10/8/2009 6:16:25 PM EST Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos has signed a new Final Rule rescinding highly controversial regulations, ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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7/22/2009 11:19:27 AM EST The USPTO announced the implementation of the e-Office Action program following a successful pilot project. Under the program, patent applicants receive an e-mail notification of office communications instead of paper mailings. An e-mail is sent to p ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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7/22/2009 11:11:41 AM EST Senior officials of the United State Patent and Trademark Office will be available on-line on this Thursday July 23, from 2 to 3 PM (EST). They will be answering questions and offering tips for independent inventors. Instructions for taking part in the ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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7/22/2009 11:15:49 AM EST The USPTO has received questions from patent practitioners whether the $118 annual maintenance fee for 2009 must be paid by September 30, 2009. The Final Rules adopted in November 2008 do not specify the date by which the annual fee, if collected ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/5/2009 2:23:56 PM EST The United States Patent and Trademark Office has introduced a system that allows registered practitioners to update their official address of record with the Office of Enrollment and Discipline by way of an on-line customer interface. This featur ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/5/2009 2:19:17 PM EST Plaintiff-appellee Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas and plaintiffs-appellees SmithKline Beecham Corp., SmithKline Beecham PLC, and Glaxo Group Ltd. filed petitions for a panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the March 20 decision ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/7/2009 12:20:08 PM EST The U.S. Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) agreed to partner in establishing a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program. PPH agreements are cooperative initiati ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/7/2009 10:45:00 AM EST The 21 st annual Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) conference finished its third, and final, day of technical s ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/6/2009 11:27:11 AM EST The annual PIUG conference in
San Antonio is rolling along! ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/5/2009 11:00:31 AM EST The 21 st annual Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) conference takes place Saturday, May 2 through Thursday, May ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/18/2008 1:27:26 PM EST Posted by Valri NesbitLegal Editor
Intellectual Property
Matthew Bender The USPTO announced a new pilot program. When no §8 affidavit or §9 renewal is filed before the end of the six-month grace period, (see 15 U.S.C. §§1058 and 1059), the USPTO’s practice has been to wait an ad ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/13/2008 3:34:56 PM EST An assignment can jeopardize a patent in the event the assignee fails to pay the maintenance fees required by the Patent Act. In Burandt v. Dudas , 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 12328, Burandt as ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/11/2008 10:53:15 AM EST Posted by Cecil LynnLexisNexis Law Center Staff and Attorney, Ryley, Carlock, & Applewhite
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed the longstanding doctrine of exhaustion as it applies to method patents. LG Electronics (“LG”) argued before th ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/11/2008 7:32:01 AM EST Cat Tech LLC v. Tubemaster, INC. involved a method for using loading devices to place catalyst particles into multi-tube chemical reactors and whether ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/10/2008 6:32:23 PM EST In Dominant Semiconductors Sdn. Bhd. v. OSRAM GMBH, et al. , OSRAM's outside patent counsel wrote an opinion letter, stating his opinion that several of Dominant's LED products were infri ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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