tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1336726 2012-05-25T08:56:23+01:00 Steve van Dulken, British Library research specialist, blogs about patents, inventions and intellectual property TypePad http://www.bl.uk/images/entrypoint/logo100.gifSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesThis is a British Library blog about patent searching and intellectual property tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168ebc6871b970c 2012-05-25T08:56:23+01:00 2012-05-25T08:56:23+01:00 Steve Van Dulken It’s down to the final two companies to test their goal-line innovations to see if a goal has been scored: England’s Hawk-Eye, and Denmark’s GoalRef® (although the technology is German). There have...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=D9p4DC7nILE:voPJsijmOnw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=D9p4DC7nILE:voPJsijmOnw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=D9p4DC7nILE:voPJsijmOnw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=D9p4DC7nILE:voPJsijmOnw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=D9p4DC7nILE:voPJsijmOnw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/D9p4DC7nILE" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/football-goal-line-technology-hawk-eye-and-goalref-trials.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef016305c0cdbc970d 2012-05-23T10:10:29+01:00 2012-05-23T10:10:29+01:00 Steve Van Dulken The BBC has an obituary of Eugene Polley, who has died at the age of 96, who it calls the inventor of the TV remote control. His Flash-Matic invention is I believe the Control system patent, filed in...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=tvBYUkwU9Y8:YoFL8Yroly4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=tvBYUkwU9Y8:YoFL8Yroly4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=tvBYUkwU9Y8:YoFL8Yroly4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=tvBYUkwU9Y8:YoFL8Yroly4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=tvBYUkwU9Y8:YoFL8Yroly4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/tvBYUkwU9Y8" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/the-invention-of-the-television-remote-control.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01676687cc57970b 2012-05-16T09:08:03+01:00 2012-05-16T09:24:14+01:00 Steve Van Dulken Disney has come up with a revolutionary touch-sensing invention,Touché, as explained in a Yahoo article. Different types of touch would mean that a doorknob would know how to lock itself by the way...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=AoMYXe2e7y4:NsGebDjQ_SA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=AoMYXe2e7y4:NsGebDjQ_SA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=AoMYXe2e7y4:NsGebDjQ_SA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=AoMYXe2e7y4:NsGebDjQ_SA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=AoMYXe2e7y4:NsGebDjQ_SA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/AoMYXe2e7y4" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/disneys-touch%C3%A9-touch-sensing-invention.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0167666c2e79970b 2012-05-11T10:16:53+01:00 2012-05-11T10:16:53+01:00 Steve Van Dulken WIPO has published a press release on PCT patent statistics for 2011, together with an annex giving data. PCT is what many call the World patent. Nearly all large companies, and many medium-sized...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=q3TmIzXh9r8:GO2uVwrUX2A:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=q3TmIzXh9r8:GO2uVwrUX2A:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=q3TmIzXh9r8:GO2uVwrUX2A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=q3TmIzXh9r8:GO2uVwrUX2A:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=q3TmIzXh9r8:GO2uVwrUX2A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/q3TmIzXh9r8" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/pct-patent-statistics-for-2011.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef01676662a47d970b 2012-05-10T10:24:48+01:00 2012-05-10T10:24:48+01:00 Steve Van Dulken WIPO has a very useful list on its site of patent landscape reports. These are analyses of trends and patterns by country, company and so on of particular sectors. They are arranged in the broad...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=j45t38o4WJg:0bjofiNP9qU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=j45t38o4WJg:0bjofiNP9qU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=j45t38o4WJg:0bjofiNP9qU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=j45t38o4WJg:0bjofiNP9qU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=j45t38o4WJg:0bjofiNP9qU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/j45t38o4WJg" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/patent-landscape-reports-analysing-business-sectors.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0163052a3ccf970d 2012-05-04T15:22:46+01:00 2012-05-04T15:22:46+01:00 Steve Van Dulken London's Centre for Fashion and Enterprise has put four guides to aspects of intellectual property and the fashion industry up on the Web. They all have the title Intellectual property and the...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=LB0PdY5fzpg:pVgvlE0Ydsk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=LB0PdY5fzpg:pVgvlE0Ydsk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=LB0PdY5fzpg:pVgvlE0Ydsk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=LB0PdY5fzpg:pVgvlE0Ydsk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=LB0PdY5fzpg:pVgvlE0Ydsk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/LB0PdY5fzpg" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/guide-to-intellectual-property-in-the-fashion-industry.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef016765f539c6970b 2012-05-01T08:42:46+01:00 2012-05-01T08:42:46+01:00 Steve Van Dulken Even the simplest thing needs to be designed and made. I was reminded of that when I bought a pair of slippers which were attached to each other and to a hook above by a "shoe rack". The main...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=FtpSaLi3hSs:Un4fHFQm-uE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=FtpSaLi3hSs:Un4fHFQm-uE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=FtpSaLi3hSs:Un4fHFQm-uE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=FtpSaLi3hSs:Un4fHFQm-uE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=FtpSaLi3hSs:Un4fHFQm-uE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/FtpSaLi3hSs" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/05/shoe-hangers-as-registered-designs.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168eab21bc1970c 2012-04-25T13:16:36+01:00 2012-04-25T13:16:36+01:00 Steve Van Dulken The IPKat blog has reported on the appearance of an academic paper by three German authors, The impact of spelling errors on patent search. It is in fact about errors in giving the names of patent...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=wy5tGJLktiU:5ihXppcc294:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=wy5tGJLktiU:5ihXppcc294:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=wy5tGJLktiU:5ihXppcc294:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=wy5tGJLktiU:5ihXppcc294:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=wy5tGJLktiU:5ihXppcc294:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/wy5tGJLktiU" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/04/spelling-errors-in-patents.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0168eaa22027970c 2012-04-24T09:41:33+01:00 2012-04-24T09:41:33+01:00 Steve Van Dulken The discussions – arguments, if you like – over the European Union Patent and Unitary Court have been rumbling on for many years. When I attended the International Patent Forum 2012 last week here in...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=Lp139MdswQ0:Q6h0_ge_y_8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=Lp139MdswQ0:Q6h0_ge_y_8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=Lp139MdswQ0:Q6h0_ge_y_8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=Lp139MdswQ0:Q6h0_ge_y_8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=Lp139MdswQ0:Q6h0_ge_y_8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/Lp139MdswQ0" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/04/the-european-union-patent-and-unitary-court.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef0167659536dc970b 2012-04-23T11:43:33+01:00 2012-04-23T11:43:33+01:00 Steve Van Dulken The topic of open innovation -- how to facilitate ideas coming to a company or other organisation from outside so that it can be further developed -- has become one of great interest to many. The...<br/> <br/> (From Steve van Dulken's Patents Blog)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=5mMAvPLEakw:i-SkHwNxyOc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=5mMAvPLEakw:i-SkHwNxyOc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?i=5mMAvPLEakw:i-SkHwNxyOc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=5mMAvPLEakw:i-SkHwNxyOc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?a=5mMAvPLEakw:i-SkHwNxyOc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SteveVanDulkensPatentBlog/~4/5mMAvPLEakw" height="1" width="1"/> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2012/04/open-innovation-an-event-at-the-british-library.html