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Are Business Methods Patentable? - E-Commerce Times
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The federal courts have embraced various interpretations of patent law as it applies to business methods over the years. With In re Bilski, heard May 8, the court again took up the issue, and its ruling will have a major impact on patent law, writes ... (original story)
Dell's cloud claim struck down
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Dell has seen its petition to trademark the term 'cloud computing' struck down by the US Patent and Trademark Office . (original story)
Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 59
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The Patent Hawk Strikes: Gary Odom enjoyed inventing and patenting so much that he became a patent searcher. He also writes the Patent Hawk blog from his Oregon roost. He has now sued Microsoft in the Eastern District of Texas... (original story)
Marking of Prescription Drug Does Not Create DJ Jurisdiction for Generic Competitor
Posted from Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 20 hours ago
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Prasco LLC v Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. and Imaginative Research (Fed. Cir. 2008) Imaginative Research owns of several patents covering a prescription strength benzoyl peroxide wash. Medicis is the exclusive licensee and sells the product under the brand name TRIAZ. The... (original story)
CAFC Finally Affirms a Finding of Infringement by Equivalents
Posted from Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 1 day 14 hours ago
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Dr. Voda v. Cordis Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2008) Dr. Voda’s case is an exciting tale of an individual inventor litigating against a major corporation in the red sandy soil of western Oklahoma. A jury found that Cordis catheters infringed Voda’s... (original story)
Charting a Course for the Future
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I want to write about that are in the realm of topics that could cause a non-profit organization cause for concern. For example, I would really like to tackle the Presidential election head on, discussing which candidate and administration would be better to direct the future of the technology, inno... (original story)
Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 57
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New PTO Fees: Up 5% to account for inflation. [LINK] Patently-O Job site has a new media partner: the Inhouse Blog. The Inhouse blog has its own job board with inhouse jobs. Duffy Provision: Duffy expressed his "skeptic[ism] about the... (original story)
Reissue Claim is Improperly Broadened if “Broader in Any Respect.”
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Brady Construction Innovations v. Perfect Wall (Fed. Cir. 2008) (Non Precedential). This case is simple. Brady filed for a reissue more than two years after the patent issued. The reissue broadened the claims. Those claims are therefore invalid. Brady's original... (original story)
Patent reform hurts small inventors
Posted from Patent / Trademark Law News 2 days ago
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In How Patent Law Changes Could Hurt Small Inventors, Tamara Monosoff correctly reports that proposed patent "reform" hurts small inventors, but gets several facts wrong. (original story)
Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences - InternetNews.com
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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers expressed concern Thursday about the laws of unintended consequences as they opened the first of a series of hearings on proposed patent reform. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Subcommittee on ... (original story)
Patent pendulum - Baton Rouge Business Report
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During the past 25 years, the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit has issued rulings that offer more and more protection to patent holders. Now a series of Supreme Court rulings are leaving attorneys wondering how far in the opposite direction ... (original story)
PTO Revises Rules of Ethics and Professionalism
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The USPTO has published its final rules implementing changes to its rules of discipline and professionalism that governing patent attorneys, patent agents and trademark attorneys. Limits on Patent Agents: The most notable portion of the rules may be Section 11.5(b)(1),... (original story)
Archive for: August, 2008 - ZDNet Blogs
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Markets evolve naturally toward monopolies or shared monopolies. This is like the “ climax state ” in an ecosystem. (To the right, an analysis of the UK entertainment market from Ofcom, for the BBC .) Antitrust law acts like a forest fire in such ... (original story)
Albritton v. Patent Troll Tracker
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Thomas Claburn in InformationWeek recently published an article about the defamation cases by Eastern District of Texas attorney Eric Albritton against Rick Frenkel in his role as the Patent Troll Tracker, Cisco, and others. [Patently-O Discussion of the Case]. According... (original story)
Open source licenses are valid - ZDNet Blogs
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For years critics of open source have noted that the licenses had yet to be tested in court, and therefore might not be valid under copyright law. Now they have been tested. They are. At issue in Jacobsen vs. Katzer/Kamind was the Artistic License ... (original story)
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