Archive for October, 2007
New Rules Injunction - A serious wound to the newly activist and arrogant Patent and Trademark Office
Our Patent and Trademark Office has taken a decidedly activist bent over recent years, single-handedly elevating itself from patent system administrator to patent policy maker. Today’s injunction against the new rules is the first serious wound inflicted on this new animal, and now we must all wait to see if it’s a mortal one…or [...]
and there was much rejoicing….
word has it that an injunction was just issued on the new rules…..
KUDOS to PLI’s live blogging of this important event.
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. [...]
