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Patent suit causes layoffs
Xconomy is reporting that a suit filed by SkinMedica against Histogen caused Histogen to layoff all of its employees. The suit was filed just prior to Histogen closing a round of financing with an investor group. One issue with this … Continue reading
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Free IP CLE
If you are looking for some high quality continuing legal education credits (CLE) in CA or NY or just want to learn more about intellectual property, check out the Intellectual Property Colloquium. Episodes 2 and 3 were fantastic (Episode 1 … Continue reading
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Apple-wear
A pretty slow news day in the patent world (it is a Saturday after all). The big news in the blogosphere is that Apple has filed a patent application (US 20090000010) for gloves that can be used with the iPhone, … Continue reading
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XLUS – a new data analysis tool
Here’s a little secret we can keep between us…I’m a patent data junkie. Ok, I’ve admitted it, now maybe there is a ten step program that I can join. In the mean time, Japan Today reported a new analysis tool … Continue reading
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year everyone. The beginning of the year is a time to look forward and think about what the future will look like. Fortunately, patents provide a glimpse of what some companies think the future holds. Last week a … Continue reading
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Proposed exemptions to the DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions
The Copyright Office has published in the Federal Register a proposed rulemaking to consider proposed classes of works that would be exempted from the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. In lay-terms, if you are using the copyrighted work for the exempted class/purpose, … Continue reading
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Cellular fish breeding
One of the interesting parts of being a patent attorney is finding unusual technologies that have been lost in time. Sometimes, you run across the truly bizarre… Take a look at US Patent 7179171 entitled “Fish breeding toy for cellular … Continue reading
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A Ornamentum Vacuus A Distinctus
As recently reported by a number of others (see Patently-O), the US Patent Office is requiring a change to a document called a “Declaration” that every inventor must sign. A Declaration is basically a form where the inventor swears that … Continue reading
Novel & Nonobvious Podcast – Episode 4
The Halloween episode is out – ok, a little late. We’re trying out new software called Castblaster, the trial version limits the show to 10 minutes…probably a good thing! Here’s the link to Episode 4 if you care to listen. … Continue reading
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Belated happy Law Day
On th buzz-out-loud podcast, they reported on some Technorati study that shows blogging is starting to level off. Then I realized that it had been ages since I posted. Anyway, I was going to post a “Happy Law Day” post … Continue reading
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