Christmas in October! PLI Patent Blog reporting “Glaxo Wins! Injunction Issues!” and that the USPTO continuation/claims rule changes (some of which would have kicked in tomorrow) have been put on hold.
Makes you wonder how many RCEs were filed in the past few days needlessly (wasting fees and adding to backlog).
[update: Via a post on [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Injunction Issues! USPTO Rule Changes Put On Hold
Does the USPTO’s Rulemaking Authority Trump Congress’ Legislative Authority?
Does the USPTO have the authority to repeal a statute? Matt Buchanan questions whether or not the new continuation rules essentially repeal 35 U.S.C. §120: Promote the Progress® ::: Halloween 2007 – RIP 35 U.S.C. s.120
PatentFizz bubbles up a screencast — how to download patent .pdfs
If only more websites gave you walkthroughs on how to use them. In this movie, Matt Buchanan at PatentFizz walks you through how to download a pdf patent. Sure it’s basic, but I’ve seen some of the things he’s working on…future screencasts will definitely be worth watching (you’ll want to subscribe to his feature announcements [...]
Tech Tip of the Day — Archive.org and FireFox Extension
Many of us use www.archive.org’s “Internet Archive Wayback Machine” for competitive analysis (e.g., researching when an alleged infringer created the infringing web page in question).
Did you know there is a FireFox extension that allows you to right click and select “Find archived page,” thereby being sent to archive.org’s list of cached copies of the [...]
IP Docketing Software
I’m working on a new page for this blog listing popular IP docketing programs. Here’s my initial list. Any others you all can think of?
PatentTerm.com — online patent term extension calculator (yes it isn’t “docketing” software per se)
O P Solutions’ PATTSY
Computer Packages Inc.’s Patent and Trademark Systems
LegalStar’s IP LegalDock
MAG Systems’ Docket Wizard
FlexTrac’s IP/CTS
IPPO’s [...]
Thomas Edison and the USPTO Rule Changes….food for thought
PLI – Patent Blog on “How The New PTO Rules Would Have Impacted Thomas Edison.”
Did they pay the maintenance fees? Expired?
It’s about time someone started doing this in an easy manner. Matt Buchanan at PatentFizz has added a new script that tags expired patents as….expired. Sweet! My new favorite way to download PDF patents just got even better!
freePat is back…free international PDF patent copies
Peter Eliopoulos had a great patent downloading tool called freePat a few years ago, based upon the pat2pdf script. At some point freePat stopped working and Peter stopped blogging.
It turns out that freePat stopped working because the program was checking in with Peter’s website (probably checking to see if an updated version exists). When Peter’s [...]
Interested in Patent Writing???
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Oxford University Press is expanding its U.S. law publishing program—with a particular focus on IP—and we are looking for qualified authors. In general, we envision a series of titles/monographs that will go into much greater depth than an article/chapter, but with a narrower and more strategic focus than a traditional treatise. If [...]
A crash course in web tools for IP litigators
VirtualHosting.com on Webmaster Intel Basics: 25 Tools to Compile an In-Depth Dossier on a Competitors’ Site
