In re Bilski

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Choosing The Right Corporate Structure For Your Business
Counterfeiting Costs US Businesses $200 Billion Annually
Domain Name Purchase Agreements
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How to Show People You Are an Expert in your Industry
Increasing Web Site Traffic and Visibility
Mac vs. PC: A Simplistic Yet Effective Marketing Strategy
Making Small Business Look Bigger
Mobile Business Tools for Apple iPad, iPhone & iPod
The Business of Blogging: A Tutorial for Would-be Bloggers
Internet Law
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Creating a Small Business Plan
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Funding for Start-up Businesses
Successful Business Networking
The Importance of Having a Website
Understanding Identity Theft

Combating Copyright Infringement: DMCA Take Down Notices
Copyright Law and Your Creative Muse
Copyright Trolls: The Meaner Stepsister of Patent Trolls
Copyrights Last for Limited Time, In Theory
Culture of Indifference Fuels Software Piracy Market
Michael Jackson and the Beatles Copyrights
Sample DMCA Take Down Letter
How Long Does a Copyright Last?
Who Owns Software Copyrights?

Interviews

Birch Bayh, United States Senator (ret.)
Cheryl Milone, President of Article One Partners
David Kappos, USPTO Director
Don Dunner, Dean of Federal Circuit Advocates
Doug Lichtman, Professor of Law at UCLA
Erik Iverson, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO
Gary Locke, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Gary Michelson, Billionaire Medical Device Inventor
Jason Chaffetz, United States Congressman (R-UT)
Jim Greenwood, BIO President & Former Congressman
John Broderick, NH Supreme Court Chief Justice (ret.)
Linda Katehi, Chancellor of Univ. CA Davis
Manny Schecter, IBM’s Chief Patent Counsel
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law at Stanford University
Mike Drummond, Pulitzer Nominee & Editor of Inventors Digest
Nick Godici, Former USPTO Director
Paul Michel, Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit (ret.)
Paul Michel, Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit (ret.) SEQUEL
Peggy Focarino, Deputy Commissioner for Patents
Q. Todd Dickinson, Former USPTO Director
Randall Rader, Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit
Ron Reardon, President of National Assoc. of Patent Practitioners
Steve Greenberg, Emmy Award Winning Reporter & Author
Terry Rea, USPTO Deputy Director

Inventing

A Better Mouse Trap and the Road to Riches
Avoiding Invention Promotion Scams
Converting Your Inventions to Dollars and Cents
Drafting a Licensing Agreement, A Patentee Perspective
Drafting Patent Applications: Writing Method Claims
Drafting Patent Applications: Writing Patent Claims
Fun & Lessons: What Dilbert Teaches About Inventing
Hook, Line & Sinker: USPTO Warns About Invention Scams
How to Know if You Have a Licensable Product
Improvements: Learning with the Hitch Mounted Toilet Seat
Inventing 101: Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help
Invention to Patent: The Pitfalls, Perils and Process
Inventor Pitfalls: What is the Patentable Feature?
Keep Your Money In Your Wallet Until Proof of Concept
The Apple Way: Repeated Innovation + Patent = Domination
The Business Responsible Approach to Inventing
The Top 5 Things Inventors Do Wrong
Tricks & Tips for Describing An Invention in a Patent Application
What Inventors Can Learn from Skateboard Icon Tony Hawk
About the Invention Process
Invention Marketing
Invention Promotion Companies
Keeping a Good Invention Notebook
Moving from Idea to Patent
No Prior Art for my Invention
Protecting Ideas: Can Ideas Be Protected or Patented?
What is Prior Art?
Invention Prototypes, Prototyping & Prototype Basics

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Patent

Design Patents: The Under Utilized and Overlooked Patent
Do It Yourself Patents: Patent Filing Made Easy – Just $99
Drafting Patent Applications: Writing Patent Claims
File a Patent Application Before Market Evaluation?
Overview of the US Patent Process
Patent Searches: A Great Opportunity to Focus on What is Unique
Patent Strategy: Laying the Foundation for Business Success
Patents: A Most Difficult Legal Instrument to Draft
Starting the Patent Process on a Limited Budget
The Patent Process on a Tight but Realistic Budget
The Risk of Not Immediately Filing a Patent Application
Applying for a Patent in the US
Business Method Patents
Cost of Obtaining a Patent
Learning from the Animal Toy Patent
Learning from the Grappling Dummy Patent
Nonprovisional Utility Patent Applications
Patent Attorneys Fees Explained
Patents Advanced
- Best Mode Requirement
- Doctrine of Equivalents
- Duty of Candor & Inequitable Conduct
- Maintenance Fees
- Patent Infringement
- Patent Infringement Damages
- Patent Misuse
- Plant Patents
- Repair vs. Reconstruction
- Willful Patent Infringement
Patent Drawings
Patentability Requirements
- Adequate Description Requirement
- Patentable Subject Matter
- The Nonobviousness Requirement
- The Novelty Requirement
- The Utility Requirement
Patent Searching 101
Patent Searching 102: Using Public PAIR
Patent Searches: US Patent Search FAQs
Provisional Patent Application

Patent Bar

5 More Patent Bar Tips
5 Tips for Taking and Passing the Patent Bar Exam
Does My Degree Qualify Me to Take the Patent Bar?
Patent Bar Exam: MPEP Search Strategies
Patent Bar Examination Administration
Patent Bar Qualifications: Category B
Patent Bar Review Courses
PLI Patent Bar Review Course
Those Who Are Ineligible for the Patent Bar
Top 10 Reasons to Take PLI Patent Bar Review Course
USPTO Updates Registration Exam for Patent Practitioners
What You Need to Know About Patent Reform for the Patent Exam
Who Can Take the Patent Bar Exam?

Social Media

Business of Social Media: Protecting Trade Secrets & Trademarks
Don’t Steal My Avatar! Challenges of Social Networking Patents
LinkedIn Continues to Add New Ways to Customize Profiles
Mobile Business Tools: Social Media Apps for Apple
Social Networking for Business: Facebook
Social Networking for Business: LinkedIn
Social Networking for Business: Twitter
Top 10 Mistakes Businesses Make with Social Media
Top 10 Social Networking Resolutions for Business
Using Social Media to Show Expertise and Build Credibility

Software Patents

Beware Open Source Strings Attached if You Want a Patent
The Role for Open Source in Paradigm Shifting Innovation
Battle Between Software Patents and Open Source
Beware Open Source Strings Attached if You Want a Patent
Beware Those Claiming Software Patents Are Unnecessary
Beware Those Claiming Software Patents Are Unnecessary
Business Methods: Concrete & Tangible Description a Must
Defining Computer Related Inventions
Dissecting Bilski: The Meaning of the Supreme Patent Decision
How to Patent Software in a Post Bilski Era
Information Needed to Avoid Writing Bad Software Patents
Obama Wants Open Source IT Solutions for US
Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry
Open Source Success Must Embrace Proprietary Features
Patent Drafting: Defining Computer Implemented Processes
Patent for Software
Patenting Software: The Business Responsible Thing to Do
Software is the New Engine and Must be Patentable
Software Patents and Murphy’s Law: Uncertainty is Where Patentability Resides
The History of Software Patents
The Meaning of “Open Source”: Patented by Microsoft
Why All Small Businesses Need Software Patents
Why Open Source Stalls Innovation & Patents Advance It
Why Open Source Stalls Innovation and Patents Advance It
Writing Software Patent Applications

Trade Secret

How to Protect Trade Secret Assets
Protecting Trade Secrets in a Socially Networked World
Confidentiality Agreements
Mutual Nondisclosure Agreement
Sample Confidentiality Agreements
Simple Confidentiality Agreement
Simple Confidentiality Agreement 2
Standard Confidentiality Agreement
Trade Secrets: A Valuable and Often Overlooked Asset
Trade Secrets – The Secrecy Requirement
Uniform Trade Secret Act

Trademark

7 Branding Tips for Small Businesses
Brand Identity: Protecting Against Negative Good Will
Comparative Advertising: BK vs. McDonalds and Wendy’s
Comparative Advertising: Mac vs. PC
Selecting the Right Trademark for Your Business
The Perils of Being Your Own Trademark Attorney
Trademark Collective Marks
Trademark Power: Not All Trademarks Are Created Equal
Trademark Tarnishment: Trademark Law’s Dirty Little Secret
Trademarks Create Valuable Assets
Trademarks, Branding & Business

Trolls

Defensive Portfolio No Help Against Patent Trolls
Extortion Patent Style: Small Business in Patent Troll Crosshairs
In Search Of a Definition for the term “Patent Troll”
Intellectual Ventures Becomes Patent Troll Public Enemy #1
Musings on Patent Trolls & Bad Patents
Patent Trolls Just a Cost of Doing Business for Big Tech
Patent Trolls: A Conspiratorial Story of Symbiosis
Patent Trolls: Innovation Vampires Suck Life Out of Economy
Reexamination Would Stop Patent Trolls
Was Thomas Edison a Patent Troll?