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

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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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Does Size Matter? Counting Words in Patent Specifications

December 20, 2007Academic Studies, Articles and Publications, PatentFirst to Invent, paidDennis Crouch

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When is an Electronic Document a Printed Publication for Prior Art Purposes?

December 20, 2007Patentpaid, Printed PublicationDennis Crouch

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Continued Vitiation of The Doctrine of Equivalents

December 19, 2007BPAI, Doctrine of Equivalents, Patent, VitiationClaim Construction, obviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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MercExchange v. eBay: Injunction Denied Again

December 18, 2007PatentLicenses, paidDennis Crouch

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Appeals from the ITC

December 17, 2007PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Technologies most affected by the new IDS rule changes

December 15, 2007PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Summer Associate: Diversity in Patent Law Fellowship

December 15, 2007PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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