Guide to Downloading Patent Copies on the Internet has been updated.
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Maybe they should have tried a low carb diet….
PUBPAT reporting that Microsoft’s FAT Patent has been held invalid in a reexamination. I previously blogged on this HERE.
Blawger Bowl (as if any of you care…)
Standings after week 3:
Patently Obvious Blog 3-0 Invent Blog 3-0Libertarians (Stephan Kinsella’s blog) 2-1TechLawAdvisor 2-1The Importance Of… 2-1ErnieAttorney 1-2CRC’s Inducers 1-2actualmalice 1-2UnbillableHours 1-2Bizz Bang Buzz 1-2Loosely Coupled 1-2PromoteTheProgress 0-3
I’ll have to look up the links to the other guys blogs later (email them to me if you know them).
USPTO Roadshow comes to Boise
Via a postcard I received in the mail today:
“Inventors!! The US Patent and Trademark Office will have representatives in Boise from Washington DC on October 5th to answer your questions and help you with the patenting process. These two sessions will answer all your questions!! The morning session will be an overview of patents, trademarks, [...]
Dark Arts CLE
Since Skelly asked..the CLE (on the dark art of attorneys and online marketing) with Kevin O’Keefe was a hit. I suppose that to some, the topic is a “dark art,” the taboo topic that attorneys just don’t talk about. Oh well. If we were magicians, we would have been banned by our [...]
Guide to Downloading Patent Copies (PDF, TIFF)
Update [2009.09.16]. After all these years this post still gets a lot of traffic. Many of these services have come and gone so I thought I’d at least let my readers know what I am currently using (the rest of the Guide follows):
Google Patents — Allows you to download PDF copies for free. Just look [...]
The New York Times on our broken patent system
The New York Times on “Does the Patent System Need an Overhaul?“
Article discusses a forthcoming book by Harvard investment banking professor Josh Lerner and Brandeis University economics professor Adam B. Jaffe entitled “Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It.” The article seems to indicate [...]
Blogs I read
I’ve updated by blogrolls in the margin (“IP Blogs I Read”/”Non-IP Blogs I Read”). FYI.
Domain woes…
A little rant about my domain woes.
I’d had a couple complaints about http://inventblog.com not working. Turns out (according to the 3 people at GoDaddy I talked to) that the only way you can do that is to forward the domains to TypePad. So, I decided to try it out. Immediately, the site [...]
Project co-ops?
Via Don the Idea Guy, a link to an interesting web site called IdeaCradle.com:
Idea cradle provides tools to fund and manage a project co-operatively. Browse the ideas and when you find an idea you like, just click to support it. Support is free, and shows your intention to contribute when there are enough supporters. Ideas [...]
