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PTO Asks for Comments on Improving Patent Quality
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| The PTO is on a mission to âimprove the
| quality of the overall patent examination and
| prosecution process, to reduce patent
| application pendency, and to ensure that
| granted patents are valid and provide clear
| notice.â
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/12/pto-asks-for-comments-on-improving-patent-quality.html
Microsoft sued in patent spat
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| A Massachusetts software company filed suit
| in Bostonâs District Court against Microsoft
| Corp., claiming the Redmond software giant
| infringed its patent on a business method for
| extracting data from spreadsheets.
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http://kpbj.com/business_weekly/2009-12-14/microsoft_sued_in_patent_spat
Apple, Others, Hit with Remote App Activation Patent Infringement Suit
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| Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and several other
| companies were hit with a patent infringement
| suit on Monday by BetaNet for violating a
| patent it owns. The case alleges the
| companies are violating a patent that
| describes a process for securely activating
| software remotely, according to The Loop.
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http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_others_hit_with_remote_app_activation_patent_infringement_suit/
Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, others sued for patent infringement
http://www.loopinsight.com/2009/12/14/apple-adobe-microsoft-others-sued-for-patent-infringement/
Recent:
Google Patents Displaying Patents
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| "Google has actually managed to patent
| displaying patents. The USPTO issued US
| Patent No. D603,866 to six Google inventors
| for their 'graphical user interface for
| display screen of a communications
| terminal.' Among the six inventors is the
| guy who introduced Google Patents.
| Ironically, Google Patents can't seem to
| find the new Google patent for Google
| Patents."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2019219/Google-Patents-Displaying-Patents
Amazon Scores Gift-Delivery Patent
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| In May, the USPTO rejected Amazon.com's
| patent claims (PDF) for its Method and
| System for Placing a Purchase Order Via a
| Communications Network (a 1-Click spin-
| off). At the time, a USPTO Examiner cited
| Bilski, explaining that elements of CEO
| Jeff Bezos' gift-delivery invention 'may be
| performed largely within the human mind,'
| coming to essentially the same conclusion a
| NY Post reporter arrived at in 2002. But
| Amazon's attorneys have worked their legal
| wordsmithing magic (PDF), convincing the
| USPTO that 'obtaining delivery information
| for a gift from one or more information
| sources other than the gift giver and
| recipient' is indeed novel and patentable.
| A Notice of Allowance for the patent was
| mailed to Amazon on November 17th, just in
| time for Holiday Season injunction-giving!"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/149216/Amazon-Scores-Gift-Delivery-Patent
Patent That: Reporter Invents Way to Reach PTO Director
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| Journalists who cover Washington know the
| drill: top bureaucrats can be very hard to
| get through to, especially when you need to
| reach them the most.
|
| So when ABA Journal senior writer Terry
| Carter got nowhere in his recent effort to
| reach Patent and Trademark Office director
| David Kappos through spokesman Peter Pappas
| for a story he was writing, he decided on a
| characteristically novel approach: on
| Tuesday he drafted and posted a humorous
| patent application for a "method to get an
| interview with USPTO Director David Kappos."
| Edward Adams, editor and publisher of the
| ABA Journal, wrote in this story at the
| Journal Web site, "We figured the problem
| was that Carter was not speaking the
| agency's language."
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/11/patent-that-reporter-finds-novel-way-to-reach-pto-head.html
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