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Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames	The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.
Information Today September 4, 2007	USPTO Publishes New Patent Application Rules The United States Patent and Trademark Office has published new rules in the Federal Register that it says will allow the agency to make the patent examination process more effective and efficient by encouraging applicants to use greater precision in describing the scope of their inventions.
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Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike	U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.
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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.
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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.
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IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Jill Jusko	IBM Remains Atop the Patent List For the 16th consecutive year, high-tech giant IBM Corp. has nabbed the top spot for the number of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but U.S. slips in global patent dominance.
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).
Salon.com March 21, 2001 Damien Cave	Patents are your friends Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers? Publishing work on IP.com ensures the patent office will see it and not issue patent for the idea to someone else.
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Information Today January 31, 2008	Patent and Trademark File Histories Now Available Through Dialog Research professionals can now order file histories directly through patent and trademark databases on Dialog.
Chemistry World February 2010	Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity.
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