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The White House’s Intellectual Property Chief Stepped Down 27 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
12 August, 2013 – The White House’s intellectual property chief, Victoria Espinel, has stepped down from her role in the administration. Espinel served as the White House’s first intellectual propert...
Trademark ID Manual Enhancements 29 Jul 2013 | 04:11 pm
The USPTO’s Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual (ID Manual) has been enhanced to add new features and resources. Status checkboxes enable users to refine search results on the ba...
PTAB Guidance on the Statutory Time Bar to an Inter Partes Review 17 Jul 2013 | 03:54 pm
Richard Neifeld, Ph.D. The Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) provide a mechanism to challenge validity of a patent. However, there is a statu...
Patent Drawings and the USPTO’s Electronic Framework 5 Jul 2013 | 06:28 pm
Richard Neifeld, Ph.D. Significant numbers of patent applications are being filed with drawings in data formats that result in a patent having degraded images. This is a result of failure of users o...
Latest USTR Special 301 Report Shows Need for Concerted Action on Piracy in Key Markets 28 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
WASHINGTON, DC – The Software Alliance welcomed in a press release the US Trade Representative (USTR)’s annual Special 301 Report, which highlights international markets with the worst track records p...
Review of Changes to Patent Term Adjustment, Statute and Rule 26 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am
Richard Neifeld, Ph.D. I. INTRODUCTION On January 14, 2013, Public Law 112-274 titled “Leahy-smith America Invents Technical Corrections” became law. This law contains changes to Patent T...
Review of Changes to IPR Law, Statute and Rule 18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
I. INTRODUCTION On January 14, 2013, Public Law 112-274 titled “Leahy-smith America Invents Technical Corrections” became law. On March 25, 2013, the USPTO promulgated final rules correspond...
Debrief on USPTO Design Day Information 10 Jun 2013 | 12:30 pm
The USPTO held its annual Design day conference on 4/23/2013. This is a debrief. The USPTO Design director noted that the examiners will no longer accept conversion of a solid line to a dashed line ...
Trademark Owners Have Remedies Against Domain Names That Infringe 21 May 2013 | 04:30 pm
If your business or organization discovers that a third party is using your trademark as a domain name for its website, or using a mark confusingly similar to yours, you may be able to have the domain...
Keep creating, keep innovating – the Message to The Next Generation from Director General of WIPO Francis Gurry 30 Apr 2013 | 06:36 pm
This year theme of World Intellectual Property Day April 26, is “Creativity – The Next Generation” Nowadays mankind creates and develops in a very dynamic and exciting pace. Life sciences together wit...
