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30 Sep 2013, 6:10 am by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch One problem with royalty agreements is the annual fight over whether the licensee is paying full royalties to the licensor. [read post]
1 May 2013, 12:16 pm by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is turning a corner in terms of its backlog of pending ex parte appeals with a significant drop in the backlog in March 2013. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 3:49 pm by Mark Summerfield
In what is becoming something of an annual derby, the two blogs widely-recognised as leaders in US IP law, Dennis Crouch’s Patently-O and Gene Quinn’s IPWatchdog, are once again slugging it out for the title of top-blawg in the 2011 ABA Journal Blawg 100. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 5:24 am by Dennis Crouch
by Dennis Crouch The chart above shows a histogram of the number of references cited on the face of utility patents issued in the calendar year 2012. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 1:12 pm by Dennis Crouch
by Dennis Crouch The chart below shows the number of applications abandoned and allowed each month for the past several years. [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 7:43 am by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch The chart above shows a histogram of the number of figures included in a set of 90,000 US design patents issued over the past several years. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 12:16 pm by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch The PTAB continues to work on its 26,000+ backlog of ex parte appeals pending at the USPTO. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 8:13 am
According to Dennis Crouch at Patently-O, the USPTO recently made public its draft form SB206 for listing commonly owned applications and patents under the new rule 78(f) that takes effect on November 1, 2007.. . . now, if only they would add a section to the IDS reference listing Form SB08A EFS-WEB for related subject matter applications that are not necessarily covered by rule 78(f), in order to allow applicants to (list in PAIR and) more-easily comply with Akron Polymer… [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 4:39 am by Dennis Crouch
by Dennis Crouch [This is an update of my 2009 post on the topic] Over half of the USPTO operational budget is derived from maintenance (or renewal) fees paid by patentees. [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 10:28 am by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch On February 14, 2013, the USPTO published its final rules to govern implementation of the first-to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 8:51 am by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch With the sequester, the USPTO has slowed its operation somewhat over the past two months. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 9:59 am by Dennis Crouch
by Dennis Crouch Former USPTO Director David Kappos announced today that he has joined the New York corporate law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as a partner. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 4:41 am by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch Since 2004, patent applicants have been filing fewer and fewer patent claims per application. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 2:59 pm by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch Google's ngram viewer shows that the phrase "ordinary skill in the art" took-off shortly before implementation of the 1952 patent act that includes the identical wording. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 2:49 am by Dennis Crouch
by Dennis Crouch New patent applications filed three months from now will fall under the US new First-to-File regime created by the America Invents Act of 2011. [read post]
30 May 2017, 5:03 am by Ron Coleman
UPDATE:  Dennis Crouch explains: One problem: Google is best at finding the top-twenty references related to your search. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 12:28 pm by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch Despite being held-back by the Federal spending sequester and a focus on implementing the first-to-invent and post-issuance review procedures of the America Invents Act, the US Patent Office has also awarded more patents than ever. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:46 am by Dennis Crouch
By Dennis Crouch LifeScan v. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:53 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
NoonanMcDonnell Boehnen Hulbert& Berghoff LLPChicago, Illinois***And for February 25, 2011, Dennis Crouch has noted:I am writing to invite you to the Missouri Law Review's upcoming symposium that will be held here in Columbia at the University of Missouri School of Law on Friday, February 25, 2011. [read post]