I thought I’d mention some off-topic computer tidbits….
I have been trying out Windows XP Service Pack 2 (beta) on my computer at home (you DO NOT want to install something like that on your main computer…just in case it wipes out your computer…nothing worse than spending billable time (or paying someone) to fix your tinkering). [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2004
Off-Topic Computer Ramblings
How people find this blog
I haven’t mentioned “how people find this blog” lately (personally, I find it interesting). Here is the top 20 search terms (for people that found NP blog via a search engine) for the last month or so:
[#1] quando omni flunkus moritati (Google)
mpep (Google)
ip jobs (Google)
chiron v. genentech (Google)
windows v linux (Google)
patent blog (Google)
cargo magazine (Google)
patent [...]
Competitive Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Fujitsu Limited, et al. (Fed. Cir.)
Competitive Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Fujitsu Limited, et al.
Federal Circuit, June 30, 2004
Before MAYER, Chief Judge, GAJARSA, and DYK, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by DYK.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (“the Universityâ€) brought suit against Fujitsu Limited; Fujitsu General Limited; Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited; Fujitsu General America, Inc.; and Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. [...]
TI Group Automotive Systems (North America), Inc. v. VDO North America, L.L.C., et al. (Fed. Cir.)
TI Group Automotive Systems (North America), Inc. v. VDO North America, L.L.C., et al.
June 30, 2004, Federal Circuit
Before NEWMAN, BRYSON, and LINN, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by LINN.
TI Group Automotive Systems, L.L.C. (“TI Groupâ€), appeals from a post-trial decision of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, granting a motion for judgment as a [...]
New FCBJ
Latest Federal Circuit Bar Journal
2004 – Vol. 13, No. 4
“The Prior Art By Admission Doctrine: Judicially Created Prior Art”
“Effect of the Publication of Applications Under the American Inventor Protection Act of 1999″
Defending Against Patent Infringement Suits In Standard-Setting Organizations: Rambus Inc. v. Infineon Technologies AG”
“Where The Rabbit Hole Ends: A Working Model [...]
Rewarding Japanese inventors, American inventors
Update to these three prior posts on IP Law and Business magazine’s June edition. A new article on-line: Smart Pills: Shifting the Balance — The Nakamura case dramatically illustrates how Japanese patent law can sometimes favor inventors over their employers. U.S. inventors aren’t as lucky. By Paul Morico and Thomas Morrow
AOL Instant Messenger and what your buddy is watching on TV?
American Online has a new patent, which for the life of me I can’t see any use for (but maybe it is just me). The patent, USPN 6,754,904, is entitled “Informing network users of television programming viewed by other network users ” and appears to be directed towards allowing an instant messaging user to see [...]
This week’s Official Gazette
This week’s OG.
1. PCT Information
2. Notice of Maintenance Fees
3. Expiration of Patents
4. Delayed Payment of Maintenance Fee
5. Reissue Application Notice
6. Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination
7. Expiration of Registrations
8. Service by Publication
9. Registration to Practice
10. Reinstatement to Register
11. Registration to Practice Erratum
12. Elimination of P.O. Box for Patent Correspondence
13. Postage for Oversized Postcards
14. Status of Office [...]
Trademark.com
Via the Trademark Blog, Thompson and Thompson has bought Trademark.com’s parent company. Trademark.com provides excellent trademark searching databases (if you haven’t used them before). See also: Thomson Corp. paying $441 million US for Information Holdings Inc.
[Shameless self promotion: my office registered www.trademark.biz and a handful of other .biz IP domain names [...]
Nystrom v. Trex Company, Inc. et al. (Fed. Cir.)
Nystrom v. Trex Company, Inc. et al.
Federal Circuit, June 28, 2004
Before MAYER, Chief Judge, GAJARSA, and LINN, Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge LINN.
Ron Nystrom (“Nystromâ€) appeals from the grant of summary judgment of non-infringement of claims 1-15 and of invalidity of claims 18-20 of his U.S. Patent No. 5,474,831 [...]
