Brown & Michaels has an excellent page worth reading entitled “Invention Marketing Companies: Are they for real?” Includes questions/topics like:
How do they work?
What should you ask an Invention Marketer?
The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
What about “Company X”?
Companies against whom Legal Action has been taken
Complaints to USPTO
Various Articles on Invention Marketing Companies
Control, Protect & Leverage blog with two new posts on invention promotion companies:
Is InventSAI breaking the law? (the AIPA)
Davison Rocks!!! (arguing that “you have about a .0002% chance at making money with Davison [Inventegration] if you purchase their research services”)
Anyone notice that the newer 1449 “Information Disclosure Statement” form on the USPTO’s EFS Forms site has this little gem:
Hmm…they want us to state on the record why a reference is relevant (or not-relevant). Considering a little thing called “prosecution history estoppel”…I’m betting that most practitioners have been ignoring those boxes on the new [...]
Complex Work Units Pilot at the USPTO
The United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking participants for a
Complex Work Units (CWUs) Pilot Program scheduled for late 2007. CWUs
are chemical structure drawings, mathematical formulae, protein crystal
data, and table data, which often add significant complexity and cost
to the examination and publication of patent applications in which they
are [...]
Like with my previous post on “Who is Inventor-Link.com?” (which has TWENTY FOUR comments now), I’m starting to receive e-mails asking if I know anything about “Kenneth J. Maghuyop” (Ken) and his company “Pacific World Marketing” in Discovery Bay, California. I’ve never heard of them…perhaps my readers have.
[update: 2009.07.23] For at least the time being, [...]
Did you know that IPLawAdvisor.com aggregates 75+ IP blogs in once place? It’s called the IP Law Daily.
IP Law Daily is a kind of daily blawg review for IP and media law. The editors are currently reading and aggregating the posts that most interest them and which they believe will most interest people interested [...]
Apparently, the new version of Adobe Reader (8.1) includes a PDF handler (previewer) for PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files, thereby letting you view PDF files right in Outlook 2007. Very handy. Instructions here.
Excellent thoughts (from a non-patent practitioner) regarding his frustrations with the patent bar vs “trademark bar” system we have: Patent Bar v. “Trademark Bar” « The Legal Satyricon. Although, his characterization of an average patent attorney being essentially a bumbling idiot when it comes to trademark law is a bit ridiculous and biased… [...]
