Follow up to earlier post. Erik J. Heels on: USPTO Patent URLs Still Broken–But at least the USPTO is now acknowledging its mistake.
Monthly Archives: March 2007
A Patent Attorney Joke from a Reader
Three lawyer’s are riding to court together one day and, unfortunately, are killed in a horrible traffic accident.
When they reach the pearly gates, St. Peter welcomes them in turn, and says to the first “welcome to heaven. Can you tell me what you did while you were on earth?”, to which he [...]
Another Attorney I Know Starts a Blog…Real Estate Finance Law
Jason Romrell and the Real Estate Finance Law blog. Covering everything you need to know about real estate finance law, problems (such as growing defaults, increased foreclosures, fraud, etc.) and creative solutions.
Create Static URLs of Patent Pages for Your Clients? They Are Probably Broken Now
Erik J. Heels: Uncool: USPTO Breaks Millions Of Patent URLs Without Public Notice
PTI in the News Again…
Charleston Daily Mail on PTI (Patent and Trademark Institute of America) being under investigation:
…PTI and its other promotion businesses have received $61 million from 17,007 customers over six years, yet “PTI has not obtained a license for even one of its clients,” according to court papers filed by the receiver, which has taken control of [...]
Microsoft Office 2007
As most of you have probably seen, Microsoft recently released Office 2007. I was one of the beta testers…and found the new version to have its ups and downs. For “ups” I really like the changes to Outlook, for instance better integrating to-do lists into the email pane. For “downs” I found [...]
Patent and Trademark Institute of America in Contempt?
ConsumerAffairs.com: “FTC Charges Invention Promotion Swindlers with Contempt–Feds Say Scam Took More Than $60 Million from 17,000 Consumers”
A court order issued in 1998 prohibited Julian Gumpel, Darrell Mormando, and Greg Wilson from deceptively marketing invention promotion services, but Gumpel later revived the same scam under the name, “Patent and Trademark Institute of America” (PTI), [...]
Cue Willard Scott…someone’s 100!
Blawg Review celebrates its 100th issue (Blawg Review #100) recapping the past 100. My favorite, Blawg Review #58…I just really digged the layout that Kevin Heller came up with.
I’m looking forward to next Feburary 11 (Edison’s Birthday) when The Invent Blog will be hosting Blawg Review #148.
In Chicago? Want to meet up with some law bloggers?
Matt Homann has invited me (we’re speaking together at ABA’s TechShow next week) and my Chicago readers to join him “and a bunch of legal bloggers for the First Annual Techshow Blogger Bar Crawl.”
Starts: Mar 22, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Ends: Mar 23, 2007 at 1:00 am
Location: Sheraton Hotel and Towers (START), 301 [...]
First Accelerated Examination Allowance
I previously posted on:
First Round of Accelerated Examination Applications…100% denied?
Pro-Accelerated Examination Insight from a Reader
More thoughts on Accelerated Examination
Accelerated Examination Webinar…my notes
Accelerated Examination of Patents. Good idea? Bad?
Now the USPTO [...]
