A Special Thank You to Our Guest Contributors!

As you may have seen, IPWatchdog.com has been named to the ABA Blawg 100, which recognizes the top 100 blogs on the Internet written by lawyers for lawyers.  This marks the third year in a row we have been honored by the American Bar Association Journal as a top 100 blog.

Now the voting begins. Last year we were voted the top IP Law blog and greatly appreciate the support we received.  Once again this year we are in the same category — IP Law — as is Professor Dennis Crouch’s widely popular PatentlyO blog.  If you are inclined to vote for us we would once again greatly appreciate your support.

Over the years IPWatchdog.com has continued to try and add additional perspectives from a wide variety of guest contributors, ranging from well respected practicing attorneys and agents to high profile academics to inventors and pro-patent lobbyists. It is hard to imagine providing such depth of analysis on such an array of topics without having truly wonderful guest authors.  So we take this moment to say a very special thank you and to shine the spotlight on them. Each deserve to share in any recognition of IPWatchdog.com.  While I am loathe to single any guests out I would be remiss if I didn’t separately thank both Beth Hutchens (10 contributions) and Eric Guttag (9 contributions)!

Without further ado, here are the guest contributors in alphabetical order, along with their contributions for 2011.

Jeanne Albrecht, Verif IP

• It’s More Important Than Ever to Use Protection

Joseph Allen, Allen & Associates

• Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
• After Stanford v. Roche: Bayh-Dole Still Stands
• Remembering Norman Latker: The Passing of a Friend
• Stanford v. Roche: An Academic/Industry Collaboration Gone Wrong

Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Professor of Law, Suffolk University

• The Expansion of Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights

Michael Bowman

• Increasing Patent Allowance Rates

John Boyd, Rimon Law Group

• The Top 5 IP Mistakes Tech Startups Make

Howard Bremer, Patent Counsel Emeritus, Wisconsin Research Foundation

• After Stanford v. Roche: Bayh-Dole Still Stands

Michael Carrier, Professor of Law, Rutgers University (Camden)

• Hatch-Waxman at the Supreme Court: Supporting Cert. in Cipro

Bernard Cassidy, Tessara Technologies, Inc.

• Super Committee Considering an End to USPTO Fee Diversion

Mary Cheney

• The Struggle of Law School Graduates in a Difficult Job Market

Manus Cooney, American Continental Group

• Reshaping U.S. Patent Law. Who are the Winners & Losers?
• The America Invents Act — How it All Went Down
• Patent Reform: The Senate Makes Its Move

John Cronin, Chairman & Managing Director, ipCapital Group

• Mining Patent Gold: What Every CEO Should Know

Scott Daniels, Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian, Patent Reexamination Blog

• Reexam Creates Intervening Rights, Erases $29.4 Million Verdict
• Stay Ordered: Paul Allen Litigation Takes Abrupt Detour
• Microsoft Petitions PTO to Reverse Refusal to Grant Reexam in i4i
• Smucker Loses Reexam Battles, But May Win Litigation War

Eldora Ellison, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox

• America Invents: Immediate Changes to Patent Law Start Today

Richard Epstein, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago Law School

• FTC Proposal for Regulating IP Will Harm Consumers

Robert Fletcher, President & Founder of IPISC

• Tenth Circuit Finds Patent Infringement Insurance Coverage

Jeremiah Frueauf, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox

• America Invents: Immediate Changes to Patent Law Start Today

Charles Gorentstein, Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

• The America Invents Act — Panacea of Just Pain for the PTO?
• America Invents Act Exercises “Con-Troll” Over Patent Litigation

Marla Grossman, American Continental Group

• Patent Reform: The Senate Makes Its Move

Eric Guttag, Guttag IP Law

• Heretical Thoughts on Strategies for Coping with First to File
• Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Rader Rules
• CAFC on Patent-Eligibility: A Firestorm of Opinions in Classen
• Federal Circuit Again Rules Equivalent Foreseeable in Duramed
• American Davids of Innovation, Start Your Engines
• Bayh-Dole Compliance Obligations Meet America Invents Act
• Best Mode Patent Raptor Claims Another Victim
• Did the CAFC Miss the Real Written Description Issue in Crown Packaging?

Dr. John Hershey, author of The Eureka! Method

• The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor

Michelle Holobek, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox

• One Year Post-Bilski: How the Decision is Being Interpreted

Dr. John Howells, Associate Professor, Aarhus School of Business

• Rebuttal Finale: A Response to Lemley’s Myth of the Sole Inventor
• A Critique of Mark Lemley’s “The Myth of the Sole Inventor”

David Hricik, Professor Law, Mercer University School of Law

• What if the Spouse of Every Inventor has an Undivided Interest in an Invention?

Beth Hutchens, Hutchens Law Office

• 7 Common Misperceptions About Intellectual Property
• Internet Trademark Law 101: Don’t Metatag Me, Bro!
• I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little copyright too!
• Copyrights Last for a Limited Time, At Least in Theory
• Opportunistic Disney Seeks to Trademark “Seal Team 6”
• Prince and the Copyright Compulsory License Scheme
• The Google Book Settlement and Orphan Works
• Trademarking of Sarah Palin, You Can Trademark Your Name
• Trademarking a Domain Name? Sure, why not?
• Apple and Microsoft Fight Over “APP STORE” Trademark App

Ron Katznelson, Bi-Level Technologies

• Rebuttal Finale: A Response to Lemley’s Myth of the Sole Inventor
• A Critique of Mark Lemley’s “The Myth of the Sole Inventor”
• The America Invents Act’s Repeal of Secret Commercial Use Bar

F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law, GW Law School

• FTC Proposal for Regulating IP Will Harm Consumers

Jack Lander, The Inventor Mentor

• Beat the Odds: How to Get Your Invention Licensed
• A Limited Run: Testing the Market Without Going Broke
• Picking Strategic Partners: How and Why

Michael Lin, Marks & Clerk (Hong Kong)

• Intellectual Property Protection in China is NOT an Oxymoron

Bryan Lord, New Venture Advisors

• Crunch Time: Call Your Senators on Patent Reform

Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Stanford University Law School

• Lemley Responds: Defending the Myth of the Sole Inventor
• The Myth of the Sole Inventor

Mark Malek, Zies Widerman & Malek

• EFS Warning! Patent Office Not Ready for Java Update

Leo Mazur, President of the Inventors Society of South Florida

• You’ve Lost Your Non-Profit Status

Chief Judge Paul Michel, CAFC (ret.)

• Torpedoing Patent Rights

Gary Michelson, Orthopedic Surgeon & Inventor

• Gary Michelson’s Letter to Congress Supporting Patent Reform

Cheryl Milone, Article One Partners

• Revolutionizing Prior Art Research: Crowdsourcing Could Save Angry Birds

David Nay, Quinn Law Group

• Winning the Future: How States Can Promote Innovation

Henry Nohhaft, author of Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership

• Dear Mr. President, Are You Listening?
• Eating Our Seed Corn for Job Creation
• Tax Policy Makes U.S. Uncompetitive, Not China’s Low Wages
• Start-Up Reality: No Patent = No Funding, No Business, No Jobs

Mark Nowotarski, Markets, Patents & Alliances

• First-to-File and the Speed of Technology Evolution
• Funding Your Invention: Get Started with Crowdfunding
• Increasing Patent Allowance Rates
• Don’t Steal My Avatar! Challenges of Social Networking Patents

Sue D. Nym, the anonymous contributors

• In re Lovin: The Examiner’s Answer is Too Late for Proper Rejection
• Having it Both Ways: the USPTO’s Inconsistent Positions

Marshal Phelps, Article One Partners

• Mining Patent Gold: What Every CEO Should Know

Michael Risch, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law

• Understanding NPEs: Patent Troll Myths Debunked

Jeffrey Shieh, Inovia

• An Overview of the PCT International Patent Process

Howard Skaist, Berkeley Law & Technology Group

• Traps for the Unwary Regarding Patent Claim Drafting

Robert Snoep, Create IP

• Trends in IP Protection on the Edge of the World

Daniel Spulber, Distinguished Professor, Kellogg School of Management

• FTC Proposal for Regulating IP Will Harm Consumers

Mark Summerfield, Watermark – Intellectual Asset Management

• Intellectual Property from the Land Down Under, 2010 Part 1
• Intellectual Property for the Land Down Under, 2010 Part 2

Monica Talley, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox

• ICANN to Begin Accepting Applications for New GTL Domain Names

Mary Beth Tung, Davis Agnor Rapaport & Skalny

• Myriad: Isolated DNA claims from “ball bats in trees” to “magic microscopes”

Maureen Veterano, Associate General Counsel, IPISC

• Intellectual Property Insurance: What Attorneys Need to Know

Stewart Walsh, SP Attorney Services

• Obscure Patent: Combined Cigar Lighter and Perfume Ejector

John White, PLI Patent Bar Review

• Patent Reform and Patent Bar Review, What You Should Know
• Is it too late on Patent Reform?
• My Advice to Google — Keep Acquiring Patents
• An Interview with Sharon Barner, Former PTO Deputy Director
• The PTO Paradox: A Gatekeeper Mired in the Past

James Yang, OC Patent Lawyer

• Updating the Top Patent Blogs

Arlene Zank, President, Coronado Group, Ltd.

• Increasing Patent Allowance Rates

Alex Zhang, King & Wood

• Key Considerations for Patent Strategies in China

Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Consulting

• The Software IP Detective: Infringement Detection in a Nutshell