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REPORT: Proposed changes to the patent enforcement regime Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
The Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) has prepared an interim report following its review of the issues relating to post-grant patent enforcement strategies. Following further consultation, the ACIP expects to submit its recommendations in a final report to the government.
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REPORT: Proposed changes to the patent enforcement regime
Taking into account the views received on the preliminary proposals published last year and the latest developments overseas, the government recently refined its proposals to enhance copyright protection in the digital environment. The proposals attempt to strike a balance between the interests of copyright owners, internet service providers and users.
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REPORT: Refined proposals on copyright protection in the digital environment
From today’s USPTO press release : WASHINGTON – The U.S. Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will pilot a program to accelerate the examination of certain “green” technology patent applications, Secretary Gary Locke announced today. The new initiative, coming days before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, will accelerate the development and deployment of green technology, create green jobs, and promote U.S
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USPTO To Fast-Track "Green" Patents
The patent-related documents that are being discussed tomorrow at would could turn out to be an historic meeting of Europe’s Competitiveness Council are now available for inspection. They are: Enhanced patent system in Europe – Adoption of Council conclusions Enhanced patent system in Europe – Draft Council conclusions Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Community patent – General approach And this one looks like it is the one which member states are going to be asked to adopt as a regulation: Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Community patent – General approach (addendum) From a quick read through it seems to be that this document…
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BLOG: EU member states to vote on a unitary patent right tomorrow
British Library Business & IP Centre users share their experiences of using the resources available and how the Library has helped them build their business.
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Business & IP Centre Success Stories
On 9th October, a company called US Ethernet Innovations LLC filed a lawsuit in the US against a number of companies – including Acer, Apple, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and Toshiba – which alleged that each has infringed a series of patents relating to ethernet technology. US Ethernet Innovations had previously purchased these patents from 3Com, which had developed them for use in a number of products, such as laptops, cash points (ATMs) and inventory management systems. In developing this ethernet technology 3Com built a business that generated $3 billion in revenues between 1996 and 2006
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BLOG: 3Com gets religion, but too late to save jobs and a once thriving business
I have been having another look at the interim findings of the IAM/Thomson Reuters benchmarking survey. Over the past couple of weeks this blog has reported on how respondents feel about patent quality at the world’s leading patent offices and also about litigation, this time the focus will be on the management issues occupying the in-house section of those who have so far participated in the project. First of all, some background on just who has been taking part in the benchmarking exercise on the corporate side.
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BLOG: Slow but steady progress in IP’s move to the corporate centre stage
Many companies these days are rich in intangible assets, yet poor in physical ones.This creates a problem for them as they seek to raise capital in order to get off the ground or to expand. Traditionally, banks and other financial institutions have struggled with intangibles because of problems surrounding issues such as valuation – if you can’t work out how much something is worth, how can you lend money against it? And if you can make cash available based on other critieria, why bother with intangbles at all
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BLOG: Raising finance from intellectual assets is on the rise, but more needs to be done
The US has now joined a number of other major economies in reporting a return to positive economic growth. To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, this news may not mark the beginning of the end of the downturn but it may, if we are lucky, at least herald the end of the beginning. Should that be the case, what interests me is at what stage we will get a decent idea of how the last couple of years have affected the way in which IP is viewed in the real world outside the IP bubble
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BLOG: A look into the future …
I have just received the following press release from the European Patent Office: Munich, 30 October 2009 — At its 119th meeting in Munich, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation heard the four candidates for the Presidency of the European Patent Office (EPO), but voting ended without a result as none of the candidates managed to obtain the required qualified majority of three-quarters of the votes cast by the member states. The Council therefore decided to continue with the election process based on the same list of candidates at its next meeting in December
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BLOG: EPO members fail to pick new president
Currently, the USPTO is looking to unload about 2 petabytes (i.e., 2000 terabytes) of patent-related data sets to an outside vendor in an effort to segregate public data from the examiner systems, and to make “virtually all public information from the USPTO accessible on the Internet. ” Importantly, the PTO wants to make this information free of charge to the public, including current pay-for-service data products (e.g., XML Grants). Also, this change appears to be part of a longer-term “data dissemination solution” for allowing high-volume dissemination.
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USPTO Looks to Reduce "Stress" of Data Delivery, Seeks High-Volume Dissemination for Future
The Dow Chemical Company and Fuji Xerox have both signed up to the Eco-Patent Commons scheme, and have pledged patents that have been added to the list of those which have been made freely available by their owners for third parties to use. The Eco-Patent Commons was launched at the beginning of 2008 under the auspices of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).It enables companies to pledge what are termed as “environmentally beneficial patents” to the public domain. Up to now, 11 companies have signed up
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BLOG: The Eco-Patent Commons needs more commitment if it is ever to be a success
Nortel’s Rob Scheible gives an overview of the Nortel CVAS IP Powered Business demo at Supercomm’ 09
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Supercomm: Nortel’s CVAS IP Powered Business Solution
I am at the LES USA and Canada annual meeting currently taking place in San Francisco. As is normally the case with this event, there are a lot of very interesting people from the wider IP business world in attendance, which means that you end up having any number of fascinating conversations. Something that a lot of delegates are talking about is what effect the recession has had on the IP market place, as well as on how IP is viewed in the business and financial world.
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BLOG: Optimism over the future of IP as Beyers leaves HP and Kappos shines at the USPTO
As the European Union’s most populous country and its biggest economy, Germany is always going to be a hugely important jurisdiction for any number of companies. If you throw in the fact that patent litigation is relatively inexpensive, the courts have a history of deciding in favour of the plaintiff more often than they don’t and that permanent injunctions are routinely granted to a victorious plaintiff, you can understand why NPEs might be interested in operating there
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BLOG: Is this a setback for NPEs thinking about moving into Germany?
Continuing their earlier work on patent examination and prosecution, professors Mark Lemley and Bhaven Sampat released a draft copy of their paper title “Examining Patent Examinations,” which statistically analyzes patent applications filed in the month of January 2001 – the year PAIR was introduced – through April 2006. Here are some of the things they found: • 85% of the PTO’s first office actions are non-final rejections; only 13.5% of granted patents issued on the first office action without any argument or negotiation. • Almost three-fourths of the applications that do issue (73.1%) do so without ever receiving a “final” rejection.
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Examining Patent Examination
The IP Hall of Fame website has a brand new face. It has been fully updated, there is much more content and, as well as allowing you to browse through the biographies of past inductees, you can also read up on the Hall of Fame Academy members and, of course, nominate individuals who you feel should be considered for induction for the IP Hall of Fame in 2010 because of the outstanding contribution they have made to today’s global IP system. On top of all of that, you can now also read the latest news on all of our inductees via…
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BLOG: Introducing a brand new IP Hall of Fame website
Today the USPTO announced that it has filed a joint motion with Plaintiff GlaxoSmithKline to dismiss the lawsuit related to continuation rules. From todays’ PTO press release: Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos has signed a new Final Rule rescinding highly controversial regulations, proposed by the previous administration, that patent applicants felt unduly restricted their capacity to protect intellectual property. The regulations, which addressed the number of continuation applications as well as the number of claims that could be included within each application, were published in the Federal Register in August 2007, but were enjoined and never came into effect.
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USPTO Continuation Rules *DEAD* (More-or-Less)
“Those who insist that patents must lead to innovation fallback on a few, rather basic, logical fallacies. They point out that countries with strong patent laws tend to see much greater innovation … But they are mixing up correlation with causation — not recognizing that the stronger patent laws almost always post-date a period of much greater innovation, and then the patent system gets strengthened, not to promote more innovation, but to limit competition from those who innovated in the past …” So says Mike Masnick in a long post entitled “Is it so crazy for a patent attorney to think patents…
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BLOG: Reform the patent system by all means, but abolish it? That’s ridiculous
The following notice from the PTO is important for any overseas patent filer having recently allowed or issued patents stemming from § 371 applications: The USPTO is in the process of correcting an error in the computer program that it uses to calculate the patent term adjustment that affects patents issuing from international applications entering the national stage as to the United States pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 371. The USPTO’s computer program incorrectly calculates the three-year pendency provision of 35 U.S.C.
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USPTO Alert: Software Not Calculating National-Stage Patent Term Adjustments Correctly
Yesterday, the PTO published a briefing paper that was provided to the USPTO examining corps (via POPA ) on a proposal that would change the “count system” in the USPTO, which is universally blamed as being a large contributor to the current backlog. Under the current count system, examiners are paid using a modified GS schedule and earn more money through productivity “count” incentives. As examination progresses, examiners get counts to earn incentive credits at various stages.
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"That’s One Small Step . . ." Kappos Starts PTO Reform By Tweaking Examiner Productivity Metrics
Ex Parte Azuma , Appeal 2009-003902 (BPAI, September 14, 2009) The Appellant filed a patent application which claimed, among other things, “[a] computer program product for causing a computer to translate a text in a first language into a second language, the computer program product comprising: a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith.” The specification disclosed that storage media could be a memory, hard disk, floppy/disk drive and “various other hardware configurations” such as, a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
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BPAI: 101 Rejections Shouldn’t Be Based on Implication If Hardware is Disclosed
Whatever your business, you own intellectual property design of products, company logo, or knowledge thats gone into website development. Hear Sebastian Conran talking about ‘From Brainwave to Business’, the British Library event that’s all about making the most of your intellectual property.
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From Brainwave to Business – building success from your IP – 23 Sept 2009
Tpad, the world’s most flexible communications company, offers next-generation telephone systems for consumers and businesses. Tpad’s new telephone systems make it easier and cheaper for people and businesses to stay in touch using any device, on any network, anytime, anywhere.
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Tpad: Business VoIP Telephone Systems and Solutions
Booking details: www.bl.uk This is a trailer for the monthly workshop ‘Making it as an Entrepreneur,’ led by life coach, speaker and business coach, Rasheed Ogunlaru. It is held at the British Library Business & IP Centre in London
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Trailer: ‘Making it as an Entrepreneur’ workshop at the Business & IP Centre in London
Interview of Keith Reynolds on CT television show, The Business Buzz, describing IP Radiation Security: what it is, why it is important and how his business provides a solution
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IP Radiation Security: Making The World Safer by Securing Radiological Materials
Purewire, a leading Security-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based Web gateway vendor, selected Brocade solutions as the high-performance networking foundation for end-to-end enterprise campus IP communications and security service delivery to its customers.
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Purewire Upgrades IP Network to Help Secure Business, Social, and Web 2.0 Interactions