Patent Baristas

To empower users to find the relevant patent and technology information and connect people they need to advance technology. ~Mission, Patents.com Patents.com is looking to provide the most comprehensive worldwide source of patent data – to include 450 million searchable, indexed patent pages available in 15 native languages.  It’s a source for patent data and […]

PatentCluster, a free clustering based patent search engine, provides a different way to search patents.   PatentCluster was founded after observing that existing patent search engines did not make it easy to understand the context of the patent search results and did not articulate the “big picture” of the overall concept of the search. Instead of […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) released its Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Manual, a publication designed to help businesses protect their consumers and brands. The manual features case studies on the proven strategies companies are implementing to protect their creative assets from criminal counterfeiting and piracy. The Intellectual Property Protection […]

Joseph Scott, President of Patent Buddy, contacted me about their site.  Listed as “Where IP Professionals meet to gather & exchange information,” it is a new service that provides data (obtained from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office) on registered patent attorneys and their employment histories since 2001. It claims to have data on 39,259 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Pointing out that Senators Obama and McCain agree on the need for affordable biologic medicines, Biologicsland now offers a game for testing your knowledge about biogenerics. Biologicsland, brought to you by Teva Pharmaceuticals, is an on-line board game where you pick a person to act as your player, like politician or scientist (and why is […]

“Biotechnology is not merely a set of technologies, but also an underlying philosophy of entrepreneurship, risk-taking and long-term vision.”  ~BioSynergy Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and the University of Toronto have launched a new biotech magazine called BioSynergy.  Their stated goal is to “[C]atalyze the birth of the next generation […]