Patent Baristas

As mentioned in the AmLaw Daily, Dennis Crouch’s Patently-O blog reported on a newly published patent application by Halliburton Energy Services.  The patent application has claims to what can only be described as a method of doing business when your business is patent trolling, i.e., getting rights to a patent and asserting it against infringers. […]

Now that it appears that we are in a recession — and there’s no good way to nuance that anymore — what does is mean for the legal profession? The legal area was once considered recession-proof with some areas even going up as companies focus on competitors.  Now, the demand for legal services is certainly […]

cul·ture (n.) the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary Online). The book “Intellectual Property Culture: Strategies to Foster Successful Patent and Trade Secret Practices in Everyday Business” by Eric Dobrusin and Ronald Krasnow is much better than its bland title or cover would belie. This […]

There are a number of patent search sites available today.  A new one is a semantic patent search — searching by meaning or interpretation of terms — called Setrue Semantic Patent Search Engine by Transformer. Setrue touts itself as an answer to the growing need of patent search market to a search engine with semantic […]

As of July 2008, twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have filed antitrust suits against Abbott Laboratories and Solvay’s Fournier Industrie et Santé and Laboratories Fournier in Delaware District Court, charging them with blocking generic competition by engaging in product hopping, among other “anti-generic strategies.”  Patent Baristas reported the initial filing here. As Stephen […]

Doug Lichtman, a Professor of Law at UCLA, has alerted us to the fact that he sat down this past weekend with Professor Rob Merges from Berkeley and Professor John Duffy from GW, and they recorded a one-hour audio podcast about Bilski.  They have posted it for free, and in downloadable form, on the Web. […]

In the ten weeks between the election and the inauguration, we will have plenty of time to ponder what changes, if any, might be in store for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Many believe its interminable quest to improve so-called patent quality has led to a precipitous drop in patent allowances. The question is, […]

Now that Barack Obama is the President-elect of the United States, what does this mean for patents and technology?  According to the agenda and philosophies posted on the Obama website, the new administration should pursue mostly a pro-patent/pro-technology agenda. As the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama will face many great challenges at […]