Anticipate This! - Patent and Trademark Law Blog
Anticipate This!™ (AT!) is a patent and trademark law blog providing thought-provoking commentary with a dash of irreverent humor. The authors of this blog are Jacob M. Ward and Michael E. Dockins, both patent attorneys with the law firm of Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC, located outside of Toledo, Ohio.
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Recent Articles
dummy
U.S. Pat. No. 5,320,571: Dummy for use as sham passenger in car. What is claimed is: 1. A dummy for use as a sham passenger in a car, comprising: a head, limbs, and a trunk; wherein said trunk comprises a neck containing therein a retaining disk provided with a serrated portion, a V-shaped c...
Jake Ward
Via the Promote the Progess blog (with hat tip to Filewrapper.com): The United States Patent and Trademark Office today published a Final Rule in the Federal Register that levies a ‘practitioner maintenance fee’ on attorneys and agents recognized to practice before it in patent cases. The new rule r...
ipq
Professor Rob Merges (Berkeley), Professor John Duffy (George Washington), and Professor Doug Lichtman (UCLA), recently recorded a one-hour audio podcast about the In re Bilski decision. The participants are prominent patent academics and have interesting perspectives on the case. Indeed, Profes...
pizzapizza
U.S. Pat. No. 5,508,049: Pizza pie with concentric rings of crust. What is claimed is: 1. A pizza pie, comprising: a substantially flat piece of cooked pizza dough having a predetermined peripheral configuration, said piece of cooked pizza dough having a surface which includes ...
Jake Ward
The applicable test to determine whether a claim is drawn to a patent-eligible process under § 101 is the machine-or-transformation test. (Fed. Cir. 2008, 07-11130, en banc) Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw (collectively, “Applicants”) appealed from the final decision of the BPAI ...
humancircuit
U.S. Pat. No. 6,754,472: Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body. JW Note: Hoping you have a scary and safe Halloween! What is claimed is: 1. A network of devices comprising: a first device for generating a first electrical signal; a second de...
lilshpptohrs
In surfing for a Halloween-themed TIW? patent this morning, we happened across the following USPTO website, titled The Little Shop of Patent and Trademark Horrors. At first blush, one might think this is a clandestine USPTO department responsible for scaring practitioners and developing ghoulish ...
cricketcarnage
U.S. Pat. No. 5,103,585: Cricket gun. What is claimed is: 1. A cricket gun for holding and dispensing crickets comprising a holding container and an intergral chamber with dispensing means; said holding container comprising a removable cap at one end, and a funnel at the opposite end ...
boo
U.S. Pat. No. 6,776,687: Haunting aid. What is claimed is: 1. An entertainment prop comprising: a substantially flat or low-relief backing depicting at least a head of a being and a pair LEDs to simulate eyes, each LED comprising a base positioned adjacent a portion of said backing, each LED f...
Jake Ward
Synopsis: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined ...

