The Patent Office

Type: Company

Name: The Patent Office

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Xi Jinping

Mercury News editorial: Silicon Valley issues demand attention, Mr. President

Welcome to Silicon Valley, Mr. President. Enjoy a break from the Washington battlefield. Bask, however briefly, in the glow of our growing economy and of this state's -- and Santa Clara County's -- all-in embrace of health care reform. We know that's ... [Published San Jose Mercury News - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Silicon Valley, Mercury, China, Xi Jinping, Sequester

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

White House Plan Cracks Down on Patent Trolls

Updated: 9 hours agoThe White House today took aim at patent trolls, unveiling several executive orders and legislative recommendations intended to prevent frivolous lawsuits and improve the quality of the U.S. patent system.The five executive orders ... [Published Ecoustics.com - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Patent Troll, Patent, White House

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

White House Plan Cracks Down on Patent Trolls

The White House today took aim at patent trolls, unveiling several executive orders and legislative recommendations intended to prevent frivolous lawsuits and improve the quality of the U.S. patent systems.The five executive orders call on the Patent ... [Published PC Magazine - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Patent, Patent Troll, White House

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

What happens to fresh ideas

Bernadette was living on the mainland years ago when a package of stuff arrived from the mainland and most of it was broken. And she thought it would be a useful business in Hawaii to make and ship - properly - care packages for Hawaii expats who need ... [Published Hawaii News Now - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Patent, Scott Adams, Vienna, Florence, The Patent Office

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

Guest post: Is the first-inventor-to-file system constitutional?

Central provisions of the America Invents Act, which went into effect on March 16 2013, transitioned US patent law from a first-to-invent system to a first-inventor-to-file system. This historic change more closely aligned US patent law with other patent ... [Published Managing IP - May 30 2013]

Entities: Patent, Invention, First To File

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

http://www.iam-magazine.com/reports/Detail.aspx?g=56347fc0-ad69-4075-9f06-f38ea9ab1567

April 2013 was a frenetic month of patenting activity in Australia. New data from the Australian Patent Office illustrates the profound effect of recent patent law reform on the number of requests for examination. The data is presented below.ReformsThe ... [Published Intellectual Asset Management - May 29 2013]

Entities: Patent, The Patent Office, Reformism, Deadline

First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 3 reports

Apple Inc

Google’s Motorola wins patent for octagon smartphone shape

If you thought the era of silly shape patents was over, don’t hold your breath. Months after Apple used a patent for rounded rectangles to chase away iPad competitors, Motorola has received a patent for an eight-sided cellphone design. The Patent Office ... [Published TheAppleBlog - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Patent, Apple Inc, Smartphone, Design Patent, Google Inc

Quotes

...According to President Obama, however, the AIA "only went about halfway to where we need to go."

White House Plan Cracks Down on Patent Trolls [Published PC Magazine - Jun 04 2013]

Under its Customer Service Charter, the Patent Office aims to "examine and issue first [examination] reports on applications for standard patents within twelve months of receiving the request for examination" . For patents granted in 2012, the average period was 11 months (according to the recently released Australian Intellectual Property Report 2013)...

http://www.iam-magazine.com/reports/Detail.aspx?g=56347fc0-ad69-4075-9f06-f38ea9ab1567 [Published Intellectual Asset Management - May 29 2013]

...IPAB upheld its decision on November 26 not to grant AstraZeneca a patent claim in 2007 due to lack of invention. "We are disappointed by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board's decision. We are confident in the validity of the claims in this patent application and are now evaluating our next steps" AstraZeneca said in a statement

Natco Pharmaceuticals shares rise after IPAB dismisses AstraZeneca appeal [Published Topnews.in - Nov 29 2012]

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Argument preview: The right to study genes [Published SCOTUSblog - Apr 10 2013] At 10 a.m. next Monday, the Supreme Court will hold a sixty-five-minute oral argument on the control, through patent ownership, of research studies on human genes taken out of the body. Arguing against such patents in the case of Association for Molecular ...
Google’s Motorola wins patent for octagon smart... [Published TheAppleBlog - Mar 21 2013] If you thought the era of silly shape patents was over, don’t hold your breath. Months after Apple used a patent for rounded rectangles to chase away iPad competitors, Motorola has received a patent for an eight-sided cellphone design. The Patent Office ...
Google’s Motorola wins patent for octagon smart... [Published GigaOM - Mar 21 2013] If you thought the era of silly shape patents was over, don’t hold your breath. Months after Apple used a patent for rounded rectangles to chase away iPad competitors, Motorola has received a patent for an eight-sided cellphone design. The Patent Office ...
Google’s Motorola wins patent for octagon smart... [Published GigaOM Network - Mar 21 2013] If you thought the era of silly shape patents was over, don’t hold your breath. Months after Apple used a patent for rounded rectangles to chase away iPad competitors, Motorola has received a patent for an eight-sided cellphone design. The Patent Office ...