Patent & IP news for April 20, 2013

Patent Pendency and the PPH from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch You can get this from the chart, but the median pendency is under three years when considering all issued utility patents. The long tail increases the average pendency to a bit over ...

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Creating the Accounting System for the Factory from www.athenaalliance.org

Great story over on Bloomberg about how Josiah Wedgwood created the modern accounting system for the factory era: "How a Potter Took Accounting Into the Industrial Age". Wedgwood's products became so popular that he ...

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In UN Talks On Treaty For The Blind, Concern About Heavy Focus On Rightholders’ Interests from www.ip-watch.org

The treaty currently being discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization is of prime importance for blind and visually impaired people who are expecting that negotiators will engineer a treaty that is workable in the ...

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Writing Software Patent Applications from www.ipwatchdog.com

Collecting the information necessary to prepare a patent application covering a computer related invention can be quite challenging. Typically, most computer related inventions today relate at least in some way to software, which is at ...

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