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28 Feb 2014, 10:10 am
” The Patent and Trademark Office, faced with rising backlogs, set itself progressively longer targets of “average total pendency” from year to year, rising from 27.7 months in fiscal year 2003 to 29.8 months in 2004, 31.0 months in 2005, and 31.3 months in 2006. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 9:29 am by U.S.P.T.O.
Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it will host a public forum to discuss the first-inventor-to-file (FITF) provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA). [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 9:29 am by U.S.P.T.O.
Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it will host a public forum to discuss the first-inventor-to-file (FITF) provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA). [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 10:54 pm by Dennis Crouch
PTO Fixes – The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has, fairly or unfairly, come under increasing fire for procedural lapses and staffing inadequacies that allow the issuance of too many “bad” patents. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 8:33 am by Dennis Crouch
The Branch occasionally represents the Government in a variety of proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Office, the district courts, and the courts of appeals. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 2:48 pm by mmorgan
Crowdsourcing Prior Art The United Stated Patent and Trademark office is exploring options to encourage the disclosure and sharing of prior art, in particular, difficult to find references, in an effort to increase the quality of patents and strengthen the patent process. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 2:48 pm by mmorgan
Crowdsourcing Prior Art The United Stated Patent and Trademark office is exploring options to encourage the disclosure and sharing of prior art, in particular, difficult to find references, in an effort to increase the quality of patents and strengthen the patent process. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 9:28 pm by Patent Docs
In particular, a White House Fact Sheet states that: • Promoting Transparency — The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a draft rule to ensure patent... [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 7:51 pm by Nikki Siesel
On May 19, 2013 Chef Dominique Ansel filed a trademark application with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for the trademark CRONUT in International Class 30. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 9:21 am by Dennis Crouch
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has now successfully implemented that law, enabling many reforms that are leading to higher patent quality, including post-grant patent review proceedings at the USPTO that offer faster and less expensive alternatives to litigation in Federal courts. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 5:33 pm
  For example, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has assignment databases for both patents and trademarks that are compiled from paper filings. [read post]
18 Feb 2014, 1:51 pm by Ron Coleman
” Records on file with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) show that on August 5, 2013, Tesla Motors, Inc. filed a trademark application for “Model E,” in several classes of goods, including that for “Automobiles and structural parts therefor. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 6:19 am
Approximately two years after [Gratton] began using the Van Praagh name in association with her own spiritual medium services, on October 30, 2012, [she] registered the James Van Praagh Trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. . . . [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 5:32 am
The article notes that the United States Patent and Trademark Office “is releasing historic patents that reveal how winter sports emerged. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 2:11 am
Our faculty of experienced practitioners will give an overview of the latest developments, while focusing on decisions of the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, regional Courts of Appeals and the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.Topics include:recent federal registration decisions (fraud, proof of lack-of-bona fide… [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 10:03 am by Eric Goldman
I heard some grumbles because the organization was initially named the “United States Trademark Association” and therefore the formation question could be misinterpreted. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 10:11 pm
  Procedural History[In an inter partes reexamination,] t]he United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) reversed the examiner’s rejection of claims 1–3 and 6–13 of U.S. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 1:57 pm by Nikki Siesel
However, a name of a series of creative works can be registered with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) under TMEP §1202.08(c). [read post]