Archive for December, 2007

26th December

A question for my readers: filling out 1449 (IDS) forms

by nipper. | Posted in IP Law Practice, USPTO   2 Comments »

One of my secretary’s biggest headaches is taking a pile of patents and from them generating an IDS (PTO-1449). While we use an IP forms program, it isn’t much more “automated” than a fillable PDF form.

The questions is…is there a better way of doing this? Are there other software options, preferably ones that take a list of patent numbers and automatically looks up the inventor name/issue date?

If not…would anyone find such a solution useful? (I have an idea…that could make it possible to create an IDS from a stack of patents in a matter of seconds…)

Thanks in advance for whatever insight you have.

26th December

Updated links to USPTO & FTC publications on invention promotion companies

by nipper. | Posted in IP Law Practice, Info For Inventors, Litigation/Legislation/Regulation, USPTO   2 Comments »

Contact the USPTO Before You Get Burned (PDF) [Original] [Local copy]
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FTC Consumer Alert: Spotting Sweet-Sounding Promises of Fraudulent Invention Promotion Firms (PDF) [Original] [Local Copy]
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FTC Facts for Consumers: Invention Promotion Firms (PDF) [Original] [Local Copy]
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17th December

Entrepreneur Quotes

by nipper. | Posted in Info For Inventors   Comments Off

An excellent list of quotes from entrepreneurs and/or on entrepreneurship: Top 20 Entrepreneurship Quotes.

17th December

New IP Blog of Note – Securing Innovation

by Stephen M. Nipper. | Posted in Business & Tech Tips, IP Law Practice   Comments Off

The folks at ip.com have ventured into the blogging world, starting the “Securing Innovation” blog. The blog touts itself as covering “managing intellectual property, patents, trademarks and trade secrets.”

A few recent posts of note:

Impressive! I look forward to reading more.

3rd December

Free CLE, ethics, electronic discovery

by nipper. | Posted in IP Law Practice   Comments Off

“Through December 12, 2007, PLI is giving away a free ethics course online that will count for CLE credit. The course is Ethics and Electronic Discovery 2007, which was recorded in August 2007.”  See:  PLI – Patent Blog–Ethics and Electronic Discovery 2007.