Intellectual Property Directions

Summary Judgment - What should your application include?

Bruce — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:41:02 +0000

Greg Aharonian, patent establishment gadfly and publisher of the email “Internet Patent News Service” (request subscription), raised an interesting question in today’s email: Is there ANY benefit from have a Background/Summary section for your patent application? Should/must they be included? The answers, according to Greg, are A) there is no benefit to the applicant and B) he [...]

Process or Perish?

Bruce — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:02:51 +0000

For academics, it’s “publish or perish”. For inventors, I’m hoping that the recent “Bilski” fiasco will start a mantra of “process or perish”, where I mean that inventors will realize that there is a difference between a patentable process and a (questionably) patentable “method”. If the PTO and the courts continue along the current path, [...]

Your “Get out of jail FREE” card

Bruce — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:07 +0000

Who knew! The keys to the jail are held by the Librarian of Congress! The jail in question is the monopoly lock on iPhone/iPad applications that Apple has been trying to assert using The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As you probably know, you have to modify your iPhone - to “jailbreak” - in order to [...]