Patently-O Tidbits

  • PATPROS: Link. Scott Kamholz at Foley Hoag has created a nice reference page for patent prosecution. Foley Hoag is also home of TTABlog author John Welch.
  • USPTO RSS FEEDS: Link. The attorney-bloggers at Rethink(IP)  have developed a great set of RSS feeds that provide USPTO news updates straight from the PTO website.  
  • GUESTMAP: I have installed a new Patently-O GUESTMAP  Feel free to leave your mark.
  • SUMMER ASSOCIATES: Friday is the last day for my firm’s summer associate program.  I was able to get several of the summers involved with the blog.  Thanks Paul Kafadar, Cory Hojka, Nicole Lammers (TBA), Rebecca Brown, and Jessica Lunney! Our firm is always looking for talented technocrats who can communicate well and have an interest in patent law.
  • PAPER TOPICS: Link. Pittsburgh Professor Michael J. Madison has posted a list of interesting topics for IP papers.
  • FILE HISTORIES: A Patently-O Reader is looking for the filewrappers for Patent Nos. 5,894,554 and 6,415,335.  These are reportedly being asserted by a company called EpicRealm (Story).  Let me know if you have them.
  • EXPERIMENTAL USE: In a newly published paper in the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, Professor Hal Wegner argues that the U.S. should have a clear experimental use defense that would allow experimentation on a patented invention.

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