allthingspros.blogspot.com

I've been blogging about BPAI decisions for about a year and a half, and I definitely see some common themes about which arguments win on appeal and which ones don't.

So I'll ...

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