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Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Paula Campbell Evans	Patently More Difficult The PTO has targeted gene patents with new application guidelines. Here's what they mean and how biotech companies can satisfy them.
Bio-IT World November 2005 Khaleeli & Fernandez	Patent Prosecution and Enforcement in Pharmacogenomics Patenting the composition of an isolated nucleic acid sequence, an isolated protein, and small molecules is possible, but there are challenges claiming that they resulted from pharmacogenomic research.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Andrew W. Torrance	After the Gene Rush About 20,000 gene-related patents have been granted in the U.S. so far, with twice as many on the way. The practical and political challenges are equally large.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2014 David Dalke	New Patent-Defense Path for Pharma Inter Partes Review can potentially offer a more economical and streamlined litigation strategy for pharma and biotech players.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar	Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Gunderman & Hammond	How the U.S. Patent Office's New Patent Rules Affect You What you need to know about the USPTO's new patent rules to protect your intellectual property.
Bio-IT World November 19, 2004 Lentini & Bent	Intellectual Property: Patents and Genomic Medicine Patents, so critical to encouraging investment in developing new technologies, threaten to become a legal and economic minefield that could prevent effective commercial exploitation of genomics.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Gunderman & Hammond	File Now, Pay Later The pitfalls of the provisional patent application.
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike	Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2008 Suzanne Sabroski	From Concept to Content: The Genesis of USGENE Last year a groundbreaking database known as USGENE was released on STN International, a service of FIZ Karlsruhe and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). USGENE allows searchers to perform freedom-to-operate, prior art, validity, and infringement patent sequence searches.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Henninger & Feldstein	Safeguarding the Value of Patent Assets As small biotech firms test the water in partnerships with Big Pharma, the best calling card is a well-framed strategy on intellectual property.
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.
Information Today July 6, 2010 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Confirms Patentability of Business Methods, Denies Bilski Patent The lengthy and complex decision, entitled Bilski v. Kappos, affirmed the legality of business method patents, while leaving unanswered some questions about the scope and breadth of such patents.
InternetNews June 9, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Fights For Browser Plug-Ins Redmond appeals the patent infringement ruling that barred the use of plug-ins and applets in IE.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Michele Solis	Right Before Your Eyes Coupling protein sequence to function, thousands of variants at a time.
Financial Advisor October 2006 Michael Brier	Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Hugh Loebner	Do-It-Yourself Patents Drafting a patent application is challenging, but for those with an engineering turn of mind, it's also a great deal of fun. Inventors, take note.
Chemistry World March 23, 2012 Rebecca Trager	Court throws out patent covering drug dosing The US Supreme Court has said that medical tests that rely on correlations between drug doses and treatment cannot be patented because they are based on laws of nature.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey	No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Kirk Teska	Commentary: Business-Method Patents--Down But Not Out? The Bilski case leaves us with more questions than answers
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Andrew Turley	DNA must do its job for patent protection A European court has ruled that patents for DNA do not give protection when the sequences are no longer performing the task they were inserted to do.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Wins One in IE Battle The U.S. Patent Trademark Office's preliminary ruling favors Internet Explorer in the Microsoft/Eolas infringement case.
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Patently Unfair? Overworked patent examiners and outdated rules are just two of the reasons critics of some tech patents say the process needs fixing.
Chemistry World December 21, 2006 Henry Nicholls	Silent SNPs Serve up a Structural Surprise The sequence of amino acids no longer dictates the structure and function of a protein according to a surprising new paper.
InternetNews December 9, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Appeal Browser Plug-in Ruling Redmond still fighting a patent infringement ruling about its ActiveX technology.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Kirk Teska	Provisional Patents Are Quick, Cheap, and Worthless Patience is a patent virtue
Information Today February 21, 2008	USGENE on STN Offers Improved Timeliness SequenceBase and FIZ Karlsruhe have announced significant improvement to the timeliness of the USGENE database to within only 3 days of publication by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike	You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Another Eolas Re-Exam Request One of Microsoft's lead intellectual property law firms has asked the United States Patent & Trademark Office to open a new reexamination of the Eolas patent.
Chemistry World April 29, 2013 Caryl Richards	Protein origami sets scene for designer structures A world first in the art of protein origami has been attained with a novel method of folding a polypeptide chain into a three-dimensional tetrahedron.
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond	Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.
InternetNews October 31, 2005	High Court Rejects Microsoft Browser Appeal The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft in the long-running patent dispute over browser plug-ins brought by Eolas Technologies.
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Eolas Patent Survives Re-Exam The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office seems inclined to let an early patent covering browser applets stand, despite opposition from Microsoft and a band of Internet gurus.
PC World April 2006 Andrew Brandt	Patent Overload Hampers Tech Innovation Application backlog and continuing patent disputes add up to a mounting crisis.
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Michael Singer	Microsoft's FAT Patent Rejected The U.S. Patent Trademark Office has rejected all claims to patents for a Windows file format held by Microsoft.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Stephen Albainy-Jenei	Pfizer's Celebrex Aches and Pains The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds a lower court's ruling that found Teva Pharmaceutical had infringed two of Pfizer's patents for Celebrex.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Back to Court for Eolas and Microsoft A federal appeals court sends the patent infringement case back down for another trial.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kirk Teska	How High Is the Patent Bar Now? Has the Supreme Court's ruling eviscerated the patents for hosts of products -- even Apple's iPod?
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Steven J. Frank	The Death of Business-Method Patents From now on, you can get a U.S. patent only on a mousetrap -- not on the idea of catching mice
National Defense January 2016 Gaudry & Golladay	What Happens When the Feds Decide an Invention Is 'Secret?' The Invention Secrecy Act provides authority for keeping inventions secret if the publication or disclosure of the invention would be detrimental to national security.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Ben Klemens	Software Patents Don't Compute How the U.S. patent system attempts to draw a dividing line between patentable machines and unpatentable mathematics- and why the system is failing.
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Roy Mark	High Court Debates Patent Challenges A highly engaged United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case that could have wide implications for the future of the country's patent system.
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner	Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.
Bank Systems & Technology June 29, 2010 Matt Gunn	Supreme Court Rejects Business Method Patent Ruling in Bilski v. Kappos doesn't shut door on business method patents, but doesn't clarify them either.
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft's Patent Tab: $388M Ought to Do It Jury finds that Microsoft infringed a California company's activation software patent to the tune of nearly $400 million.
CFO May 1, 2008 Marie Leone	Patents under Pressure The battle over business-method patents heads to court in what may be a landmark decision.
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