Experimental use exception to patent infringement
Ron ColemanI get press releases. And, the fact is, I usually read them, eventually. A few days ago I got one, same as the page at this link, announcing as follows:…
The “Rube Goldberg” of sanctions motions
Woodrow Pollock reports on the “the Rube Goldberg” of sanctions motions in an IP case — a skein of intertwined Rule 11 motions, counter-motions and what-have-you’s over whether due diligence…
Best of 2011: Talking the talk
First posted August 7, 2011. The Android talk, that is. Tech News World asked me a couple of days ago about whether it wasn’t pretty unusual to see parties to…
Patents explained
No, not by me, for heaven’s sake! I took the patent law course, yes, but I wouldn’t presume to teach it. They’re explained by Arizona IP lawyer Tom Galvani. (Yes,…
Oh, won’t you stay?
Say you will? The judge politely declined, actually — per our suggestion. Read all about the happy outcome, and other yeoman work from the self-promotion-with-dignity crowd, at JD Scoop. 😉…
You bet your BIPO!
Here’s a new patent blog from J. Matthew Buchanan of BIPO. UPDATE: Never mind. No posts since last December.
Patent medicine
Ron ColemanVictoria Pynchon collects and reflects on some of the recent thinking about whether patent litigation makes any sense for anyone besides patent ligitators.
Patent reform
I joke about patents here, but it’s from love, believe me. If you have anything to do with intellectual property law, however, you are likely to get buttonholed by someone…
Don’t play games!
Nolo’s Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Blog links to this story here in answering the question, “How do I create a non-infringing board game”?”
PTO invents perpetual spam machine
Ron ColemanPatently-O publishes a rather ambitious patent application that could actually make that mainstay of PTO rejection fodder, perpetual motion machines, look quite reasonable: “Chris Roller wants exclusive right to the…
Google Patents
Search patents on Google. A paradigm shifter? Maybe. May very well be. UPDATE: Dennis Crouch explains: One problem: Google is best at finding the top-twenty references related to your search.…
Name that geek
Dennis Crouch of the Patently-O blog did a cool little experiment. A professor of law at Boston University and a practicing patent lawyer, he’d be the first to admit this…
McDonald’s considers IP protection for anticipated move into sale of actual food
The story they’re all talking about on barely-middlebrow talk radio today: McDonalds tries to patent sandwich-making — or, rather, a sandwich-making McGuffin for its Egg McMuffin. We’re not bluffin’! This…
Patent trolls (NB: this is not about patent lawyers)
Dean Esmay has a link, and then some, on patent trolling, including an ethnic angle of interest.