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Month: May 2008
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Patent Resources Group (PRG) will be holding its next program of Advanced Courses on August 10-15, 2008 in Washington, DC. Among the courses that PRG will be offering are: • Art and Science of Patent Searching – Patentability, Validity & Infringement and Patent Searching Workshop – August 10-12 • Chemical Patent Practice – August 10-12…
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American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its USPTO Boot Camp: Patent Edition conference on September 22-23 in Alexandria, VA. The conference will allow attendees to: • Identify the subject matter of an applicant's proposed patent;• Define "prior art" for the practical purpose of conducting a search and anticipating an examiner's rejections;• Examine changes in…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The so-called Coalition for Patent Fairness has been one of the principal voices lobbying Congress for the now-becalmed Senate "patent reform bill (S. 1145) and the House version of the bill (H.R. 1938), passed last September. The Coalition is comprised of "high technology" companies like Apple, Cisco, Intel,…
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"Biotech/Pharma" Top 47 By Donald Zuhn — The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) released its 25th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents. Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office stopped releasing its annual list of top patent recipients in 2006 in order to "discourag[e] any perception…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — One of the hopes of the members of the patent community who have been paying attention is that the passing of the current administration may result in better times for the U.S. patent system. Political appointees like Secretary of Commerce Guttierrez, USPTO Director Jon Dudas, and Undersecretary of…
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Earlier this month, we reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had filed a Notice of Appeal with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, challenging the decision of Judge William Cacheris of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to permanently enjoin the Patent Office’s continuation and claims rules…
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By Donald Zuhn — With the BIO International Convention less than a month away, a report in the San Francisco Chronicle is predicting that the U.S. biotech industry may be looking at some rough times ahead. The Chronicle’s prediction is interesting given its citation of a recent Ernst & Young study that noted…
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By Donald Zuhn — The Senate patent reform bill may or may not be dead (see "Bush Administration Continues Attempt to Destroy U.S. Patent System"). However, if the bill’s time has indeed come and gone (at least as far as the 110th Congress is concerned), its passing will be due in no small…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, both The Washington Post and Nature News reported on the efforts of biotech companies to secure patents directed to gene-altered crops that are designed to withstand the effects of global warming. The impetus behind both articles was a 30-page report entitled "Patenting the ‘Climate Genes’ . .…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Just when you thought it was safe to stop worrying about the stalled "patent reform" bill in the Senate (S. 1145), along comes Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez (at right), trying to reenergize the IT community in Silicon Valley to push for passage of this misguided bill. Last…
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