My firm recently bought a building and moved locations across town. The new site is actually bigger than we need, so we have additional space to rent out. One of our new tenants is fellow IP blawger CeCe Gassner. With this blawg, Bob Shaver’s blawg (Patent Pending) and CeCe’s (Law Under the Microscope Blog)…we have [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Kids asking “why”
Matt Buchanan has a great post up at rethink(ip) today on his son asking him “why” and why it is important to not answer with “because I said so.” One of the best posts I have read this month!
Wolfgang Puck’s self heating coffee cans
Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck has a new product, a canned coffee that, upon pushing a button, heats itself. I haven’t tried one yet, but I have heard that it’s a pretty good cup o’ joe.
Make Magazine’s blog has a detailed "alien autopsy" where they take apart one of the cans to figure out how it [...]
Take the patent bar exam recently? Wikipedia needs you.
You’ve heard of Wikipedia, right? It is the world’s largest encyclopedia…and YOU can help edit it.
There oodles of patent entries…including, but not limited to:
Claim — Design patent — Doctrine of equivalents — Essential patent — First to file — First to invent — Industrial applicability — Industrial design rights — Intellectual property — Interference [...]
Fee diversion case dismissed
Update for the USPTO fee diversion lawsuit I previously reported on, Hoglund & Pamias notes:
On June 28, 2005, the Court of Federal Claims issued an Order dismissing all claims. Plaintiff will proceed with an appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The Conclusion of the Order reading:
Congress is entitled to great deference under the [...]
Staples is looking for office product inventions
Have a client with an invention related to office products? Have them check out Staples Invention Quest™.
Staples Invention Quest™ is a contest that invites inventors to submit ideas for easy office products. Winners receive a cash prize and get the chance to have their ideas produced and sold in Staples® stores. What a great idea! [...]
New Kid on the Blawgk — Just a Patent Examiner
I don’t mention New Kids on the Blawgk much anymore…. I did (via Kevin Heller) find a new one which is interesting enough to merit mentioning: Just a Patent Examiner, a blog by…a patent examiner posting on “the patent examination process and what it involves, how its done, and other various details.” His complaints about the patent [...]
