A lawsuit was filed on Monday in the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging patent infringement by Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for their use of Facebook business pages. Also included as defendants are unnamed does 1-10. The lawsuit alleges infringement of US Patents 6,671,714 and 7,644,122 (’714 [...]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) announced on December 15th that the deadline for filing petitions under the Green Technology Pilot Program, originally set to expire on December 31 of this year, is being extended through March 30, 2012 or until 3,500 applications have been accorded special status under the program, whichever occurs [...]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has amended the rules governing practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board or BPAI) in ex parte patent appeals. The rules apply to patent applications in which an appeal is filed by the applicant because the applicant does not agree with the patent examiner’s [...]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will showcase The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World. The free exhibit will open to the public on November 16 at the USPTO’s campus in Alexandria, Virginia. “This exhibit commemorates the far-reaching impact of Steve Jobs’ entrepreneurship and innovation on [...]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are sponsoring a FREE Inventors Symposium, Thursday, October 27, 2011 and Friday, October 28, 2011. The day and a half long event in the museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium is specially designed for independent inventors and small business entrepreneurs. The Auditorium [...]
