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alltop1
A new website called Alltop has recently been brought to our attention. Alltop is billed as an “online magazine rack” that aggregates RSS feeds about popular topics. Patent practitioners and inventors may find Patents.Alltop and Innovation.Alltop particularly interesting and useful ...
44allowancerate
There is a new patent blog on the scene, dedicated to a discussion of patent law issues and strategies. The blog is titled Inventive Step and is authored by registered patent attorney Matthew R. Osenga, from Richmond, Virginia. We have been reading Inventive Step posts over the past week or so, an...
Jake Ward
We know keeping track of hit counts is lame. Blah blah blah. Well, lame we shall be in congratulating ourselves on reaching a blog milestone: 100,000 hits! Many thanks to all of our readers who make this patent law blog a success. We hope to continue providing our unique blend of commentary for...
Jake Ward
As a reminder to all practitioners preparing Notices of Appeal and Appeal Briefs for appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), the new BPAI rules take effect December 10, 2008. See our original post concerning the BPAI rules change here. The rules as published may be vi...
Jake Ward
The CAFC hears oral arguments tomorrow, December 5th, in relation to the ruling in Tafas v. Dudas; SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Dudas, which permanently enjoined the USPTO’s claims and continuations rules. In permanently enjoining the claims and continuations rules, Judge Cacheris held that ...
