Securing Innovation

International Women's Day

blog@ip.com (IP) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:39:10 -0500

Blawg Review #254 features links with information about International Women's Day, National Women's History Month and the 30th anniversary of the National Women's History Project.

Steal business trade secrets: Go to jail

blog@ip.com (IP) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:56:22 -0500

Confidential business and trade secret information is more than the stuff of corporate espionage. It is the competitive edge of any business, regardless of size, and deserves protection. Set up the proper safeguards to protect you confidential and trade secret information and you’ll be able to pursue your legal remedies the way Home Depot recently did.

Public Patent Foundation Releases Free Claim Construction Dictionaries

blog@ip.com (IP) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:29:28 -0500

Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") announced that it has released claim construction dictionaries authored by Dr. David Garrod (PUBPAT Senior Litigation Counsel) free of charge to the public.

Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review

blog@ip.com (IP) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:19:01 -0500

Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.

Nokia withdraws patent complaint against IPCom at EU

blog@ip.com (IP) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:43:57 -0500

Note: IPCom GmbH & Co KG is not to be confused with IP.com Inc., an unrelated corporation. Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, withdrew an antitrust complaint at the European Commission after German patent licensing company IPCom GmbH & Co KG said it’s committed to licensing its technology under fair terms.Nokia said in a statement today that it has achieved its “main objective” in the complaint, which was to make sure that IPCom offers its mobile-phone patents under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

Genius is misunderstood as a bolt of lightning

blog@ip.com (IP) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:17:38 -0500

"Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. It has nothing to do with winning a Nobel prize in physics or certain levels of schooling," says Seth Godin. "It's about using human insight and initiative to find original solutions that matter."

Twitter Is Fastest Growing Social Media Channel Among Fortune 500

blog@ip.com (IP) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:39 -0500

The Fortune 500's use of blogs, online video, and podcasts continues to increase, but Twitter was the social media channel of choice in 2009, according to a study by the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) and Financial Insite.

Drawing On Brilliance

blog@ip.com (IP) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:38:26 -0500

Discover a treasure trove of patent lithographs - discarded by the US Patent Office then rescued from destruction by Randy Rabin as he and Jackie Bassett uncover the secrets to innovation success behind the Wright Bros., Heddy Lamar, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, W.H. Carrier and others.

Inventors Eye: The Patent Office's New Publication for Inventors

blog@ip.com (IP) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:55:48 -0500

Inventors Eye, a new electronic publication by the United States Patent and Trademark Office is a bimonthly publication for the independent inventor community.

Blawg Review: it's alive!

blog@ip.com (IP) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:45:27 -0500

Jordan Furlong, hosting this week's Blawg Review on Stem's Law Firm Web Strategy blog, writes, "For a story that’s nearly 200 years old, Frankenstein feels powerfully modern, in part because it expresses the trepidation and occasionally the fear humanity still feels about the things it creates. From the cotton gin to Google Buzz, we marvel at the machines we invent and congratulate ourselves for our ingenuity. But lurking at the back of our minds is a deep uneasiness over whether we’re getting too good at building things simply because we can, and whether the next invention will be the one that gets away from us — whether next time, we’ll go too far." Read Blawg Review #252 at the link in the headline above to see the best of this week's legal blogs, including a link back to one of the posts on IP.com's blog, Securing Innovation.

If You Build It, They Will Come: Article One's Patent Research Community

blog@ip.com (IP) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:52:46 -0500

"Who would have thought that an online community of patent researchers would even take off?" writes Oscar Bruce on the Patent Quality Review Blog. "For many people, patents are too dense to understand. They are filled with legal and technical jargon that no layman can probably digest. Yet, the diverse community of Article One Partners has grown tremendously since its launch in November 2008. What motivated all these Advisors to register on Article One?"

Blawg Review #251

blog@ip.com (IP) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:43:43 -0500

This Blawg Review comes to you from the Canadian Trademark Blog, resident in Vancouver, British Columbia – a blawg run by several of the talented trademark law practitioners at Clark Wilson LLP.

World Intellectual Property Day - 10th Anniversary, Coming Soon

blog@ip.com (IP) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:01:33 -0500

The theme of World Intellectual Property Day, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is "Innovation - Linking the World."

Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review

blog@ip.com (IP) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:43:47 -0500

Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.

Chinese Trademarks More Important Than You Might Think

blog@ip.com (IP) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:21:15 -0500

Recently, companies manufacturing in China have come across some costly and time-consuming trademark predicaments. It seems that certain players in the Chinese market are using the Chinese trademark system to swindle unsuspecting American companies.

12 Innovations That Changed Our World

blog@ip.com (IP) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:46:07 -0500

"The United States is an innovative nation fascinated by new ideas and impatient for improvement," writes Jeff Nilsson in a wonderfully illustrated article in The Saturday Evening Post at the link in the headline above.

The Patent Troll Problem

blog@ip.com (IP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:13:25 -0500

Patent Attorney Vincent LoTempio says, "I'm sorry if I insult anybody by using the derogatory term 'Patent Troll' for a non-practicing entity (NPE) or patent dealer that claims patent rights to technology and demands a licensing payment for the use of the technology. But if the name fits..."

New Book: Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Growth

blog@ip.com (IP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:34:10 -0500

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the complex process of innovation.

Blawg Review of the Year

blog@ip.com (IP) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:26:09 -0500

Kevin Thompson, of Davis McGrath LLC in Chicago, practices primarily in the area of domestic and international trademarks, copyrights, and internet law issues. Kevin blogs at Cyberlaw Central, where he hosted Blawg Review #213, which has been honored with the coveted Blawg Review of the Year Award for 2009. Congrats!

IPAD Trademark Applications Pending for Apple and Fujitsu?

blog@ip.com (IP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:11:01 -0500

With the launch of the iPad, is a trademark dispute brewing between Apple, Inc. and Fujitsu?

The Future of the Internet

blog@ip.com (IP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:25:18 -0500

iPads, iPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners.

Fostering Innovation In China And The US For The 21st Century

blog@ip.com (IP) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:15:22 -0500

China Law Blog has a guest post by Michael Carrier, professor of law at Rutgers University and author of the book, Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law. Read it at the link in the headline above.

Cisco Patent Application for Search Engines

blog@ip.com (IP) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:53:08 -0500

Cisco has filed a patent application on a method that seeds search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic. Cisco's method includes monitoring data packets exchanged in a computer network over which documents having respective location identifiers are distributed, so as to detect a request to access a given document.

Duncan Bucknell's IP ThinkTank Gobal Week in Review

blog@ip.com (IP) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:05:52 -0500

Click on the link above to see this week's selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and on the internet.

IBM Tops US Patent List Again

blog@ip.com (IP) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:22:04 -0500

"IBM released these inventions through publication as part of its commitment to improving patent quality. Consequently, the inventions are freely available in a public database of prior art and can be cited by patent offices in limiting the scope of patent applications. The company's publication effort may also spur follow-on innovation, which enables dynamic business growth."