Monday, May 2, 2011

Farewell!

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To my wonderful readers: I am going to be moving on from my terrific post as patent librarian at SFPL, and so this blog is going to have t...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Should juries look at a patent's validity?

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UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman wrote an op-ed in the New York Times today about a patent case that is soon to be considered by the Supre...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

"Names do give you issues..."

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There's a great little piece in the NY Times Diner's Journal blog about a chocolate shop owner in NYC who was recently denied permi...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Another artist gets sued for copyright infringement

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First it was Shepard Fairey, then Jeff Koons, and now, according to the Art Newspaper , LA artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, is the ...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Patents and drug companies -- bad news for the bottom line, and maybe a new business model

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There's a great article from yesterday's NY Times noting the impending expiration this year of Pfizer's Lipitor and several oth...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

"Urban Homesteading" trademark -- legit mark or trademark bullying?

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TechDirt ran a piece this week about alleged "trademark bullying" by a family who registered "urban homesteading" as a ...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

Calendar year patent statistics are now available

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The USPTO's Patent Technology Monitoring Team has posted calendar year statistics up through 2009.  These reports offer a glimpse into ...