PTO invents perpetual spam machine
Patently-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... Read more
Tag: Patents
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
You bet your BIPO!
Here’s a new patent blog from J. Matthew Buchanan of BIPO. UPDATE: Never mind. No posts since last December. Originally posted 2011-11-24 14:46:07. Republished by... Read more
Patent medicine
Victoria Pynchon collects and reflects on some of the recent thinking about whether patent litigation makes any sense for anyone besides patent ligitators. Originally posted... Read more
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”?” Originally posted... Read more
Experimental use exception to patent infringement
I get press releases. And, the fact is, I usually read them, eventually. A few days ago I got one, same as the page at... Read more
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. Originally posted 2010-04-13 09:52:45. Republished by Blog Post... Read more
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... Read more
EU Not Soft on Patents
Matt Sheffield reports: Software Patents Rejected by EU. (Hat tip to Dean Esmay.) If you’ve read the blog before you know what I think about... Read more
Patents Must be “Severely Defective” to be Adjudged “Indefinite”
Speaking of the Patently-O patent law blog, let’s learn a little patent law. It’s been a while since law school. The claims in a patent... Read more