Patent Baristas

In the book “How to Get Sued” (Kaplan Publishing, NY), J. Craig Williams of May It Please the Court blog fame, has come out with a book on the lighter side of how “real life” becomes “real litigation.”  As a sort of how-to guide, the book points out that all you really need is to […]

Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog, fulfilled her promise to put forth “one of the best [Blawg Review]’s ever.”  She set out a massive, link-filled review that will last all week. Pynchon states that if intellectual property had a theme song it would have to be “Like a Virgin.” Why? Because IP is all […]

Earlier, Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas’ lawsuit, arguing that the proposed U.S. Patent Office continuation rules are void for exceeding its authority, won a permanent injunction prohibiting the USPTO from putting the new rules changes into effect (Final Rules; 72 Federal Register 161 at 46716).  Triantyfyllos Tafas v. John Dudas and the United States Patent and Trademark […]

Well, we wrapped up the Patent Baristas iBarista contest after two lucky winners were picked to receive iBarista iPods. Winner #1. Elliot Mendelson, a patent attorney at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun in Chicago, was randomly selected as the winner of an Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB for submitting a new comment on the PatentBaristas.com website […]

FDA Sets New User Fee Rates FDA published a Federal Register notice announcing the 2009 user fee rates under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA).  A similar notice  will also be issued with the FY 2009 user fee rates established under the Medical Device User Fee Amendments.  (via FDA Law Blog) Homeland Security Can […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sent out a gentle reminder in the Federal Register to all patent applicants and registered patent practitioners that the export of subject matter (transfer of information) abroad under a foreign filing license is limited to purposes related to the filing of foreign patent applications. The Notice states: Applicants […]

Well, it looks like Margaret Peterlin, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has announced that she will be leaving the USPTO in August with plans to pursue employment opportunities in the private sector.  It was probably going to happen some time […]

Just a final reminder of that we ended up having some iPod Shuffles left over from the BIO2008 International Convention.  In the new Patent Baristas iBarista contest, everyone has two new chances to pick up one of the iBarista iPods. Chance 1. For everyone to have an equal chance, I will randomly select a winner […]