One of the great “secrets” of blogging is the ability to dump things on your blog for later reference. In some ways it becomes a notepad for bloggers. For instance, I get sick and tired of looking up the small entity definition…so I create a blog post (which will be easier to find than [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2004
New Kid on the Blawgk – Anything Under the Sun Made By Man (Russ Krajec)
Anything Under the Sun Made By Man — Patents and Business Strategies. Written by Russ Krajec, a registered patent agent, engineer, and inventor with over 20 United States patents.
JibJab case settles
Chris Rush Cohen blog has the full scoop on the JibJab “This Land” parody video case settling. Here is a tidbit:
The JibJab case is officially over via settlement, with full-on victory for the Jib Jab crew. As it turns out Ludlow, the company that threatened to sue JibJab over the use of the Woody Guthrie [...]
R.I.P. best FREE source of PDF patent copies
All good things must come to an end…
I dropped by PAT2PDF.com this morning to snag a quick patent copy (I was lazy…not wanting to load GETIPDL) and found that PAT2PDF no longer provides FREE copies of patents. Bummer. They still provide patents…you just need an account now. Their fee schedule is attached for your convenience.
Picking expert witnesses
“Smart Pills: Choose Wisely — In patent litigation a good expert witness teaches judges and juries complex technologies, plans litigation strategy, and can even drive a case to settlement.” [August 2004 IP Law & Business]
In Re Bigio (Fed. Cir.)
In Re Bigio
Federal Circuit, August 24, 2004, Before Newman, Rader, and Schall.
Rader (opinion):
During prosecution of Alberto Lee Bigio’s (Bigio’s) patent application Serial No. 09/451,747 (the ‘747 application), the patent examiner rejected claims 1, 2, and 4-7 as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). The United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and [...]
Civility with opponents and the TTAB
Patent attorney Stephan Kinsella has a post up on his web log (which I heard received coverage in New York Lawyer today) including links to (1) a hostile voice mail recording ”that an associate at Winston & Strawn left for an associate at Latham,” and (2) a rather terse voice mail left by an attorney (who [...]
Dudas on Independent Inventors in NH
USPTO Notice re: Commerce Under Secretary Jon Dudas To Address Independent Inventors In New Hampshire
Inventors of the “Segway” and high-resolution radar and sonar also will speak at 9th Annual Independent Inventors Conference
Koito Manufacturing Co., LTD., et al. v. Turn-Key-Tech, LLC., et al. (Fed. Cir.)
Koito Manufacturing Co., LTD., et al. v. Turn-Key-Tech, LLC., et al.
Federal Circuit, August 23, 2004, before BRYSON, GAJARSA (opinion), and DYK, Circuit Judges.
Turn-Key-Tech, LLC and Jens Ole Sorenson (Turn-Key) appeal from the denial of their motions for a new trial and a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) by the United States District Court [...]
Gmail
I have a Gmail invite to give out…first come, first served:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-9bfe052c4a-dd09b71f25-2020b58ade
If you get it, leave a comment that it is gone for the next person to read this post. Thanks. SMN
UPDATE: As Glen Frey would say….Already Gone.
