All of my email lists are abuzz over the ruling in Tafas v. Dudas, which Patently-O covers much better than I ever could:
Patent Law Blog Patently-O: Tafas v. Dudas: PTOs Proposed Limitations on Continuations and Claims are Invalid
In a twenty-six page opinion, District Court Judge Cacheris has granted GSK’s and Tafas’s Motions for Summary Judgment [...]
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Today, the USPTO published new guidelines (pdf) for obviousness in the Federal Register. The guidelines are in response to the Supreme Court’s opinion in KSR v. Teleflex from last term. To reject an application on obviousness, examiners may now cite to one of the following:
III. Rationales To Support Rejections Under 35 U.S.C. 103:
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(A) [...]
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H.R.1908
Patent Reform Act of 2007 (Introduced in House)
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title- This Act may be cited as the `Patent Reform Act of 2007′.
(b) Table of Contents- The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Reference to title 35, United States Code.
Sec. [...]
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I have been arguing a need to make IP a larger part of the board discussions, but here is an decent article from Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox I can hand out. http://www.skgf.com/media/news/news.228.pdf Well worth the read.
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Press Release pretty much tells it all.
via Hooked On Golf Blog
12/14/06
Huntington Beach, CA…The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently entered a final judgment of non-infringement in favor of The Roger Cleveland Golf Company (”Cleveland Golf”) and Taylor Made Golf Company (”Taylor Made”), ending a patent infringement suit filed by Henry-Griffitts, Inc. (”Henry-Griffitts”) [...]
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In case you missed it, because they never really publicize anything, Google’s patent search is online at http://google.com/patent. Here is a link to mine as an example (7050989 - Electronic commerce personalized content delivery system and method of operation).
Tiny Review: Tons easier than the USPTO.gov site, but not as clean as the one IBM used to [...]
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Leveraging the network, the peer to patent project: Fortune magazine is reporting that New York Law School professor Beth Noveck’s idea posted on her blog to use a public wiki (factually incorrect) to review patent apps and get public input is going to go into a pilot project, backed by IBM, among others. See also Wired article.
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Altnet sues Streamcast for patent infringement on its file hash patents. Altnet and other plaintiffs allege that StreamCast and its CEO, Michael Weiss, intentionally infringe Altnet’s “TrueNames” patents as part of its music and movie file distribution business. The patents infringed are 5,978,791 - 6,415,280 - 6,928,442. These guys go back to the days when [...]
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