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InternetNews March 9, 2011 |
Senate Approves Sweeping Patent Overhaul Bill By an overwhelming margin, upper chamber clears landmark patent reform bill years in the making, aimed at curbing litigation and improving efficiency at the U.S. PTO. |
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. |
PC World April 2006 Andrew Brandt |
Patent Overload Hampers Tech Innovation Application backlog and continuing patent disputes add up to a mounting crisis. |
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Clint Boulton |
USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S. |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions. |
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences Is it fair to patent software? |
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest |
IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament. |
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 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. |
Information Today January 7, 2013 |
Reed Tech and PatentCore Launch Reed Tech Patent Advisor The new offering comprises a family of online data intelligence tools for patent professionals. |
Information Today December 10, 2013 |
EBSCO Discovery Service Integrates Full-Text Patents EBSCO Information Services added content from the United States Patent and Trademark Office to EBSCO Discovery Service. |
Entrepreneur May 2003 Joshua Kurlantzick |
Losing the Race Is the Patent Office's slowness putting U.S. innovation at risk? |
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. |
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Michael Hickins |
IBM Pushes New Patent Policies Patent reform may be on the way, but IBM has decided to change the system on its own and is leading by example. |
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 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. |
Information Today June 19, 2008 |
Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Report on Pilot Project Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to an open network of scientific and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process. |
Entrepreneur October 2005 Chris Penttila |
Patent Pending Have an idea for the next big thing? You'll need a patent, but pay attention to big changes in store for U.S. patent law. |
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. |
CIO February 15, 2003 Geoffrey James |
Patent Office Stops Shuffling Paper The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced in December the latest stage in its two-year, $40 million project to make accessible via the Web all the documents that accompany the patent applications process by Oct. 1, 2004. |
InternetNews June 19, 2009 Christopher Saunders |
Obama Picks IBM Patent Guru to Head USPTO In a move that could place a tech industry insider at the helm of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, President Obama plans to nominate David Kappos, vice president of intellectual property law at IBM, as its next director. |
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. |
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Mr. Smith Went to Washington For Patent Reform Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith calls for patent reform at the American Enterprise Institute. |
InternetNews March 28, 2011 |
What is the Value of Red Hat's Patents? Linux leader Red Hat has now been recognized for the strength of its patents, what is it doing with all that intellectual property? |
CFO November 1, 2007 Avital Louria Hahn |
Innovators' Dilemma New patent laws may complicate life for inventive companies. |
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. |
InternetNews March 5, 2007 Roy Mark |
The 'Wikifying' of Software Patents Utilizing social networking tools, a Patent and Trademark Office pilot program aims to speed applications and better inform patent examiners. |
InternetNews September 3, 2009 |
Microsoft: Can't Our Patent Systems Get Along? Senior Microsoft legal eagle advocates "harmonization" of patent systems worldwide in blog post. |
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Paul Allen |
Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Intellectual Property Help Findlaw.com has launched the Intellectual Property Center. The new site presents a substantial amount of free resources, including how to obtain, enforce, and protect patents and trademark rights. |
Information Today December 9, 2002 Nancy Lambert |
MicroPatent Announces New Products and Plans MicroPatent, the Connecticut-based information company that currently provides the largest range of full-text-searchable patent databases, recently announced some new products and services. |
InternetNews February 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
Quality Checking Patent Reform Longtime allies Berman and Boucher team on the Patents Depend on Quality Act of 2006. |
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. |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Toppling Trolls Patent trolls take a hit in a Supreme Court ruling. |
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. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Rebecca Trager |
GSK Blocks US Patent Law Changes Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has temporarily blocked the US Patent and Trademark Office from implementing new rules, which it fears could prevent innovators from obtaining adequate patent coverage on their inventions. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Wayne P. Sobon |
Opinion: The Federal Circuit Must Uphold Patent Protection for Business Methods The decision in the Bilski case will have major implications for business method patents |
InternetNews March 30, 2005 Tim Gray |
EBay Wins Patent Ruling If the action is upheld it would invalidate the MercExchange patent that led to a $25 million judgment against eBay over the "Buy It Now" feature. |
Information Today July 21, 2008 |
Peer-to-Patent Project Extended and Expanded New York Law School announced the extension of the Peer-to-Patent project designed to streamline the patent examination process by opening it to scientific and technical experts. |
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
PubPat Claims 'Prior Art' on JPEG Patent The Public Patent Foundation is asking the U.S. Patent office to take another look at the data compression format. |
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Larry Barrett |
RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law Supreme Court ruling puts patent trolls on notice. |
PC Magazine August 29, 2007 |
Cell Phones That Shouldn't Be Comb through the archives of the U.S. Patent Office and you will find some truly bizarre and hilarious inventions that never made it to the market. |
InternetNews June 4, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Double-click Patent Sows FUD Will you pay Redmond every time you click-click? |
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. |
AskMen.com Jim Bauer |
How To: Register A Trademark If you're in business (even if it's a small, part-time operation) or you have an idea for a product, then chances are that at least part of what makes your operation unique can be protected under trademark law. |
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. |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2005 W.D. Crotty |
Dueling Fools: CNS Bear Rebuttal Do what insiders are doing. Over the last six months, in 19 separate transactions, the consumer products company sold 237,439 shares. There were no purchases. |
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Clint Boulton |
IBM Leads 2006 Patent Hike IBM banks 3,651 patents as the industry sees a better than 20 percent upswing in patent grants over 2005. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2003 John Teresko |
Intellectual Property, It's Worth Keeping An Eye On Making sure intellectual property is protected can reap benefits and prevent hassles. |
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. |