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9 Sep 2012, 9:33 am by joel
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced changes to its fee system on Wednesday, reducing patent maintenance fees. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 6:13 am by Lawrence Higgins
Commissioner for Patents, Margaret Focarino, will comment on current developments in patents, especially those occurring at the U. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 8:38 am by U.S.P.T.O.
The proposed fees are at least 22 percent lower for a routine patent process—i.e., filing, search, examination, publication, and issue fees—than the current fee schedule. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 7:33 am by Hans Sauer
A curious ruling for many reasons, and one that will have to be digested over many years as the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Circuit struggle to... [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 1:17 am by Chris Neumeyer
However, in the event that’s not possible, rest assured, plenty of attorneys travel to Asia on a regular basis to take depositions for use in US litigation. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 6:47 am by Susan Neuberger Weller
Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB” or “Board”) granted Hershey’s request to register the design and shape of a chocolate bar as a trademark on the Principal Register. [read post]
8 Jul 2012, 10:11 pm by Stan
The thought crossed my mind that Bloomberg had a design patent on its terminal, but none of the press coverage mentions patent rights. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 12:15 pm by dirklasater
Author's Introduction The Pandora’s box of file sharing as it currently exists has found renewed presence in public consciousness over the course of the last five to ten years. [read post]
21 May 2012, 2:15 pm by Matthew Bush
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Docket: 11-301Issue(s): (1) Whether the Patent and Trademark Offices (“PTO”) presumptively valid finding that an invention is not obvious and is thus patentable over a prior art patent is impermissibly nullified or undermined when a jury is allowed to find, by a mere preponderance of the evidence, that the patented invention is “insubstantially different” from the very… [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 1:08 pm
  * "Emails: are they "public" for European patent purposes? [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 10:59 am by jcarnicella
  The Supreme Court traced the history of Section 145 back to the 1836 Act, which established the Patent Office, and noted that the specific language in Section 145 originated in the 1870 Act. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 6:07 am by John J. Cahill
Under U.S. patent law, when the PTO denies an application for patent, an applicant has two routes of judicial review: an appeal of the denial to the Federal Circuit under 35 U. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 1:10 am by Scott A. McKeown
Under HemCon’s rule, such a requestor could expect that, even if the reexamination ultimately confirms all claims as patentable without amendment, the patent owner will necessarily make substantive arguments in defending the claims, thereby allowing the requestor to allege intervening rights based on those arguments. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 7:10 am by stevehansen
  One commentator notes that “Whereas patent trolls seem to abound in the United States, the European patent troll appears scarcer than hen’s teeth. [read post]