Posts Tagged: pto
Federal Circuit Review – Issue 58 – July 10, 2015
In this issue of the Federal Circuit Review: (1) Damages for Lost Profits May Not Be Based On Extraterritorial Services Performed by an Infringer’s Customers Under § 271(f); (2) …
Michelle Lee on patent quality, IPR and trade agreements
During our interview Lee explains that she is supportive of expanding trade agreements currently under consideration in Congress, that she looks forward to working on patent quality …
False Distinctions Between Hardware and Software Patents are Not the Answer
From an end-user's perspective, it shouldn't matter whether the normalization is done in hardware, in software or in a combination of hardware and software. And from the …
Bringing Digital Government to the Patent Office
In order to file an application or view outgoing correspondence online, the practitioner must authenticate using a private certificate and password. The process relies on an antiquated …
PTO Lays Out Ambitions 2011 Agenda at IPO Conference
At lunch Director Kappos explained that the goal for fiscal year 2010, which ended on September 30, 2010, was to get the backlog down to 699,000 --- dubbed "project 699." The Office …
PTO Kills Invention Promotion Business
UPDATE: See Sadly, Invention Promotion Alive & Well The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it is adopting new rules relating to a variety of …
Independent Inventors Conference @ PTO
The 13th annual Independent Inventors Conference will be held on the campus of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Virginia August 8-9. A …