A Practical and Easy Test To Demonstrate the Effect of Hindsight

by Editor in Software Patents

Step 1: Sit a person down in front of your TV

Step 2: Insert “The Sixth Sense” into your DVD player

Step 3: Tell the person that Bruc
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Oprah Pay-it-forward IP style

by Editor in Patent Law

Sub_image_oprahAs you may have heard, in October 2006, http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/phositarss/…

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High Court Case Could Imperil Pending Patents

by Editor in Patent Law


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“GAMESTUDIO” Not Merely Descriptive of On-Line Game, Says TTAB

by Editor in Patent Law

Reversing a Section 2(e)(1) refusal, the Board found the mark GAMESTUDIO not merely descriptive of an on-line simulated securities exchange game. http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/gam…

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in KSR

by Editor in Biotech Patents

The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in the case of KSR International v. Teleflex. Already a group named the http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/000…

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Decision to Revisit Cybor Denied Amidst Divided Court

by Editor in Software Patents



Amgen v. Hoechst Marion Roussel (05-1157 ) - November 22,
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Weakness of “SMART CHOICE” Formative Leads to TTAB Reversal of 2(d) Refusals

by Editor in Patent Law

Relying on Knight Textile, the Board reversed two Section 2(d) refusals to register the mark http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/wea…

Revising the Northern District of California’s Local Patent Rules

by Editor in Patent Law

Northern District of California enacted its patent rules in January 2001.  The district is now ready to reevaluate those rules and has asked f
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02 Micro v. Monolithic Power (Fed. Cir. 2006).

02 Micro holds a patent covering an DC/AC conversion circuit to allow a lapto
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In Fractured Decision, CAFC Refuses to Reexamine De Novo Claim Construction

by Editor in Patent Law

Amgen v. HMR (CAFC en banc denial)

Cybor is the much reviled CAFC decision holding that the construction of patent claim
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