Invalidation Search Basic Concepts
Invalidation search and what things to consider while invalidating a patent.
No Fooling Around with New Patent Blog
Gene Quinn, Jr., the force behind the Patent Briefs at the Practicing Law Institute, has struck out in a new venture. Gene has now brought us a new patent blog, PatentFools.com.
Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review
Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.
Women and Innovation
While there is much talk about promoting innovation and supporting innovators and entrepreneurs; there is an undercurrent of debate ranging from scrapping the current system for protecting creations of the mind; i.e., the intellectual property rights system, to keeping the status quo, warts and all. How can influential networks such as the Paris-based “Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society” or the London-based “Global Women Inventor and Innovators Network” promote entrepreneurs, innovators and knowledge workers while at the same time respond to growing societal demands?
Big Law Firm Sued for Alleged Malpractice Over Patent Case
The company alleges that the law firm failed to investigate and discover prior art and misconduct related to the patent that was the focus of a lawsuit.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Intellectual Property Officer
IncreMental Advantage is hosting the above titled conference in New York City on October 15, 2008. Philip Brooks has the topics of discussion at the link above.
In China, Microsoft eyes innovation
As managing director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Hsiao-Wuen Hon leads a 10-year-old organization that is the software giant's flagship research arm in the region, responsible for some 350 researchers and engineers. Hon said that managing innovation in the Beijing-based facility is different from running an organization with set goals, because often the magic "spark" is stumbled upon accidentally.
Olympic-size innovation in Beijing
In its August 18 issue, BusinessWeek shows how companies are testing out innovative technologies at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Blawg Review #173
Last week’s Olympic Blawg Review focused on the medals. Building on that, this week David Donoghue at the Chicago IP Litigation Blog uses the elements of a world-record swim to feature some interesting discussions in the legal blogosphere.
Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review
Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.
MSNBC's Take on Corporate Blogging and Bloggers-in-Chief
Marriott tells the reporter that Bill Marriott's CEO blog is responsible for $4 million in bookings on the main site. "That's not a huge amount given Marriott's sales, which are in the billions. But not bad for a little spare change from blogging," says Debbie Weil at BlogWrite for CEOs. Watch the video at the link above.
China IP: Hong Kong or Macau?
"Registering your trademark in China does not constitute registering your trademark in either Hong Kong or Macau, and vice-versa," notes Dan Harris at China Law Blog.
Prior Art & Obviousness 2008
The Practising Law Institute presents On-Demand Web Programs: 35 USC 102, Prior Art, continues to be re-understood and re-interpreted by the PTO and CAFC to account for the unforeseen in how the concept of “prior art” and circumstance collide in the 21st century. Prior art on the Web - here today, gone tomorrow - maybe; on sale, or “ready for patenting” in the age of biotech and nanotech. For every practitioner, it is a necessity to stay current on the touchstone of patentability:
35 USC 102.
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Citius, Altius, Fortius
As many who are following the 2008 Beijing Olympics already know, these three Latin words meaning "Swifter, Higher, Stronger" are the motto of the Olympic Games.
Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review
Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.
PTO Rains on Dell's 'Cloud Computing' Trademark
Dell had received near-final approval for its trademark application of the term "cloud computing," but the US Patent and Trademark Office canceled its "Notice of Allowance" on Tuesday and changed the status to "returned to examination."
Pet Food Company's Trade Secret Information In Possession of State University Researchers Protected from Disclosure Under Mississippi Public Records Act
In Mississippi State University v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., Iams sought a court order prohibiting the disclosure of exempt information under the Mississippi Public Records Act, Miss. Code Ann. §§ 25-61-9 and 79-23-1, on the ground that the information PETA requested constitutes trade secrets.
The IP Executive Summary of Blawg Review # 171
We've heard some complaints that the most recent Blawg Review is just too darn long, so here's a link to Victoria Pynchon's IP Executive Summary of Blawg Review #171.
The Art of Visual Thinking
In the venture capital business, many people think that a short pitch is thirty slides and a short business plan is fifty pages. My how they are mistaken.
Fair Disclosure Rules May Change For Company Blogs & Websites
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it was seeking the approval of new guidelines on the use of company web sites for fair disclosure by public companies. Those new guidelines, if approved, may mean that companies can disclose information about their public company on a website instead of having to use a press release or telephone conference.
Blawg Review on the IP ADR Blog
In honor of the moment of creation at the root of every intellectual property dispute, this week's Blawg Review #171 by Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog gives you the great virgins of history.
Patent angle to anthrax scare?
Reports in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times draw inferences from anthrax vaccine patents of Dr.Bruce E. Ivins, a person of interest in connection with the anthrax investigations.
Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review
Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.
Inventors flock to file patents in US
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received nearly a quarter of the 1.76 million patents filed worldwide in 2006 — the latest year for which figures are available — according to the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
PerfumeBay v. eBay: Final Chapter
eBay has long fought to keep cyberspace clear of other websites ending in "bay," arguing that sites with "generic plus bay" names infringe its trademark.
