Patent Law

Patently-O Bits and Bytes

By Dennis Crouch

• EPO Count System: At a recent meeting in Edinburgh, the EPO Vice-President for legal and international affairs mentioned that EPO patent examiners receive twice as much credit for rejecting an application than for allowing the application 'because, as everyone knows, a rejection takes much more work than an allowance.' (Is this correct?)
• Congressional Action on Patent Reform:
• Senator Leahy has posted a note on his website (link) criticizing Bilski because it 'needlessly left the door open for business method patents to issue in the future, and I am concerned that it will lead to more unnecessary litigation.'
• Leahy is looking at Bilski as a mechanism for driving legislative reforms: 'The courts, however, are constrained by the text of our outdated statutes, and it is time for Congress to act.'
• Anti-tax-patent activists (i.e., most tax lawyers and accountants) are now thinking about pushing for a legislative exception.
• Patent law jobs posted in the past week:
• Baker Botts in Palo Alto
• In house at POET (Ethonol Producer) in Soux Falls, SD
• In house at Medicis in Scotsdale
• In house at Maquet Cardiovascular in Mahwah, NJ
• In House IP Management for the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)
• In house at Medtronic in Memphis
• In house at Roche in Pleasanton, CA
• In house Licensing at Promega in Madison
• Marjama Muldoon in Syracuse
  

Full post as published by Patently Obvious on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).