Monthly Archives: November 2004

Blawger Bowl I update

For those of you desperate (yeah, right) to know how our nerdy fantasy football league is going, TLA has the scoop. 
Top three teams:  The Invent Blog 10-0, TechLawAdvisor 8-2, Patently Obvious 7-3.

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Tracking (RSS feeds) published US Patent applications

This morning I stumbled onto a new site:  FreshPatents.com.  The goal of the site appears to be providing a database of published patent applications.  The site even sets up RSS feeds by USPTO Class (you can set an RSS feed by technology, for instance getting abstracts to all published patent applications relating to USPTO Class [...]

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The Guide has been updated again…

The Guide has been updated yet again:
ipMAGNET.  Patents from USPTO, ESP@CENET, DEPATIS and CIPO.  Cost $79.95+/yr.

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Great blog

One of the blogs that was somehow awol from my blogroll (I just fixed it) is Anything Under the Sun Made By Man by Russ Krajec.  I really like Russ’ writing style and content (he is easily in my top 10 favorite blogs to read).
His recent posts include:  Educating the Inventor, Draft Patents That Focus on Solving [...]

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IP Memes: What Would You Change About the Practice of IP Law? and Other Hot IP Issues

This week’s IP Memes from Technolawer.com
TIPO, USTED ESTA CONSIGUIENDO UN DELL (DUDE, YOU’RE GETTING A DELL)
Dell has won the honors of being sued by DE Technologies for infringing a broad patent which covers international e-commerce. The patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,460,020, covers essentially the process of: (a) selecting a language to view a product catalog [...]

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New Kid on the Blawgk

Via a post on Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites blog, a new IP blog by John L. Welch (Foley Hoag):  TTABlog covering “Occasional Observations re the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.”  (I guess I missed the fact that John had a blog in my previous post.)

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TTAB articles

John L. Welch at Foley Hoag has a number of interesting articles on TTAB practice available on his bio page, including "TTAB practice
and the Madrid Rule Changes" and "TTAB in 2003."

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The Guide has been updated…

The guide to downloading copies of patents has been updated:
GetThePatent. Files in "CPC" compressed format viewable in a free CPCLite viewer.  Cost: $0.50 per patent.   Patents from the USPTO, EPO,  WIPO (PCT), Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland.
PatSee (formerly known as Lattice).  Three versions -  Demo, Lite and Pro.  More [...]

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FireFox

I really dig the Internet browser called FireFox.  It blocks 100% of pop-up ads, and is fast.  I use it on my PC at work and my Mac at home.  Ditch Internet Explorer for a day and try it out.  Kevin Rose has download links to the new version 1.0 (non-beta) released on Tuesday.
UPDATE:  [...]

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Blawger Podcast

I just noticed that May it Please the Court has a podcast.  Subscribing right now via iPodder… 

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