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Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog
U.S. Pat. No. 6,784,792: Method and device for recognition of a collision with a pedestrian. What is claimed is: 1. A method of detecting a pedestrian impact with a vehicle, the method comprising: providing at least one first sensor on a bumper and at least one second sensor in an area of...
USPTO Announces Interim Procedure for Patentees to Request Patent Term Adjustment Recalculation.
Per this press release at the USPTO today: Procedure to Comply with the Federal Circuit Decision in Wyeth v. Kappos Regarding the Overlapping Delay Provision of 35 U.S.C.154(b)(2)(A) WASHINGTON – The Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is providing patentees with the ability to request a recalculation of their...
IPWatchdog Sued by Invention Submission Corporation (dba InventHelp).
Per this post at the IPWatchdog last week, patent law blogger Gene Quinn is being sued by Invention Submission Corporation (ISC), an invention promotion company that currently does business as “InventHelp®”. A copy of the complaint may be downloaded here. IPWatchdog has long been a vocal critic of invention promotion companies, and for good reason. As...
The Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association (TIPLA) is proudly presenting a program titled: Legal Off-shoring and In-shoring in the field of Intellectual Property. The program will be held at the University of Toledo College of Law on February 3, 2010, from 9:00AM – 12:00AM. Three (3) hours of CLE credit are being...
Via the Just-n-Patent Examiner blog, which in turn was relaying an earlier message from Greg Aharonian of the Internet Patent News Service concerning a 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 seen a lot...
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®
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...
Book Review – The Way Toys Work
Most larger cities have a “children’s museum” where kids (and grown ups) can experience “hands on” science. Anything that teaches kids that science is cool is worth supporting! Our local children’s museum is called the “Discovery Center of Idaho.” For about ten years now, I have provided free patent searches to...
RULE 2.1: ADVISOR In representing a client, a lawyer shall exercise independent professional judgment and render candid advice. In rendering advice, a lawyer may refer not only to law but to other considerations such as moral, economic, social and political factors, that may be relevant to the client’s situation. Rule 2.1 does...
The best book I read in 2009 was Seth Godin’s “The Dip.” If you haven’t read it, DO. In “The Dip,” Godin mentions the following passage from the Declaration of Independence: …all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing...
Patent Prospector
Abbott sued Beckton, Dickinson and Company and Nova Biomedical for infringing 5,628,890, which claims a glucose sensor. A jury found '890 anticipated. Abbott appealed the trial judge's jury instruction over the meaning of anticipation. The CAFC surveyed the boundary of inherency, and found the nugget: "all elements must be disclosed...
5,820,551 claims single-use test strips for measuring blood sugar, useful for diabetics. Becton, Dickinson and Company threw down a declaratory judgment (DJ) action on competitor Abbott over a couple other patents. Abbott countered with a suit that also asserted '551. Weak move. The DJ worked: summary judgment of non-infringement and...
37 CFR § 41.37, on appeal briefs, fully covers regulation of arguments made on appeal: "Any arguments or authorities not included in the brief or a reply brief filed pursuant to § 41.41 will be refused consideration by the Board, unless good cause is shown." 37 CFR § 41.41, on...
Charming Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog is running a hot streak. An anonymous comment crowning Quinn "the King of Douchebags" put him enough out of sorts to change his web site to admit only registered supplicants to comment on his blog. One can only speculate as to his apoplexy if he...
Catch Curve owns a family of five fax patents, the parent of which is 4,994,926. The patents "patents focus on the use of a computer-based device known as a 'store and forward facility,' or SAFF." A SAFF can forward a fax over telephone lines to a fax machine or to...
"Believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation -- our patent office receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically, then manually prints them out, scans them, and enters them into an outdated...
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...
Dear Rich: Nolo’s Patent, Copyright & Trademark Blog
Fiction Writer Asks ... May I?
Dear Rich: In a work of fiction may I write about an adventure in a well known museum and describe specific exhibits that get vandalized? May I write critically about a well known writer who has been dead for over......
Band Wants to Share Profits But Maybe Not Losses
Dear Rich: I formed a band with 3 other guys, and while they contribute in the form of some songwriting, pretty much everything else falls on me, from the bulk of songwriting, to paying for merchandise and CD pressings and......
But Her Mark is Hundreds of Miles Away
Dear Rich: I was just contacted via email by a woman in another state. She asked me to cease and desist using my trademark if I wanted to "avoid further legal action." My website's domain name is not the same......
Does My Girlfriend Own My Trademark?
Dear Rich: I am starting a fashion design company with my girlfriend. She is the designer and I am handling business/legal issues. She designed the company logo and created the business name. We are going to apply for a trademark......
Dear Rich: Recently several small shops here in New Orleans, Louisiana have received cease and desist letters from the NFL regarding either the Fleur de Lis symbol or the Who Dat slogan and the Saints. This has been put on......
Will My Trademark Graduate to the Principal Register?
Dear Rich: My mark has been registered on the Supplemental Register for five years and continuously used during that time. Does it now qualify automatically for registration on the Principal Register? "Automatically" may not be the correct word but you......
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Blackberry-maker RIM have won another case at the High Court (judgment available on BAILII here), this time against another company in the business of making mobile phones. Motorola's European patent EP0818009 has been found invalid and in any case not infringed by RIM's Blackberry system. More details (though not much)...
How to elect a new EPO President - some suggestions
The IPKat had plenty of comments on his brief post earlier this week about the continued failure of the EPO's Administrative Council to elect a new President. To add to the pot of comments already put on how the new President should be chosen (many of which seem to be about...
Open licensing: the word according to DPat
Today the IPKat attended a talk by D. Patrick O'Reilley (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner), which rejoiced in the formidable title "Implementing Open Innovation: Research, Collaboration and Pooling Arrangements". D. Patrick is President of LES International and, having freshly arrived from a spot of conferencing in Istanbul, he was...
Brands and a museum with a time tunnel - the British Brands Groups' Annual Reception
The IPKat was invited to attend British Brands Groups Reception last night, which was held at the Museum of Brands in London's fashionable Notting Hill. Although she prefers water (still - not sparkling) to Champagne, this Kat betook herself to this merriment and was not disappointed. John Bebbington (right), chairman...
Quelle surprise - still no new EPO President
As Joff Wild noted earlier today, and the EPO have just confirmed, the EPO's Administrative Council has failed yet again to select a successor to Alison Brimelow for EPO President. At the latest meeting, none of the three remaining candidates received the required 75% of the votes to make it. The AC...
The IPKat thanks his friend André Heitz for drawing his attention to Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation, Six Continents Hotels, Inc. v. Daniel Kirchhof WIPO Case No. D2009-1661, a domain name dispute resolution decision involving the grand total of 1,542 domain names. For the record, the complainant won 1,519 and lost...
Patent News and Information
Bio-Engineered Supplements & Nutrition Prevails in Appeal of Federal...
Chicago February 5, 2010 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals officially entered a judgment into the record affirming a summary judgment ruling from the Eastern District of Texas....
Myriad, Microsoft, Petronas, San Miguel: Intellectual Property - BusinessWeek
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Myriad Genetics Inc., maker of a widely used test for detecting inherited breast cancer, told a federal judge that its gene-related patents promote innovation and urged the court not to invalidate them. The American Civil ......
Judge hears arguments over rights to genes patents - Tacoma News Tribune
A group of Federal Way students did not win a $25,000 grant to put lights on lahar evacuation signs in the Puyallup River Valley. While disappointed, the four eighth-graders from Brooklake Christian School aren???t giving up. ???It just ......
Ion Geophysical awarded $25M from lawsuit
Ion Geophysical Corp. has been awarded a $25.2 million verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit....
Nvidia Not Going to Sign Settlement Agreement with Rambus
"Rambus and Nvidia talked for eight years before they sued us. I don't think it's realistic to think that there's going to be an agreement any time soon between the two companies," said David Shannon, Nvidia's general counsel, in an interview with BusinessWeek ....
Merwin: Are Some Electronics Unfair to Fish?
Two major brands of marine-electronic devices are at each other's throats this week as Humminbird filed a federal lawsuit against Lowrance alleging patent infringement....
Patent Baristas
AwakenIP: Helping to Reignite Recognition of the Value of Intellectual Property
Jeff Kuester, a technology attorney with Taylor | English in Atlanta, Georgia, has started AwakenIP, a web site devoted to intellectual property law. As noted on the site: This website is an attempt to help reignite broader recognition of the full value of intellectual property. Much criticism has been levied against...
Changes in the Implementing Rules of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
The Administrative Council of the EPO decided, in March 2009, to make significant changes to the Implementing Rules of the European Patent Convention (EPC). These changes will enter into force on April 1, 2010 and will have a significant impact on the grant procedure before the EPO. Introduction of a new...
Prosecution Laches and Inequitable Conduct: Cancer Research Tech. v Barr Labs.
A fellow patent attorney (who wishes to remain anonymous) called my attention to a recent decision issued by Judge Sue L. Robinson of the Delaware District Court. Cancer Research Technology et al. v Barr Laboratories et al., D-Del, Civ. No. 07-457-SLR, January 26, 2010. Download CRT v Barr. I’m not a...
Resurgence of the Need for Opinions of Counsel
As a direct consequence of overruling the affirmative duty of due care to avoid infringement upon learning of a patent, the Federal Circuit expressly instructed in Seagate that “there is no affirmative obligation to obtain [an] opinion of counsel.” In re Seagate Technology, 497 F.3d 1360, 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2007)...
Proposed Changes to Inventive Step/Non-Obviousness in Australia
Those of you who regularly prosecute patents in Australia will be aware that Australia has a unique approach to inventive step/non-obviousness. Specifically, Australian law differs from international norms in two fairly notable ways: Firstly, not all prior art references are citable. Rather, in order to be citable, a prior...
Securing Innovation
BusinessWeek Special Report: Patent Trolls
Don't miss this Special Report from BusinessWeek. Tech Giants' New Way to Thwart Patent Suits Frustrated by litigation costs, Microsoft, Sony, and Nokia are paying third-party patent acquirers such as RPX to fend off patent lawsuits Slide Show: Patent Trolls' Top Targets Apple, Sony, Dell, and Microsoft are the companies most frequently sued by...
IPCom, Patent Trolls, Reputation Management
Is there a likelihood of confusion between IP.com Inc. and IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, a German non-practicing entity, or NPE, that is sometimes called a patent troll? The Register, a British online journal, apparently sees the potential for confusion with the similarity of names and tries to keep its readers...
Kent Displays Reflex™ LCD Tablet
Kent Displays recently announced forming Improv Electronics, a new business unit focused on development and sales of consumer electronic products. The products will utilize Kent Displays revolutionary Reflex™ no power LCD technology. The first product sold under the Improv Electronics name, the Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet, is now available. This...
Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation
Entrepreneur, Twitter star, and former Apple software evangelist Guy Kawasaki highlights advice for creating meaning, innovation, and...revenue. We follow @GuyKawasaki from our Twitter account @ipdotcom and read his blogs, How to Change the World and Holy Kaw! Guy Kawasaki has thoughtfully included IP.com's blog, Securing Innovation on his Alltop pages for Patents...
IP.com's Free Global Patent Search Engine
IP.com Inc. has released a new Global Patent Search system for you to test. IP.com's GPS is a free international database of full-text patent and patent-related publications. IP.com's goal is to encourage worldwide access to resources where innovators can explore and understand patents, technologies, and related art. In this preliminary version, the...
National Inventor of the Year Nominations
IPO Education Foundation's 37th National Inventor of the Year Award presents an opportunity for you to obtain recognition for a deserving employee, client, or colleague as one of America's most outstanding inventors. Nominations can be made here on the website of the Intellectual Property Owners Association. The deadline for nominations is...
Patent Docs
Paragraph IV Disputes Conference
American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 4th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes conference on April 27-28, 2010 in New York, NY. The conference will allow attendees to: • Identify patents for small molecules and small proteins that may be ripe for a Paragraph IV challenge; • Recognize an ANDA...
BIO Comes out Swinging against SACGHS Report - Updated
By Donald Zuhn -- In a press conference held earlier today, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) expressed concern about recommendations to be issued on Friday with a report on gene patents. The report, entitled "Gene Patents and Licensing Practices and Their Impact on Patient Access to Genetic Tests," is being...
By Suresh Pillai -- Settlement Announced in Focalin® Infringement Suit Celgene, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and Teva Pharmaceuticals have filed three separate stipulations in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey that will, if approved by the Court, put an end to all claims among the parties. The long...
GSK Announces "Open Innovation" Strategy to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
By Donald Zuhn -- In January, GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives for developing new medicines to combat diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poorest countries. The initiatives, which comprise GSK's "open innovation" strategy, were outlined in a speech given by GSK Chief Executive Andrew Witty to the Council on...
Letter to Congressional Leaders Seeks Patent Protections
By Donald Zuhn -- In a letter sent to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) earlier today, Representatives Mike Michaud (D-ME), Don Manzullo (R-IL), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) urged the House leaders to...
Everybody Knows -- The Boston Globe Weighs in on Gene Patenting
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Men in Black...
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The US Patent Office has announced a “targeted effort to recruit patent examiners.” In particular, the Office is hoping to lure former examiners back to the office with the hope that experienced examiners can hit the job running with only......
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Attorney Ethics: Disqualifying a Law Firm
Outside the Box Innovations, LLC v. Travel Caddy, Inc., (Fed. Cir. 2010)(order) In a non-precedential order, the Federal Circuit has disqualified the law firm of King & Spalding from representing Travel Caddy on appeal. At the district court level, Outside-the-Box......
Avoiding Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
Patentees now proceed with caution when approaching a potential licensee. The Supreme Court's 2007 MedImmune v. Genentech decision broadened the availability of declaratory judgment actions even when the potential licensee has no apprehension of suit. In a recent IP Today......
Third-Party Oppositions to PTA Calculations?
Section 154(b) of the Patent Act includes an odd provision indicating that a "third party" may not appeal or challenge the USPTO's patent term adjustment determination prior to the patent issues: 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(4)(B): The determination of a patent term......
USPTO Fees 2011: Justifying the Fee Increase
It is clear that the USPTO needs funding to address its backlog of yet-to-be-examined patent applications and to revitalize its information technology infrastructure. An increase in funding is largely in the interest of the patent community. The primary downside is......
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