Cry, Cry Again?
Other than Perfect Web Technologies, no one is going to cry over the invalidation of patent no. 6,631,400. The ‘400 Patent claims: 1. A method for managing bulk e-mail distribution comprising the...
View ArticleA Sign of Things To Come?
March has arrived, and along with it a remarkable (both for its content and style) dissenting opinion by soon-to-be-Chief Judge Rader at the Federal Circuit. The three Judge panel (consisting of Judges...
View ArticleStatutory Bar Prior Art – Looking For A Test Case
In today’s article, Statutory Bar Prior Art in the Nonobviousness Analysis, Dennis Crouch asks whether anyone has a test case that might test applicability of 102(b), post invention prior art in a...
View ArticleIP Strategists, Huh? What Are They Good For? Useful Tips To Avoid Fattening...
Over at Jane Lambert’s NIPC Law blog, a recent post about IP strategists quotes from Jackie Hutter’s earlier post about what it means to be an IP strategist: An IP Strategist does not advise you to...
View ArticlePatent Connections: A Patent Does Not Protect Your Products
I’ve taken to becoming quite frustrated lately with the propagation of the falsity that filing patents can protect your products. Either this statement is incredibly misleading, or patent attorneys...
View ArticleThis Blog States The Obvious
Obviously, things that are obvious shouldn’t be patentable. Obvious improvements aren’t worthy of patents, instead being reserved for inventors who possess extra-ordinary skill, not merely every Tom,...
View ArticleInterval Licensing Defendants Fail To Identify Prior Art
Patents asserted against Google, AOL, Yahoo and several others were suggested to be “one of the most obvious things out there” according to certain pundits (evidently date stamped repositories of all...
View ArticleSerious Opposition To Patent Reform From California Senators
Proving that patent reform truly is a bi-partisan issue, California Senator’s Boxer and Feinstein boldly challenged fellow Democrat Patrick Leahy’s Patent Reform America Invents Act and its...
View ArticleInventor Of Patented CGI Technique Runs To Court After A Walt Disney Runaround
Joe Alter invented an improved technique for computer generated animation back in 2000, and was awarded US Patent 6,720,962 in 2004. According to Alter’s patent, his invention allows for “creation of a...
View ArticleGoogle Helps Patent Enforcement Companies With New ‘Infringement Finder’
In a rare move, given their previous disdain for intellectual property owners, Google released new enhancements to the free Google Patents search engine to help patent owners–along with lawyers,...
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