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14 hours ago ago from Patents Post Grant Blog
With the Obama administration seemingly reigning in their health care reform ambitions, it may be that the never ending saga of Patent Reform may once again be percolating in Washington D.C. President Obama’s recent comments on the value of a strong patent system and outdated USPTO practices, and increased USPTO budget seem to evidence a refocused agenda. On the heels of the President’s comments, last Tuesday, a group of bipartisan House ...
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Catherine Du Pont-Thibodeau is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course . A topic recently caught my attention while surfing the Internet in search of a subject for this blog: the patentability of business methods in Canada and more particularly Amazon.com’s 1-Click technology. Having very little knowledge of patent law at least so far, I decided to explore this topic to understand what the buzz was ...
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18 hours ago ago from Patent Triage
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