Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
To pass or quash? America Invents Act Changes
If you're an entrepreneur/inventor and you have a great idea, the fact you have a patent or will get one is irrelevant to investors. Why?
a) patents can be stolen (then tied up in courts by bigger firms);
b) there's a two year wait on applications thereby making some inventions obsolete by the team they're released.
It's the latter that is being addressed in a bill put forward to the House. Currently the backlog at the U.S. Patent office is around 700,000 people ahead of you in line.
Congress is expected to vote this week on a patent reform bill that would change the rules about who gets to file for a patent. Republican members of Congress from California are split over the measure.
That legislation is the America Invents Act. Its cosponsors include California Republican congressmen Darrell Issa and Elton Gallegly.
It’s opposed by a bipartisan group of House members that includes Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach.
We'll keep you posted on development on the House results.
Some more thoughts:
Pro:
http://www.chamberpost.com/2011/06/pass-the-america-invents-act/
Con:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/167565-the-america-invents-act-is-bad-for-the-economy
a) patents can be stolen (then tied up in courts by bigger firms);
b) there's a two year wait on applications thereby making some inventions obsolete by the team they're released.
It's the latter that is being addressed in a bill put forward to the House. Currently the backlog at the U.S. Patent office is around 700,000 people ahead of you in line.
Congress is expected to vote this week on a patent reform bill that would change the rules about who gets to file for a patent. Republican members of Congress from California are split over the measure.
That legislation is the America Invents Act. Its cosponsors include California Republican congressmen Darrell Issa and Elton Gallegly.
It’s opposed by a bipartisan group of House members that includes Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach.
We'll keep you posted on development on the House results.
Some more thoughts:
Pro:
http://www.chamberpost.com/2011/06/pass-the-america-invents-act/
Con:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/167565-the-america-invents-act-is-bad-for-the-economy
Thursday, May 19, 2011
What TLDs have to do with TM?
Copyright notices should go out to all major brans as ICANN beings their gTLD process.
Too much web jargon for you?
Let me break it down.
The TLD, or top level domain, is everything to the right of the last period in your domain name.
www.example.com, the TLD is .com
www.example.edu, the TLD is.edu
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm
ICANN is now going to permit applications for any number of iterations for new TLDs.
That means you could conceivable get .cars, .meat, .sex, etc.
You could also apply for .apple, .ibm, etc.
Most brandable corporations, especially ones with three letters in the name, are aware of the change. But I'm willing to bet there's going to be a slew of infringement cases hitting courtrooms as people try to capitalize on sleepy brand managers.
Certainly a boon of work for TM attorneys....
Too much web jargon for you?
Let me break it down.
The TLD, or top level domain, is everything to the right of the last period in your domain name.
www.example.com, the TLD is .com
www.example.edu, the TLD is.edu
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm
ICANN is now going to permit applications for any number of iterations for new TLDs.
That means you could conceivable get .cars, .meat, .sex, etc.
You could also apply for .apple, .ibm, etc.
Most brandable corporations, especially ones with three letters in the name, are aware of the change. But I'm willing to bet there's going to be a slew of infringement cases hitting courtrooms as people try to capitalize on sleepy brand managers.
Certainly a boon of work for TM attorneys....
Monday, April 4, 2011
Google Bids Nortel Patents
How much would you pay for a bunch of patents? REmember, if you're google, you do'nt really need the patents, you could just rip em off and sink the small company you stole from in court over the course of 15 years.
Ok, that's not the best way to go about protecting patents and TMs', but how much would you pay for a slew of tech patents?
Google is bidding on Nortel's patent portfolio to a tune of 900 million. That's only bid one....
Ok, that's not the best way to go about protecting patents and TMs', but how much would you pay for a slew of tech patents?
Google is bidding on Nortel's patent portfolio to a tune of 900 million. That's only bid one....
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Going online with Apps and TM
I stumbled across this website, that many of you frequent often, that keeps tab on TM online (I believe they are broader than the internet though.)
http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=648
Check out the interest charts ont he requests by many companies to Google regarding the unauthorized uses of TM in the Andriod market.
Some win, some dont.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=648
Check out the interest charts ont he requests by many companies to Google regarding the unauthorized uses of TM in the Andriod market.
Some win, some dont.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
March Madness
Errr, I mean the third month of the year madness sporting event!
http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=2276635c-2434-4ec9-855e-7a63fb98173b
http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=2276635c-2434-4ec9-855e-7a63fb98173b
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Most patents in 2010?
IBM continued its streak of top spot with the most patents awarded to any company by the USPTO. IBM was first with 5,896 patents, Samsung came in second with 4,551 patents, and Microsoft was third with 3,094 patents. Also in the top 10, Intel was eighth with 1,653 patents and HP was 10th with 1,480 patents. Apple gained 563 new patents in 2010 and ranked 46th.
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