Patent Baristas

The Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences Group (OVALS) will host it’s 6th Annual regional conference  “Transformational Research: A Bridge to Building Economies” on April 14-15, 2008, at the Historic Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY.  Topics Include: Future trends in the biotech industry and factors that will shape it A close-up view of NC: key […]

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, “Well, There You Go Again!” The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit again affirmed that, while the practice of savings seeds after a harvest to plant the next season is as old as farming itself, you can’t save patented seeds. After the district court held that Loren David knowingly infringed […]

I realize that everyone is suffering from Patent Reform Fatigue regarding the new rules the Patent Office wants to foist on the public but here is a quick update. Gene Quinn, at the PLI blog is reporting that the oral hearing on GlaxoSmithKline, Tafas and USPTO cross motions for Summary Judgment was today and that […]

Earlier, in Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) v. Xenon Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that just because a case involves patents doesn’t mean that you automatically get federal jurisdiction.  The court ruled that it has no jurisdiction over the case because it does not present a claim arising under […]

Brett Trout at BlawgIT has posted the Patent Meme after noticing that patent attorneys are the epitome of sex appeal, with thousands of bloggers fawning over patents and the like. Started as an “If only I could have a link to all the important patent law blogs in one place,” Brett has compiled a list […]

Litigator/Lobbyist Dan Hull at What About Clients? posted Blawg Review #145 this week.  The review, entitled VENI, VIDI, VICI :  Super Bowl Blawg Review, features everything from the phenonmenology of political correctness to where do judges come from? We especially enjoyed J. Craig Williams piece on the need for cultural literacy (But sorry about that 20/700 […]

After the Department of Commerce sent a letter to the Committee on the Judiciary, on the views of the current Administration on S. 1145, the Patent Reform Act of 2007 — specifically, its beef with Section 4 on Damages, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property held a conference to explain the Bush Administration’s views regarding the Patent Reform […]

Even though we’ve covered the “suspicious procedures” at the USPTO regarding the Final Continuations and Claims Limits Rule, more evidence seems to keep coming to light.  See Tafas v. Dudas case to enjoin enactment of the USPTO’s new rules. The proposed Patent Office Rules include a new requirement for patent applicants to prepare an Examination Support Document […]