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[News] More Evidence That United States PTO is Broken

  • Subject: [News] More Evidence That United States PTO is Broken
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 18:36:59 +0100
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Should A Toy Plane Get More Intellectual Property Protection Than A Real Plane?

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| However, as Ray Dowd at the Copyright 
| Litigation blog points out, this creates a 
| bizarre situation where the inventor of an 
| actual airplane might only get 20 years 
| protection via a patent... but the maker of 
| a toy knockoff of that real airplane?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100506/0206589317.shtml

Conyers: Patent Talks Appear 'Stalled'

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| House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-
| Mich., said Wednesday that talks on 
| addressing concerns he and other House 
| Judiciary members have raised about a 
| Senate compromise patent overhaul bill 
| appear to be "stalled."
| 
| The patent bill "seems to be stalled 
| somewhere between the House and Senate," 
| Conyers said during a hearing on the Patent 
| and Trademark Office. He said after the 
| hearing that he and ranking member Lamar 
| Smith, R-Texas, and Judiciary members are 
| considering offering a standalone bill on 
| one of the less controversial provisions in 
| the Senate compromise to allow the PTO to 
| set its own fees and to bar Congress from 
| diverting fee revenues to other government 
| programs.
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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/05/conyers-patent-talks-appear-st.php

Patent Reform Bill May Have Stalled Out

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100506/0256349319.shtml


Recent:

Patent Resources Groupâs Unique Panel Discussion on Reforming or Abolishing the U.S. Patent System Is Coming Soon

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| Patent Resources Group (PRG), the nationâs
| leading patent educator, will be hosting a
| panel discussion on âThe Future of U.S.
| Patent Lawâ on June 11, 2010 in Washington,
| DC. This in-depth, one-day event, offered in
| partnership with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
| PC, will bring together some of the best
| minds in intellectual property to inform,
| discuss, and debate the future of U.S.
| patent law. The one-of-a-kind program will
| include brief lectures, lively panel
| discussions, and audience participation.
|
| Major topics will include:
|
|     * U.S. patent reform
|     * Latest developments at, and tensions
|     between, the U.S. Supreme Court and the
|     U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
|     Circuit
|     * Approaches to improve pendency and
|     efficiency at the USPTO
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http://networkedblogs.com/2RBb1


Seven Patent Reforms While We Wait For Nirvana

http://webmink.com/2010/04/14/seven-patent-reforms-while-we-wait-for-nirvana/


Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed

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| Zordak writes "Amazon's infamous '1-click'
| patent has been in reexamination at the
| USPTO for almost four years. Patently-O now
| reports that 'the USPTO confirmed the
| patentability of original claims 6-10 and
| amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-
| of amendment adds the seeming trivial
| limitation that the one-click system
| operates as part of a 'shopping cart model.'
| Thus, to infringe the new version of the
| patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a
| shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click)
| alongside of the 1-click version. Because
| most retail eCommerce sites still use the
| shopping cart model, the added limitation
| appears to have no practical impact on the
| patent scope.'"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/10/1950246/Amazon-1-Click-Patent-Survives-Almost-Unscathed
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