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Dear Rich: Nolo’s Patent, Copyright & Trademark Blog
Making the world safe for law firm ads
'Spect! Wow, the Dear Rich Staff is impressed. We answered this question two months ago and then the other day, we saw this advertisement on BART. ......
Copyrighting tracks with vocal samples
Dear Rich: I would like to ask about pre-licensed sample packs. I purchased a CD with vocal samples, in the licensing agreement there was information that "You can use the sounds in any type of non commercial music production without......
Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious! Can you protect coined words?
Dear Rich: I'm creating a cartoon world which contains several coined words describing things, actions and types of creatures, a little bit like Tolkien's "Lord Of The Rings". Does copyright give me the exclusive right to use these words in......
Reselling Apple Products Redux
Dear Rich: I have a question about one of your posts, titled Reselling Apple Products from February of 2009. I am interested in opening an online store and selling Apple products. However, I am not interested in becoming an authorized......
Dear Rich: My question is in regards to what some people call the, "Taggie" blankets. I see that a lot of people make and sell them on etsy.com. I've heard that there was some sort of controversary with this is...and that......
Needs License for Watching the Detectives
Dear Rich: I want to use the melody (we will do the lyrics) of the 1977 Elvis Costello song Watching the Detectives in a promotional video. It is for a medical device company. Term is 9 months (this year). Do......
The IPKat - IP news, views and mews
Letter from AmeriKat I - Google AdWords saga takes a turn
Last week the AmeriKat was on her way back from the City donning her apropos snazzy (pin)stripes , when instead of taking the normal route home she decided to take an entirely different route. Prowling through the deserted streets of the City and finally meandering down to Embankment,...
European Parliament demands to be informed on ACTA negotiations
Yet another installment in the ongoing saga of and secrecy surrounding the ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) negotiations (see the IPKat's ACTA posts here). The European Parliament has now published a press release in which it demands that the Commission and the Council should grant public and parliamentary access to...
Thank you again, say the IPKat, Merpel and the rest of the crew, for your continued support of this weblog. According to our web counter, we have oh-so-nearly welcomed today our two millionth visitor since the blog was launched in June 2003 (we should hit that magic figure tomorrow,...
Do We Really Need to Compare the Value of Patent Portfolios?
It is the maiden voyage on these blog pages for this new Kat. My view of maiden voyages was shaped by the scene in the movie Titanic, when the skipper of the doomed ship is about to embark on the route to doom, smiling smugly while sipping (presumably English) tea....
From "See Emily Play" to "See EMI Pay"
The IPKat thanks lots of enthusiastic readers, of whom New York stalwart Miri Frankel was the first, for sending him links to all the news items concerning the High Court for England and Wales victory of British rock group Pink Floyd over recording company EMI. The group, famed for...
Is Cognac like Champagne, Finns ask the ECJ
Last week the IPKat, intrigued by a reference for a ruling for a preliminary ruling of the European Court of Justice in a case he knew nothing about, Case C-4/10 Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac v Oy Gust. Ranin (see earlier post here), asked readers if they could furnish him...
Patent News and Information
Monsanto patents may protect its monopolies
Monsanto Co., facing antitrust probes into its genetically modified seeds, may benefit from previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights trumped competition concerns, antitrust lawyers say....
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Kroger goes to court over fuel program patent
CINCINNATI Kroger has filed a federal suit against Excentus Corp., which has demanded the grocer obtain a license to expand its fuel rewards program to Shell stations, according to the Business Courier of Cincinnati....
Monsanto's seed patents may trump antitrust claims
Monsanto Co, facing antitrust probes into its genetically modified seeds, may benefit from previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights trumped competition concerns, antitrust lawyers say....
Should Microsoft have patented its VPN in the '90s?
One of Microsoft's key defense arguments in the VirnetX patent-infringement case is that it invented similar technology years before the patents were even written....
VirnetX, Microsoft spar over use of VPNs
If you ask VirnetX, Microsoft Office Communicator sets up a virtual private network for secure instant messaging....
Patent Baristas
Patent On Lysine-Producing Bacterium Killed For Lack of Best Mode
Earlier, the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that the importation and sale of certain lysine feed products did not violate section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 as amended, 19 U.S.C. § 1337. The Commission found that (1) the asserted claims of Ajinomoto’s U.S. Patents 5,827,698 and 6,040,160 are...
Small Business Patent Data Collection Act of 2010
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is Chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee. Sen. Landrieu has introduced The Small Business Patent Data Collection Act of 2010 after concerns about how the Senate patent reform bill will impact small businesses. Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all employers, employing 1/2 of the...
I have blogged in the past about non-traditional trademarks. However the recent case of North Face and South Butt begs the discussion of trade dress and hence a comparison of the case in question with the precedents is unavoidable to glean whether South Butt does infringe North Face’s trade dress...
The Patent Reform Act of 2010: A Substitute S. 515
Here comes the Patent Reform Act of 2010 in the form of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to S. 515 (“Amendment to S. 515”). I know, you’ve heard all this before with the Patent Reform Act of 2009, the Patent Reform Act of 2008, the Patent Reform...
Patent Reform is So NOT Sexy it Hurts…
Admittedly, patent reform is not a sexy topic. Those passionate about it are lab geeks, computer nerds, inventors, academics, attorneys and IP bloggers – not exactly the glitterati. But if it passes the hurdle of a full Senate vote, it will hurt – entrepreneurs, inventors and the economy. Perhaps...
Securing Innovation
Corporate Counsel's IP Counsel Forum
Corporate Counsel magazine is presenting its 6TH ANNUAL IP COUNSEL FORUM. This event will bring together over 130 members of the Intellectual Property Community representing leading corporations from a variety of industries. Senior In House Counsel repressentingl Align Technologies, Cisco, Coverity, eBay Inc., Google, JDS Uniphase, Microsoft, Whirlpool, Palm, Sony Corporation...
"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...
Happy New Year, to our friends and colleagues in China. Born in the year of the Tiger, this is, apparently, my year. Already this year, I have fallen down while attempting to overspend in a shoe store, gashing my forehead. I'm really looking forward to that promotion. Chinese New Year 2010: The...
A Tsunami of "e-data" in Perspective
At the LegalTech NY 2010 Conference in New York, Jason R. Baron and Ralph Losey presented a stunning 6 minute music video that took them as many months to research and put together. They've now posted it on YouTube and encouraged those who enjoyed the presentation to share the video...
When is National Inventors' Day?
In recognition of the enormous contribution inventors make to the nation and the world, the Congress designated February 11, the anniversary of the birth of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison who had over 1,000 patents, as National Inventors' Day. Last year, I wrote about Thomas Edison and National Inventors' Day in...
Tweet of the Week @CiscoSystems
John Earnhardt noted on The Platform, the blog of Opinions and Insights from Cisco, that this is the 5th anniversary of Cisco's first blog post. This auspicious occasion was marked, today, with this tweet. Click on the image above to read the entire post, but here's an excerpt. This first blog...
Patent Docs
American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp conference on May 24-25, 2010 in San Diego, CA. ACI faculty will help attendees: • Understand the interplay of the PTO and FDA in the patenting of drugs and biologics; • Learn about the essentials of the FDA approval...
Webinar on Obviousness after KSR
Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Obviousness Standard for Patents Post-KSR: Strategies to Withstand USPTO Obviousness Rejections and Attacks on Patent Validity" on April 14, 2010 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EST). Ronald Cahill of Nutter McClennen & Fish, Karen Canaan of CanaanLaw; and Kevin Meek of Baker Botts,...
By Suresh Pillai -- DC District Court Remands Pfizer PTA Suit to USPTO Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia remanded Pfizer Inc.'s challenge of the USPTO's calculation of patent term adjustment (PTA) back to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This action by the District...
House Bill Seeks to Codify President's Stem Cell Order
By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced legislation (H.R. 4808) that would amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research. H.R. 4808 would codify President Obama's Executive Order 13505, which permitted federal funding of research conducted with human embryonic stem...
Senator Landrieu Introduces Legislation Requiring Study on Effects of First-to-File Provision
By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced legislation (S. 3089) that would require the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to conduct a study and report on the effects of changes to U.S. patent law that would result from enactment of the Patent...
AUTM Survey Shows Drop in Issued Patents
By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) released its U.S. licensing survey for FY2008. According to a GenomeWeb Daily News report, a majority of the academic and research institutions that answered the survey indicated that they filed more patent applications and were involved in...
Latest Patents
Apple patent applications published on 11 March 2010
28 US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Apple 1 20100064255 CONTEXTUAL MENUS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE 2 20100064223 OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS 3 20100064222 OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS 4 20100064218 AUDIO USER INTERFACE 5 20100064113 MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD 6 20100064061 PROVIDING SUBSTANTIALLY IMMEDIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO INPUT EVENT 7 20100064053 RADIO WITH PERSONAL DJ 8 20100063964 Portable Browsing Interface for Information Retrieval 9 20100063825 Systems and Methods for Memory Management and Crossfading in...
Canon patent applications published on 11 March 2010
53 US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Canon 1 20100064310 BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME 2 20100064288 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, APPLICATION STARTUP MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR 3 20100064211 INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAMS 4 20100064176 DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING...
Fujitsu patent applications published on 11 March 2010
49 US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Fujitsu 1 20100064301 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING LOAD SHARING FUNCTION 2 20100064290 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD 3 20100064266 VERIFICATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, VERIFICATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT 4 20100064203 METHOD FOR MANAGING STORAGE APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE SYSTEM 5 20100064198 STORED DATA...
Google patent applications published on 11 March 2010
No US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Google...
Hewlett-Packard patent applications published on 11 March 2010
2 US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Hewlett-Packard 1 20100064031 Identifying a Subnet Address Range from DNS Information 2 20100059567 TURN-BAR...
Hitachi patent applications published on 11 March 2010
40 US patent applications published on 11 March 2010 and assigned to Hitachi 1 20100064342 SECURITY MEASURE STATUS SELF-CHECKING SYSTEM 2 20100064182 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM 3 20100064165 FAILOVER METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM 4 20100064103 Storage control device and raid group extension method 5 20100064101 MEMORY CONTROLLER AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM 6 20100063678 MOTION CONTROL SENSOR SYSTEM FOR A MOVING UNIT AND MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM 7 20100062897 Brake Control System 8 20100062787 COMMUNICATION QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM 9 20100062727 HIGH-FREQUENCY...
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
Federal Circuit Jurisdiction over Declaratory Judgment Actions
Laboratory Corp of America (LabCorp) v. Metabolite Labs., Appeal No. 2008-1597 (Fed. Cir. 2010). In an interesting exposition on Federal Circuit appellate jurisdiction, the court has ruled that LabCorp's appeal should be heard by the Tenth Circuit -- concluding that......
Cost of the Patent Backlog and the Proposed Solution
The UK Patent Office has released a commissioned study examining the "economic impact of delays in processing patents." The report (prepared by the consulting company London Economics) suggests that the delays (1) reduce the incentive to innovate; (2) increase the......
Patently-O Bits and Bytes: Federal Circuit Judicial Nominees
President Obama recently announced KATHLEEN O'MALLEY as his nominee for the open position on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Next Opening: Chief Judge PAUL R. MICHEL has announced that he is retiring May 31, 2010. Judges......
The BPAI's Standard of Review for Examiner Rejections
Ex Parte Frye (BPAI 2010) (precedential opinion) In a newly issued precedential opinion, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) has ruled that examiner findings are given no deference when challenged on appeal. "[T]he Board reviews the particular finding(s)......
Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley
The White House today announced that Judge Kathleen (Kate) O’Malley (N.D.Ohio) is the nominee to fill the empty judgeship position on the twelve-member Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The position was previously filled by Judge Schall. Chief Judge......
Best Mode Requirement Strikes Down Biotech Patent
Ajinomoto Co., Inc. v. International Trade Commission (Fed. Cir. 2010) The ITC held that Ajinomoto's patents were invalid for failure to satisfy the best mode requirement of 35 U.S.C. 112. On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed. The two asserted patents......
Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]
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JD Supra Intellectual Property
Common But... Not-So-Common-Sense Copyright Misconceptions by Jenna Rader
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Joint Defense Pacts Pose Pitfalls
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Biotech Patent Held Invalid For Failing to Disclose Preferred Host Cells
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Tangible property v intangible property
Contributor: Marcia B Moulon [View: Profile | Documents]...
China's State Administration Of Tax Clarifies Treaty Treatment for Technical Know-How
Contributor: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP [View: Profile | Documents]...
Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog
U.S. Pat. No. 5,934,226: Bird diaper. We claim: 1. A sanitary apparatus for use with a bird comprising: a front section of fabric including a top surface and a bottom surface; a back section of fabric connected to said front section of fabric, said back section of fabric including a bottom surface and...
The Word From The USPTO Trenches.
Conducting interviews with Patent Examiners is quite a large part of my practice . In my opinion, interviewing is an extremely effective tool that applicants can use to further prosecution of their patent applications. Interviews can also lead more quickly to patent application allowance, and a subsequent issuance of a patent. I often conduct...
NY Times Article – Turning Patents Into “Invention Capital”.
An interesting article today at the New York Times, detailing an interview with Nathan Myhrvold at Intellectual Ventures. Intellectual Ventures is a self-proclaimed “invention company” located in Bellevue, Washington. Nathan Myhrvold, an ex-Microsoft executive, founded the company in 2000 with the goal to nurture fundamental innovation and invention. To date, Intellectual Ventures has acquired at least 30,000 patents. ...
Integrating LinkedIn With Outlook Email.
Per this story earlier in the week at the San Francisco Chronicle, Microsoft Outlook users now have the option of integrating their LinkedIn accounts with their Outlook email via a “Outlook Social Connector” now available from Microsoft. Upon downloading and installing the Outlook Social Connector, Outlook will aggregate contact information from both...
Does a Career at the USPTO Speak to You?
The USPTO has recently launched a targeted effort to recruit Examiners. Per this announcement at the USPTO: Work for the largest Intellectual Property Rights Firm in the United States – United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Discover an exciting career with the USPTO as a Patent Examiner! A career as a...
Financial Aspects of Intellectual Property
Focus in a Time of Uncertainty
By Peter Ackerman President & CEO Innovation Asset Group I’ll take some license to sew a stitch between this blog’s topic, “Financial Aspects of Intellectual Property” and a more macro issue. It was around Q4 2008 when the vortex of the global economic downturn kicked up so much dust that “uncertainty” became the...
Chief IP Counsel and CIO: New Best Friends
By Ron Carson Vice President of Marketing Innovation Asset Group Lester Thurrow, author and former dean of MIT School of Management, has written that the “only remaining source of true competitive advantage is technologies that others do not have.” Since intellectual property is the legal vehicle for protecting such technologies, it’s clearly the...
Intellectual Property will be America’s Main Source of Competitive Advantage in the 21st Century
by Ron CarsonVice President of MarketingInnovation Asset Group As the new administration seeks ways to guide the U.S. out of recession, it would be well advised to pay attention to innovation and intellectual property. A press release I recently found on MarketWatch discusses the position of strength the U.S....
IP Management for Superior Shareholder Returns
Ron CarsonVice President of MarketingInnovation Asset Group Intellectual Property is a strategic business asset and in many cases is the most valuable asset a company owns. Many times in this blog and in our newsletter we have discussed the strategic importance of IP and numerous perspectives from which...
Innovation Will Overcome Recession - Is Your IP Department Prepared?
Ron CarsonVice President of MarketingInnovation Asset GroupThere is a lot of negative press about the economy. Too much. In addition to not reading the statements from my investment accounts, I may soon have to give up reading the news as well. Enough with the...
IP Management & Budget Cuts: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!
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The Invent Blog®
Downloading a 142 MB PDF from the USPTO
This morning I received an e-mail “Notice of Publication” on a trademark case, the first one of these I remember seeing. Here’s the notice (redacted): NOTICE OF PUBLICATION Serial Number: 55-555,555 Mark: TRADEMARK (STANDARD CHARACTER MARK) International Class(es): 555 Applicant: ACME, LLC Attorney Reference Number: 012345 The mark identified above has been published in the Trademark Official...
New USPTO magazine for independent inventors
The USPTO has released it’s first issue of the “Inventors Eye,” the USPTO’s bimonthly publication for the independent inventor community. The first issue includes articles on: Patent Reform – An Open Letter Protect Your Innovation: Avoid Scams – By Ronald Jaicks : Office of the Solicitor Spark of Genius: The Spiral Eye Needle...
LegalZoom sued for Unauthorized Practice of Law
Gene Quinn at IPWatchDog reports that LegalZoom has been sued (class action lawsuit) for “unauthorized practice of law” in Missouri, allegedly for offering legal advice regarding a will and for preparing incorporation documents. Other related blog posts I turned up on this topic: Gene Quinn on LegalZoom and the filing of trademark...
Patent blogger sued by invention promoter
Patent blogger Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog.com was sued yesterday by invention promotion company InventHelp. Gene wrote a post on his blog entitled “Invent Help Sues IPWatchdog Alleging they are Not a Scam” which has the complete story. In the post, Gene indicates that he is looking for information about InventHelp’s...
Social Media and Law Blogs 101
Links to two of my recent articles written for lawyers: Law Blogs 101, The Idaho Law Report, January 19, 2010. Social Media Opens Up a Variety of New Professional Connections, The Advocate (Official Publication of the Idaho State Bar), vol. 53, no. 1, p. 35-36 (2010). Related posts:Free Webinar on Social Media 101...
Why entrepreneurs hate lawyers
Read: Venture Hacks blog on Top 10 reasons why entrepreneurs hate lawyers. Note: Eight of his reasons are about failures to communicate, the other two are about money. Related posts:Five by Five – The Entrepreneurs Matt Homann (one of my favorite blawgers) has been doing... Interviews with famous entrepreneurs Have you checked out...
Patent Prospector
Microsoft has prevailed upon the CAFC to rehear, en banc, only the willfulness portion of its affirmation of the district court ruling in i4i v. Microsoft. In other words, the CAFC cut Microsoft a break, probably because the CAFC wants another bite at cleaning up the willfulness standard. A revised...
The American arm of Japan's Ajinomoto complained to the ITC to stop foreign imports of dietary supplement lysine, under the aegis of 5,827,698 and 6,040,160. The snag was that their patent applications didn't actually disclose their production techniques. That cost them the patents for failing to meet best mode, and...
Taking a break from the frigid east Washington winter, CAFC Judge Rader has been marshalling in Marshall. Rader's adjudicating an East Texas patent brawl between IP Innovation and Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell. Judge Rader takes no wooden nickels as the Linux twins sought to toss IPI's damages expert...
5,955,955 claims a computer drive bay fan, meant to cool the hard drives right in their own living room. '955 owner Comaper sued Antec for infringement. Trial found Antec willfully infringing some claims. Some claims were obvious to the jury, others validly novel. Appeal found that "irreconcilably inconsistent." The CAFC...
Media Technologies sued Upper Deck for infringing two memorabilia patents: 5,803,501 & 6,142,532. After a trip to the CAFC on district court summary judgment over res judicata (reversed), trial court proceedings were stayed pending reexamination. Both patents made it through reexam unscathed. Then, based on claim construction, Upper Deck got...
Trading Technologies sued eSpeed and Ecco for infringing 6,772,132 & 6,766,304, which go to displaying "static price levels" on a computerized board for commodity trading. One service product infringed, but others literally did not, and applying the doctrine of equivalents was proscribed. Defenses to indefiniteness and inequitable conduct went nowhere,...
Just a Patent Examiner
Resumption of Hiring in the USPTO's Future?
The PTO put out a press release today regarding President Obama's 2011 budget request for the USPTO.Significantly, the budget request will enable the Office to resume the hiring of examiners.Specifically, it will allow the Office to "[i]nitiate a targeted hiring surge and hire 1,000 patent examiners annually during FY 2011...
The Office sent an email earlier this week, notifying the corps that the changes to the count system will be taking effect starting on February 14th. (Happy Valentine's Day!)For a while, examiners' production will be tracked under both the old and new count systems, with the examiner being graded...
A few days ago, Greg Aharonian of the Internet Patent News Service relayed the following note that a frustrated attorney had sent to Director Kappos:---Dear Mr. Kappos,I have been practicing before the USPTO for 12 years now and have seena lot of ridiculous stuff, but this takes the cake. ...
PTO Calls Former Examiners to Return to the Office
The Patent Office is taking some interesting measures in an effort to reduce the backlog. Last week, the corps received an email detailing plans to offer ex-examiners the opportunity to return to the patent office. From the email:---Faced with a growing backlog and long patent pendency periods in...
Effective Sunday, November 8th, the Office's Revised Count System Initiatives will go into effect, except for those initiatives that will require updates to the Office's software systems.Most significantly, that means that the new provisions for the docketing of RCEs will come online.The following initiatives will be effective this Sunday:* ...
Director's Blog: Now with Feedback!
The Director has been posting weekly to his blog, on a variety of subjects.Two weeks ago, he posted on the union's adoption of the proposed new count system.---I wanted to take this opportunity to express my thanks to POPA's membership for voting to adopt the changes to the count system...
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