Patent Reform and the Ethos of the American Inventor

January 17, 2008Inventors, Patent, Patent LegislationpaidDennis Crouch

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Quanta v. LG: Will the Supreme Court Clarify the Exhaustion Doctrine?

January 17, 2008PatentLicenses, paid, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 3

January 16, 2008PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Revisiting Foreign Infringing Activity

January 16, 2008Patentpaid, VenueDennis Crouch

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Federal Circuit Residency Requirements

January 16, 2008PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Claim Construction: CAFC Cautions Co-Interpretation of System and Method Elements.

January 15, 2008PatentClaim Construction, paidDennis Crouch

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 2

January 15, 2008PatentInequitable Conduct, paid, VenueDennis Crouch

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Inequitable Conduct: Backdating in Patent Law

January 14, 2008PatentInequitable Conduct, paidDennis Crouch

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes

January 11, 2008Bits and Bytes, PatentLicenses, paid, USPTO DirectorDennis Crouch

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Top Thirty Patent Law Programs (Ranked by Patently-O Hits!)

January 11, 2008PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret

January 10, 2008PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Paper Posted to Non-Indexed FTP Site Not 102(b) Prior Art

January 9, 2008BPAI, Patentanticipation, paid, Printed PublicationDennis Crouch

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Out of the Office

January 9, 2008PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Remembering Mark Banner

January 2, 2008Patentpaid, Trade SecretsDennis Crouch

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Wegner’s Top Ten for 2008

January 2, 2008PatentClaim Construction, Federal Circuit En Banc, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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Design Patents: No longer the Province of Individual Inventors

December 31, 2007PatentFirst to Invent, paidDennis Crouch

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Computer Based Patent Bar Exam Statistics

December 30, 2007PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Design Patents: Controlling Pendency

December 28, 2007Design Patent, PatentFederal Circuit En Banc, paidDennis Crouch

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Counting Design Patents

December 26, 2007Academic Studies, Articles and Publications, Design Patent, PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Rising Claim Counts

December 23, 2007PatentpaidDennis Crouch

The chart shows the average number of total claims and independent claims for each year of issuance. The sample is drawn from 28,000 randomly selected patents that issued from 1977 and 2005. (For those who want data, the following table shows the average claim numbers by filing date.)

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