Federal Register Notice: Revision of Power of Attorney and Assignment Practice [pdf]
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice to allow for more efficient processing of powers of attorney and assignment documents within the Office. For example, the Office will require applicants to use the Office’s Customer [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2004
Revision of Power of Attorney and Assignment Practice
Heinze’s “Intellectual Property Updates” blog
I see that Bill Heinze at Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer, & Risley has a new blog called: Intellectual Property Updates. I frequently see Bill’s name as a contributor to the APLF Patent Law Updates. A search shows I’ve mentioned him as a source of content in at least three of my previous blog [...]
Fossilman wins World Series of Poker Championship
Via Bloomberg.com: U.S.: “Greg Raymer, a patent attorney from Stonington, Connecticut, won the World Series of Poker championship late yesterday in Las Vegas, winning $5 million….”
Jacobs v. Nintendo of America, Inc. (Fed. Cir.)
Jacobs v. Nintendo of America, Inc.
Federal Circuit (Michel, Bryson, Linn), May 28, 2004
U.S. Patent No. 5,059,958 “Manually Held Tilt Sensitive Non-Joystick Control Box.†The invention relates to a video game controller that the operator holds in two hands…[t]he operator tilts the controller to achieve corresponding motion in the video game.
Patent owner and appellant Jordan [...]
Microsoft OneNote
About 2 months ago I started using Microsoft OneNote (on my desktop PC…I don’t use a Tablet PC) and have found it to be extremely useful in organizing my notes, inserting client doodles, etc. It has some really great potential within my practice. At some point I’ll give it a full write-up here, [...]
Ambrogi on absurd patents
Robert Ambrogi with his own patent TGIF post regarding this website: Totally Absurd Inventions and Patents: America’s Goofiest Patents.
TGIF: What is it???
It is non-toxic (which is good because I’ve seen my kids eat it).
They’ve sold over 700,000,000 pounds of it.
It is a pain to get out of your carpet.
Here is the patented formula (U.S. Patent No. 3,167,440):
What is it?
Answer
Want to make it yourself?
Serbian man invents (Ninja) walking stick
As you can see…it has been a slow patent news week….
Via Engadget Serbian man invents walking stick to fight off packs of wild dogs. The walking stick is reported to have “two retractable blades (or can fire two blanks), a built-in thermometer, a special compartment for holding your “medsâ€, a panic button which triggers an [...]
WIPO Member States discuss harmonization
WIPO Member states Discuss Ways to Further Harmonize Patent Law
Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) met in Geneva from May 10 to 14, 2004, to discuss future directions for international harmonization of substantive patent law and to review provisions of a draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT). The Standing Committee on the [...]
9th Annual Independent Inventor’s Conference
According to the (United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page:
9th Annual Independent Inventors Conference Set for August 20-21
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Inventors Hall of Fame will hold the annual Independent Inventors Conference at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire August 20-21. Top officials of [...]
