IP and IC-- Best mates or ships in the night? from ipkitten.blogspot.com One of my favourite images (strictly of the armchair variety, since I am likely to become sea-sick just watching my grandchild's toy boat float in the bath tub) is the notion of "ships passing ...
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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THOSE FOLK WHO LIKE GETTING A SWIFT RESPONSE TO THEIR EMAILS: IPKat team member Jeremy is on his travels and won't have much access to his current and backlogged emails till ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
A Treasure-Trove of Travaux from ipkitten.blogspot.com The sun is shining, the birds are singing (the Kat assumes. To be honest, it’s mostly the song of traffic that is reaching his ears at the moment, but he likes to imagine that ...
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Article One Featured Researcher: Margaret Bennett from info.articleonepartners.com
A professional public speaker and paralegal from New York, Margaret Bennett is this week’s Featured Researcher. Bennett first learned about Article One while conducting legal research, and has a degree in Legal Studies.
She ...
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Senate Confirms Jimmie V. Reyna to the CAFC from www.patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen On Monday, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Jimmie V. Reyna to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Reyna's expertise in international trade will serve the Federal ...
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A Few More Patent Law Students at the University of Missouri from www.patentlyo.com Every year I have a great group of about ten patent law focused students. It is a bit crazy, but our quite small regular law school faculty includes three patent attorneys and several adjunct professors ...
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Bloom finally falls to Bush from ipkitten.blogspot.com No stranger to foliage:
the Bush gets the Bloom The IPKat is grateful to Jim Roche (Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland) for drawing his attention to an article, "After 22 years it's yes, yes ...
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IP team in search of a fresh challenge from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat receives many requests -- but this is one of the most unusual. It comes from a two-person team of intellectual property enthusiasts in search of a new challenge. If you are an educational, research ...
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Happy Birthday Malvika! from patentcircle.blogspot.com Just wanted to share my feelings and happiness with our readers as today my lovely daughter turned one year old. Since her birth it had been a great experience enjoying parenting and watching her grow ...
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Howrey Scorecard: Where Have All the Lawyers Gone? from www.infringementupdates.com The American Lawyer writes: In April 2010, Howrey had 297 partners and of counsel, according to a document prepared for the firm's annual partnership meeting and provided to The Am Law Daily by a ...
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SCC Active in IP: Leave to Appeal Granted in Major Internet Cases from www.iposgoode.ca Mark Kohras is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Digital media has been prominent in Canadian minds lately. From the recent copyright consultations to the outcry over the usage based billing decision, digital ...
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Which Patent Is A Threat To Your Business? from gametimeip.com Would you prefer a knife in the back or a punch on the nose? Patent assertions are a competitive business, as a number of very large, well-funded organizations compete for patent ownership all having one ...
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Cutting our way to decline from www.athenaalliance.org In case you haven't been following the news, budget issues are at the top of the political and policy agenda in Washington -- with a likely government shut down this weekend (better think about cancelling ...
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Spinque: Patent Search of the Future? from intellogist.wordpress.com The first thing you must be thinking upon seeing the title of this post is: “What’s a Spinque?” I thought the exact same thing when Arjen de Vries initially contacted me to take a ...
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Google Bids $900M for Nortel Patent Portfolio from tacticalip.com By: Mark R. Malek Canada’s biggest technology company, Nortel, is in bankruptcy and, as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, all of their assets are now for sale. One of Nortel’s biggest assets is ...
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Is Copyright Law Economically Relevant? from www.iposgoode.ca Andrian Lozinski is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to ...
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BIO Hosts U.S./China Biotechnology Examiner Workshop with USPTO and China’s SIPO from www.patentbaristas.com The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) hosted a U.S./China Biotechnology Examiner Workshop with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) on March 28, 2011 in Beijing ...
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Does the USPTO’s Policy Regarding Examination of RCEs Cause Unnecessary Delay? from www.patentbaristas.com On October 19, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a “Notice of Change to Docketing of Requests for Continued Examination.” The Notice indicated that requests for continued examination (RCEs) filed on or ...
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USPTO to begin 12-month fast track examination on May 4, 2011 from www.postgrant.com In a press release dated April 4, 2011, the Patent and Trademark Office announced that it will commence Track One of the new Three-Track Examination Program on May 4 of this year. Track One allows ...
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IP for the immature: Putzmeister vs. Schwing and the Bastardring from ipkitten.blogspot.com The tragedy unfolding in Fukushima is no laughing matter, but some could not hide a chuckle when it was announced that giant concrete pumps known under their brand name "
Putzmeister" were
sent to Japan to ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
May 4 Effective Date for USPTO Fee-Based Prioritized Examination (Track I) from www.pharmapatentsblog.com On April 4, 2011, the USPTO issued a Notice in the Federal Register announcing the implementation of fee-based prioritized examination, also known as "Track I" of its three tracks of examination options proposed in June ...
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Playing Catch-Up: Google Bids $900M for Nortel Patent Portfolio from dcipattorney.com In 2010, IBM was awarded 5,896 U.S. patents. Google, in comparison, was issued 276. At the same time, Google has been adjusting its corporate strategy to offer more than Internet search-related products and ...
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Proposed U.S. Patent Reform Legislation Undermines American Competitiveness, Coalition of Nine Inventor Organizations Says in Letter to Congress from www.infringementupdates.com The following is an April 6, 2011 press release provided by Edge Communications: In a sharply-worded letter to leaders of both houses of Congress, a coalition of start-up entrepreneurs, faculty and independent inventors and technical ...
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