Are Patent Filings Increasing or Decreasing? from www.patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch The USPTO recently reported that in FY2011 and for the first time in history, more than 500,000 patent applications were filed during the fiscal year. 500,000 is a large number ...
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Conference: New Paradigms to Fund and Move Drug Development from www.patentbaristas.com What: New Paradigms to Fund and Move Drug Development: Finding the Fastest Pat to Funding & Regulatory Approval When: January 11-12, 2012 Where: Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel 609 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94102 www.marineclub ...
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Patent strategy: Filing a provisional patent application (specification) from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Inventors often have many questions related to patent filing and some general ideas about patenting. But the question that I am asked many times is about the procedure, costs and how/where to start. I ...
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Green Patent Acquisitions: Buying Up Energy Management and Distribution and Green Chemistry from www.greenpatentblog.com There have been a few interesting acquisitions this month. First, energy efficiency solutions provider Serious Energy bought Agilewaves, a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in energy data storage and retrieval. Agilewaves owns at least one ...
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Developing IP Economies: Chile from info.articleonepartners.com Chile is an economic leader in its region. According to the CIA FactBook, Chilean sovereign bonds are the safest in South America, and it has posted 4% average growth since 1999. In 2010 Chile became ...
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As The Wheel Turns from www.patenthawk.com Docket Navigator, which is a great patent service, reports: "The court granted defendants' motion for a new damages trial following remand even though defendants had not objected to the use of the 25% rule at ...
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The Advocate General's opinion in the IP TRANSLATOR case - clear and precise? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Advocate General Bot, the second. Fresh today - and again from busy AG Bot - comes the eagerly awaited opinion in a case, in which the IPKat has taken a special interest:
Case C-307/10 Chartered Institute ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Advocate General says forget the functionality, look at the code from ipkitten.blogspot.com Advocate General Bot has this morning
issued his opinion in Case C-406/10, SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd. In brief, he suggests that the Court of Justice (CJEU) should hold that under copyright ...
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Apple won preliminary injunctions in Germany against three different Galaxy Tabs from fosspatents.blogspot.com The preliminary junction that the Düsseldorf Regional Court granted Apple against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 on August 9, 2011, became known that same day. Less than a month later, Samsung was forced to remove ...
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Dunder Mifflin is now a real brand: Great idea. Poorly protected trademarks. from www.erikpelton.com A report in Monday’s Wall Street Journal discusses how Staples – a real office supply company selling real printer paper – is now selling “Dunder Mifflin” brand paper via its online division Quill.com. Dunder Mifflin ...
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Gwilym and the thicket collectors, or why life isn't as bad, and is more interesting, than one might think ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Thickets please -- there's no
free riding on this technology ..." It was only a few short days ago that the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published on its increasingly informative website, a document called ...
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Rep. Burgess Introduces Genetic Diagnostic Testing Bill from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- A decade after completion of the Human Genome Project, and after more than a decade of hyperbole regarding the promise and benefits of "personalized medicine," genetic diagnostic testing has come to ...
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USPTO Rules Simplify Ex Parte Appeal Practice from www.pharmapatentsblog.com On November 22, 2011, the USPTO issued its final changes to the Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in Ex Parte Appeals. The new rules will apply to all cases ...
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Jottify, a website for writers from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk Jottify is a website where writers can "share, read and sell". I was told about it by its founder a few days ago, when he was explaining it at one of our free meetings where ...
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The next boom in intangible asset sales? from www.athenaalliance.org The mobile communications revolution has already touch off one scramble for intangible assets, i.e. patents for smart phone. Now the names of AT&T; and T-Mobile may join Nortel and Motorola in the great ...
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Elderly as an asset from www.athenaalliance.org Normally, we hear stories about the coming demographic crisis of the greying of the population. The implication is that the elderly are a drain on resources and productivity. But here is a story in the ...
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How will HTC work around the enforced patent without losing the benefit of IPCom's FRAND declaration? from fosspatents.blogspot.com Yesterday I reported and commented on HTC's claim that it has worked around the IPCom patent underlying the German injunction, making its current products non-infringing. I expressed my skepticism.
Subsequently, one of the numerous ...
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Huguette Clark story fit for "Law and Order" from ipbiz.blogspot.com If the original Law & Order were still around, the story of Huguette Clark (daughter of former Senator William A. Clark ) would be done, with lawyers figuring prominently.
News.yahoo reported:
A court-ordered accounting of the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Searching for Prior Art from inventivestep.net A question that is often asked by new inventors is: should I do a prior art search before filing a patent application? The answer, as in most areas of law and life in general, is ...
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Free Chemical and Sequence Searching in Chinese Patent documents: ChemYQ and NASDAP from intellogist.wordpress.com If Chinese non-patent literature searches are difficult for English-language prior art searchers, you can imagine how challenging chemical and genetic sequence searching within Chinese patent documents can be. Many tools for chemical and genetic sequence ...
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Homage or theft? from www.athenaalliance.org Apparently, Beyonce is getting all sorts of grief over her newest music video where she is accused of appropriating the dance moves of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's work in the 1990s (who ...
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Apple and Motorola each filed a pre-hearing brief of more than 800 pages with the ITC from fosspatents.blogspot.com On December 8, 2011 (Thursday of next week), the hearing in the ITC investigation of Motorola's October 2010 complaint against Apple will (finally) start. Unlike district court trials, ITC hearings mark only about the ...
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USPTO Seeks Comments on Future Locations for Satellite Offices from ipwatchdog.com The USPTO sees the establishment of satellite offices as an important component of their continued efforts to recruit and retain a highly skilled workforce, reduce patent application pendency and improve quality, and enhance communication between ...
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Motorola not allowed to attack iPhone 4S, iCloud and iTunes in ongoing litigation in the Southern District of Florida from fosspatents.blogspot.com Today the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted an Apple motion to strike Motorola Mobility's supplemental infringement contentions, i.e., accusations of infringement that Motorola brought into the game ...
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Doing Business in China While Protecting Your Innovations from ipwatchdog.com 1.3 billion people simply cannot be ignored, that much is certainly true. In my experience, however, when potentially ridiculous sums of money are at issue people, including otherwise shrewd business executives, suddenly seem to ...
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New research into patenting and innovation from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk WIPO has just published its 2011 World Intellectual Property Report: the changing face of innovation. Its 184 pages packs in a huge number of tables giving data about research and development,...
(From Steve van Dulken ...
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International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization from www.infringementupdates.com Christoph Haxel shared the following information with the public Patent Landscaping Innovations group on LinkedIn: The programme for the April 2012 International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization (II-SDV) is now complete and ...
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Cited References as Intrinsic Evidence from www.717madisonplace.com The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Powell v. Home Depot , App. No. 2010-1409 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 14, 2011) is interesting in that it reminds one that the prior art cited in the prosecution history ...
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Should Rick Perry be making tee-shirts for Old Navy? from ipbiz.blogspot.com There is a report that Rick Perry said:
"Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support," Perry said, eliciting a few chuckles from the crowd. "Those who ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook