Patent / Trademark Law News

With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

Association for Medical Pathology & ACLU v. USPTO & Myriad , 09-cv-4515 Earlier this year, a group of organizations and individuals filed suit against the USPTO, Myriad, and individual directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation demanding that the breast cancer gene patents be found invalid or unenforceable and that the PTO's policies ...

Low-resolution, grainy and barely recognizable--sounds like a spy photo of a top-secret supercar in testing.

Low-resolution, grainy and barely recognizable--sounds like a spy photo of a top-secret supercar in testing.

A federal district judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit challenging patents on genes related to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can move forward in court.

The SFLC and I recently filed a brief in Bilski v. Kappos , along with plenty of other lawyers, and I gave a talk about the case, and the future of patent law, this morning at Cardozo Law School.

Mr. Sisule F. Musungu, President, IQsensato, Geneva prepared a document titled, " The Contribution of, and Costs to Right Holders in Enforcement, Taking into Account Recommendation 45 of the WIPO Development Agenda ." The report was published on September 28, 2009 for the Fifth Session of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement to take place in ...

Many of them attended a seminar on using the technology. "The PTDL will be of great value to the large business community in Connecticut and, especially, Fairfield County," said Dr.

Vidyo , a provider of personal telepresence, has announced that its VidyoRouter architecture has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Memory foam leader Tempur-Pedic has agreed to voluntarily dismiss patent infringement litigation against 17 mattress manufacturers, sources said.

The Esau patent estate, which is owned by Regulus, represents one of the earliest filings in the microRNA intellectual property landscape and is fundamental to the discovery, development, and commercialisation of microRNA therapeutics.

WEST CHESTER, Pa., BUSINESS WIRE -- Don Skomsky, P.E. has accepted an invitation by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to speak about Zoggles' electronic anti-fog/anti-ice technology at their 14th Annual Independent Inventors Conference.

Currently, the USPTO is looking to unload about 2 petabytes of patent-related data sets to an outside vendor in an effort to segregate public data from the examiner systems, and to make "virtually all public information from the USPTO accessible on the Internet.

Notice from the European Patent Office dated 22 October 2009 concerning the refund of the examination fee According to Article 11 of the Rules relating to Fees, the examination fee is refunded: in full if the European patent application is withdrawn, refused or deemed to be withdrawn before the examining divisions have assumed responsibility; or at ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is considering proposals for a technology approach to data dissemination that would make publicly available on the Web nearly two petabytes of information maintained by the office.

ExonHit is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office notified the Company of its intent to issue a Re-examination Certificate in connection with ExonHit's US Patent n 6,881,571 directed to the use of its SpliceArrayTM technology.

Inside Views 22 October 2009 By Kaitlin Mara @ 4:01 pm Protection of traditional knowledge under intellectual property rights may have a time limit, though determining duration of protection measures will be more difficult than it is with Western scientific innovation, World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry said ...

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On 1 October 2009, Ed O'Keefe reported in the Washington Post : In a move designed to improve employee morale and to help reduce a growing backlog, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposed changes Wednesday [Sept. 30] to its way of determining how long a patent examiner has to complete a patent examination and the incentives that examiners ...

We can file this under art, or under why?/why not?: Invented by Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus, the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus "downloads and parses a part of the text of a recent best-selling book" and then, for some strange reason, peruses the archives of the United States Patent and Trademark Office for drawings that match the ...