(Updated May 5, 2015) Google announced this week an “experiment” through which it will consider buying patents that inventors submit to Google via a “streamlined portal.” Google has called this concentrated buying program “The Patent Purchase Promotion,” although Google appears…
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Patent on a Joke: A serious discussion for April Fools’ Day
I received today a citation to a patent application, US Pat. Pub. 2006/0259306, entitled, “Business Method Protecting Jokes.” This was filed as an international (PCT) application by an English patent attorney, who told an interviewer that his purpose was “to…
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Countries in which the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Does NOT Apply
(Last updated in June 2022) As the United States patent law continues to become ever more intertwined with the world economy, U.S. inventors and companies think harder about patent applications outside the U.S., and non-U.S. inventors and companies think harder…
Posted in International patent protection
Federal Circuit Affirms Judgment for DDR Holdings
Mr. Hoffman (with litigation bag) with Danny and Del Ross, Mrs. Ross, and co-counsel Ian Crosby (rear) on the steps of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in D.C. after oral argument in May 2014 Earlier this month, we were…
Posted in Federal Circuit Decisions
