The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) dictates that at least three satellite offices be opened by the USPTO in three years. The Detroit satellite office was the first of four selected by the USPTO to increase outreach, improve retention and recruitment of patent examiners, decrease the patent application backlog and improve the quality of examination. […]
“We are complying with Congress’ mandate to set fees at a level that enables the USPTO to recover the actual costs of the services it provides, while enabling us to implement all of the provisions of the Act.” ~Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos The U.S. Patent […]
“The objective of ArchPatent is providing the simplest, most intuitive USPTO search tool.” ~Tony Rainoldi ArchPatent is a new service for searching U.S. patent information. It offers a number of tools for searching for patents and then refining search results according to various parameters. The basic service is free or you can upgrade to ArchPatent […]
Patexia is offering a $5000 prize to the winner of a research contest involving charge pumps in voltage controlled oscillators. The goal is to find relevant, published material pre-dating a certain patent. This is a chance to win money, to tackle a real problem, to showcase your technical skills, and to gain visibility in the […]
Join your fellow innovators at the Texas Regional Independent Inventors Conference in Austin as the next stage of the America Invents Acts goes into effect. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), National Inventors Hall of Fame and the University of Texas at Austin invite you to get practical advice from successful inventors, entrepreneurs and intellectual property experts. […]
Legal IQ recently conducted an interview with Dave McAllister, Director of Open Source at Adobe Systems about the latest Open Screen developments. McAllister offers some exclusive reflections on his work with Steve Jobs: “He honestly was one of the most futuristic geniuses I’ve ever seen, able to figure the directions for the broad-based consumer and the […]
The BIO 2012 convention in Boston, which ran June 18-21 in Boston pulled down a fair number of tweets in the process. Here are some we noticed: Mike Spear â€@mikesgene @erinatbio #bio2012 payed off for us. BIORadio gave me a chance to speak with researchers and gov’t funders we haven’t tracked down at home. BIOIntl […]
Neil Bowering, Project Manager, IP Easy access, University of Glasgow, joins bloggers Stephen Jenei, of Patent Baristas and Mikk Putk of IP Insiders, to discuss Easy Access IP. In this exclusive interview, Neil gives some background about the Easy Access IP system, why the University of Glasgow set it up, achievements to date, membership figures, types of IP that […]
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Editor-in-Chief Barista Stephen Jenei is a patent attorney and Owner of Jenei LLC. When not serving up patent chat over a steaming cup of java, he's handling a diverse intellectual property practice in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical fields. More info @ Jenei LLC
