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Month: April 2011
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Patent Resources Group (PRG) and Management Forum will be offering two one-day courses on the European Patent system on June 2-3, 2011 at the McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP conference center in Chicago, IL. The June 2 course, entitled "EPO Opposition & Appeals — The Case Law," will cover the following topics: • Introduction…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will be holding its 6th International Judges Conference on Intellectual Property Law on May 23-25, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will provide discussions on the following topics: • Keynote Address — Hon. Randall R. Rader, Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; •…
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By Donald Zuhn — Launch of Prioritized (Track 1) Examination Postponed Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would begin accepting requests for prioritized examination of patent applications (i.e., the Track 1 portion of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Initiative outlined in a Federal Register notice in June 2010) on…
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Dear fellow patent attorney: I need your immediate assistance to help defeat a particularly bad patent bill now in its final stages of consideration by the U.S. Congress. Congress may well be on the verge of passing a great threat to our patent system. You have seen the blogs and emails explaining how the America…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The anti-patent virus seems to have moved across town in Manhattan, from the 8th Avenue editorial offices of The New York Times to 6th Avenue, from the aristocratic edifice ruled by the Sulzberger family to the business environs of the hardscrabble upstart Aussie, Rupert Murdoch at The Wall Street Journal. …
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By Brad Crawford — On April 13, 2011, the European Patent Office (EPO) reported that the total number of European patent applications is once again on the rise. The EPO noted that EP filings hit 235,029 in 2010, which surpassed the 225,971 patent applications that were filed in 2008 and the 211,344 applications that were…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding for the first quarter of 2011. The NVCA quarterly study, which the group conducts with PriceWaterhouseCoopers using data from Thomson Reuters, indicates that venture…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the House Judiciary Committee, following in the footsteps of its Senate counterpart, reported a patent reform bill — in this case H.R. 1249 — out of committee and to the floor of the House for a possible vote (see "House Judiciary Committee Approves H.R. 1249"). The Committee's approval of…
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The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Biotech Committee and the John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law will offer a panel discussion entitled: "Gene Patents . . . Statutory Subject Matter?" on April 28, 2011 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM (CDT) at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. The…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The New York Times is at it again, proselytizing on its OpEd page about patents and how bad they are. This time the topic is the Supreme Court's upcoming argument in the Microsoft v. i4i case, involving the standard for determining whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should be…
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