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A conventional in-house IP attorney may struggle to prepare 14 US utility apps, prepare 73 responses and still perform another 300 hrs of “other” IP work. With a salary of $120K, the total cost to the company (salary, overhead and filing fees)…
It is a bold statement, meant to shock, but there is a nugget of truth behind it. Consider the following. For $20k, a small company could buy 100 pizzas, enough drinks for 200+ people, and about 18000 scratch-off lottery tickets. After a few hours of…
Imagine you are well into your pregnancy and like to get a sun tan. Well, just stop there! As a male person, I've never been pregnant although the technology is there. But that image doesn’t sound normal, unless you are into cooking unborn babies…
Focus of the patent is membrane based gas dehumidifiers for waveguide units and communication systems. The fundamental concept behind dehumidifiers is absorbing moisture contents of the gas and mostly water vapor surrounding the electronic components to…
This patent introduces a new type of Power MOSFET what they call power MOSFET with an Anode region. A power MOSFET consists of four regions 1. N+ ( source) 2. P ( body) 3. N- ( Epi) 4. N+ ( drain). In the power MOSFET presented in this patent the drain…
Generic marks: Generally The generic name of a product or service itself is the very antithesis of the mark. Unlike a trademark, which relates a product to its source, a generic term merely specifies the genus of which the particular product is a species.…
In the US, for a limited time, a patent may be reissued with broader claims. The public policy behind permitting the broadening of a patent is to allow the patentee to correct an inadvertent error. Pursuant to the recapture doctrine, broadening cannot…
The 2011 Special 301 Report was issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on 3rd May 2011. It is an annual review of the global state of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement and reflects the…
On March 3, 2011, the Canadian Patent Rules were amended to introduce a procedure for expediting the prosecution of patent applications relating to "green" or "clean" technologies, without the payment of any additional fees . Under the…
Any company worth a hoot these days has to begin giving consideration to protecting their intellectual property within China. Patent applications filed last year in China grew by an enormous 24% to 391,000. Roughly 130,000 of those patent applications were…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced eight new patent-related petitions that may be filed though the e-Petition system. These new patent-related petitions join petitions to make special on the basis of age and petitions to…
Should tax strategy patents be banned? If the Patent Reform Act of 2011 is approved, a ban on tax strategy patents will no longer be a discuss point, it will be law. There has been a strong push for tax strategy patents to be considered not novel and…
