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The Illinois Institute of Technology and Ocean Tomo have worked together to create the only graduate level program focused on intellectual property management, the Illinois Institute of Technology Masters Program in IP Management & Markets. While some universities offer undergraduate as well as graduate courses in Intellectual Property Management, IIT offers the first interdisciplinary master’s […]

“Originally referred to as “art in industry”, industrial design provides the means to differentiate between mass-produced objects, drawing us to one product rather than another, making one brand more successful than another. Behind every new design is a desire to break new ground, to improve and to enhance consumer experience. Good design makes products easier, […]

[An open letter from David Boundy, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for a well-known financial services firm] Dear fellow patent attorney: I need your immediate assistance to help defeat a particularly bad patent bill now in its final stages of consideration by the U.S. Congress.  You have seen the blogs and emails explaining how […]

Carbon trading has become a multibillion dollar business that appears to be on a future growth trend despite the uncertainties in the United States at the national level and about the international treaty under the aegis of the United Nations. ~ Scott Deatherage In “Carbon Trading Law and Practice,” author Scott Deatherage provides practitioners with […]

I apologize for the long outage of the Patent Baristas web site.  For the past two weeks, the site has been unavailable — even to the point were I could not even log in to try to figure out why I was constantly receiving the message “Error establishing a database connection.” The web site was […]

When: Tuesday, May 03 to Wednesday, May 04, 2011 Where: Marriott Downtown, New York City, NY What: American Conference Institute’s Paragraph IV Disputes conference is the undisputed source for Hatch-Waxman litigation strategies for brand-names and generics. This event — which is widely recognized for setting the standards for Paragraph IV litigation and which also serves […]

When: Tuesday, May 03 to Wednesday, May 04, 2011 Where: Marriott Downtown, New York City, NY What: American Conference Institute’s Paragraph IV Disputes conference is the undisputed source for Hatch-Waxman litigation strategies for brand-names and generics. This event — which is widely recognized for setting the standards for Paragraph IV litigation and which also serves […]

On October 19, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a “Notice of Change to Docketing of Requests for Continued Examination.” The Notice indicated that requests for continued examination (RCEs) filed on or after November 15, 2009 will be placed on the examiner’s “Special New” application docket instead of the examiner’s amended docket. An […]