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20 hours ago ago from The IPKat - happy to serve the IP communities
According to a WIPO press release issued recently, a Florida-based company, Federated Institute for Patent and Trademark Registry (FIPTR), has been caught running various scams involving sending out misleading letters to IP rights holders that look like invoices. Some of these were aimed at applicants for international patent applications, but many others involved requests for payment for supposedly registering trade mark rights and ...
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5 hours ago ago from Techdirt
While we're still waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the Bilski case , which may or may not directly impact the question of software patents, JJ points out that the Patent Office has released some new rules on patentability, based on the appeals court ruling in Bilski (technically, the Patent Office issued a ruling, back in August, but just recently declared that ruling "precedential"). The full ruling can be found here (pdf). The key ...
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9 hours ago ago from ducati998
I have advanced some argument as to the restriction of ideas that eventuates in an environment of a state sponsored patent system. I have also advocated that no great loss of monetary revenue would result to innovators, should the current patent system be abolished, and that this would result in an increase in ideas that could satisfy consumer wants. Closely related to the generation of monetary revenues is the concept of value. Value ...
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19 hours ago ago from Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reported that patent filings are down for 2009. Is this a symptom of the economy, or of the fact that the time it takes to successfully file a patent is a serious barrier to innovative entrepreneurs? Read Mike Drummond's article at Harvard Business Review for more.
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4 hours ago ago from Trademark Law
Smokefree Innotec, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SFIO) announced today that its Swiss patent and trademark attorneys Spierenburg & Partners AG have started nationalizing and regionalizing the PCT patent application for SFIOs Real Smokefree product. The first countries where Spierenburg & Partners foreign associates have entered into the national phase are Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Europe, Russia and the United ...
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