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Butt Painting/Stamping Patent?

Posted on April 12, 2007
I keep meaning to post, but always get busy. Yet when I came across this patent I could not resist. Patent No. 6022219 1. A method of painting on a work surface using the posterior of an infant said method comprising the acts of: preparing a protective covering on the work surface; preparing the background media by placing [...

Apple makes new pattent application public

Posted on November 30, 2006
  Bloomberg reported that apple made 3 patent applications public today, the main one being a handeheld computing device [US Patent Application #20060268528], which most speculate will be an iPhone relased sometime next year.   The application basically discloses a tube like structure which houses a communicaiton, and/or media player device...

Justice Scalia watching to much Boston Legal

Posted on November 28, 2006
The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments for KSR v. Teleflex.  The justices commentary is quite funny, Justice Scalia calling the test “Gobbledygook!” and Justice Roberts weighing in with his 2 cents.  The WSJ has a quote, the transcript is here, and finally an analysis of the arguments...

Hindsight Bias in Obviousness Determinations

Posted on November 14, 2006
Dennis Crouch at Patently-O recently posted about Hindsight Bias and discussed an interesting experiment he performed in a seminar demonstrating the inability of humans to remove bias in analyzing the obviousness of a patent.  The problem with this is that once you are given the solution the steps to carry out the solution always seem [...

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Quick and Dirty Counterfeit Goods Lesson

Posted on November 08, 2006
Ron Coleman posted this short analysis of whether this Russian knockoff was actually a counterfeit. It clearly is an infringement of Nike’s mark, but Ron answers the question of whether it is a counterfeit.

Patents and Magic

Posted on November 08, 2006
Phosita has an article about intellectual property rights and magic, which reminded me of a patent application aimed at a method for “walking through walls” which The Patent Prosecutor reported on back in April. (See Dance Class)

Proof Reading Patent Claims

Posted on November 01, 2006
Volokh reported this claim language designed to “test” if the inventor really was proof reading the claims… Claim 9. The method of providing user interface displays in an image forming apparatus which is really a bogus claim included amongst real claims, and which should be [...

RE-Installed WordPress Again

Posted on October 31, 2006
Well I have re-installed wordpress again, hopefully for the last time. I decided to change the blog location to a subdomain so that the link depth would be less. I may take the time to put my old posts here from the backup, although I’d rather tweak the theme a bit…as always site [...