Via this RSSMojo post: New Private Pair
Matt Buchanan and I (Stephen M. Nipper) listened to the USPTO presentation on Private Pair earlier. Here are our notes.
The four main new features touted:
1. web based digital certificate security—you don’t need USPTO Direct anymore. Log in using your browser (Internet Explorer…they pointed out that FireFox may or may [...]
An online copy of Bruce Judson’s book on starting your own business (Go it alone) is now online. If you can’t stand reading a book on your computer, the hard copy can be bought at Amazon. [via LifeHacker]
When: April 6-7, 2006
Where: The Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada
What: PATENT DRAFTING & PROSECUTION: NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND PRACTICAL TIPS.
Web: [...]
I noticed earlier that the UIAUSA has a thorough list of inventor resources: Inventor’s Connection Page.
Topics include: funding sources, government grants, scams, invention evaluations, inventor support groups, manufacturing, marketing & licensing, prototypes, virtual prototype & engineering design, trade shows, invention websites, product certification, and business plans.
Via an email I just received…
The United States Patent & Trademark Office invites you to participate in a special web announcement event on Thursday, February 23rd at 2 p.m. Eastern to discuss important new enhancements to Private PAIR.
To participate in this event, which will be conducted via web-cast, you must first register by clicking [...]
Article: SMALL ENTITIES AND THE “FIRST TO INVENT†PATENT SYSTEM: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS [pdf]
by The Honorable Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
Forward by Robert A. Armitage, Eli Lilly and Company, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Technorati Tags: patent reform
I started blogging here in January of 2004. I didn’t have a book guiding me. I didn’t have a mentor walking me through HOW to do it. It was truly on the job training (plus what I learned from other bloggers (Doug, Matt, etc.). Sadly, my blog is screwed up. It really is.
The good [...]
Via the National Association of Patent Practitioners’ newsletter: Patent Prosecution and Appeal Tips–From PTO Day: Changes to Statutes and Filing Procedures [pdf] by Nancy Baum Delain, Esq.
