Interesting quote in the comments (Comment 9) to the NEW rule set I mentioned previously on “Changes to Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Final Rule (14Aug2008)” (emphasis added):
Non-practitioners are not entitled to provide legal advice or otherwise practice law. To the extent practice of law includes a law-related service [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Can a non-patent attorney/agent write a patent application for another person?
Case law should be free — let’s free SCOTUS patent cases
I am a big fan of public.resource.org’s quest of making government data more accessible.
One of their projects is freeing caselaw…providing “open” copies of caselaw decisions. They have already compiled US, F1, F2 and F3 decisions into free copies. See: http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/.
Doing my part, I recently compiled a list of (most) of [...]
Supreme Court patent cases
For ease of updating, I moved the list to a separate page. See: http://inventblog.com/supreme-court-patent-cases
Do Not Disturb … for email?
If you have Outlook 2007 running on an Exchange Server, you might be interested in one of Microsoft’s new prototype plugins. Called “Email Prioritizer” that “provides a ‘do not disturb’ button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system.” [hat tip Wade Dorrell via Twitter]
Patent Agents Can’t Do X
We recently had a patent engineer in our office who was studying for the patent bar exam (and eventual “patent agent” status). To wit, I spent some time recently trying to really understand what a patent agent can/can’t do (beyond standard prosecution). Here is the list that I was able to come up [...]
PTO Ethical Rules
Why in the world is it so difficult to find the USPTO Code of Professional Responsibility online?
Why isn’t it clearly linked to on the OED’s website? Seriously! While those rules are hammered into every attorney’s head (they are generally duplicative of our state bar ethics rules), non-attorney practitioners (in my experience) don’t always [...]
Recent Trademark Office News & Notices
- Expanded PDF size–”On or about August 29, 2008, the USPTO plans to enhance TEAS to (1) increase the size limitation of PDF attachments from 3 to 5 megabytes; and (2) accept other “non-Adobe flavors” of PDFs. Please note, however, that the number of pages within any PDF file may not exceed 100 pages, separate [...]
TEAS now requiring attorneys to list state bar?
I just noticed something I hadn’t seen before…the TEAS form signature block now directs attorneys to provide which state bar they are a member of:
If an attorney, enter “Attorney of record, [specify at least one state] bar member.”
Update, I also notice that you must select a box that says:
I hereby confirm that this response [...]
One solution to the exploding cost of health insurance…
Someone asked me about health insurance options for small businesses earlier. I pointed them to a three year old post I wrote on “Health Savings Accounts for Lawyers and Business Owners.”
I’m still using mine and am VERY glad I set it up.
A few months ago I had our office’s insurance guru give me a [...]
Excellent Summary regarding “EAR Export Licenses”
Excellent summary by Gene Quinn of PLI Patent Blog regarding “EAR Export Licenses” as they relate to outsourcing patent application drafting.
