One of my favorite quotes is:
The … right to criticize either by temperate reasoning, or by immodest and indecent invective, … is the ultimate source of (citizens’) authority. –Judge Learned Hand
That being said, I was thrilled to see Matt Buchanan’s new “opinions” page on his blog where he speaks his piece. For instance, in [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
One bad apple…all practitioners suffer (The USPTO and Easy Access to Public Data)
Four Years!
Crikey, I’ve been updating this blog for four years now?
[First Post]
Oh, how the patent blogging landscape has changed since then. When I started the blog, I would post on any and everything patent related that I could find…lawsuits, new Federal Circuit cases, funny “TGIF” posts…whatever caught my eye that day. Over the [...]
Cross-Hatching in Patent Drawings
One of the best parts of blogging is having your own personal “knowledge management” system…so you can more easily find frequently used links, documents, etc. That being said…
The USPTO Guide for the Preparation of Patent Drawings (Microsoft Word document, ~140 pages long, ~6MB in size) has a few pages showing preferred cross-hatching. Here’s a local [...]
PatentFizz now does Published Applications!
Matt over at PatentFizz has announced that PatentFizz is now starting to cover published patent applications. Very cool!
PAIR, now with an additional step
Today, I noticed this gem when I went to access Public PAIR:
If it means that PAIR and TDR are less likely to be offline (which I’ve seen a number of times in the past month)…GREAT.
If it means that practitioners will have yet another impediment to easy access to government data…NOT GOOD.
Cool Patent Searching Tool: PatentScrounger.com
Neat way of patent searching…visually, by viewing the first pages of your search results:
www.patentscrounger.com
