Patent Baristas

In the never-ending quest for Google to control the flow of all information on the planet, Google has now released Google Patent Search. And — big surprise — it comes with the too familiar Beta tagline that marks all things Google so that they can disavow any responsibility. With Google Patent Search, you can now […]

I will be on a panel discussion at the American Conference Institute’s Corporate Patent Congress 2007, which will be held in New York City on January 22 and 23. The panel will include Matt Buchanan of Promote the Progress and Doug Sorocco of PHOSITA. We will be discussing “Maximizing Your Corporate Patent Portfolio and Harnessing […]

Thailand’s Ministry Of Public Health has announced plans to grant a five-year, compulsory license to produce a lower-cost version of Merck’s antiretroviral drug Efavirenz — a move that appears to be legal under the World Trade Organization’s Doha Declaration (an amendment to the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement). Thailand is looking to save on the cost of […]

A panel of experts put together by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration looked at the safety concerns surrounding the more than $5 billion drug-coated stent industry. These so-called drug-eluting stents are small metal tubes implanted into blood vessels to help prop up clogged heart arteries after they have been cleared. By coating the stents […]

The Blawg Review Editor sent me a tip about Light Cafés in Stockholm, which now offer Swedes the chance to take in a little sun with their morning coffee. Since Stockholm only receives five hours of light a day in winter, patrons at the Iglo Ljuscafé sip their morning brew while soaking in artificial sun […]

Apotex’s appeal of a grant of a preliminary injunction by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in favor of Sanofi-Synthelabo was smacked down by the CAFC. See Sanofi-Synthelabo et al. v. Apotex (06-1613). Sanofi markets Plavix®, a platelet aggregation inhibiting agent used to reduce thrombotic events such as heart […]

Colin Samuels brings us Blawg Review #86 at Infamy or Praise based upon the second cantica of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, and is thus a sequel of sorts to last December’s Inferno-themed edition organized around the Nine Circles of Hell from Dante’s Inferno. Samuels’ Infamy or Praise review provides an overview of law blawgs within […]

Every now and then I have an application that is subject to a secrecy order by the government that restricts disclosure of the invention and prevents the publishing or granting of a patent. I noticed that a current application being held up really doesn’t seem to contain sensitive information but the application may have triggered […]