The USPTO, U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu and Cedric B. Glover, mayor of the City of Shreveport, are co-sponsoring the Second Annual USPTO Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium. The symposium will focus on women entrepreneurs and the importance of intellectual property (IP) protection to the success of innovative businesses. The symposium will be held from March 25-26, 2012 [...]
The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will offer an awards competition for patent owners and licensees. For over two centuries, strong patents have provided business incentives that encourage technological progress to build our modern world. As we struggle to combat the issues plaguing many of the world’s poor, patents play an [...]
The US Supreme Court today decided in Bilski et al. v. Kappos, that business method patents are eligible subject matter under Section 101 of the Patent Statute 35 USC. Oral arguments were presented on this case in November of last year and the decision has been eagerly awaited by the Patent Bar and by many [...]
Amazon, Google and Facebook have each recently been granted US Patents for social networking related patents. Each of the patents have issued in the wake of the important case of In re Bilske, 545 F.3d 943 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 30, 2008), cert. Granted sub nom. Bilski v. Doll, 129 S. Ct. 2735 (June 1, 2009) [...]
The USPTO has suggested amending any claim that is drawn to a computer readable media that covers both transitory and non-transitory embodiments may be amended to narrow the claim to cover only statutory embodiments to avoid a rejection under 35 USC § 101 by adding the limitation “non transitory” to the claim. The Notice isavailable [...]
