Monthly Archives: July 2004

IP caselaw research…

If you are a junkie for breaking IP caselaw and news, one great resource you should check out is JurisNotes.com. They have two newsletters, Intellectual Property Notes and Intellectual Property Admin Notes.
Intellectual Property Notes is “an electronic legal research newsletter devoted to intellectual property law: copyright law, Internet law, patent law, trade [...]

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An Automobile With Feelings

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TiVo

If you’ve been thinking about whether or not owning a TiVo is for you…now is a pretty good time to try it out. TiVo has a warehouse of 3,000 “factory renewed” TiVo’s which they are clearing out (I guess they have redesigned the case…and want to get rid of the older looking ones). [...]

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Federal Register Notice re deposit accounts

Elimination of Credit Cards as Payment for Replenishing Deposit Accounts [pdf]
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is amending its rules of practice to eliminate acceptance of credit cards as payment for replenishing deposit accounts. Deposit account customers may still submit payments to replenish their deposit accounts by electronic funds transfer (EFT) [...]

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Phillips v. AWH Corporation, et al. (Fed.Cir.)

Phillips v. AWH Corporation, et al.
Federal Circuit, July 21, 2004
A combined petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc having been filed
by the Plaintiff-Appellant, and a response thereto having been invited by the court and filed by the Defendants-Cross Appellants, and the petition for rehearing having been referred to the panel that heard the [...]

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Bloglet

For those of you reading this by Bloglet…looks like Bloglet didn’t send out my posts for a week. You might want to visit the main site (http://nip.blogs.com/patent) to make sure you didn’t miss anything. It annoys me too…
Anyone know another Bloglet like email subscription option?

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INDUCE: Patent

Chris Rush Cohen and I exchanged e-mails earlier today about the new Induce Act. He mentioned that Kevin Heller (Tech Law Advisor), Andrew Raff (IPTA), and Cohen have joined together to jointly blog a Induce Act blog.
Honestly, I can’t say that I had been paying much attention to the Induce Act…until Chris prompted me. [...]

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TiVo’s , NFL and MPAA

TiVo: you can only innovate if the NFL and MPAA say so | PVRblog
Great post talking about the NFL and MPAA’s first salvo in the battle to keep TiVo from releasing its “TiVo ToGo” product. TiVo ToGo (as I understand it) is a USB dongle that you plug into your laptop or desktop computer [...]

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Evolution & Altoids Speakers

The more I talk with my readers…the more I hear people express a desire that I blog more (along with my usual posts) about things I find interesting. It seems that people actually like to hear my off topic rants (which amazes my wife) … so, I’ll try to share a little more of [...]

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Another site for patent searching

FreePatentsOnline.com
What is this web site? FreePatentsOnline.com provides free access to data on millions of patents. Attorneys use this data for prosecuting or defending patent infringement lawsuits. Inventors use this data to determine if they can patent inventions. And everyone can use it just to browse all the interesting (and sometimes crazy!) ideas that are out [...]

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