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2004–2006

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December 2006

  1. Patently-O is Closed for the Season
  2. Women as Patentees
  3. Lw v shertech f
  4. Plumtree: DJ Jurisdiction, On-Sale Bar
  5. Judge Moore Opinions: Short, Focused, and To-The-Point
  6. Microsoft v. AT&T: Transnational Patent Law At The Supreme Court
  7. Inducement Requires Knowledge of The Patent and Culpable Mens Rea
  8. Even under DOE, “predetermined” combo must be determined beforehand
  9. The Best Christmas Present
  10. Search Patents Via Google
  11. USPTO Announces Release of Private PAIR 7.0: Live Online Launch and Training
  12. Unjust Enrichment For Stealing Ideas Does Not Create Patent Jurisdiction
  13. PatentDocs: Biotech & Pharma
  14. In Preliminary Injunction Decision, CAFC Forecasts Post-eBay Jurisprudence
  15. IPO Supports Attorney Fee-Shifting, Opposes PTO Authority
  16. Court Retains Article III Jurisdiction To Determine Attorney Fees
  17. What’s in a name?

November 2006

  1. Revising the Northern District of California’s Local Patent Rules
  2. Are Design Patents Worthless? Preliminary Injunction Vacated
  3. 02 micro v mono
  4. Obviousness: Skill in the Art Avoids Death Ray
  5. Doctrine of Equivalents, Avoiding the Tronzo-Trap
  6. Pharmaceutical Patent Doctrine of Equivalents Survives Challenge
  7. Claim Term Limited to “Scoop of the Invention”
  8. Filing of Sequence Listings on EFS-Web Version 1.1
  9. Hindsight Bias
  10. Upcoming Events
  11. New Appreciation of Composition’s Properties are Not Patentable
  12. Election punditry on Patent Reform
  13. GO GO GO JOSEPH, Reject That Business Method
  14. Encouraging Consumer Suits
  15. Caution: Disclosure of Opinion’s Conclusions Waived Attorney-Client Privilege

October 2006

  1. Patently-O TidBits
  2. Boo
  3. Ny times editor
  4. Parallel Finding of Invalidity Did Not Relieve Licensee’s Pressure to Pay Royalties for Urinary Catheter Patent
  5. Evidence Based Prosecution: Non-Patent Prior Art Leads to Rejections
  6. Microsoft v. AT&T: Export and Sale of Components of Patented Software
  7. Accelerated Examination: PTO Training Session
  8. Patent Reform and Foreign-Originated Patents.
  9. USPTO Survey
  10. Book Review: Errors and Omissions
  11. Arbitration: Incorporation of AAA rules in license creates clear and unmistakable intent to arbitrate
  12. E.D. Tex.: Halliburton’s Fragile Gel Patent Found Indefinite
  13. Evidence Based Prosecution V: Business Method Rejections
  14. Evidence Based Prosecution IV: Business Method PAIR Entries
  15. Patent Term Adjustment for Fun and Profit
  16. CAFC Reverses Medrad Reissue Case
  17. Patently-O TidBits
  18. CAFC OK’s Fee-Based Regulation at PTO
  19. PTO Registration Examination on-paper Summer 2007.
  20. More Patently-O TidBits
  21. PTO Practice: Reexamination Scope Limited to Specifically Questioned Claims
  22. Patently-O TidBits
  23. Damages: Jury’s Award of Both Patent And Trademark Damages Was Impermissible Double Recovery
  24. Amazing List of Upcoming Patent Conferences
  25. CAFC: Suggestion-Test Has Been Flexibly Applied For Decades
  26. LegalMojo: Legal Jobs
  27. PTO’s Claim Construction Given No Weight at CAFC
  28. Evidence Based Prosecution III: Publishing Patent Applications

September 2006

  1. DC’s Prescription Drug Excessive Pricing Act of 2005, Down But Not Out
  2. Pfizer Agrees Not To Sue Apotex on Zoloft Patents
  3. Evidence Based Prosecution II: Independent and Dependent Claims
  4. Section 295 Non-Infringement Burden Shifting: Does Not Require Evidence Where Non-infringement is Clear
  5. USPTO Disciplinary Actions
  6. Should software code be included in patent applications?
  7. Evidence Based Prosecution I: Sensitivity to Claim Fee Variation
  8. CAFC: Reissue Recapture Rule is “Objective”
  9. Voting Rights
  10. New Patent Law Scholarship
  11. Free PLI Briefing on Patent Bar Exam
  12. Patently-O TidBits and Reader Poll #1
  13. CAFC: Means-Plus-Function Interpretations Absent Trigger Language
  14. Patent Reform
  15. Patent Lotteries: A Question for the Crowd
  16. Judge Kimberly A. Moore
  17. Upcoming Conferences
  18. Obviousness: Motivation to Combine References Found in Expert Testimony
  19. Professor Kimberly Moore Unanimously Confirmed
  20. eBay v. MercExchange Unanswered Question
  21. Enjoy the Weekend

August 2006

  1. EchoStar v. TiVo Patent Case Stayed Pending Inter Partes Reexamination
  2. CAFC and the Nebulous Motivation to Modify
  3. Scherer on Compulsory Licensing
  4. Anticipated by the Internet
  5. CAFC Condones District Court Preliminary Injunction Jurisdiction Despite Ongoing ITC Exclusion Order
  6. Statistical Interlude: First 100 Published Applications
  7. Litigation Misconduct and Enhanced Damages
  8. Patent Reform Bills: Do Not Forget the Details
  9. Specific Exclusion Exception to the Doctrine of Equivalence
  10. Patently-O: Judge Takes Stand Against Forum Shopping
  11. Presumption of Irreparable Harm
  12. Injunction Granted to TiVo; Injunction Denied in Favor of Toyota.
  13. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Patents Survive Appeal
  14. “Consisting Of” Claim Transition Does Not Exclude Unclaimed Impurities
  15. Federal Court Rejects Jurisdiction Over Inventorship Claim
  16. Object when jury instructions include disputed claim constructions
  17. Noonan’s Corner Office: Amgen v. HMR
  18. States Win Two 11th Amendment Immunity Dismissals
  19. CAFC reopens case for determination on fraudulent expert reports
  20. Improper claim structure invalidates patent
  21. Injunction Denied — Compulsory License Granted

July 2006

  1. Appeals Court orders Eolas v. Microsoft Patent Case to be Reassigned
  2. PVPA Not Infringed When Seller Lacked Knowledge
  3. Patent Reform: Issa’s Litigation Pilot Gains Support (HR 5418)
  4. Settlement Creates Unchallengable Claim Construction
  5. Book Review: Anonymous Lawyer
  6. Book Review: Innovation and its Discontents
  7. Via blaugh and
  8. Continuation Change Timeline / Upcoming Conference
  9. How to Manage Outside Counsel (A patent).
  10. Interference: Late Claim Loses the Game
  11. Foreign Soverign Immunity Waived By Patent License Negotiations
  12. Delay alone cannot constitute intentional concealment
  13. Noonan’s Corner Office: IDS Rule Changes
  14. Method Claims Not Exhausted By Sale of Patented Device
  15. eBay v. MercExchange — on Remand
  16. The Marking Statute of § 287(a) Requires Internet Vendors of Downloadable Patented Software To Mark Their Websites
  17. Forum Shopping in Patent Cases
  18. Happy Fourth-of-July

June 2006

  1. Small Entity Status — be careful of non-exclusive licenses.
  2. Bruckelmyer Stands — Expands Scope of Available Prior Art
  3. Red Hat Faces Patent Infringement Suit
  4. Paxil Patent Case: New Mandate
  5. Jury Trial Not Required For Inequitable Conduct Issues
  6. In its first post-eBay injunction decision, CAFC vacated Abbott’s preliminary injunction
  7. CAFC: Use of Phrase “This Invention” Limits Claim Scope
  8. A patent success story
  9. Metabolite Discussions
  10. Question: Intentionally Obscure Prior Art
  11. Meet me at the ABA 2006 Summer IPL Conference June 21 in Boston
  12. Greg Aharonian’s Public Comments on the PTO’s Interim Guidelines for Patentable Subject Matter
  13. Citation of Unpublished Opinions
  14. eBay Casualty: E.D. Texas Court Denies Injunctive Relief to Halt Microsoft’s Infringing Activities
  15. Primos v. Hunter: No Festo Estoppel When Newly Added Term is Found in the Accused Product
  16. Interim Method Examination Guidelines
  17. Patent Trolls: Fact or Fiction
  18. NTP Continues to Trouble Patent Office
  19. PTO: First Office Action Expected Fall 2019.
  20. Upcoming FDA Conference and other TidBits
  21. CAFC Denies Pro Se Intervenor Rights
  22. Patents: Xerox v. 3Com
  23. A nice pat on the back:
  24. Court Order Dismissing Patent Suit Does Not Trigger 180-Day Exclusivity Period Under Hatch-Waxman
  25. Settlement and Stipulated Dismissal (with prejudice) Precludes Later Validity Challenge
  26. Conference: PLI Webcast on eBay v. MercExchange
  27. Inventor’s Post-filing Publication Disparaging Invention Leaves Patent Unenforceable
  28. NonInfringement Opinion Discounted By Lack of Disclosure Evidence
  29. Biotech: Written Description Does Not Require Recitation Of A Known Structure
  30. CAFC “Clarifies” Design Patent Jurisprudence but Denies Rehearing En Banc

May 2006

  1. Claim Construction: Similar Terms in Continuation Given Identical Meaning
  2. Scholarship: Patent Thickets See a New Light
  3. Professor Kimberly Moore Receives Nomination to Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  4. Patently-O Tidbits
  5. CAFC Refines Function-Way-Result Test of Infringement
  6. Supreme Court Vacates eBay Injunction
  7. Heres a total fluff article
  8. BPAI Decisions
  9. What is a patent troll?
  10. Philips v. AWH Takes a Casualty: “interface” construed as “parallel bus interface.”
  11. Patents are Still “Very Important”
  12. Patently-O TidBits
  13. DJ Counterclaims Allow Adjudication of Invalidity Counterclaims Even After Noninfringement Decision
  14. Book Review: Pharmaceutical Patent Law
  15. In re EchoStar: Opinion Waiver Does Not Extend To Work Product Never Communicated To The Client
  16. Blogger Defamation Litigation
  17. Editorial: The Orange Book Should Include Process Patents or Be Eliminated
  18. Patently-O TidBits
  19. Expert Testimony Not Required for Infringement Finding
  20. Should the Patent Office Kill Late Claiming?: Proposed Continuation Change

April 2006

  1. USPTO Continuation Rule Changes
  2. Supreme Court Moves Toward Hearing AT&T v. Microsoft Software Export Case
  3. CAFC’s Jurisdiction Extends to Settlement Disputes Where Settlement References the Patent Act
  4. Judge Linn Dissent: File Wrapper Should Not Serve as Prior Art
  5. Unpublished Foreign Patent Application Invalidates Later Filed Patent
  6. LiveBlogging The Blog Law Conference
  7. In Lava Trading Dissent, Judge Mayer Laments de Novo Review
  8. Claims Should be Construed within the Context of the Accused Device
  9. After Winning Jury Verdict, RealNetwork Speaks-Out for Patent Reform
  10. Constitutionality of Andrew Corp. v. Beverly Mfg.
  11. Terminal Disclaimer Does Not Negate Patent Term Extension
  12. CAFC Oral Arguments Available in MP3 Format
  13. Noninfringement Opinions Excluded Based on Attorney Conflict of Interest
  14. Unpublished Opinions Will Be Citable
  15. Conflicts of Interest in Patent Prosecution
  16. Movie Review: Envy — an inventor’s story
  17. CAFC: Damage Recovery for Infringing Sales Precluded Later Recovery for Infringing Use
  18. Patent Advisory Committee Nominations
  19. Federal Circuit Immigration Appeal: A Modest Proposal
  20. Personal Jurisdiction over Patent Holder Arises Based on Licensee’s Activities
  21. Patent Legislation: PDQ Act of 2006
  22. Agreed-upon Claim Construction from Settlement Agreement Goes Unchallenged by CAFC
  23. New Blog: Jim Hawes’ IP Thoughts
  24. Joint Patent Infringement Occurs When Infringement Results From Participation and Combined Action Of Multiple Parties
  25. Upcoming CLE’s
  26. CAFC: Patent Rights are Not Protected by the Fifth Amendment
  27. Amazon avoids infringement of on-demand book printing patent
  28. Federal Circuit Further Limits Doctrine of Equivalents under “Specific Exclusion” Principle

March 2006

  1. Reimportation of Grey Market Goods can be Stopped Only When Materially Different from “Substantially All” Authorized US Versions
  2. EBay v. MercExchange Oral Arguments
  3. How to Make an Obviousness Determination
  4. Ebay v. MercExchange In The News
  5. Design Patent Point-of-Novelty Test Questioned in Appeal
  6. 271(d)(5) Defines A Patent Misuse Safeharbor, But Does Not Define Misuse Itself
  7. CAFC: Failure to submit full translation of prior art reference did not satisfy intent requirement of inequitable conduct
  8. Japanese Patent Attorney / Client Privilege Extends to U.S. Litigation
  9. Construing Claims “Without Reference to the Accused Device” Is Put to the Test
  10. The Next CAFC Judge
  11. CAFC: What Evidence Does an Accused Infringer Need for Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement?
  12. BPAI’s factual findings affirmed when based on more than a mere scintilla of evidence
  13. CAFC: Claimed “Acid” Precludes Coverage for “Salts”
  14. Trademark: Product Design Trade Dress Need Not Implicate Entire Product
  15. CAFC May Hear Immigration Cases
  16. Continued Distribution of Brochures and Instructions Insufficient to Create SJ Jurisdiction
  17. Patently-O Tidbits
  18. Claim Preamble Is Limiting When It Recites Essential Structure of the Invention
  19. File Your Patents Electronically
  20. Supreme Court on the March
  21. Book Review: Patents and How to Get One
  22. Ebay v. MercExchange: EBay’s Reply Brief
  23. Threats Against Customers Do Not Create Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction
  24. CAFC Endorses Summary Judgment of NonInfringement Without Markman Hearing
  25. USPTO Seeks Suggestions for Strategic Plan
  26. Ebay v. MercExchange: The Law of Patent Injunctions
  27. Phillips v. AWH: Aftermath
  28. USPTO Claim Language Interpretation: Must be “Reasonable” in Light of All the Evidence
  29. Comments On the PTO’s Proposed Change in Continuation Practice
  30. Patently-O TidBits — King of the Submarine.
  31. USPTO’s Electronic Initiatives
  32. DRM Allowed Once Again in France
  33. Senate Proposal Would Limit 30-Month Automatic Stay of ANDA Approval
  34. Shape Blog — Thinking Outside the Box
  35. Design Patent: Ordinary Observer Test Must Examine Design as a Whole
  36. CAFC Affirms dismissal of German claims
  37. THE WAR IS OVER: NTP and RIM Settle.
  38. How do Your Arguments Look in the Mirror?
  39. Patently-O E-mail Distribution Notice
  40. Supreme Court Eliminates Presumption of Market Power in Patent Antitrust Cases
  41. Does the Wall Street Journal Understand Patent Law?
  42. CAFC: The difference between permissible repair and impermissible reconstruction cannot turn on minor details

February 2006

  1. Patently-O Scholars
  2. CAFC: Gross Negligence Does Not Constitute Inequitable Conduct
  3. Website: Comprehensive Intellectual Property Law Book Reviews
  4. Supreme Court Asked To Determine Extraterritorial Scope of U.S. Patent Laws
  5. Product-by-Process Patent Must be Directed to New Product
  6. NTP v. RIM — Pending Injunction
  7. Supreme Court to Determine Licensee’s Right to Sue for Declaratory Judgment of Invalidity or NonInfringement
  8. New IP Blogs
  9. Design Patents: References are Properly Combined in Point of Novelty Test Without Motivation
  10. Supreme Court Denies Phillips v. AWH Petition for Certiorari
  11. President’s Day Patent
  12. Book Review: Math You Can’t Use
  13. J. Newman: Inequitable Conduct Charges Again on the Rise
  14. PTO Requests Model of Warp Drive Invention
  15. Patentee Must Disclose Affiliations of Declarants
  16. Patent Cases in the Northern District of Illinois
  17. Appellate Procedure: No Cross-Claims for Winning Party on Winning Issues
  18. Knorr-Bremse does not Preclude Inference of Reckless Behavior for Failure to Obtain Opinion
  19. Court Reverses Claim Construction that Placed “Too Much Emphasis on the Ordinary Meaning”
  20. Court Upholds Dual Patent/Copyright Protection for Software
  21. Happy Valentine’s Day
  22. Blogging Law and Blogging for Lawyers
  23. CAFC Explains Materiality Standard for Inequitable Conduct
  24. Patently-O TidBits
  25. Neither Poetry nor Bankruptcy Avoids Patent Infringement Damages
  26. Non-Resident Alien Patent Attorneys and Agents are Entitled to Limited Recognition but not Full Registration
  27. Non-Inventors Sloppy Lab Notebook Cannot Corroborate Reduction to Practice
  28. CAFC: Diligence Easier to Prove than Conception
  29. Beware of Overshooting the Mark Set by Phillips v. AWH
  30. Misleading prophetic examples only marginally relevant to materiality in inequitable conduct review
  31. Hamlet, on filing a response with the USPTO

January 2006

  1. EBay v. MercExchange: Stay of Injunction Pending Appeal
  2. Review: EBay v. MercExchange Amici Briefs
  3. Patent Examiners Should Interpret Claims In Light of Specification
  4. Patently-O Tidbits
  5. eBay Questions “Nearly-Automatic” Availability of Patent Injunctions
  6. Indefinite Claims: Lack of Antecedent Basis Alone Does Not Render Claims Indefinite
  7. Reliable Documention Required To Show Costs
  8. CAFC affirms willfulness and damage award despite multiple opinions of counsel.
  9. NTP v. RIM: BlackBerry Injunction Proceedings
  10. Supreme Court: Failure to Renew Post-Trial Motion Eliminates Possibility of Appeal
  11. Supreme Court Denies RIM’s BlackBerry Appeal
  12. Patent Mediation — Patently-O Book Review
  13. PTO To Hold Town-Hall Meeting on Proposed Changes to Examination Practice
  14. Inventorship: Student Denied Co-Inventorship Opportunity
  15. Upcoming Conferences
  16. RIM v. NTP (Injunction Hearings).
  17. Standing: Patentee Retains Standing When Assignment of Rights is Only for Limited Term
  18. Phillips v. AWH: Certiorari Briefing Complete
  19. CAFC Refuses to Hear Case Export of Patented Processes
  20. SeaChange: Over dissent, Court allows broad claim interpretation
  21. Patently-O TidBits
  22. Canadian Patent Act Amendment Opens A Narrow Window Of Time To Revive Applications And Patents That Lapsed For Incorrect Payment Of Fees
  23. Phillips v. AWH: At the Supreme Court
  24. The Generic Challenge: Patently-O Book Review
  25. Rader and Bryson spar over anticipation of method of use claims
  26. CAFC Written Description Jurisprudence: “OPAQUE”
  27. Written Offer for Sale Not Infringing Without Evidence that Infringing Product Would have Been Sold
  28. Supreme Court: LabCorp Briefing Round I [UPDATED]
  29. Patently-O Blog: Terms of Use

2005 415

December 2005

  1. CAFC: When is trash “in” a trashcan?
  2. Patently-O is Closed for the Season
  3. RIM Appeals to the Supreme Court
  4. Patently-O Tidbits
  5. WTO permanently implements expanded compulsory licensing scheme for pharmaceuticals
  6. Patent Reform
  7. Patent Compulsory Licensing System II
  8. Patent Compulsory Licensing System
  9. Polish Your Resume: USPTO Seeks New Deputy Commissioner
  10. Patent Reform 2005 — It is Over
  11. Court Finds Standing for Consumers to Bring Antitrust Claim of Asserting an Invalid Patent.
  12. Claim Construction: “A sodium phosphate” limited to one type of sodium phosphate.
  13. First-to-Invent vs The Constitution [Updated]
  14. What are the parts of a patent application?
  15. Patently-O TidBits
  16. How to Electronically File Patent Assignments

November 2005

  1. BlackBerry Patent Settlement Found Unenforceable — Stay of Injunction Denied
  2. EBay Arrives at Supreme Court: A Landmark Patent Case
  3. Disclosed Subject Matter Only Dedicated to the Public When Specifically Identified as an Alternative to a Claim Limitation
  4. Holiday wishlist for a patent attorney. (UPDATE)
  5. BPAI: Mixing Subject Matter => Rejection
  6. A day of thanks
  7. Patentable Subject Matter?
  8. Upcoming Patent Law Conferences
  9. System Claim that Includes a Method Step is Invalid as Indefinite.
  10. Under 102(g), Conception of Prior Art Requires Appreciation of Invention
  11. Phillips v. AWH: Case Petitioned to Supreme Court
  12. CAFC: Claim implied at least two styles.
  13. Court invalidates more Lemelson claims
  14. Introduction to Patent Law Book Review
  15. Bush Administration Intercedes in BlackBerry Patent Case
  16. Wham-O Court Uses Vitiation Doctrine to Exclude DOE
  17. House Judiciary Committee Supports Anti-Fee-Diversion Bill
  18. Blackberry Hearing This Morning
  19. 2nd Circuit Approves Patentee-Generic Reverse Payments
  20. CAFC: Court’s Summary Judgment of Noninfringement “Invaded the Province of the Fact Finder”
  21. Federal Circuit in Chicago
  22. New IP Blogs
  23. Hollywood Proposes That USPTO Regulate Technological Copyright Management
  24. Chief Judge Michel Calls Meeting of the CAFC Bar
  25. CAFC: Indefiniteness Requires “Severe” Defects in the Claims
  26. Practical Tips For Prosecuting Trans-Border Inventions
  27. CAFC reverses jury finding of invalidity and noninfringement.
  28. Supreme Court Shows More Interest In Pharmaceutical-Patent Antitrust Case
  29. ITC Claim Construction Vacated — Court Unnecessariliy Limited Claim Scope

October 2005

  1. LabCorp v. Metabolite: Supreme Court To Hear Patent Case Questioning Patentability Of Medical Method
  2. Eolas v. Microsoft
  3. Happy Halloween
  4. Settlement of declaratory judgment action based on pre-filing statements insufficient to trigger 180-day exclusivity period
  5. Upcoming Conferences
  6. USPTO Releases New Business Method Guidelines: Requires “physical transformation” or “concrete and tangible result”
  7. How to find Statutory Invention Registrations
  8. IP Due Diligence: A How-To Guide (Free Webinar Thursday Oct 27)
  9. NTP v. Research-in-Motion: Supreme Court Denies Stay
  10. Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction: Fourteen Month Time Lag Destroys Apprehension of Imminent Suit
  11. Almost 20% of patent applicants receive an office action within nine months of filing.
  12. NTP v. RIM in Hands of District Court.
  13. Reissue Patent Invalid Because Reissue Was Filed To Correct Procedural Error
  14. Licensee Lacks Standing; Dismissed With Prejudice
  15. CAFC Jurisdiction Set At Filing of Complaint
  16. Real Business Method Patents
  17. Patent Board Eliminates “Technological Arts” Requirement For Business Method Patents
  18. CAFC affirms Salad Spinner claim construction
  19. Amendment to 271(g)
  20. Patently-O Tidbits
  21. How Are Patent Cases Resolved?
  22. CAFC Denies RIM Rehearing (UPDATE)
  23. Case Questioning Patent Injunction Standards Moves Towards Supreme Court
  24. Disclosing Expected Result as an Actual Result Leads to Unenforceable Patent
  25. CAFC applies Pfaff case to public use defense.
  26. Single Embodiment Of Claim Element Fails To Describe Element Generically
  27. Solicitor General to Opine on Landmark Obviousness Case
  28. CAFC Finds Liability For Export of Catalyst Used in Patented Process Abroad
  29. Means-Plus-Function: Identification of Function and Corresponding Structure Reviewed De Novo
  30. Patent It Yourself Book Review
  31. Patently-O Tidbits
  32. Means Plus Function Disavowal of Equivalents?

September 2005

  1. On Sale Bar Invalidates DNA Probe Patent
  2. Patent Glossary
  3. Eolas v. Microsoft: Eolas Patent Set to Reissue
  4. EBay v. MercExchange: Automatic Injunction in Patent Cases
  5. USPTO Updates Rules On Filing Translations and Allows Pre-Action Interviews
  6. CAFC Goes on Tour to Chicago
  7. CAFC Remands — Requesting District Court Opinion on Attorney Fees
  8. Ninth Circuit Upholds Semiconductor Chip Protection Act Claim Asserting Protection for Logic Groupings
  9. USPTO Outsources Patent Searches
  10. U.S. Philips CD Patent Pool Given Green Light by Court of Appeals
  11. Jury must be presented with a structural analysis of means+function elements
  12. Upcoming Patent Law Conferences
  13. Citation of Unpublished Opinions
  14. Assignor Estoppel: Inventor barred from testifying for defense
  15. Nystrom v. Trex: Take Two
  16. Open Claim Language Saves Patentee From Disclaimer
  17. Including Claims in Provisional Patent Applications?
  18. Microsoft Asks Supreme Court to Hear $500 Million Eolas Appeal
  19. Biagro v. Grow More (Fed. Cir. 2005).
  20. CAFC: No Right to Jury for Declaratory Judgment Action
  21. Appeals Court Affirms Unenforceability of Lemelson’s Patents Due to Prosecution Laches
  22. CAFC: Genetic Tags Unpatentable Unless Function of Underlying Gene is Described
  23. Support for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina
  24. Doctrine of Equivalents: Expert Testimony Must Include Limitation-by-Limitation Analysis
  25. Government Secrecy Request Stalls IP Case.
  26. IP Issues in the Supreme Court Calendar
  27. Lexmark: Patentee May Include Conditions on Aftermarket Activities
  28. 11th Circuit Allows Case Asserting Anticompetitive Pioneer/Generic Patent Settlement
  29. RIM, with the support of Canada and Intel, Ask Court for Another Review of BlackBerry Patent Case
  30. Upcoming Conferences

August 2005

  1. Supreme Court: FTC confronts decision that liberally allows brand-generic patent settlements
  2. Million Dollar Patent
  3. BPAI: No Motivation to Combine Because Neither Cited Reference Recognized Advantages Discussed in Application
  4. StopFakes Small Business Initiative.
  5. Patently-O Tidbits
  6. Interference only declared once examination is complete
  7. Federal Circuit Broadly Interprets Copyright Safe Harbor for Computer Repair
  8. Silicon Wafer Technology: Reasonable Jury Could Find Inducement
  9. Prosecution History Gets Little Weight In Claim Construction
  10. CAFC Refuses To Find Estoppel Based On Arguments Before The EPO
  11. CAFC: Continuation Application Need Not Claim Priority to PCT Application
  12. NonProfit Sues Drug Maker for False Marking
  13. Patent Reform Act of 2005
  14. CAFC takes a new look at “rear end” definition
  15. PTO Fee Diversion is Constitutional
  16. TiVo Wins Patent Case On Appeal
  17. On Remand, Federal Circuit to Rehear Integra Appeal
  18. Claim Construction: Specification is Always Highly Relevant
  19. Illinois Tool Works: Patents and Unlawful Tying
  20. Patent Board Erred By Creating New Grounds For Rejection
  21. Federal Circuit: Nucleotide Sequence of Claimed DNA not Required to Satisfy Written Description Requirement
  22. Incomplete Written Analysis Results in Reversal of Summary Judgment
  23. CAFC Further Vitiates Doctrine of Equivalents
  24. Upcoming Conferences
  25. Terminal Disclaimer Does Not Bind Two Patents For Purposes of Inequitable Conduct Unenforceability
  26. Patently-O Tidbits
  27. Federal Circuit Makes it Hard to Waive Claim Construction Arguments
  28. Written Description Does Not Require Explicit Disclosure of Claim Terms
  29. Claims definite unless “insolubly ambiguous.”
  30. Aesthetically Pleasing Patent Found Indefinite
  31. Customary Meaning Refers to Customary Meaning in the Art
  32. InterDigital v. Nokia: Intervention Improper if Filed After Settlement
  33. Supreme Court Asked to Raise Standard for Obtaining Injunctive Relief
  34. Inaccurate Video Submission Results in Unenforceable Patent
  35. BlackBerry Case Makes Major Precedential Changes
  36. CAFC initiates mediation program

July 2005

  1. CAFC Narrows Experimentation Defense to the On Sale Bar
  2. Eighth Circuit Decides Patent Case — Adopts Federal Circuit Precedent
  3. Intellectual Property Experience of Nominee John G. Roberts
  4. Great topic for a law review comment on patent law
  5. Listing of Expected Patent Prosecution Delay
  6. Library of Congress Issues Report on Proposed Patent Reform
  7. Suggestion to Combine References Flows from Ordinary Knowledge of those Skilled in the Art
  8. Patent Drafting In the Wake of Phillips v. AWH — Initial Thoughts
  9. Patently-O Tidbits
  10. Claim Construction — Dictionaries are Still OK.
  11. No Appellate Jurisdiction Because Counterclaim Left Undecided
  12. CAFC Transfers Patent Case to Fifth Circuit
  13. Federal Circuit Shows How to Protect Software Patents In Europe: AT&T v. Microsoft
  14. En Banc Federal Circuit Panel Changes The Law of Claim Construction
  15. Practice Tip — Information Disclosure Statements
  16. CAFC: Reasons For Allowance Without Comment Does Not Create Disclaimer
  17. CAFC: Prosecution Disclaimer Does Not Preclude Infringement Suit Against Product Exhibiting Disclaimed Element
  18. In Nonprecedential Opinion, Judges Spar Over Use of Patent Specification in Claim Construction
  19. Ex-Post Figures Allowed in Hypothetical Royalty Calculation
  20. Choosing the Next Judicial Appointment for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

June 2005

  1. US Patent Office Wins Case Against The Invention Submission Corporation
  2. Global argument in PTO response limits scope of all claims
  3. CAFC appears to give implicit deference in claim construction.
  4. Grokster Loses at Supreme Court
  5. Both Parties Lose Patent in Interference Proceeding
  6. BlackBerry Patent Lawsuit Rises Again; NTP Responds to Patent Office Rejections
  7. GAO issues report on Patent Office
  8. Case on Obviousness Jurisprudence Gains Support — Microsoft Files Amicus Brief
  9. Prima Tek II v. Polypap
  10. CAFC Finds Jurisdiction To Hear Declaratory Judgment Issues After Patentee Files Covenant Not To Sue
  11. Patently-O Patent Law Blog wins TechnoLawyer Award as Best Practice Area Blog
  12. Who’s Your Inventor?: Contradictory Declarations Leads to Summary Judgment Reversal
  13. Supreme Court to Reexamine the Interplay Between Patents and Unlawful Tying Agreements
  14. Will US Courts Adjudicate Foreign Patents or Will Comity Prevail?
  15. “Optional” disclosure in prior art reference overcomes negative claim limitation.
  16. On Remand: Knorr-Bremse District Court Finds Willfulness Even Without Adverse Inference Rule
  17. “Means-plus-function” Claim Indefinite For Lack Of Corresponding Structure
  18. CAFC: Patent Laws Preempt Unjust Enrichment Claim
  19. SmithKline Beecham v. Apotex: A Conclusion?
  20. Branding-Energy of the Volkswagen Beetle
  21. Seed License Agreement Does Not Implicate Plant Variety Protection Act
  22. PTO Board: Disclosure of Sequence Enables at least 5% of Natural Variance.
  23. Merck v. Integra: Supreme Court Reverses, Broadens Statutory Experimental Use Safe Harbor
  24. Janssen Pharmaceutica v. Eon Labs
  25. Patent Reform: Redlined Version of Patent Statute
  26. CAFC: Distinguishing Feature of Invention Reflected in Claim Construction
  27. CAFC: Jury’s conclusions on obviousness reviewed de novo.
  28. Patent Reform: Patent Act of 2005
  29. Pain for Purdue Pharma: CAFC affirms inequitable conduct finding
  30. CAFC affirms evidentiary rulings: Inventor is not Expert
  31. Hatch-Waxman 180-Day Exclusivity Does Not Restrict NDA-Holder’s Ability to Sell Generic Version of Patented Drug
  32. Does the First Sale Doctrine Apply to Digital Music?
  33. Next Steps in Patent Reform
  34. Samples not warranted to ensure injunction compliance.
  35. Indecipherable Patents
  36. CAFC: Patent Licensee in Good Standing has No Standing for Declaratory Relief

May 2005

  1. USPTO: Examiner Error Rate at Less Than Five Percent
  2. Claim Construction: Failure to Submit Contrary Definition Results in Inferred Agreement
  3. Government Opposes Supreme Court Review in Festo Remix
  4. Memorial Day
  5. Patent Reform: Bloggers Take Sides
  6. Overlapping Ranges Create Prima Facie Case of Obviousness
  7. Patent Reform: Congress Choosing Sides
  8. Wise patent attorneys
  9. May 2005 Report on New Academic Research
  10. CAFC Interprets Knorr-Bremse — Finds Willful Infringement
  11. BPAI interprets closed transition phrase for method claims
  12. Caterpillar Petitions Supreme Court on Issue of Implied Bias of Jury Members
  13. Inconsistency Between Views of Two PTO Examiners Found Relevant to Obviousness Determination During Litigation
  14. Does the Constitution Provide for a Right to an Injunction in Patent Cases?
  15. Patent: Allegation of Copying Precluded Without Evidence That Product Embodies Ideas or Design of an Asserted Claim
  16. In re Fisher: Oral Arguments
  17. CAFC: Court Can Only Correct Prima Facie Patent Errors
  18. Nipper on Patent Reform For Small Entities
  19. Supreme Court: Patent Professors Support Tighter Obviousness Standard
  20. Make a Backup Copy in Your Own Home: Allowed Only in France
  21. Study for the Patent Bar for Free
  22. Res Judicata Must be Determined Separately for Each Asserted Patent
  23. Patent Practitioner Organization Supports Certain Patent Reform Measures, Rejects Others
  24. In Bifurcated Trial, Pending Antitrust Claim Postpones Permanent Injunction
  25. Preemption: Copyright Act Does Not Preempt Illinois Right To Publicity
  26. Patent Reform: Sharp Dispute Over Injunction Provisions
  27. Online Inventor’s Forum
  28. Texas Patent Attorney Shot and Killed.
  29. PTO Moves Forward with Nanotechnology Classification
  30. Rapper Ludacris Provides Ordinary Meaning of Terms
  31. Claim Term of “Conventional Computer” Limited to Computers Available as of Patent’s Effective Filing Date
  32. Patent Marking: Statute Requires Good Faith Belief that Mark is Properly Applied
  33. Eight tips for avoiding unpatentability rejections in Business Method Cases
  34. Updated Business Method Patent Statistics
  35. Blade Wars: Gillette Wins Latest Round in Multi-Blade Razor Patent Litigation
  36. Case Questions Fundamental Questions of Patentability Requirements of Nucleic Acid Molecules

April 2005

  1. Hynix Fails to Beat Rambus on Collateral Estoppel Issue
  2. France: Right To Privacy Includes DVD Copying For Personal Use
  3. PATENT REFORM: Preventing Inequitable Results Under Knorr-Bremse Willfulness
  4. Antitrust: FTC confronts decision that liberally allows patent settlements
  5. 2005 USPTO Partnership Meetings Scheduled for May 4, 2005
  6. How should a future patent attorney choose a law school?
  7. PATENT REFORM: Quick highlights from the Senate hearings.
  8. Patent Claim Construction: Whereby Clause Limits Claim Scope
  9. Full Panel Denies Rehearing in Fosamax Patent Case
  10. Microsoft ordered not to release patented TCP software
  11. Patent Applicant’s Claim Takings Claim Barred by Res Judicata
  12. Merck v. Integra: Transcript of Oral Arguments
  13. Merck v. Integra: Supreme Court Hears Drug Development Patent Case
  14. Written Description: Defendant’s Own Expert Deposition Testimony Used to Overturn Summary Judgment of Invalidity
  15. Groklaw Patent Resource Page
  16. PATENT REFORM: House and Senate to Hold Hearings this Week
  17. PATENT REFORM: Injunctions Only When Money Is Not Enough
  18. PATENT REFORM: Overturn Eolas v. Microsoft
  19. PATENT REFORM: Proposed Changes Allow Assignee to File Patent Application
  20. PATENT REFORM: Proposed Changes to Definition of Prior Art
  21. PATENT REFORM: House IP Subcommittee Prepares Sweeping Patent Law Changes
  22. Case Questions CAFC’s Obviousness Jurisprudence
  23. Eli Lilly wins patent ruling on Zyprexa
  24. TechnoLawyer
  25. Statements by Patent Examiner to FBI Deemed Frivolous and Not Protected Whistleblowing Activity
  26. How (not) to file a Motion for Summary Judgment
  27. Merck KGaA v. Integra: Supreme Court Set to Hear FDA Safe Harbor Case
  28. CAFC: District Court Improperly Dismissed Infringement Suit for Failure to Serve Defendant
  29. It is proper to limit the scope of the claims according to the specification
  30. Appeals Court Dismisses Apotex Case Against Pfizer’s Quinapril Patent
  31. CAFC: District Court Failed to Construe Terms in Sufficient Detail for Appellate Review
  32. SmithKline Beecham v. Apotex part VI
  33. Federal Circuit Makes En Banc Decision in Paxil Case: Patent Inherently Anticipated
  34. Children Rejoice — Peanut Butter and Jelly Patent Rejected on Appeal
  35. CAFC: Claims should be interpreted according to the specification and the pertinent art
  36. Federal Circuit Judge Admits that Family Member is Infringing PBJ Claims
  37. Re-announcement: Patently-O Patent Law Blog Daily Newsletter
  38. What Does it Take to Become a Patent Attorney?
  39. Antitrust: Court Should Not Consider Potential Patent Validity in Sherman Act Analysis
  40. Federal Circuit to Decide Patentability of Crustless Sandwich
  41. Teva’s Request for Rehearing of Declaratory Judgment Action is Denied
  42. Patently-O Patent Prosecution TipCast No. 1
  43. Do not copy this article!
  44. Welcome to April!

March 2005

  1. Panel Prevents Piling-on of the Period of Patent Protection by Patenting Precursor Product
  2. CAFC: No Disclaimer of Claim Scope When Patentee Makes Contradictory Statements.
  3. March 2005 Report on New Academic Research
  4. Metabolite Labs versus LabCorp — Request for Certiorari.
  5. Court Agrees that Sony PlayStation Infringes Immersion Patent
  6. CAFC: Indefiniteness Issues Overcome by Defining Terms According to Goal of the Invention
  7. Stage Set For Hearing on Experimental Use Safe Harbor Statute at Supreme Court
  8. Have a great weekend!
  9. Federal Circuit Confirms that the Patent & Trademark Office is Not Bound to the Paris Convention
  10. CAFC: Licensee must hold all substantial rights under a patent to bring an infringement suit.
  11. Patents, String Theory, Anti-Aging, and the Warp Drive
  12. Monsanto Asks The Federal Circuit To Examine The Utility Requirement for Patenting Biotech Inventions
  13. University of Texas files patent infringement suit against cell phone manufacturers
  14. Plaintiff’s Misconduct Results in a Loss of Damages and a New Trial
  15. Asyst Technologies v. Emtrak
  16. Microsoft requests rehearing in Eolas Appeal.
  17. How to Get a Job in Intellectual Property Law
  18. Ford settles patent lawsuit
  19. 2005 Business Methods USPTO Partnership Meeting
  20. Patent Attorneys Testify to Consistency of Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  21. Snippets: Review of Developments in Intellectual Property Law
  22. Congress Discusses Which Court Should Hear Patent Cases
  23. CAFC: Ordinary Meaning Defined By Context of Written Description
  24. Intellectual Property Podcasting
  25. CAFC: Claims Construed Based on Specification and Prosecution ‘Read as a Whole’
  26. Appeals Court Partially Reverses eBay Patent Case: Setting the Stage for a Permanent Injunction
  27. BlackBerry lawsuit settles for $450M US: Patent Law Questions Remain
  28. CAFC: References on Face of Patent are Intrinsic Evidence for Claim Construction
  29. Federal Circuit Remands Case To Determine Israeli Contract Law.
  30. Congress To Hold Hearings on Jurisdiction of Federal Circuit
  31. CAFC: Implied Final Judgment Does Not Create Appellate Jurisdiction
  32. CAFC Judge Mayer: “maybe posting paneling is a very, very bad thing.”
  33. CAFC: Marking must be pled, but specificity is optional
  34. Payment from a Patentee to a Generic Manufacturer Does Not Create an Antitrust Violation.
  35. Request for Attorneys Fees Does Not Create Subject Matter Jurisdiction
  36. Patent Reform is in the Air: Are your views being heard?
  37. Design Patents: Appeals Court Finds Cell-Phone Infringement Suit to be Frivolous
  38. Trial Lawyers Beware: The Mock Jury Has Been Patented
  39. CAFC: Claim language first, specification second, prosecution history third…
  40. CAFC: Substantially Flattened Is Defined As Flatter Than A Cylinder
  41. The Expanding Reach of U.S. Patent Laws
  42. PTO Director Jon Dudas Commits to Patent Reform Measures — saving applicants $30M+ annually
  43. USPTO: Do Not Send Mail To PTO’s DC Address
  44. Appeals Court Orders New Trial in $500 Million Microsoft-Eolas Web Browser Case
  45. February 2005 Report on New Academic Research
  46. CAFC: On-Sale Bar Requires Conception of Invention
  47. High Court asks for government’s view on patentability of tests to determine vitamin deficiency.

February 2005

  1. Supreme Court to Hear Patent Case on Federal Circuit’s Power to Overturn a Jury’s Verdict
  2. Eight is Enough: Eight important patent cases for Spring 2005
  3. Supreme Court Briefs: Merck KGaA v. Integra
  4. How does your company stack-up in the patent-per-employee efficiency rating?
  5. Patent Owner Held Liable For Attorney Fees In Case Brought By Licensee
  6. Filing Counterclaim Does Not Waive Objections to Personal Jurisdiction
  7. You don’t see drawings like this anymore
  8. Department of Health & Human Services Requests Reexamination of Patent
  9. The Practical Nature of Software Patents
  10. An End To Revival of Unintentionally Abandoned Applications?
  11. Upcoming Conferences
  12. Reebok Wins in Patent Case
  13. Phillips v. AWH Oral Arguments MP3
  14. Filing Electronic Patent Applications as PDF Documents
  15. Supreme Court: Merck v. Integra Amicus Briefs
  16. Federal Circuit Expands Experimental Exception
  17. Trademark Case: The fame of a mark is determined by the class of customers and potential customers rather than the entire consuming public
  18. Consent Judgment Narrowly Interpreted: Successor-In-Interest Cannot Sue
  19. Phillips v. AWH: Transcript of Oral Arguments
  20. USPTO Issues Design Patent Number 500,000 for Chrysler Convertible
  21. Phillips v. AWH: Review of Oral Arguments on Claim Construction Methodology
  22. Olympia Group v. Alltrade: Preliminary Injunction Denied — Plaintiff did not show likelihood of infringement
  23. CAFC refuses to hear arguments not raised in JMOL.
  24. USPTO Requests $1.7 Billion in FY 2006 Budget; Request Includes 900 New Patent Examiners
  25. Patent Law Fiction
  26. Patent claims still on the increase
  27. How to Jump-Start your Business Method Cases: Part V
  28. Los Angeles: A discussion of the good & bad of outsourcing patent work
  29. Federal Circuit Announces Logistics for Phillips v. AWH rehearing.
  30. Patent TRIVIA CONTEST: Fluid-Filled Lens (WINNER FOUND)
  31. Federal Circuit: Cryogenically Cooled Components Obvious
  32. Consent Decree Remains In Force Despite Terminal Disclaimer
  33. Upcoming Events in the Patent World
  34. Hybrid engine patents found invalid because patentee “dawdled” in reviving abandoned application

January 2005

  1. The Dissent in Merck v. Teva: Patentees Need Direction in How to Define Their Terms
  2. Dennis Crouch’s January 2005 Report on New Academic Research
  3. Patent TRIVIA CONTEST: Fluid-Filled Lens
  4. Fosamax case: Patentees should elect the lexicographer option at their own risk
  5. Settlement Agreement Requiring Royalty Payments as a Condition for Dismissal is Not Appealable Until Payments Are Made
  6. Trademark Practice News: View Trademark File Wrappers Online
  7. Battle over Pet Food: Mars wins at district court
  8. Avoiding Loss of Intellectual Property Rights During Government Contracting
  9. Patents & Antitrust: Rebuttable Presumption of Market Power Arises From the Possession of a Patent Used in an Explicit Tying Agreement
  10. District Court Erred in Dismissing Case without Allowing Discovery on Personal Jurisdiction Issues
  11. Phillips v. AWH: Patent Examiners Do Rely on Dictionaries
  12. Five Things Corporate Counsel Need to Know About Patents
  13. Proposed Amendment to Section 271 of the Patent Act
  14. Pfizer Wins Zoloft® Patent Dispute: Orange Book Listing Does Not Create Reasonable Apprehension of Lawsuit
  15. Patent Attorney Invents Device then Sues Ford Motor Company for Patent Infringement
  16. Patent Board Codifies Two-Way Test for Interference, Streamlines Process.
  17. Federal Circuit: Corroboration of Evidence Needed to Prove Patent Invalidity
  18. Sale of product through an intermediary can create personal jurisdiction for patent infringement.
  19. Pharmaceutical Patent Extension in Exchange for Promise of Cheaper Generics?
  20. Free TypePad Subscription
  21. Upcoming Conferences
  22. Canada Challenges Federal Circuit’s Patent Decision in BlackBerry Case.
  23. How to Jump-Start your Business Method Cases: Part IV
  24. How to Jump-Start your Business Method Cases: Part III
  25. Federal Circuit: Refurbishing of Disposable Cameras Not Allowed
  26. The Young CyberSquatter’s Handbook
  27. How to resolve your domain name disputes.
  28. Ibm
  29. Worldwide Patent Proposed by House Judiciary Committee
  30. Patent court defers on divorce case
  31. PATENTS: Failure to Cite Prior Art to PTO Results in Inequitable Conduct Finding and Award of Attorney’s Fees for Defendant
  32. How to Jump-Start your Business Method Cases: Part II
  33. US Trade Representative Requests Comments on Review of China’s Intellectual Property Commitment.
  34. How to Jump-Start your Business Method Cases: Part I
  35. Supreme Court to Hear Patent Case Merck v. Integra.
  36. Federal Circuit Overturns Jury Verdict: Finds Patent Obvious
  37. Patent Case: Federal circuit finds support for licensing contract in e-mail.
  38. CAFC: District court must specify motivation to combine prior art references
  39. CAFC: Patent Valid Even if Structural Description of Means-Plus-Function element Only in Figures
  40. Festo Defined: Appeals Court gives example of amendment that is not narrowing
  41. palmOne Comes Out on Top in NCR’s Patent Infringement Appeal
  42. eBay infringement decision expected
  43. Blog Creates Likelihood of Confusion
  44. Looming specter of litigation creates sufficient uncertainty for declaratory judgment action
  45. Next step in open source: Book Editing
  46. CAFC: Design Patent Infringement Opinion Need Not Mention Every Detail of a Patented Design
  47. Patent Tips for a Small Business with Grand Ideas
  48. Federal Circuit Gives PTO Free Rein To Demand Information Beyond That Defined By Section 1.56 As Material to Patentability
  49. Pew Trust Concludes that Blogs are Now Mainstream
  50. Claim Construction Showdown set for February 8, 2005.
  51. hINV Researchers Invalidated Patent Application Based on their Own Publications
  52. University of Illinois fails to secure soverign immunity in plasma screen patent dispute
  53. Honorable Paul R. Michel becomes Chief Judge
  54. India Greatly Increases Patent Coverage
  55. Happy New Year!

2004 458

December 2004

  1. Can Bloggers “Out” JGR Acquisitions?
  2. Federal Circuit: Court Erred in Finding Case “Exceptional”
  3. Anheuser-Busch loses patent infringement appeal: case remanded to district court
  4. Patently-O Blog Takes A Vacation
  5. Changes at the Federal Circuit.
  6. USPTO Expected to Name David Freeland as new Chief Information Officer
  7. The Scoop on Geico v. Google
  8. Patent Office Asks Congress to Amend Patent Act to Create Better Options for Post-Grant Review and Inter Partes Reexaminations
  9. Agriculture Patents: Bt-Corn patents judged invalid and not infringed
  10. Federal Circuit: Pieczenik v. Dyax
  11. Will the PTO soon be issuing Search Reports?
  12. Iron Grip v. USA Sports: Three-Hole Weight Plate Obvious
  13. BlackBerry Maker RIM wins Partial Victory in Patent Appeal
  14. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Gives Broad Construction to Means Claim
  15. Eolas v. Microsoft: On the briefs
  16. In Search of The Next Acacia?
  17. Crouch’s December report on new academic research
  18. Supreme Court Closer to Reviewing Hatch-Waxman Safe Harbor Patent Case
  19. Owners of Duragesic (R) win patent appeal
  20. Federal Circuit Rejects Professor’s Attempt to Patent Cold Fusion Technique
  21. 35 U.S.C. Section 103 Amended to Encourage Cooperative Research
  22. USPTO Budget
  23. Eolas v. Microsoft On Appeal
  24. Supreme Court Upholds Fair Use Defense in Trademark Case: Finds that some consumer confusion is compatible with fair use
  25. New Blog Covers Decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
  26. Free Telephone Roundtable Today on Patent Damages
  27. Commerce Department Inspector General Releases Report Critical of Patent Office Examiner Goal and Appraisal System
  28. Conclusory Statements by Patent Examiner are Inadequate to Support Motivation to Combine References
  29. Commerce One Auctions Patents: Public Interest Groups Complain
  30. Snippets
  31. European Patent Organization Continues to Spread
  32. Amazon wins patent suit . . . for now: Pinpoint’s case dismissed without prejudice
  33. Blog: Word of the Year
  34. CAFC: Expert Testimony Essential for Finding of Infringement
  35. Willful Patent Infringement: An Empirical Look
  36. Means-Plus-Function Claims Lose at the Federal Circuit
  37. 35 U.S.C. 103(a): Disclosure of alternative embodiments does not constitute teaching away.
  38. Federal Circuit Begins Announcing Panel Composition One Week Early
  39. Carlos Gutierrez nominated as Secretary of Commerce
  40. Marking Estoppel: CAFC Vacates but Leaves Possibility
  41. Mobile Phone Manufacturers Win Design Patent Suits

November 2004

  1. My Newest Invention
  2. Federal Circuit: Claims Should Be Interpreted for Internal Consistency and Operablility
  3. Judge Posner to hear Amazon Patent Case
  4. Coolsavings wins patent appeal
  5. Happy Thanksgiving
  6. USPTO News: Changes to 35 U.S.C. 103(c)
  7. Senate Confirms Jon Dudas as Head of USPTO
  8. In may i report
  9. 5-year patent prosecution backlog in near future?
  10. IP law Associations Support PTO Fee Increase only if Accompanied by Anti-Diversion Legislation
  11. Federal Circuit Warns Against Citations of Non-Precedential Opinions
  12. European Patent Office recognizes same-sex marriage
  13. Appeals Court halts preliminary injunction against generic maker of Tussi-12D.
  14. McFarling v. Monsanto: On Petition for Writ of Certiorari
  15. USPTO answers questions from Individual Inventors.
  16. Patent Enforcement is not Terrorism
  17. The Canons of Claim Construction
  18. Supreme Court Requests Bush Administration’s View on Seed Patent Controversy
  19. Interim Patent Term Extension Granted for Brexidol
  20. Patent Drafting Tip: Focusing on the problem
  21. Patent Office Professional Association (POPA) Proposes Solutions to Examination Problems
  22. Military Contractor Forfeits Patent Rights: Company Failed to Properly Disclose Invention
  23. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
  24. USPTO releases notes on restriction practice
  25. Heads of Commerce and Justice Resign
  26. University of New Mexico v. Knight
  27. Patent Law News and Gossip
  28. Patent holder barred from reopening malpractice arbitration
  29. Federal Court has no jurisdiction over suit to recover patent-infringement litigation proceeds
  30. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals warns that future appellate rule violations will likely result in sanctions
  31. Review: Patent Pending tells the story of inventions and ideas
  32. Dell sued for infringement of international e-commerce patent
  33. Film Industry to Sue Individual Downloaders
  34. District Court’s Review of Figures in Design Patent Sufficient for Summary Judgment.
  35. What Five Things Would You Change About IP Law and/or Practice?
  36. New Jersey Voting Machines Must Be Examined By Patent Law Expert
  37. Patent Lawyer: Tips for overcoming 35 USC 102 novelty rejections
  38. Election 2004: Paper Ballots Still Recieve A Majority of Votes
  39. Rubik’s Cube (r) and the Department of Homeland Security
  40. Goodwill and Blogroll

October 2004

  1. Patent Case: Bard v. United States Surgical
  2. Patent Suit Alleges Disney Stole fastPass Idea
  3. Caterpillar Jury Trial Vacated Because Juror’s Spouse Was an Employee
  4. Trademarks granted on Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 furniture designs.
  5. iPod Receives Design Patent
  6. DMCA weakened again: Court overturns Lexmark injunction
  7. Free desktop software for downloading PDF patent documents
  8. Patents: Federal Circuit Defines Requirements For Declaratory Judgment Action
  9. BEvERage dispenser
  10. Federal Circuit Denies Petitions to Rehear
  11. California Appeals Court Upholds Genentech Verdict
  12. UK High Court Rejects Doctrine of Equivalents
  13. Invention Submission Corporation versus Jon Dudas, USPTO Director
  14. Courts Rely on Internet Articles to Deny Trademark Application
  15. Design patents: Bernhardt v. Collezione Europa
  16. Kim v. Dawn Food
  17. USPTO’s Role is to Protect Intellectual Property Rights
  18. Canadians hope to Ban Drug Exports to the U.S.
  19. States May Face Patent Liability For Importing Drugs
  20. The object of the invention is to create inventions
  21. Patent Cases See Increasing Number Of Dissenting Opinions
  22. Eolas, Microsoft and Pellegrini
  23. A Tool For Predicting The Outcome Of Claim Construction in Patent Appeals
  24. Contingent Patent Cases
  25. Patent Case: On-Line Technologies v. Perkin-Elmer
  26. Can Dependant Claims Define Structure of Means-Plus-Function Term?
  27. Honeywell Enforces LCD Patent
  28. Patents for sale (not babies)
  29. Blawger Bowl
  30. Supreme Court: Patent Law Treds Into Political World of Outsourcing
  31. Patent Law Professors Call For Reform
  32. Patent: ITC’s Enforcement Authority Upheld
  33. Supreme Court: Merck v. Integra
  34. Fuji Film v. ITC
  35. Disclosure of species can support genus claims
  36. Trademark Electronic Submission Requirements
  37. Budde v. Harley-Davidson
  38. Astrazeneca v. Mutual Pharmaceutical: specification primary source for claim interpretation
  39. Festo presumption rebutted.
  40. USPTO On-Line Inventor Chat
  41. The Combover

September 2004

  1. Laboratory Corporation of America v. Chiron
  2. Payless Shoesource v. Genfoot
  3. Constitutionality of PTO Fee Diversion
  4. Improved Patent Searching at the EPO
  5. Entec requests Inter Partes Reexamination
  6. Experimental Use must be Non-Educational
  7. Silly Inventions are Easy to Patent?
  8. Phillips v. AWH: The Amicus Briefs
  9. Immersion v. Sony
  10. Patent Office Now Hiring
  11. Kangaroo Court
  12. Avoid Festo Presumptions With a Letter to the File?
  13. Free Patent Downloads on Your PC
  14. Blanke files for inter partes reexamination.
  15. Yahoo & Inktomi chip away at Teknowledge patent
  16. Patent’s transition language limits its use as an anticipatory reference
  17. Interview with Nick Godici
  18. TV Guide Patent on Program Schedule Given Second Chance
  19. Zero Gravity Hopes to Cash in on Patented Technology
  20. Pirelli requests reexamination of Stanford’s Patent on Fiber Optic Technology
  21. Echostar wins appeal: DISH Network found to not infringe patent
  22. Patent Case: Landmark Decision Strengthens Attorney-Client Privilege
  23. Patent Office Appoints Attaché to China
  24. Federal Circuit: Injunction to “not infringe the patent” is overly broad.
  25. Patent Law: Disclosure-Dedication Rule Takes Shape
  26. Football Invention Tests Quarterback Timing
  27. Patent News Sources
  28. North Carolina Inventor Helps Eliminate Bug Problems
  29. Online Patent Searching
  30. Out of Left Field: MLB Sued for Patent Infringement
  31. Tables Turned: RIAA Accused of Patent Infringement
  32. NIH proposes open access to experimental results
  33. Amazon wins initial battle in patent case.
  34. Boeing continues to patent
  35. USPTO to offer conference for Alexandria based small business contractors
  36. Federal Circuit: National Instruments v. MathWorks
  37. Monsanto wins patent infringement appeal over Tennessee farmer
  38. Patent Cooperation Treaty: Chapter II filings in sharp decline
  39. Labor Day in America
  40. CAFC refuses to examine Request for Comments (RFCs) when defining ordinary meaning of claim terms
  41. Juicy Whips up on Orange Bang: CAFC Affirms Entire Market Value Rule
  42. Means-Plus-Function Limitation Rarely Found When Claim Lacks “Means” Language
  43. IBM and Intel license blade server specifications, but not associated patents
  44. Universal Garage Door Opener not subject to DMCA provisions
  45. Patent Infringement: Recognition of a problem does not render the solution obvious
  46. Modern Practice Magazine Provides Legal Insight
  47. Method of Cloning Mammals Issues as Patent

August 2004

  1. Xechem v. University of Texas
  2. Federal Circuit: DMCA does not create a new property right for copyright owners
  3. Federal Circuit: Disclosure of only a single embodiment does not result in disavowel of claim scope
  4. Paintball Patent Infringement: Smart Parts’ Patent Lacks Proper Inventorship
  5. Handcuff Patent: Nike and Marshall Gobuty
  6. Claim term “substantially” is approximate
  7. PTO Board Places Enablement Burden on Examiner
  8. LaundraPak Success
  9. More on Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office
  10. Federal Circuit: Lifestream Diagnostics v. Polymer Technologies
  11. EOLAS: W3C Submission Based On Prior Art Submitted by Microsoft?
  12. Research Reveals Patent Grant Rate of 75%
  13. Eolas browser patent fight goes into new phase (Tribune)
  14. Fair-Use: Scientific Research Exception?
  15. Tribune Calls For a Sober Discussion of Patent Law
  16. USPTO: Inter Partes Reexaminations
  17. Federal Circuit: A hairbrush has no more relation to a toothbrush than does hair resemble teeth
  18. EOLAS Reexam Office Action
  19. Federal Circuit: Koito Manufacturing v. Turn-Key-Tech (Patent Case)
  20. Court: FDA’s Role is Not to Analyze Patent Claims
  21. Method of Buying a House
  22. ITC Issues Order to Stop Importation of Unlicesed Viagra Imitations
  23. Lessig Guest Blogger: Judge Richard Posner
  24. SRAM loses patent appeal
  25. Grokster not liable
  26. Federal Circuit: Utica Enterprises v. Federal Broach and Machine
  27. Law review topic
  28. AIPLA Annual Meeting
  29. Book: Patents and How to Get One
  30. Lichtman & Posner: ISP Immunity is too great
  31. What we love about the Patent Office
  32. Poster Presentation at Conferences Constitutes 102(b) Printed Publication
  33. New Electronic Filing and Authoring Software
  34. Federal Circuit: Fisher-Price v. Safety 1st
  35. Frivolous arguments over FJC patent video
  36. Glaxo Disclaims Allergy Patent
  37. Federal Circuit: Linear Technology v. Impala Linear and Maxim Integrated
  38. Online Inventor’s Forum
  39. Federal Circuit: Power Mosfet v Siemens and Infineon
  40. Which Dictionaries are Used for Claim Construction?
  41. Federal Circuit: In re WILHELM ELSNER
  42. Double Patenting: The End of the Terminal Disclaimer?
  43. Public Use Evidence Required: Aspex Eyewear v. Concepts in Optics
  44. Software Patent Protection: A Growing Need
  45. Electronic Filing
  46. ITC: Plastic Bag Import Restrictions
  47. USPTO Satellite Offices?
  48. Federal Circuit: In Re David Wallach
  49. Put your Logo on USPS Stamps
  50. INNOVA / Pure Water v. Safari Filtration Systems
  51. Weighing the Costs and Benefits of an Interference versus an Infringement Lawsuit
  52. Deciding whether to appeal a patent rejection
  53. Federal Circuit: Neomagic v. Trident Microsystems
  54. Overture Patent Settlement
  55. Landes and Posner Discuss Intellectual Property
  56. X-Patents
  57. Streaming Video Lawsuits
  58. Persons having ordinary skill in the art
  59. Public Use: Engate v. Esquire Deposition
  60. Public PAIR Tutorial
  61. PAIR Computer Based Training
  62. Trademark Case: Jose Gaspar Gold
  63. Liburdi Engineering v. Sermatech
  64. Print on one side only
  65. China’s Competitive Advantage
  66. Federal Circuit: Lack of Enablement Affirmed
  67. Patent Explosion
  68. ResQNet.com v. Lansa: Subpoena Quashed

July 2004

  1. Patent Trivia
  2. What is a Trade Secret?
  3. Battle over Pet Food: Mars v. Heinz & Del Monte
  4. Federal Circuit: Best Mode Not Intentionally Concealed
  5. Microsoft’s Patent Push
  6. The Invent Blog
  7. Snippets
  8. Finding a Patent Attorney
  9. Katz Technology Licensing Reexamination
  10. Segway Inventor to speak at Inventors Conference
  11. Patent Office Professionals Balk at Opposition Proposals
  12. ANDA Filing is not per se willful patent infringement
  13. Toyota with an Attitude
  14. Wasinger v. Levi Strauss: Non-infringement Vacated
  15. PTO Deposit Account No Longer Filled By Credit Card Payment
  16. Wheelchair Transfer Device
  17. Phillips v. AWH: Chief Judge Mayer’s Dissent
  18. Phillips v. AWH: Rader Concurring
  19. De Novo Claim Construction
  20. Using Dictionaries in Claim Construction
  21. Alticor v. Ultra-Sun Technologies
  22. ThermoGenesis v. PharmaStem
  23. Eli Lilly v. Aradigm
  24. Federal Circuit Revives Patent Suit Against the State of California
  25. Assignment Recordation Delay
  26. Copyright Cheat Sheet
  27. Patent Examiner Jobs
  28. Toothbrush Wars
  29. Landes and Posner’s Newest Law & Economics Book
  30. More Mail Stop Changes
  31. Huang v. CIT (Lab Notebook Must be Witnessed)
  32. Post Office to honor R. Buckminster Fuller
  33. Shimano’s Inter Partes Reexamination
  34. AFG INDUSTRIES and ASAHI GLASS v. CARDINAL IG and ANDERSEN WINDOWS
  35. Willful Patent Infringement: en banc appeal
  36. Unitherm Food v. ConAgra: Patent Antitrust Holding Vacated, Tortious Interference Affirmed
  37. Evans and Dudas Discuss Patent Protection with Chinese Officials
  38. IPO responds to the FTC Patent Law Report
  39. Bocce Weekend Update
  40. Taser Prevails in Patent Infringement Appeal at Federal Circuit
  41. Federal Circuit gives Paint-Roller Patentee Chance for a Second Coat
  42. Patent Law Mailing List
  43. Federal Circuit: U.S. Patent Laws Require Physical Supply or Manufacture of Components Within the U.S.
  44. NOVARTIS v. ABBOTT (JMOL of noninfringement of Novartis patents affirmed)
  45. Intellectual Property Association (AIPLA) calls for the creation of a post-grant opposition procedure
  46. Patently-O: The First Three Months of a Patent Resource
  47. SEARFOSS v. PIONEER
  48. TypeRight Keyboard v. Microsoft

June 2004

  1. TI Group Automotive Systems v. VDO
  2. Competitive Tech. v. Fujitsu: No Jurisdiction for Plasma Screen Appeal
  3. EFF hopes to “bust” these 10 patents
  4. New Patent: Bicycle Passenger Seat
  5. Patent Infringement: No summary judgment of anticipation based on prepared model
  6. Computerized Patent Bar Exam
  7. Patent Lawyer
  8. No trademark for “Patents.com”
  9. Hockerson-Halberstadt v. JSP and FUBU
  10. How pharmaceutical patent rights affect access to medicine in poor nations
  11. Microsoft patents human circuit
  12. ProstaScint (R) Patent Noninfringement Holding Reversed
  13. Introduction to Nanotechnology
  14. Google’s Amended SEC Filing Discusses Overture Lawsuit
  15. Lerner Jaffe Book
  16. Disc Golf Patents
  17. Heat Tolerant Broccoli Patent
  18. Transcript of on line PTO help session
  19. Linear Technology v. Impala Linear (Patent Claim Construction)
  20. Acacia Streaming Video Lawsuit
  21. IPNewsflash
  22. Nokia – NTP settle over BlackBerry Patent Infringement
  23. Patent Marking and Infringement Damages
  24. Electronic Filing Software
  25. In Re Jack Richard Simpson
  26. University of California v. Actagro (Preliminary Injunction Vacated)
  27. Patent Busting Contest
  28. Nonobviousness
  29. Watson v. H.J. Heinz Co.
  30. Animatics v. Quicksilver Controls
  31. Shimano v. SRAM
  32. Metabolite Labs. v. LabCorp
  33. Holiday Matinee v. Rambus
  34. W.E. Hall v. Atlanta Corrugating
  35. BlackBerry Lawsuit
  36. Prior Art Citations
  37. Judge Paul Michel
  38. Walkman Inventor May Sue Apple
  39. Patent Law Fiction
  40. Honeywell v. Hamilton Sundstrand
  41. On Line Tips for Inventors
  42. Cordis v. Boston Scientific
  43. Lack of Inter partes reexamination proceedings
  44. Patent Video
  45. Central American Free Trade Agreement

May 2004

  1. Jacobs v. Nintendo
  2. EHarmony.com matchmaker patent
  3. Patent Law Malpractice Insurance
  4. Sharing & Stealing
  5. Even more American than Apple Pie
  6. Jon Dudas Senate Confirmation
  7. College Inventors Competition
  8. Measuring Secrecy: A Cost of the Patent System Revealed
  9. Independent Inventors Conference
  10. Relafen Antitrust Settlement
  11. Kinze v. Case (Attorney Disqualification)
  12. Blocking patents
  13. Monopoly power = R&D
  14. Patent Litigation Jobs
  15. Personal Liability for Corporate Patent Infringement
  16. Monsanto wins in Canadian Supreme Court
  17. Patent law: Further Justification
  18. Charitable Contributions of Patents and other Intellectual Property
  19. Daubert Principles
  20. Knoll v. Teva (Vicoprofen®)
  21. Ron Meritt Auction part III
  22. Arnold O. Beckman
  23. Starting an in-house IP department
  24. EU-Patent filings
  25. Relafen Antitrust Litigation
  26. Avoiding Patent Litigation
  27. Summer Associates
  28. Rebirth of the dot.com
  29. No prescription needed for Statins?
  30. Attorney Accidents
  31. Googling by the Court
  32. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Proposal
  33. In re American Academy of Science Tech Center
  34. Microchip Technology v. Philips
  35. In re John Ngai and David Lin (RNA Amplification)
  36. Today’s Model: University Research => Money
  37. Turning an Idea into a Product
  38. New Theory Supporting the Doctrine of Equivalents
  39. 3M Reexaminations
  40. Medtronic Vascular v. Cordis
  41. Submarine patent
  42. Richard Epstein and Hatch-Waxman
  43. Jon Dudas
  44. Ron Meritt auction
  45. Intirtool v. Texar (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  46. Tribune Story
  47. Housey v. Astrazeneca (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  48. Advice for Future Patent Attorneys
  49. Dr. Quentin Young
  50. Downloading patents – Cheaper than music.
  51. Technology Transfer and Assignment via eBay
  52. Reach Through Claims
  53. Intellectual Property Task Force
  54. Patent Examiner Morale
  55. Elan v. Andrx Pharmaceuticals (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  56. Voice Mail Inventor
  57. Stevens v. Tamai (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  58. Defensive Patenting
  59. Vanderlande Industries v. ITC (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  60. Patent Pooling
  61. Small Firm Business Page
  62. Nipper on Harmonization
  63. Playwright Licensing and Antitrust
  64. Patent Office Funding III: Filing Fees
  65. Patent Piracy, The Book
  66. Patent Infringement Jury
  67. Patent Office Funding II

April 2004

  1. Gmail
  2. Horse Training Method Inventor
  3. FTC Patent Policy
  4. Patent Office Funding
  5. Structured Claim Drafting
  6. Independent IP Firms Alive and Well
  7. SmithKline Beecham v. Apotex (Part IV)
  8. Patent Litigation: preventive measures
  9. SmithKline Beecham v. Apotex (PART III)
  10. Claim Drafting Tips – Patent Quality
  11. Wood Panel Clamp Inventor
  12. Orphan Drug Act (Part II)
  13. Poultry Researcher
  14. Patent Office Backlog
  15. Meetings
  16. Smithkline Beecham v. Apotex [PART II]
  17. AIPLA Response to FTC’s Patent Report
  18. Smithkline Beecham v. Apotex (Paxil)
  19. Scanner v. ICOS Vision Systems
  20. Patent Related Legislation
  21. Shredded Patent Documents
  22. GTE Mobilnet v. Cellexis
  23. Heart Bypass
  24. Patent Piracy
  25. MIT Technology Scorecard
  26. Triple Protection Schemes
  27. Fieldturf v. Triexe Management Group
  28. Citation of Unpublished Opinions
  29. Golden Blount v. Peterson
  30. Patent safe-havens
  31. More Reform Talk
  32. Kerry’s Small Business Grant
  33. Golf Tee Inventor
  34. Orphan Drug Act
  35. Weekly Thank You
  36. Patent Reform
  37. Patent Law Hypothetical: Answer 1
  38. Claim Drafting Tips
  39. USPTO: Behind the Scenes
  40. Ice Cream Cone Inventors
  41. Patent Law Hypothetical
  42. Leatherman
  43. Litigation Bounty
  44. Sierra Applied Sciences v. Advanced Energy Ind.
  45. Necktie Inventor
  46. Weekly Thank You
  47. Proposed Amendments to 35 U.S.C. 102(f) and 103(c)
  48. Taxing Patent Donations
  49. Snippets
  50. Monsanto Co. v. Homan McFarling (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  51. Inland Steel Co. v. LTV Steel Co. (Fed. Cir. 2004)
  52. Northern District of Illinois Recent Opinions
  53. Answering Machine Inventor
  54. Phillips v. AWH Corp.
  55. Trademarks as Economic Indicators
  56. Plasma display panel (PDP) patents.
  57. No Appeal for Halliburton
  58. Norian v. Stryker (Fed. Cir.)
  59. Manual for Complex Litigation
  60. Disclaimer
  61. Novartis Pharmaceuticals v. Eon Labs (Fed. Cir.)

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