I don’t use instant messaging as much anymore since I’ve started using Skype (you can do both text and voice in Skype), but did find a neat IM tool the other day. It is called Meebo.
It is essentially a website where you can log into your instant messaging program of choice without needing to [...]
The Guide to Downloading PDF Patent Copies on the Internet has been updated with this: WizPatent Manager. Search USPTO, ESPACE, WIPO, Japan databases for patents and download the Text, PDF for FREE. Patent document management. Allows you to add annotations to your patent collections. Claims Analysis. $675/yr.The original Guide was [...]
Charlie Cleveland, an independent computer game developer (and creator of a great game which I am a big fan of (Half-Life Mod “Natural Selection“)), has a great post (he blogs too) up discussing the differences between venture capitalists and angels, particular as they relate to software programs. Definitely worth a read.
You can now search Idaho state trademarks on-line: http://www.accessidaho.org/public/sos/trademark/search.html
A couple of years ago I was talking with a local colleague (different firm) about independent inventors. I had commented to him that I had just had a very frustrating conversation with an inventor about their idea. In my opinion, the inventor’s idea was likely obvious AND the inventor didn’t have the ability [...]
Earlier today, I stumbled onto an interesting database of non-patent prior art: GlobalSpec.com (The Engineering Search Engine).
I’ve mentioned other non-patent prior art databases before: one, two, three, four.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on complaints filed against invention promoters/promotion companies at the USPTO. I believe THIS was my last post.
The USPTO maintains a list of the complaints that inventors have filed with them against invention promotion companies. Scanning through the list, I see the following as having published complaints thusfar [...]
My Guide to Downloading PDF Patents has been updated with the following information:IV. Patent Searching Resources. a. Patent Search Software. Via Indian patent firm Parker & Parker. Stand alone program. Free. Allows you to search patents from the USPTO Issued and Published Patents, and EUROPEAN Patents Database…by entering one [...]
In my podcast interview, I talked about one of the best blog posts I had ever read, but that I had lost track of who wrote it. Guess what? I finally found it again!The post is by fellow blogger Mark V.B. Partridge, and is entitled “Advice to Young Attorneys.” Read it. (He recently wrote a follow [...]
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