China 2009 patent law revision reforms patent problems

The issues in PIO official Action paper 15 was offered by the inventor as an Aid to Legislation for the US Patent Reform Act of 2009. Refer to 333chamfil.newsvine.com.

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An Aid To Legislation For The Patent Reform Act Of 2009

Protecting intellectual property rights is essential to innovation and economic development . However approved patent that had expired over 20years and had not developed a utility model or prototypes therefore useless, should and cannot not be enforced as prior art.

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Overturning bad patents does not happen at Internet speed, and if you need evidence for that thesis, consider the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent Busting Project.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for more than a century.

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"We've seen a problem with quality," [Jon Dudas, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office] said, adding that U.S. patent approvals have slipped from a high of 72 percent of all applications to the current level of about 42 percent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has just made it more difficult to obtain a patent, providing a boon to many technology firms and other companies that are often accused of patent infringement.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) yesterday struck a blow against the human embryonic stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).

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The US Patent and Trademark Office has revoked fundamental patents on human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) that some consumer groups and scientists say had stifled stem cell research. Patent examiners rejected all cla …

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In A country where you need to patent the wheel otherwise somebody else will, if you want to find out if Google's really working on a mobile phone, then look at its patent filings.

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Novelist Michael Crichton is absolutely correct on the issue of the damage being done by gene patents. God might qualify for a patent on genes, but no human invented them, so no human should be able to monopolize their use for research and healing.

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Get Your Employer to Pay For Your Broadband

Employers may seem loathe to increase employee benefits. But perhaps it's more the type of benefit that makes them sneer. What employers really like is benefits that benefit THEM.

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I totally believe Bacardi's story.

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Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month.

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Offering yet another hint that it's done using the "Power" moniker in the names of its professional computer offerings, Apple Computer this week made a second trademark filing on the phrase "Mac Pro," this time in the United States.

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The USPTO's ruling essentially says that had it known about the prior art, Compression Labs' patent would never have been granted.

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In a ruling that is expected to be a sigh of relief for many corporate internet giants (and surfers), Forgent's "submarine patent" claim of ownership of the common JPEG file compression format was ruled to be broadly invalid by the US Patent Office.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Friday launched a new e-filing system that allows patents to be submitted online. Unlike the previous online system, the new PDF-based e-filing system features complete support for Mac OS X.

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