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Ten Ways to Improve the USPTO Website – Number 2

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:45:49 +0000

The second way to improve the USPTO.gov website would be to double check all of the information provided as facts.

For example, the Full-Text Database FAQ (among other pages) notes that (emphasis added):

Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor’s name, the patent’s title, and the assignee’s name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims….

Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number, issue date, and current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only within those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of all pages of the patent.

While the page says that only patents January 1976 to the present are full text, a little digging reveals that the first full-text patent is U.S. Patent No. 3,555,944, issued January 19, 1971.

However, a quick review of the first design patent issued in 1976 (D238,315) reveals that it is not full text. Odd.

The solution would be to update that FAQ page (and everywhere else the topic is discussed) with the actual patent numbers and/or coverage of the Full-Text Database.

Update (2010.07.27): In digging through some old notes, I previously noted that the earliest full-text patent was 3,572,436. Perhaps they are slowly working backwords through the database…

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Bilski Podcasts

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:26:45 +0000

A couple post-Bilski podcasts to link to:

Patents in the Supreme Court: Bilski v. Kappos – A “panel podcast/debate” between Professor John Duffy (George Washington Law School) and David Olson (Boston College Law School), moderated by Professor Adam Mossoff (George Mason School of Law).
This Week in Law – Episode 68 – “Whiz Bang Click” – “Bilski decision and the validity of business method patents, improving the Patent Office, finding relevant prior art, and more.” Host: Denise Howell, Guests: Erik Heels, J. Matthew Buchanan and Stephen Nipper.

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Patent Plugin for FireFox

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:27:18 +0000

Kenneth Yip at Apsator e-mailed me to point out that they have a new version of their FireFox plugin available. See: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3142/. He notes:

…the new version introduces two breakthrough features. The first feature is to preview patent drawings in PNG format. There is no need for TIFF plugin. This not only reduces computer resource loading, but also allows printing the patent diagrams directly from the USPTO patent search result page. The second feature is to use Google Translate to translate patent abstract directly. These two features features hopefully will continue improve the effectiveness in reading patents. A guideline on how to use Aspator can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/patentinfo/how-to-use-aspator-in-your-patent-search.

Other features he lists:

Read searched patent abstracts, claims, drawings and bibliographies from USPTo and esp@cenet on one single page.

Patent classification analyzer.

Direct access to esp@cenet and Google Patent Search.

Download PDF of a patent through pat2pdf.org.

Download multiple patents in one single PDF file or in separate PDF files.

Store your search records.

It is a very hand tool worth checking out.

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Great post on IDS – McKesson

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:33:09 +0000

Pharma Patents blog on Three Easy Solutions to the McKesson Problem.

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Fed Cir Blog on Post-Pfaff Fed Cir Decisions I stumbled ona great post from the Fed Cir Blog…

Blog 14: Lorem Ipsum

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:52:02 +0000

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Blog 3: Lorem Ipsum

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:46:39 +0000

Dealing with E-mail Overload

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:49:48 +0000

I recently wrote a three part series of articles for the Idaho State Bar’s magazine regarding how to deal with e-mail overload:

Email Overload Part III – Hacking Your Own E-Mail, The Advocate (Official Publication of the Idaho State Bar), vol. 53, no. 6/7, p. 39-40 (June/July 2010).
Email Overload Part II – Dealing with Interruptions, The Advocate (Official Publication of the Idaho State Bar), vol. 53, no. 5, p. 49 (May 2010).
Email Overload Part I – Reducing Volume, The Advocate (Official Publication of the Idaho State Bar), vol. 53, no. 3, p. 42-43 (March 2010).

Let me know if you have any other tips for dealing with e-mail overload.

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Summary of 35 USC 101 caselaw, software and business method patents

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:21:44 +0000

This really is the best summary of 35 U.S.C. §101 caselaw as it relates to software and/or business method patents:

@erikjheels on: A Mere Mortal’s Guide To Patents Post-Bilski (Or Why §101 Is A Red Herring)

Bookmark it.

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This Week in Law – Bilski

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:25:08 +0000

I’ll be on This Week in Law (video podcast) this Friday, along with J. Matt Buchanan (Promote the Progress blog) discussing Bilski and whatever other interesting topics come up.

If you have any topics to suggest:

Tag them via Delicious – http://delicious.com/thisweekinlaw/68
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Watch/listen in online: http://live.twit.tv/

When: Friday, July 9th at 11 a.m. Pacific/noon Mountain/1 p.m. Central/2 p.m. Eastern

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