Prior Art and Research: Social Science Research Network
Another site to search prior art and scholarly articles:
Social Science Research Network SSRN Home Page.
Another site to search prior art and scholarly articles:
Social Science Research Network SSRN Home Page.
Over the last several years many people have asked me how to remove paper from their lives. Here are some tips on how to empty your file cabinets and get rid of that pile of mail.
So, will we see lawsuits for infringement, not of the patents that are sold, but for determining how much to sell them for?
7,493,262 Method for valuing intellectual property
7,386,460 System and method for developing and implementing intellectual property marketing
7,346,545 Method and system for payment of intellectual property royalties by interposed sponsor on behalf of consumer over [...]
Richard Feynman was one of the great physicists of the 20th century, and an incredible teacher. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
I learned about Feynman in the 1980s when I was studying physics, and spent many a night watching films of his famous lectures at [...]
EPC Rule 36:
(1) The applicant may file a divisional application relating to any pending earlier European patent application.
(2) A divisional application shall be in the language of the proceedings for the earlier application and shall be filed with the European Patent Office in Munich, The Hague or Berlin.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office predicts that patent application filings will continue to increase to over 600,000 a year in 2012. Furthermore, there may be a backlog of around 1.4 million patents.
PatentlyO:
BPAI: “Programmed Computer Method” Not Patentable Subject Matter
Software Method Claims: Bilski in light of Benson
Post-Bilski BPAI Approves of Beauregard Claims
Applying Bilski to Metabolite’s Diagnosis Claim
Applying Bilski to Biotechnology and the Life Sciences
Bilski: Adding Obvious but Meaningful Limitations
Professor Collins: In re Bilski: Tangibility Gone “Meta”
CLE: How to Draft Software Claims under Bilski
Patenting Tax Strategies Under Bilski
In [...]
Abbot Laboratories fought for 14 years (receiving 12 rejections) to get a patent allowed, only to have the patent found unenforceable because Abbot’s patent attorney withheld key information in connection with the patent filing. Lesson: disclose information which may be material to the patentability of any of your claims, as required under 37 [...]
Josh Kopelman at First Round Capital has a good post on the value of patents after fighting for 8.5 years to get one of his granted. His Half.com (Ebay.com) patent received six rejections, half of them final, before it was allowed. I explain this to clients, particularly software startups, on a daily basis [...]
This patent application from Apple seems to show a four layer arrangement comprising protective glass, an LCD display, a solar panel, and a circuit board. The solar panel receives light passing through the (semi-transparent) LCD display.
Links: MacRumors.com, Patent Application Solar cells on portable devices.
Postulated in 1971, a fourth passive circuit element called a memristor has been invented by a team from HP Labs. Circuit theory books, which will have to be rewritten, teach the existence and use of three passive circuit elements: the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. The memristor, short for memory resistor, changes its resistance [...]
IBM Technical Journals
IBM Research
I recently won U.S. patent no. 7,344,086 for the inventors of an innovative lottery ticket having features that prevent theft. The patent also claims methods for preventing lottery ticket theft. Major lottery ticket suppliers are considering licensing the patent.
Links: U.S. Patent No. US 7,344,086 (pdf, USPTO).
The former anonymous blogger of Patent Troll Tracker has been outed as a patent lawyer at Cisco Systems. He was unmasked after a $15,000 bounty was offered by a senior partner at a law firm criticized on the blog after he filed suit for a client against Google. The blog has been taken [...]
A partial list of who is acquiring, licensing, and enforcing patents:
Acacia Research Corporation
IPotential
Inflexion Point
Altitude Capital Partners
Ocean Tomo
Rembrandt IP Management
NW Patent Funding Corporation
Intellectual Ventures
Gathering2.0 (online community for monetizing IP assets)
Articles:
Patent Attorneys, Clients Banking on IP Brokerages (law.com)
Patent Pirates (forbes.com)
37 CFR 1.53(b) and 37 CFR 1.63(d) Divisional-Continuation Procedure: MPEP 201.06(c)
Claiming the Benefit of an Earlier Filing Date: MPEP 201.11
Oath or declaration: MPEP 602.05(a), 37 CFR 1.63, MPEP 201.06(c)(II)
Information Disclosure Statements: MPEP 609.02
10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers
(via Very Short List)
Drugs@FDA Glossary of Terms
Blawg.com
abajournal.com (IP Law, Top 100)
U.S. District Judge James Cacheris granted GlaxoSmithKline’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from implementing the rules set to go into effect today. Glaxo filed its suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its director, Jon Dudas, earlier this month. The company plans to seek [...]