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19 Jun 2022, 9:15 am by Sherry Knowles
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal expressing concern about so-called “patent thickets” and requesting that she consider changes to the USPTO regulations and practices to address perceived problems with patent examination. [read post]
7 Apr 2022, 2:32 pm by Kirk M. Hartung
Senate confirmed Kathy Vidal as the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the US Patent & Trademark Office. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 4:30 pm
Although most patent infringement lawsuits do not name an individual officer or director as a defendant, the ability to pressure an officer or director with the threat of personal liability is a potential arrow in the patent owner's quiver (or a mosquito in the accused infringer's tent, depending upon your perspective). [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 11:53 am
Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program, in response to a question about the first 100 U.S. patents: When patents were first issued by the Patent Office, starting in 1790, there was no numbering system. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 6:38 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Many aspects of S.23 favor large entities over small entities.According to Patent and Trademark Office Director, David Kappos, the U. [read post]
Introduction Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 10:00 am by Bruno Tarabichi
Patent and Trademark Office released the third edition of the TBMP, which is updated to cover the significant legal changes that have occurred since 2004. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 11:29 am by Gene Quinn
Indeed, it is my guess that patent practitioners will be yelling "AMEN" from the top of their lungs as they read various portions of the Guidelines. [read post]
3 Oct 2008, 7:18 pm
Showing that the Patent Office sees applicants as the source of all their problems, they claim that: [U]nlimited recourse to continuation applications and RCEs has led to misuse and abuse. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 4:15 am by Steve Brachmann
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) during 2021, providing a snapshot of the companies and countries earning the greatest number of U.S. patents, as well as the technological areas where most innovations are being protected. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 4:59 pm by Kirk M. Hartung
Patent and Trademark Office received a record 417,922 patent applications in 2022. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 5:00 am by Jim Soong
As to the first prong, the PTAB acknowledged yet quickly rejected the patent applicant’s attempted analogy to Example 39. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 4:15 am by Steve Brachmann
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) during 2021, providing a snapshot of the companies and countries earning the greatest number of U.S. patents, as well as the technological areas where most innovations are being protected. [read post]
23 Feb 2013, 9:32 am by Gene Quinn
A patent is a proprietary right granted by the United States federal government to an inventor who files a patent application with the United States Patent Office. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 4:15 am by John Cordani
For the past several years, the patent offices in the United States and Mexico have operated under a type of patent examination fast-tracking and work-sharing agreement known as a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH). [read post]