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Special price on new FirstPage Weekly service for Promote the Progress readers
Since launching our innovative FirstPage Reports(tm) on PatentFizz a couple weeks ago, we’ve received some wonderful feedback from our customers. Many have told us that the Reports are scratching an itch they’ve had for awhile - the need for an easy to generate overview document for their patent projects. Customers are using the Reports [...]
PatentFizz - Generate a FirstPage Report directly from your USPTO search results
Last week on PatentFizz, we rolled out some great improvements to our FirstPage Reports product, which gives you a single .pdf document containing the first page of every patent document in your project.
On Friday, we announced a significant improvement to the ‘user-friendliness’ of the ordering process. Now, you can copy your USPTO search results [...]
Halloween 2007 - RIP 35 U.S.C. s.120
No one has time to discuss the new rules in depth today (my two sons send a special thank you to USPTO policy makers for picking a holiday as new-rules-eve), so I thought we could just give a brief moment of silence to 35 U.S.C. s.120:
“An application for patent for an invention disclosed in the [...]
Only patent reform could put iPods and Alzheimer’s in the same quote
This quote, from Hans Sauer - Associate General Counsel for the Biotechnology Industry Organization - perfectly positions the hi-tech/life-tech divide on patent reform legislation:
“Will I, 30 years from now, pay $10 less for an iPod and have a 10 percent less chance that Alzheimer’s medicine will be available?” (source)
The source article reports that life-tech lobbying [...]
Our new and improved, doubly ineffective patent system
Our patent system has two primary purposes -
1. To encourage disclosure of inventions, and
2. To encourage development of new ideas by fostering design around efforts
Seems to me our great, world-leading patent system is now failing to achieve these purposes in at least two regards…with a third complication on the horizon:
1. - The Old. [...]
An all-new PatentFizz
Wondering what I did on my summer “vacation”? Go check out the all-new PatentFizz, which was launched this week, and you’ll get an idea.
You’ll notice right away that the site has been completely redesigned. It’s a bit easier on the eyes, you might say. The FizzDisplay pages present the abstract, claims, and [...]
PatentFizz mentioned in The Economist magazine
PatentFizz was recently mentioned in A patent improvement, a feature article in The Economist magazine’s Technology Quarterly. Read the article online here or pick up the September 8-14th print edition at your local newstand.
Andy Oram, the story’s author, does an excellent job of profiling the Peer to Patent project, which aims to open the [...]
I wonder what took so long?
I suppose they wanted to make sure they read the new rules twice before actually filing the lawsuit against the Patent and Trademark Office.
Reforming Promote the Progress
Big changes are coming to Promote the Progress. I’m planning on taking most of the summer off, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be working on the site.
Big changes are forthcoming. I’ll leak out some details over the summer, and hope to launch the new and improved site in the fall.
I’m [...]
USPTO proposed rules march on; Comment on the unknown
Dennis Crouch and Hal Wegner have done some excellent work on tracking the status of the USPTO proposed rules, including the proposed rule that would place an arbitrary limit on the ability to file continuation applications. Since their initial publication, the rules have been the subject of a great deal of debate which, thanks [...]
