The USPTO has issued a set of final rules to implement the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement Act of 2004 (CREATE Act) that amended Section 103(c) of the Patent Act effective September 14, 2005. As we described in an earlier post, the purpose of the Act is to promote cooperative research, such as between a […]
I’ve been hoping to see some let up on the “patent troll” whiney tantrums we’ve been seeing of late. Geez, even the BBC News, which should know better, took up the issue and re-printed old arguments that keep showing up like a bad penny. One BBC article quotes FTC commissioner Mozelle Thompson saying some companies […]
Today’s post comes from Guest Barista C. Lee Thomason, a registered patent attorney and senior litigator at Frost Brown Todd LLC, writing on whether or not inequitable conduct claims in a patent suit should be heard in open court, or confined to a “special office” as proposed in the draft Patent Act of 2005 (H.R. […]
Under Secretary Jon Dudas identified three new United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) initiatives that will speed patent prosecution, and which will save applicants about $30 million annually at a “town-hall meeting” held last Friday in Chicago. Of course, it was a town hall meeting that charged admission but I digress. According to a […]
As tipped off by Dennis Crouch’s Patently Obvious blog, the U.S. Government Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has requested an inter-partes reexamination of U.S. Pat. No. 6,653,104 for an anti-cancer antibody assigned to Immunomedics, Inc. See the OG Notice here.
The Washington Post reported that the USPTO rejected a patent on a human hybrid. Stuart Newman of New York Medical College tried to patent a hybrid designed for use in medical research but not yet created. The USPTO stated that the hybrid would be too closely related to a human to be patentable. The inventor […]
Some have expressed concern that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted a two-day meeting last week to discuss substantive patent law harmonization. The participants, from 22 countries along with the EPO and EC, issued a Statement of Intent noting that they will convene future meetings to consider "issues with regard to intellectual […]
As part of a proposed $2.57 trillion fiscal year 2006 budget request for the USPTO is $1.7 billion, equaling anticipated FY 2006 fee collections from patent and trademark filings. The request represents a $149 million increase over FY 2005, and reflects an anticipated rise in patent and trademark fee collections. As part of the 21st […]
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Editor-in-Chief Barista Stephen Jenei is a patent attorney and Owner of Jenei LLC. When not serving up patent chat over a steaming cup of java, he's handling a diverse intellectual property practice in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical fields. More info @ Jenei LLC
