'Patent' Tag

• Small Business Patent Data Collection Act of 2010

  March 11, 2010

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  Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is Chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee.  Sen. Landrieu has introduced The Small Business Patent Data Collection Act of 2010 after concerns about how the Senate patent reform bill will impact small businesses.  Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all employers, employing 1/2 of the U.S. labor force.
  The [...]

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• ICAP Ocean Tomo To Auction Mobile Barcode Scanning Technology At Upcoming Live Auction March 25th In San Francisco (DataCollectionOnline)

  March 10, 2010

  [Story ID: 777]
  ICAP Ocean Tomo, the intellectual property brokerage division of ICAP plc (IAP.L), will offer for sale a license to a patent portfolio of mobile barcode scanning technology at its upcoming Live Auction March 25th in San Francisco. The portfolio includes 4 issued U.S. patents and 2 patent applications.

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• HP sues Asian firms over patents (ZDNet)

  March 9, 2010

  [Story ID: 748]
  Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia

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• Precision Bio Says USPTO Rejects Claims in Cellectis Patents (GenomeWeb News)

  March 8, 2010

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• The Patent Reform Act of 2010: A Substitute S. 515

  March 5, 2010

  [Story ID: 699]
  Here comes the Patent Reform Act of 2010 in the form of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to S. 515 (‘

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• Acacia Buys 49 Storage Patents (socalTech.com)

  March 4, 2010

  [Story ID: 685]
  Newport Beach-based Acacia Research, which aggressively acquires and licenses patents, said today that it has acquired two patent portfolios, made up of 24 U.S. patents, 7 U.S. patent applications, and 18 foreign patents, from a “major” technology company. The firm said the patents cover storage networks and disk array systems. Name of the [...]

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• BioSante Pharmaceuticals announces receipt of two US patents directed to 2A/Furin technology (News-Medical-Net)

  March 2, 2010

  [Story ID: 686]
  BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the receipt of two US patents directed to its 2A/Furin technology for expressing proteins. The first issued US patent, US Pat. No., 7,632,059, covers methods for manufacturing recombinant antibodies.

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• Are your Japanese patent searches complete? (Part 2 of 2)

  February 24, 2010

  [Story ID: 587]
  In my last post, I discussed the approaches taken by four commercial search systems with regard to their Japanese collections:   Minesoft PatBase, Questel’s QPAT and orbit.com platforms, Thomson Reuters Thomson Innovation , and LexisNexis TotalPatent.
  This post contains a summary of the comparison information in table form.  The tables below reference “machine-assisted” and [...]

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• Are your Japanese patent searches complete? (Part 1 of 2)

  February 23, 2010

  [Story ID: 554]
  Patent searching is still a profession where there aren’

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• Just a Reminder: EPO Fees Increase April 1

  February 22, 2010

  [Story ID: 542]
  The European Patent Office (“EPO”) recently announced that most of its fees will increase by between 5 and 8 per cent from April 1, 2010.  A summary of the new fees is shown here.
  What does this all mean to you?
  If you know that you want to enter the European regional phase of a [...]

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