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UK High Court: Get Your Ducks in a Row for Entitlement of Patent Priority
Posted on November 18, 2009Book Review Monday: Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries
Posted on November 16, 2009Court Dismisses Tafas Suit Against Rules; Leaves Lower Court Ruling Intact
Posted on November 13, 2009BulletProof: Interview with ACLU Attorney Chris Hansen over Gene Patents
Posted on November 12, 2009Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Amended Bill Banning Pay-For-Delay Settlements
Posted on October 23, 2009Patent Office Would Like Your Opinion 101 Interim Examination Instructions
Posted on September 30, 2009You Can?t Rely On Test Results That Weren?t Available When Your Patent Application Was Filed
Posted on September 29, 2009Professor Gets 4 Years In Prison For Exporting Technical Information on UAVs
Posted on September 17, 2009A Divisional Patent Application By Any Other Name Is ? Not A Divisional
Posted on September 15, 2009USPTO has ?Issued? Interim Examination Instructions For ?Evaluating? Subject Matter Eligibility
Posted on August 26, 2009David Kappos Sworn in as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO
Posted on August 14, 2009The More You Know, The More You Trust Bayer. Unfortunately, Their Patent is Still Dead
Posted on August 06, 2009IP Enforcement in China. Or, How I Turned A $70 Filing Fee into $23M in Cash
Posted on July 30, 2009Australian Grace Period For Filing Continuation Patent Applications Is Back From The Dead
Posted on July 08, 2009Administration?s First Volley on Biosimilars: 7 Years of Exclusivity is Long Enough
Posted on June 26, 2009How Long Does it Take for the Patent Office to Look at National Entry Papers? A Long Time.
Posted on June 22, 2009Australian Patent Office: Patent Term Extension Available If Has Pharmaceutical Characteristics
Posted on June 16, 2009Supreme Court to Look at Whether Process Patent Must Be Tied to Apparatus or Transformation
Posted on June 03, 2009Foreign Patentees May Have Significant Commercialization And Not Be Subject to Jurisdiction
Posted on May 28, 2009Special Life Science Event : Commercializing and Funding Biotechnology Opportunities
Posted on May 07, 2009Former Gov. Gary Locke Confirmed as Commerce Secretary, Who Will Be PTO Director?
Posted on April 01, 2009Court Splits the Baby on Patent Office Continuation Rules. Expect More Tension.
Posted on March 20, 2009IP Think Tank Podcast: Director?s Liability, IP in Business Schools and US Patent Reform
Posted on March 12, 2009Seven Questions with Post-Issue Peer to Patent Project Director Mark Webbink
Posted on January 29, 2009Have Lunch With Judge Rader at the Computer and High Technology Law Journal?s Symposium
Posted on January 15, 2009What?s the Cost of Misconduct in a Patent Lawsuit? $16.8M for Alphapharm and Mylan.
Posted on December 17, 2008OMB Runs Out the Clock on Appeal Rules. Will the USPTO Force an Overtime?
Posted on December 09, 2008Intellectual Property Defense: How to Protect Your Business Against Patent Trolls
Posted on December 01, 2008Economist Argues That 7 Years Ought to be Enough for Biologic Data Exclusivity
Posted on November 20, 2008There?s Only One-Way to Test Double Patenting: Don?t Present Claims Too Late
Posted on November 19, 2008Appeals Court Smacks Down Software And Business Method Patents without Apparatus or Transformative Powers
Posted on October 30, 2008Commissioner John Doll: ?We?d Allow Every Patent Application If It Just Met The Requirements?
Posted on October 22, 2008Joint Infringement? Try To Get Claim Where All Steps Performed by One Infringer
Posted on October 21, 2008Down a Rabbit Hole: Court Slaps Down Patent Office?s ?Explanation? of PTA Rules
Posted on October 09, 2008Pharmaceutical Patent Law: A Prescription for Success in Challenging Times
Posted on October 08, 2008Want a Declaratory Judgment? Don?t Stipulate to Infringement, Validity, and Enforceability of the Patent in Question
Posted on September 18, 2008Hatch-Waxman Safe Harbor Doesn?t Apply to Device Not Subject to FDA Approval
Posted on August 07, 2008A New Day, New Rules: Ex Parte Appeals Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
Posted on June 10, 2008Growth Opportunity: Interested in Becoming a Technical Specialist/Patent Agent?
Posted on May 01, 2008Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences (OVALS) Regional Conference in Louisville, KY
Posted on February 14, 2008Bush Administration To Patent Office: Hey, Hold Up There Mister On That There Reasonable Royalty Rate
Posted on February 04, 2008Will You Be Allowed To Use Those Patented Parts You Purchased Any Way You Like? Not Unless You?re Exhausted
Posted on January 31, 2008Abbott Learns Not To Turn In Its Homework At 9:30 p.m. On The Night Before The Test
Posted on January 18, 2008
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Probably not, as it's already been done....
Should I copyright software I developed?
Depends on whether you are concerned that someone might make unauthorized copies...
Will vonage go bankrupt as a result of the Verizon patent suit over VOIP technology?
Vonage will most certainly be bankrupted if it doesn't sell itself first. I...
How does one get a patent?
Contact the patent office for your state or country (you can look this up throug...

can you patent the idea of letting, for a proper price, adults direct a porn scene for there own possesion over the internet or in person? A scene witch will be a one of a kind and owned by them without the ability for r
Probably not, as it's already been done....
Should I copyright software I developed?
Depends on whether you are concerned that someone might make unauthorized copies...
Will vonage go bankrupt as a result of the Verizon patent suit over VOIP technology?
Vonage will most certainly be bankrupted if it doesn't sell itself first. I...
How does one get a patent?
Contact the patent office for your state or country (you can look this up throug...








