The Feinstein Amendment removed the First To File provision in
The US Patent and Trademark Office will have a National Trademark Expo October 15-16, 2010 at the USPTO Campus, 600 Delany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
Events will be free and include:
1. “What Every Small Business Must Know About Intellectual Property”
The US Patent and Trademark has posted a Data Visualization Center that shows US Patent Data at a glance in a downloadable dashboard format.
The dashboard shows a First Office Action Pendency for August 2010 of 26.2 months and a
Under 17 USC Section 1201(a)(1), the Librarian of Congress is required every three years to determine whether there are any classes of works that are exempted from the prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted
The Patent and Trademark Office on July 9, 2010, published its Draft 2010-2015 Strategic Plan for public comment, (link to it here) which must be submitted by August 2, 2010. The Plan is designed to strengthen the capacity of the
The US Supreme Court today decided in Bilski et al. v. Kappos, that business method patents are eligible subject matter under Section 101 of the Patent Statute 35 USC.
Oral arguments were presented on this case in November of
The US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) opened a new exhibit yesterday at the Inventor’s Hall of Fame, at the Madison Building in Alexandria, Virginia. The exhibit is the first major exhibit installation to come to the Hall of Fame
