This morning I received an e-mail “Notice of Publication” on a trademark case, the first one of these I remember seeing. Here’s the notice (redacted):
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Serial Number: 55-555,555
Mark: TRADEMARK (STANDARD CHARACTER MARK)
International Class(es): 555
Applicant: ACME, LLC
Attorney Reference Number: 012345
The mark identified above has been published in the Trademark Official Gazette (OG) on Mar 9, [...]
Category Archives: USPTO
Downloading a 142 MB PDF from the USPTO
New USPTO magazine for independent inventors
The USPTO has released it’s first issue of the “Inventors Eye,” the USPTO’s bimonthly publication for the independent inventor community. The first issue includes articles on:
Patent Reform – An Open Letter
Protect Your Innovation: Avoid Scams – By Ronald Jaicks : Office of the Solicitor
Spark of Genius: The Spiral Eye Needle – By John Calvert : [...]
LegalZoom sued for Unauthorized Practice of Law
Gene Quinn at IPWatchDog reports that LegalZoom has been sued (class action lawsuit) for “unauthorized practice of law” in Missouri, allegedly for offering legal advice regarding a will and for preparing incorporation documents.
Other related blog posts I turned up on this topic:
Gene Quinn on LegalZoom and the filing of trademark applications in “LegalZoom Continues Unauthorized [...]
My favorite quote from the Bilski v Kappos SCOTUS oral arguments
Most of the other patent blogs have been covering the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Bilski v. Kappos case. [e.g., Patently-O]
My favorite quote from the case comes from Justice Scalia (page 16 of the pdf):
You know, you mention that there are all these — these new areas that didn’t exist in the past because [...]
USPTO Director Kappos’ Blog
David Kappos, Director of the USPTO is now publicly blogging! See: http://www.uspto.gov/blog/. I look forward to reading his posts.
The fact that USPTO.gov has RSS feeds (for the blog) now is VERY exciting. Now, if they’d only provide RSS feeds for the “News and Notices” page contents (e.g., press releases, OG notices, Federal Register notices). Hint [...]
Patenting Schrödinger’s cat
Not quite Schrödinger’s cat, but close. I won’t spoil it for you…see the 12:01 Tuesday patent blog post Be All You Can’t Be: Army Patent Ambushed by Friendly Fire for the story.
USPTO considering opening access to public patent/trademark data?
According to the notice:
Due to overwhelming interest from the patent and trademark community, the USPTO has scheduled a second public meeting to be held Monday, October 19th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Pacific time at the San Francisco Public Library located at 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA 94102-4733 in the Latino/Hispanic [...]
New USPTO.gov out of beta
It looks like the USPTO’s website’s redesign is out of beta: http://uspto.gov.
The News page still doesn’t have an RSS feed or “subscribe by email” function (unlike the Copyright Office’s News Page (RSS)). Sad…but true.
ClaimMaster patent drafting plugin for Microsoft Word
stumbled on a new Microsoft Word plugin for patent attorneys last night – ClaimMaster.
ClaimMaster has an amazing set of features:
Identify Errors in Claims.
Find Missing Antecedents.
Identify Inconsistent Element Numbers.
Find Claim Terms Missing Support.
Compare Claims and Generate Charts.
Manipuate Amendments and Indicators.
Generate Claim Summaries.
View Claim Hieararchies.
Download Docs From the USPTO.
ClaimMaster sounds like something definitely worth trying out.
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USPT-no-gO.gov – Source of the issues?
It’s been pretty clear that in the last month or so that the services (e.g., PAIR, PatFT/AppFT, TESS, TDR) provided on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website (uspto.gov) are frequently overloaded/off-line.
Talking with a colleague about this same issue this morning, he noted that “uspto.gov appears to be configured to not [...]
