Via the WIPO SME newsletter, link to a 149 page long “Intellectual Property Primer: Patent, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets: An Introduction to Intellectual Property for In-House Counsels” [PDF].
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Boise Blogger Dinner, May 15 (UPDATE)
Shel Israel and I are setting up a blogger dinner here in Boise on May 15, 2006. If you are a blogger, want to be a blogger, or just want to chat it up with bloggers over dinner…we’d love to see you. If you are coming, PLEASE email me and/or make sure your name/contact information is [...]
USPTO on FTC v. Davison
Court Halts Bogus Invention Promotion Claims, Orders $26 Million in Redress For Consumers; USPTO’s Director Jon Dudas Praises Court Decision
and
More on the $26 Million consumer redress decision against the Davison & Associates invention promotion operation
[Articles scraped from the USPTO “News and Notice” page]
[Update: See also, FTC v. Davison decided (http://inventblog.com/2006/03/ftc_vs_davison_.html) and http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_522191.html (Davison appealed, but [...]
Art of the Start…read Chapter 1 on-line (for free)
I had the pleasure of being introduced to Guy Kawasaki (blog) a few months ago, resulting in me reading his best selling book: “Art of the Start.†The book covers starting, positioning, pitching, writing business plans, bootstrapping, recruiting, raising capital, partnering, branding, rainmaking and (whew) “the art of being a mensch.†Upon reading the book [...]
Number of in-house patent attorneys…list
A reader asked me whether I knew how many patent attorneys each of the top ten patent recipients (2005) employed (in-house). Of course, I have no clue.
Maybe some of my readers can opine. Comments are open.
Here’s the list:
International Business Machines Corporation
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Micron Technology, [...]
Patent prosecution conflicts
Legal Ethics Forum on “Patent Prosecution Conflicts.” Author David Hricik is looking for YOUR answers to questions like:
Lawyer in prosecuting application for Client A receives an office action rejecting a claim over a prior art reference. Lawyer looks, and that reference is owned by another Client, Client B….What sayeth you?
Well…
Another patent tool: FireFox Search Bar & patent searching
Larry Kasoff left a comment to my previous post on Greasemonkey patent scripts with a link to this set of three tools: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=USPTO&submitform=Search
What does it do? It modifies the “Search Bar” in FireFox to add USPTO searches for Number, Inventor and/or Assignee. See the below snapshot:
Thanks Larry!
Who owns whom?
Interesting tool (on an anti-corporation website) for researching what corporation’s parent/children corporations are: http://www.badcorp.org/hierarchy.cfm?action=popular&searchType=Companies
In example:
Patent related greasemonkey scripts
Surfing the ‘net earlier I stumbled on a Greasemonkey script called PatentHelper. PatentHelper:
adds link from USPTO patent documents to the corresponding document on EPO, and vice versa.
Adds links to the PDF’s (from EPO’s site)
It adds EPO-links to all references on USPTO’s pages and fetches the titles of the USPTO references.
Hyperlinks US patent numbers found [...]
Got IP Lawsuit Mojo?
We have an interesting service at Rethink(IP) you may not know about. It is called the “RSS Mojo” blog. What is it?
RSS Mojo currently has two components: (1) US Patent and Trademark Office News and (2) IP Lawsuit Filing Updates.
1. US Patent and Trademark Office News
Unlike the Copyright Office, the Patent and Trademark Office doesn’t [...]
