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Let’s suppose you come across a patent and you know that the should not have been issued (either you know some prior art or you have some [...]
January 21, 2011
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While doing some prior art search, I came up with the following two IBM patents: 7137062 (System and method for hierarchical segmentation with [...]
January 20, 2011
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I wasn’t going to write about the Hatch-Waxman experimental use exception, but I changed my mind after I read an article about the [...]
January 19, 2011
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In Part 1 I wrote that there are actually two doctrines with the same name: the one that handles patentability and the one that handles [...]
January 18, 2011
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There are actually two doctrines with this name – one that handles patentability and one that handles infringement cases. Today I will post [...]
January 17, 2011
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While, these days, most web-articles referring to Google talk about Android or open source video codecs, an interesting case was settled at the [...]
January 16, 2011
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I began the year with an article about USPTO’s website survey and finished the post with this: Given that, in my opinion, the user [...]
January 15, 2011
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BPAI – Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. This is the first Board you appeal to when there’s no reasoning with the [...]
January 14, 2011
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A complete answer to this question could cover a book chapter, but I will try to resume the essential here. Of course it’s a troll and it [...]
January 13, 2011
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You have a technology and you want to see if you can get patent protection for it. Let’s suppose that your prior art search is very [...]
January 12, 2011