Stanford and Samsung offer $130,000 in Prize Money for Articles on Patent Remedies

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Last week, President Obama’s administration released its new CHALLENGE.GOV website. Today stanford law school announced the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize — this year focusing on patent remedies. All Patently-O readers are eligible:

Call for Papers: Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize

Topic: Patent Remedies

Samsung Electronics and Stanford Law School are proud to co-sponsor the inaugural Samsung-Stanford Patent Prizes. We are seeking outstanding papers and paper proposals on the topic of patent remedies. We will award up to seven Prizes in the amount of $10,000 each to academics, lawyers, and other professionals in any field who submit the best papers or abstracts. In addition, we will award up to 12 Prizes in the amount of $5,000 each to full-time students in any field who submit the best papers or abstracts. The winners are expected to attend and participate in a conference on the subject of patent damages to be held at Stanford Law School on February 18, 2011. Travel expenses will not be separately reimbursed, but should be paid out of the prize money.

Applicants should submit a precis of their draft or proposed paper (not to exceed five pages) by email to Brian Love at Stanford Law School (blove@law.stanford.edu) no later than October 31, 2010. Winners will be notified by approximately November 15, 2010. To be eligible for the Prize, winners must submit a draft of their paper in advance of the conference, by February 1, 2011.

The purpose of this prize is to encourage new research; eligible papers must not have been published before December 31, 2010.

CHALLENGE.GOV: Prizes as an Additional Incentive Layer

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In my patent law course last week, we had discussion of the role of a patent system as compared with other potential governmental pro-innovation initiatives such as grants or prizes.  Our current patent system does not provide any strong mechanisms for channeling innovation toward particular identified issues.  Rather, investors and inventors choose their own paths according to their own subjective perception of the potential market upside.  When an important challenge is publicly identified, we may want to add an additional layer of incentive to funnel research in a particular direction. In that vein, the Obama Administration's Chief Technology Office Aneesh Chopra and Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled CHALLENGE.GOV at yesterday's GOV 2.0 conference.  CHALLENGE.GOV identifies 35 challenges and offers prizes for folks who provide novel solutions.

Identified challenges include:

  • Create nutritious food that kids like — $12,000 prize.
  • Reducing waste at college football games — school prestige award.
  • Best original research paper as judged by the Defense Technical Information Center.
  • Provide a whitepaper on how to improve reverse osmosis membranes — up to $100,000.
  • Digital Forensics Challenge
  • Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge (Create the best virtual world for the US Army) — $25,000 in prizes.
  • Advance the field of wireless power transmission — $1.1M for a team that can wirelessly drive a mechanical climber to 1 kilometer height at a speed of at least 5 meters/sec. 
  • Strong Tether Challenge — create a material with 50% more tensile strength than anything on the market for $2 million.
  • etc.

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Upcoming Events:

  • Professor Mark Janis of Indiana has put together a really interesting conference titled “Patent Scope Revisited: Merges & Nelson's ‘On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope,’ 20 Years After.”  Sept 23–24 in Bloomington. Speakers include Rob Merges, Don Chisum, Ed Kitch, John Duffy, Jay Kesan, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Kevin Collins, Chris Cotropia, etc. (I will also be speaking at the event and hope to see you there.) [LINK]. (FREE)
  • Catholic University (Columbus School of Law) is presenting a discussion of the “Ethical Ramifications of Therasense” on Sept 27 from 5pm – 6:30pm at the National Press Club.  Speakers include Professors Beth Winston and Megan La Belle from Catholic University along with ITC Chief Judge Paul Lukern, Professor Lisa Dolak (Syracuse), Jim Kulbaski (Oblon) and Ed Polk (Foley) [LINK]. (FREE).
  • Former Chief Judge Michel along with a host of professors and in-house counsel will discuss “Patentable Subject Matter” on Sept 20 9:30am – 12:45pm at GWU in DC. [LINK].
  • San Diego IP Law Association is holding a Discussion of Therasense on Sept 23 from 6pm – 10pm. Speakers include Chris Mammen, Hans Sauer (BIO), Larry Repress, and Fred Hadidi. [Link] ($70–$90).
  • 2010 APLF Annual Meeting is September 29 – October 1 in Chicago. [LINK].
  • IBC Legal has an interesting looking conference in London discussing IP Rights in China on the November 22–23. Patently-O readers should use code KW8070PO for a 10% discount. [Link] 
  • WAY OUT IN THE FUTURE: On Feb 25, 2011, The Missouri Law Review is hosting a conference that looks at the patent jurisprudence of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with a special focus on the impact of Chief Judge Michel. It will held right here in Columbia Missouri.

Patent Jobs:

  • Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP, a Central New York intellectual property law firm, has immediate openings for a Patent Attorney. [Link]
  • Lee & Hayes, a nationally known intellectual property (IP) law firm, is seeking a lateral experienced patent attorney. [Link]
  • International IP Law Group is seeking an Associate, Of Counsel to prepare and prosecute patent applications relating to complex electrical technology and software. [Link]
  • ResMed (Sydney) is seeking a Qualified US, European or Australian patent attorney with a number of years post registration experience. Experience within biomedical engineering and in-house will be looked upon favourably. [Link]
  • HP seeks a patent attorney. [Link]

New Hampshire Law School:

Franklin Pierce Law Center was founded by patent attorneys back in 1973.  For a time the law school was the clear national leader in the training of future patent attorneys. In the past 15–years, many law schools have added patent-focused faculty, but Franklin Pierce is still one of only a handful of schools that focuses on IP law training rather than legal theory. This week, the law school announced that it has formally merged with the University of New Hampshire and has become the University of New Hampshire School of Law. At the same time, the school created Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property. Congratulations to my friends at UNH! [Link]

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Upcoming Events:

  • Professor Mark Janis of Indiana has put together a really interesting conference titled “Patent Scope Revisited: Merges & Nelson's ‘On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope,’ 20 Years After.”  Sept 23–24 in Bloomington. Speakers include Rob Merges, Don Chisum, Ed Kitch, John Duffy, Jay Kesan, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Kevin Collins, Chris Cotropia, etc. (I will also be speaking at the event and hope to see you there.) [LINK]. (FREE)
  • Catholic University (Columbus School of Law) is presenting a discussion of the “Ethical Ramifications of Therasense” on Sept 27 from 5pm – 6:30pm at the National Press Club.  Speakers include Professors Beth Winston and Megan La Belle from Catholic University along with ITC Chief Judge Paul Lukern, Professor Lisa Dolak (Syracuse), Jim Kulbaski (Oblon) and Ed Polk (Foley) [LINK]. (FREE).
  • Former Chief Judge Michel along with a host of professors and in-house counsel will discuss “Patentable Subject Matter” on Sept 20 9:30am – 12:45pm at GWU in DC. [LINK].
  • San Diego IP Law Association is holding a Discussion of Therasense on Sept 23 from 6pm – 10pm. Speakers include Chris Mammen, Hans Sauer (BIO), Larry Repress, and Fred Hadidi. [Link] ($70–$90).
  • 2010 APLF Annual Meeting is September 29 – October 1 in Chicago. [LINK].
  • IBC Legal has an interesting looking conference in London discussing IP Rights in China on the November 22–23. Patently-O readers should use code KW8070PO for a 10% discount. [Link] 
  • WAY OUT IN THE FUTURE: On Feb 25, 2011, The Missouri Law Review is hosting a conference that looks at the patent jurisprudence of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with a special focus on the impact of Chief Judge Michel. It will held right here in Columbia Missouri.

Patent Jobs:

  • Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP, a Central New York intellectual property law firm, has immediate openings for a Patent Attorney. [Link]
  • Lee & Hayes, a nationally known intellectual property (IP) law firm, is seeking a lateral experienced patent attorney. [Link]
  • International IP Law Group is seeking an Associate, Of Counsel to prepare and prosecute patent applications relating to complex electrical technology and software. [Link]
  • ResMed (Sydney) is seeking a Qualified US, European or Australian patent attorney with a number of years post registration experience. Experience within biomedical engineering and in-house will be looked upon favourably. [Link]
  • HP seeks a patent attorney. [Link]

New Hampshire Law School:

Franklin Pierce Law Center was founded by patent attorneys back in 1973.  For a time the law school was the clear national leader in the training of future patent attorneys. In the past 15–years, many law schools have added patent-focused faculty, but Franklin Pierce is still one of only a handful of schools that focuses on IP law training rather than legal theory. This week, the law school announced that it has formally merged with the University of New Hampshire and has become the University of New Hampshire School of Law. At the same time, the school created Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property. Congratulations to my friends at UNH! [Link]

Fundraiser — Race for the Cure

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Kv_komen_logo_COUI recently agreed to help raise funds to support efforts to fight breast cancer.  The funds that we are raising go toward educational, treatment, and screening programs.  As part of the effort, I will be running in the 2010 “Race for the Cure” — a 5K race here in Columbia Missouri on September 19. Please use the link listed below to join me as a sponsor of the run.

Thank you!

Dennis Crouch
dcrouch@patentlyo.com

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If you are a law professor teaching a general course on intellectual property, you might consider a cheap text-book alternative:

  • Franklin Pierce Professor Tom Field freely gives-away PDF versions of his 470 page book titled Fundamentals of Intellectual Property.
  • Lewis & Clark Professors Joe Miller and Lydia Loren have started their own publishing company and offer their book titled Intellectual Property Cases and Materials for a suggested fee of $30.
  • Students who want a bound-book can take the document to Kinkos with a $20 bill.
  • [This semester, I am teaching Patent Law and have assigned the casebook by Merges & Duffy. Although not cheap, that book has the lowest cost per pound of any on the market.]

Recent Patent Law Jobs:

Some Recent Patent Lawsuits:

  • Allure Home Creation Co. Inc. v. Maytex Mills Inc. (D.Del.) — Patent covers a shower-curtain hook.
  • Simonian v. Mitchell-Vance Labs (E.D.Ill.) — False marking action against maker of “ScarAway” whose product packaging lists an expired patent.
  • AGA Medical Corp. v. W.L. Gore & Associates (D.Minn) – Patent covers a device that can be inserted via a catheter for blocking leakage of an internal body organ.
  • De Beers UK Limited v. Kohls & Adwar Casting (W.D.Mo.) – Design patents cover jewelry.

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If you are a law professor teaching a general course on intellectual property, you might consider a cheap text-book alternative:

  • Franklin Pierce Professor Tom Field freely gives-away PDF versions of his 470 page book titled Fundamentals of Intellectual Property.
  • Lewis & Clark Professors Joe Miller and Lydia Loren have started their own publishing company and offer their book titled Intellectual Property Cases and Materials for a suggested fee of $30.
  • Students who want a bound-book can take the document to Kinkos with a $20 bill.
  • [This semester, I am teaching Patent Law and have assigned the casebook by Merges & Duffy. Although not cheap, that book has the lowest cost per pound of any on the market.]

Recent Patent Law Jobs:

Some Recent Patent Lawsuits:

  • Allure Home Creation Co. Inc. v. Maytex Mills Inc. (D.Del.) — Patent covers a shower-curtain hook.
  • Simonian v. Mitchell-Vance Labs (E.D.Ill.) — False marking action against maker of “ScarAway” whose product packaging lists an expired patent.
  • AGA Medical Corp. v. W.L. Gore & Associates (D.Minn) – Patent covers a device that can be inserted via a catheter for blocking leakage of an internal body organ.
  • De Beers UK Limited v. Kohls & Adwar Casting (W.D.Mo.) – Design patents cover jewelry.

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  • Rational Ignorance at the PTO: I received many interesting comments on The Lemley-Cotropia-Sampat article yesterday.  Many of the comments pushed-back against the authors’ conclusions with reasons why applicant-cited art is more-rarely asserted in prior art rejections. Query: Do you have suggestions for going about proving/disproving their conclusion that USPTO patent examiners “effectively ignore” applicant-submitted prior art.
  • Patent Law in Print:
    • Joe Mullin at Corporate Counsel (an ALM Magazine) reports on Patent Attorney Wes Whitmeyer’s patent infringement lawsuits against Brinks Hofer, Dinsmore & Shohl; Benesch Friedlander; Edwards Angell; and WilmerHale. [Link]
    • Susan Pan and Natalya Dvorson have a useful article in IPToday on how to obtain refunds from the USPTO. [Link]
    • Abigail Rubenstein of Law360 has a brief article about the en banc request in Telcordia Tech v. Cisco. In that case, Cisco is asking the Federal Circuit hold that Judges (rather than Juries) should decide whether patent claims are invalid as indefinite.  Microsoft and GM filed a joint brief in support of the petition. [Link]
    • Sharon Oriel has published a short article in Intellectual Asset Managament (IAM) magazine describing “a three-step process to persuade a company that it can prosper and grow through investing in intellectual asset management.” [Link]
  • Recent Patent Law Jobs:
    • Amazon is looking for business-minded corporate counsel with at least 5–years of patent prosecution experience and combination of in-house and law firm experience. [Link]
    • Miller Nash law firm is looking for a patent attorney (or attorneys) with 4+ years experience and a focus on medical devices and life-science related software. [Link]

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  • Rational Ignorance at the PTO: I received many interesting comments on The Lemley-Cotropia-Sampat article yesterday.  Many of the comments pushed-back against the authors’ conclusions with reasons why applicant-cited art is more-rarely asserted in prior art rejections. Query: Do you have suggestions for going about proving/disproving their conclusion that USPTO patent examiners “effectively ignore” applicant-submitted prior art.
  • Patent Law in Print:
    • Joe Mullin at Corporate Counsel (an ALM Magazine) reports on Patent Attorney Wes Whitmeyer’s patent infringement lawsuits against Brinks Hofer, Dinsmore & Shohl; Benesch Friedlander; Edwards Angell; and WilmerHale. [Link]
    • Susan Pan and Natalya Dvorson have a useful article in IPToday on how to obtain refunds from the USPTO. [Link]
    • Abigail Rubenstein of Law360 has a brief article about the en banc request in Telcordia Tech v. Cisco. In that case, Cisco is asking the Federal Circuit hold that Judges (rather than Juries) should decide whether patent claims are invalid as indefinite.  Microsoft and GM filed a joint brief in support of the petition. [Link]
    • Sharon Oriel has published a short article in Intellectual Asset Managament (IAM) magazine describing “a three-step process to persuade a company that it can prosper and grow through investing in intellectual asset management.” [Link]
  • Recent Patent Law Jobs:
    • Amazon is looking for business-minded corporate counsel with at least 5–years of patent prosecution experience and combination of in-house and law firm experience. [Link]
    • Miller Nash law firm is looking for a patent attorney (or attorneys) with 4+ years experience and a focus on medical devices and life-science related software. [Link]

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e-Office Action:

  • Thirty Percent (30%) of all USPTO patent correspondence is now communicated electronically. Up to three e-mail addresses can be identified for each pending application. Rather than sending paper, applicants receive an e-mail notification of an office communication that can then be accessed via Private PAIR.
  • The e-Office Action system can help streamline docketing. In addition, attorneys receive the communication a few days earlier and in a form that can be easily communicated to their clients.
  • More Info

Blogs to Check-Out:

Recent Patently-O Job Posting:

  • In Seattle, the Miller Nash firm is seeking a medical devices patent attorney with at least four years of IP practice experience. [Link]
  • The DC Area firm McGinn IP (located in Tysons Corner, Virginia) seeks an experienced patent attorney with an electrical engineering background. [Link]
  • The Denver based firm Holland & Hart is seeking a licensing and technology transactional attorneys. Potential to join any of the H&H offices (Denver, Boulder, Salt Lake, Boise). [10+ years Experience][5+ years Experience]
  • Holland & Hart is also seeking an associate for their trademark enforcement practice. Must have outstanding academic record, superior writing and communication skills. [Link]
  • Pfizer is seeking an Assistant General Counsel for Patents to support its Vaccines Research Unit and Center for Integrative Biology and Biotheraputics. [Ph.D. J.D. and 10+ years Experience]
  • The bio/pharma company Gilead Sciences seeks a patent attorney to work with it respiratory therapeutics area in Seattle, Washington. 8+ years IP experience including in-house experience. [Link]
  • Kroger is looking to hire a patent counsel to help develop a corporate patent strategy, oversee Kroger’s patent portfolio and manage liability. [Link]

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e-Office Action:

  • Thirty Percent (30%) of all USPTO patent correspondence is now communicated electronically. Up to three e-mail addresses can be identified for each pending application. Rather than sending paper, applicants receive an e-mail notification of an office communication that can then be accessed via Private PAIR.
  • The e-Office Action system can help streamline docketing. In addition, attorneys receive the communication a few days earlier and in a form that can be easily communicated to their clients.
  • More Info

Blogs to Check-Out:

Recent Patently-O Job Posting:

  • In Seattle, the Miller Nash firm is seeking a medical devices patent attorney with at least four years of IP practice experience. [Link]
  • The DC Area firm McGinn IP (located in Tysons Corner, Virginia) seeks an experienced patent attorney with an electrical engineering background. [Link]
  • The Denver based firm Holland & Hart is seeking a licensing and technology transactional attorneys. Potential to join any of the H&H offices (Denver, Boulder, Salt Lake, Boise). [10+ years Experience][5+ years Experience]
  • Holland & Hart is also seeking an associate for their trademark enforcement practice. Must have outstanding academic record, superior writing and communication skills. [Link]
  • Pfizer is seeking an Assistant General Counsel for Patents to support its Vaccines Research Unit and Center for Integrative Biology and Biotheraputics. [Ph.D. J.D. and 10+ years Experience]
  • The bio/pharma company Gilead Sciences seeks a patent attorney to work with it respiratory therapeutics area in Seattle, Washington. 8+ years IP experience including in-house experience. [Link]
  • Kroger is looking to hire a patent counsel to help develop a corporate patent strategy, oversee Kroger’s patent portfolio and manage liability. [Link]

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  • Congratulations: The Administration (and its supporters) have successfully lobbied the House of Representatives to allow the PTO to keep $129 million of its funds collected over-budget. Because the CBO had already accounted for that money as general income, the return of the money required a debit from some other expenditure. The source ended up being money that had been over-budgeted for the Census.  See H.r. 5874.  To become law, the bill would also need to pass the Senate. However, at this time, no equivalent bill has been introduced into the Senate.
  • Fee shifting: In the pending case of Netflix v. Media Queue, Netflix has asked the Federal Circuit to revisit the law of 35 USC 285 in terms of when the prevailing party should be awarded attorney’s fees. Netflix argues that the current rule makes it too difficult for defendants to collect Attorney’s fees after prevailing against charges of infringement.  Those interested in the case may want to look at data collected by Professors Michael Meurer and James Bessen in preparation for their 2008 book Patent Failure. [Data available here].
  • Interim Guidelines on Patentable Subject Matter: The USPTO has released a new set of interim guidelines for examination of the Section 101 eligibility of process claims.  http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2010/10_35.jsp.
  • Revisiting RCE Statistics

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  • Congratulations: The Administration (and its supporters) have successfully lobbied the House of Representatives to allow the PTO to keep $129 million of its funds collected over-budget. Because the CBO had already accounted for that money as general income, the return of the money required a debit from some other expenditure. The source ended up being money that had been over-budgeted for the Census.  See H.r. 5874.  To become law, the bill would also need to pass the Senate. However, at this time, no equivalent bill has been introduced into the Senate.
  • Fee shifting: In the pending case of Netflix v. Media Queue, Netflix has asked the Federal Circuit to revisit the law of 35 USC 285 in terms of when the prevailing party should be awarded attorney’s fees. Netflix argues that the current rule makes it too difficult for defendants to collect Attorney’s fees after prevailing against charges of infringement.  Those interested in the case may want to look at data collected by Professors Michael Meurer and James Bessen in preparation for their 2008 book Patent Failure. [Data available here].
  • Interim Guidelines on Patentable Subject Matter: The USPTO has released a new set of interim guidelines for examination of the Section 101 eligibility of process claims.  http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2010/10_35.jsp.
  • Revisiting RCE Statistics

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  • PatentlyO068Todays Posts:
  • New Contributing Author: Jason Rantanen
    • My friend Jason Rantanen has agreed to become a contributing author on Patently-O for the next few months. He’ll be posting case reviews and other notes about once each week.  Jason and I were classmates at the University of Chicago School of Law. Before law school, Jason earned degrees in both Biology (Brown) and History (Brown, Chicago).  He clerked for Judge Bryson on the Federal Circuit and litigated IP disputes at the Munger Tolles firm in San Francisco.  This summer, Jason started on an academic path as a Visiting Scholar at UC Hastings School of Law. He may not want this shared, but Jason is also married to a patent attorney.
    • Posts written by Jason will bear his name.
  • Media Queue v. Netflix:
    • I recently posted on the push by Netflix for a legal shift that would allow successful defendants greater access to recover attorney fees. [Link] Nick Gross, the inventor and patent attorney at the heart of the lawsuit has now posted an article on his blog where he addreses “certain false statements and mischaracterizations raised by Netflix.” [Link] Nick Gross’s post provides an interesting history — especially regarding pre-litigation activities between the companies.

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  • PatentlyO068Todays Posts:
  • New Contributing Author: Jason Rantanen
    • My friend Jason Rantanen has agreed to become a contributing author on Patently-O for the next few months. He’ll be posting case reviews and other notes about once each week.  Jason and I were classmates at the University of Chicago School of Law. Before law school, Jason earned degrees in both Biology (Brown) and History (Brown, Chicago).  He clerked for Judge Bryson on the Federal Circuit and litigated IP disputes at the Munger Tolles firm in San Francisco.  This summer, Jason started on an academic path as a Visiting Scholar at UC Hastings School of Law. He may not want this shared, but Jason is also married to a patent attorney.
    • Posts written by Jason will bear his name.
  • Media Queue v. Netflix:
    • I recently posted on the push by Netflix for a legal shift that would allow successful defendants greater access to recover attorney fees. [Link] Nick Gross, the inventor and patent attorney at the heart of the lawsuit has now posted an article on his blog where he addreses “certain false statements and mischaracterizations raised by Netflix.” [Link] Nick Gross’s post provides an interesting history — especially regarding pre-litigation activities between the companies.

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Financial:

  • USPTO budget for FY2010 limited by Congress to $1.887 billion dollars. Projected collections for FY2010 is expected to be $200 million over that limitation. Under the current law, all of that money will be sent to congress. Congress has already allocated $100 million of that overage on other non-patent items. Thus, to get that money back at this point, Congress would need to take $100 million from another source.
  • Budget for FY2011 — requested budget of $2.3 billion that includes a bump for significant technology upgrades at the Office.

Backlog:

  • In January 2009, PTO had about 765k unexamined utility patent applications.  That number is now down to about 735k.  The PTO is pushing a 699k campaign to drive the number of unexamined cases under 700,000 this year.
  • The PTO has made 62 new “experienced” hires this FY. 

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I worked with my former firm MBHB on a special Bilksi edition of their newsletter.

  • Snippets can be downloaded here: http://www.mbhb.com/snippets/bilski
  • Topics include:
    • Viewpoints on Life After Bilski v. Kappos 
    • With Bilski Having Come and Gone, It's Time to Get Back to Work 
    • Avoiding Abstract Claims by Broadly Defining the Problem 
    • A Critique of Bilski's Textual Analysis 
    • Questions Surrounding a Shift to an "Abstract Idea" Test
    • Bilski v. Kappos: Effects on Biotechnology Patents

Some New IP Blogs:

Old Stand-by IP Blog:

Patent Law Pro Bono and the Federal Circuit Bar Association

  • The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handles several distinct types of cases.  The largest dollar-value cases typically involve patents.  The veteran and government personnel appeals are usually worth much less.  Many patent litigators have begun handling these lower-value appeals on a pro bono basis.  Professional representation in these cases helps insure that justice is served. In a recent ceremony, Federal Circuit Chief Judge Rader and CAVC Chief Judge Greene honored the volunteers for their service.  Four particular attorneys deserve special praise for their efforts: Ron Smith, Blair Taylor, Dion Messer, and Paul Eaglin (as well as Jim Brookshire of the FCBA).  Others who were recognized at the ceremony include: Mark Abate, Alan Anderson, Michelle Armond, Reynaldo Barcelo, Alyson Barker, Dawn Marie Bey, Elizabeth Brenner-Leifer, Carl Bretscher, William H. Burgess, John Bustamante, Kurt Calia, Mary Calkins, Steve Carlson, Virginia Carron, Yar R.Chaikovsky, Connor Civins, Bradley Coburn, David Cohen, Kristin M. Cooklin, Donald Curry, Steve Daniels, Lauren A. Degnan, Kirk Dorius, John Dragseth, Helen Dutton, Paul Eaglin, Geoffrey Eaton, Brian Edmunds, Sam Ernst, James Erwin, Cecilia Fex, Bob Fuhrer, Anthony Garza, Shane Glynn, Daniel Graham, Joshua Graham, Maximilian Grant, Frederick Hadidi, Thomas Halkowski, Jason Harp, Cathy Harris, Edmund Haughey, Nathan Henderson, Dan Herzfeld, Todd Hettenbach, Christopher Hower, Richard Hung, Christopher Ryan Johnson, Harold Johnson, Lawrence Kass, Lisa Kattan, Rudy Kim, Brian Kramer, Kevin T. Kramer, Deanna Kwong, Brad Lane, Steve Lauff, Lewis E. Leibowitz, Greg Lipper, Christopher Liro, John Livingstone, Christopher Longman, Doug Lumish, Chris Martiniak, Duane Mathiowetz, Aaron Maurer, Scott P. McBride, Scott McCaleb, Michael McCaleb, Ryan McCarthy, Richard McLaren, Dion Messer, John Molenda, Brian Pandya, Chad Pannell, Lee Perla, Matthew Phillips, Janet Phipps Burkhead, Thomas Puppa, George Quillin, Courtland Reichman, Edward Reines, Elizabeth Roesel, Elizabeth Rogers Brannen, Joshua Rothman, Adam Samansky, Jeff Schwartz, Beth Shaw, Chad Shear, William J. Simmons, Michael Sink, John Skenyon, Ronald Smith, Eric Sophir, Robert Stanley, Henry Su, Blair Taylor, Bryan Vogel, Keith Vogt, Daniel Volchok, Steven Warner, Scott C. Weidenfeller, Andrew Woodmansee, Jennifer Wu, and Hunter Yancey.
  • If you are interested in pro bono service, contact Nece Jordan at jordan@fedcirbar.org. 

 

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I worked with my former firm MBHB on a special Bilksi edition of their newsletter.

  • Snippets can be downloaded here: http://www.mbhb.com/snippets/bilski
  • Topics include:
    • Viewpoints on Life After Bilski v. Kappos 
    • With Bilski Having Come and Gone, It's Time to Get Back to Work 
    • Avoiding Abstract Claims by Broadly Defining the Problem 
    • A Critique of Bilski's Textual Analysis 
    • Questions Surrounding a Shift to an "Abstract Idea" Test
    • Bilski v. Kappos: Effects on Biotechnology Patents

Some New IP Blogs:

Old Stand-by IP Blog:

Patent Law Pro Bono and the Federal Circuit Bar Association

  • The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handles several distinct types of cases.  The largest dollar-value cases typically involve patents.  The veteran and government personnel appeals are usually worth much less.  Many patent litigators have begun handling these lower-value appeals on a pro bono basis.  Professional representation in these cases helps insure that justice is served. In a recent ceremony, Federal Circuit Chief Judge Rader and CAVC Chief Judge Greene honored the volunteers for their service.  Four particular attorneys deserve special praise for their efforts: Ron Smith, Blair Taylor, Dion Messer, and Paul Eaglin (as well as Jim Brookshire of the FCBA).  Others who were recognized at the ceremony include: Mark Abate, Alan Anderson, Michelle Armond, Reynaldo Barcelo, Alyson Barker, Dawn Marie Bey, Elizabeth Brenner-Leifer, Carl Bretscher, William H. Burgess, John Bustamante, Kurt Calia, Mary Calkins, Steve Carlson, Virginia Carron, Yar R.Chaikovsky, Connor Civins, Bradley Coburn, David Cohen, Kristin M. Cooklin, Donald Curry, Steve Daniels, Lauren A. Degnan, Kirk Dorius, John Dragseth, Helen Dutton, Paul Eaglin, Geoffrey Eaton, Brian Edmunds, Sam Ernst, James Erwin, Cecilia Fex, Bob Fuhrer, Anthony Garza, Shane Glynn, Daniel Graham, Joshua Graham, Maximilian Grant, Frederick Hadidi, Thomas Halkowski, Jason Harp, Cathy Harris, Edmund Haughey, Nathan Henderson, Dan Herzfeld, Todd Hettenbach, Christopher Hower, Richard Hung, Christopher Ryan Johnson, Harold Johnson, Lawrence Kass, Lisa Kattan, Rudy Kim, Brian Kramer, Kevin T. Kramer, Deanna Kwong, Brad Lane, Steve Lauff, Lewis E. Leibowitz, Greg Lipper, Christopher Liro, John Livingstone, Christopher Longman, Doug Lumish, Chris Martiniak, Duane Mathiowetz, Aaron Maurer, Scott P. McBride, Scott McCaleb, Michael McCaleb, Ryan McCarthy, Richard McLaren, Dion Messer, John Molenda, Brian Pandya, Chad Pannell, Lee Perla, Matthew Phillips, Janet Phipps Burkhead, Thomas Puppa, George Quillin, Courtland Reichman, Edward Reines, Elizabeth Roesel, Elizabeth Rogers Brannen, Joshua Rothman, Adam Samansky, Jeff Schwartz, Beth Shaw, Chad Shear, William J. Simmons, Michael Sink, John Skenyon, Ronald Smith, Eric Sophir, Robert Stanley, Henry Su, Blair Taylor, Bryan Vogel, Keith Vogt, Daniel Volchok, Steven Warner, Scott C. Weidenfeller, Andrew Woodmansee, Jennifer Wu, and Hunter Yancey.
  • If you are interested in pro bono service, contact Nece Jordan at jordan@fedcirbar.org. 

 

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