Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins

Upcoming Events:

  • The New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association presents: Electronics, Telecom, and Software Patent Practice Update on January 24, 2013. Agenda includes panels on Non-Practicing Entities, America Invents Act, and case law updates. "We are delighted to provide this second annual program to educate intellectual property attorneys about the latest developments in patent law under the America Invents Act and recent rulings in patent litigation that impact legal practice in the electronics, telecom and software sectors," said Robert E. Rudnick, Program Chair. "We are particularly pleased to offer a panel this year addressing issues our clients face in view of patent infringement claims raised by Non-Practicing Entities." To view the program agenda and register, please visit http://www.njipla.org/events.asp#event52.
  • C5's 5th Annual Forum on Biotech and Pharma Patent Litigation is scheduled for January 29-30 in Amsterdam. [Link] (PatentlyO readers use code PO10 for a 10% discount)
  • IBC Legal will hold its 21st Anniversary Biotech & Pharmaceutical Patenting Conference 2013: Protecting and maximizing medical innovation February 26-27 at the Westin Grand Munich. The conference will help you get up to date with this complex sector's key legal issues and gain commercial insights into how to surmount the practical challenges that Biotech & Pharmaceutical Patenting poses. Guest speakers include: Heli Pihlajamaa, Juergen Dressel, Tom Bombelles, and many others. [Link] (PatentlyO readers use code FKW82348PTLL for a 10% discount)
  • American Conference Institute is hosting its Life Sciences Collaborative Agreements and Acquisitions conference February 27-28th, 2013 in New York, NY. Learn more and register with code PO 200 to receive a discount: [Link].
  • Practical Law is hosting the 1st Annual Life Sciences Law Forum on March 5-6 at the Hilton Waldorf Hotel, in London. The forum will provide a unique cross-border analysis of market trends, discuss issues at the heart of your business and prepare you for what lies ahead. Guest speakers include: Ewan Nettleton, Bill Mordan, Elizabeth Choo, Reza Green, and many others. [Link] (PatentlyO readers register online with discount code LSPA01)
  • American Conference Institute is hosting its Medical Device Patents conference March 5-6th, 2013 in Chicago. In response to the daunting challenges facing the medical device industry, ACI's Advanced Summit on Medical Device Patents provides a forum for the key players – preeminent in-house IP counsel, patent prosecutors and litigators, the PTO, and judges – to unite and share their collective intellectual property knowledge to provide you with cutting-edge patent strategies you can immediately incorporate into your practice before the historic switch to first-to-file on March 16th, 2013. [Link] (PatentlyO readers use code PO 200 for a discount)
  • American Conference Institute is hosting its FDA Boot Camp conference March 19-20th, 2013 in New York, NY. Register with code PO 200 for a discount. [Link]
  • Marcus Evans is hosting its IP Law 2013 Summit in Colorado Springs, CO March 21-23. The IP Law Summit will highlight the current challenges and opportunities through visionary conference sessions and keynote presentations delivered by your most esteemed peers and thought leaders from Americas leading corporations and mid-market organizations. Register online at [Link].

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12 thoughts on “Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins

  1. 11

    Communist Goal #14: Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

    This newfangled CPC stuff is looking like another step toward global government too. Isn’t it just a little odd that the USPTO is being forced to adopt EPO practices although it is about an order of magnitude bigger than the EPO? It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to expect that if we ever get to a global patent system (in which a single patent actually has rights in all participating countries and is not just a placeholder like in PCT), all the examination and representation work will go to the cheapest country.

  2. 9

    The great thing is that I live in the real world.

    You might want to put aside your self-delusional tendencies some time and try it.

  3. 8

    LOL – would be king of the snark, you would be. Lack of wit, is what stops you. Spend more time on the basics, the best advice for you would be. You surely have not earned the attitude you display, and you do not wear it well.

  4. 7

    should these same corporations now be shocked that they themselves are bitten by the snakes they release

    What makes you think anybody is “shocked” by the existence of NPEs who troll the software/electronics/telecom space? You’ve seen the sort of patents the PTO hands out in those art units.

    Patent lawyers themselves tried to get in on the action and bragged about doing so YEARS AGO. There’s nothing surprising about it at all. What’s surprising is that the USPTO seems increasingly proud to service these people.

  5. 6

    the left factions (who despise property rights in general)

    ROTFLMAO

    What an exciting world you live in, Superman!

  6. 4

    Easy – they thought that they could control public perception with their propaganda machines, (guess who coined the perjorative “Troll”), their shills, their, um, donations to Congress, paralleled with an attack from the left factions (who despise property rights in general).

    You can’t tell me that you ar really surprised by any of this, can you?

  7. 3

    MM,

    I think this all started, at least the modern era of it, when someone wrote a book about “Rembrandts” in the attic. Since then, corporations have been actively seeking to monetize their patents, going so far as to “sell” patents they do not need for defense to professional organizations that actively license/enforce patents.

    But should these same corporations now be shocked that they themselves are bitten by the snakes they release? What did they think would happen?

  8. 2

    LOL – more self-defeat.

    You do realize the extent that communists had infiltrated the government, right?

    Better trolling please.

  9. 1

    New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association: “We are particularly pleased to offer a panel this year addressing issues our clients face in view of patent infringement claims raised by Non-Practicing Entities.”

    Oh noes! The bias! It appears the NJIPLA has been infiltrated by patent-loathing communists.

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