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Patent Office Working to Streamline Application Process
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| In a Mercury News piece at
| SiliconValley.com, writer Chris O'Brien
| details a conversation he had with U.S.
| Patent and Trademark Office director David
| Kappos. Even Kappos admits the system is
| broken. "We are trying to work our way
| through a broken system," he told O'Brien.
| The goal is to improve the average time
| between application and approval from the
| typical three and a half years (which is
| how long Facebook waited for approval of
| its news feed patent) to a single year.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/patent-office-working-to-streamline-application-process/?cs=39796
Post-Peer Review
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| The first change is that it looks like the
| Patent Office is going to open up the
| patent approval process in a pilot program
| by allowing for a sort of peer review using
| evidence of prior art or prior patents to
| be submitted to disqualify a current patent
| application filing.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10015227o-2000440676b,00.htm
Claim Deconstruction: New Patent Language Compendium a Boon to IP Lawyers
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| Last year, The Prior Art covered Garrod's
| side project, an unusual one for a PubPat
| attorney: he owns a patent-holding company,
| Bedrock Computer Technologies, which has
| enforced a software patent by suing several
| technology companies in East Texas.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202445337914&Claim_Deconstruction_New_Patent_Language_Compendium_a_Boon_to_IP_Lawyers
Sawyer Opines on the Eastern District of Texas
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| My friend Sawyer is back with another post
| in his series of talking about software
| patent issues. As I mentioned before,
| Sawyer is a real person named after our
| intrepid friend in LOST (I havenât seen it
| this week â no spoilers please) who has
| agreed to help us navigate the parallel
| universe known as software patent land.
| Iâm channeling Sawyerâs points of view as a
| public service announcement since heâs
| uncomfortable being named publicly â these
| are his words, not mine. Todayâs post is
| on the famed âEastern District of Texasâ
| (EDTX), one of the most popular places in
| the United States for patent litigation.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=358&bpid=24884
Commons Sense
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| One of my recurring frustrations in making
| my case against gene patents is the failure
| by some to grasp the argument I am trying
| to make regarding the nature of "the
| commons". Perhaps I have been unclear, or
| maybe the approach I am taking to property
| law and justice is too far afield from
| those more frequently made to be
| immediately understood. Yesterday, however,
| I gave a guest lecture in an ethics course
| for ICT students (software programmers,
| mostly), and gained a lot from the
| experience. These students not only grasped
| the argument, but embraced it, and helped
| to clarify a subtlety that I need to
| elaborate upon in defining the "commons by
| necessity" that I believe genes and other
| parts of the universe belong to.
|
| Briefly, to summarize, I argue that the
| justice of property rights derives from the
| logical and practical ability of people to
| enclose a space, and the need for a rival
| to use violence to dispossess a possessor
| of the space. Thus, property rights in land
| and movables are grounded in these brute
| facts. There is no such grounding for
| intellectual property rights. Moreover,
| there are parts of the universe that cannot
| be justly owned, and IP claims over these
| "commons by necessity" are unjust. These
| are parts of the universe which cannot be
| held exclusively by anyone, as a matter of
| brute fact. Examples include: the laws of
| nature, radio spectra, and genes which are
| de facto unencloseable. My thanks to
| Stephan Kinsella who helped me to realize
| that this applies, actually, to all ideas,
| and thus makes all IP law a similar
| incursion on an unencloseable commons by
| necessity.
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http://whoownsyou-drkoepsell.blogspot.com/2010/03/commons-sense.html
Recent:
How Hard Is It To Realize That One-Click Buying Doesn't Deserve A Patent?
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| Amazon and Jeff Bezos (who a decade ago was
| a founder of a project to bust bogus
| patents) have aggressively fought to keep
| the patent alive. And so we've now entered
| the fifth year of the review process, which
| seems to involve some rather annoyed USPTO
| patent examiners, who are fed up with what
| appears to be Amazon simply dumping
| busywork on the examiners to avoid a final
| rejection of the patent.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100223/0249208265.shtml
Questions for Microsoft
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| You can imagine my laughter when Microsoft
| was declared by the courts to have violated
| a patent in their OOXML file formats. The
| patent owners, i4i of Canada, asked the
| courts to have Microsoft remove the
| features that were found to be in violation
| of i4i's patents.
|
| Now, what about all the customers that
| chose to use Microsoft's Office product
| just to get the OOXML feature? If they
| suffer loss because of this Microsoft
| compensate them? What about the documents
| they created with OOXML, will they have to
| be converted? What about the people that
| refuse to let Microsoft remove the patent
| violating code to protect their investments
| and documents? Could i4i sue them?
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http://brentrbrian.blogspot.com/2010/02/questions-for-microsoft.html
Amazon Refuses To Give In; Appeals One-Click Patent Rejection In Canada
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091023/1847116662.shtml
Amazon appeals rejection of its "One Click" patent
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=075bab6f-ee9d-4e7f-96e3-897497cd7fff&utm_source=Lexology%20Daily%20Newsfeed&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Lexology%20subscriber%20daily%20feed&utm_content=Lexology%20Daily%20Newsfeed%202009-10-22&utm_term=
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