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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: September 2009
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Displaying web page creation date in google. You're practicing a little Google-fu to figure something out, and the top few results look like they're exactly what you're looking for. The problem: When you get to the page, they're completely outdated. 6 Know Statutes well.
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: December 2008
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Http:/ www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/preognotice/section 101 05 15 2008.pdf. Office claims only "functional descriptive material.". I would then point out that Benson recognized a "digital" computer as being a particular machine distinct from an analog computer a...
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: January 2009
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Saturday, January 3, 2009. Don't delete dependent claims, just add new dependent claims. If dependent claims are allowed, add them separately to independent claims, pay for the extra independent claims, if necessary. Claims 1-4, 6-10, and 28-33. Specification p. 17, lines 7-19. Rojewski discusses pro...
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: August 2009
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Thursday, August 27, 2009. Http:/ www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/interim-guidelines-on-statutory-subject-matter.html#comments. Monday, August 24, 2009. Don't just assert cited references don't show all claim elements. Specifically, with respect to claims. Labels: Office action checklist. We have al...
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: Copyright outline
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Monday, September 21, 2009. Christopher S. Lee. 3 Apply CR Act to problems. 6 Know Statutes well. Answers to Frequent Asked Questions. 2 CR does NOT protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation. 3 CR may protect the way things are expressed. 5 Reasons to Register CR. 11 The creator of an or...
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: Hyatt v. Kappos or Sec. 145 is more interesting than you thought
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Sunday, March 13, 2011. Hyatt v. Kappos or Sec. 145 is more interesting than you thought. The Federal Circult en banc decision in Hyatt v. Kappos 625 F. 3d 1320 concerns a hithertofore obscure section of 35 USC, the 35 USC 145. Civil action to obtain patent, which reads, in part:. My partner and I ab...
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: January 2010
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Monday, January 18, 2010. Europeans never discovered the moldboard plow. Creating a new thing is difficult, even when similar things exist in a culture. From the book 1491. Thanks to Google books for the citation. Labels: Invention is difficult. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). BPAI Opinion - Precedential.
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: I'll show you my affinity if you show me yours.
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Sunday, March 13, 2011. I'll show you my affinity if you show me yours. Microsoft has filed a patent application. That allows users of a dating site to indicate hidden interests. A user can then find matches based on these otherwise unseen preferences. As the patent says:. July 19, 2012 at 1:03 AM.
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: Preamble techniques.
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Monday, November 16, 2009. Any extra word in a claim "can and will be used against you in a court of law." Thus on the one hand, recitations in a detailed preamble may unduly limit the claim in unintended ways. By contrast, a generic preamble can never get you in trouble in that regard. A semi-rigid ...
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Patent tips, some useful, some not.: July 2009
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Patent tips, some useful, some not. This little blog is a way to keep track of useful, specific patent information in this rapidly changing world. It's not actual legal advice, however. Use at your own risk. Friday, July 31, 2009. No software means plus function claims anymore. Http:/ www.patentlyo.com/08-1368.pdf. Important for patent drafter, means-plus-function claims require disclosure in the specification even if the means are already well known in the art. O]nce the claims are properly construed, t...