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The Application If the search does not turn up any prior art that would prevent the patenting of the invention, th. -
This article discusses the United States Supreme Court's decision in Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. relating to patent litigation and prosecution. -
Tips from the Federal Trade Commission for consumers on how to avoid hiring fraudulent patent or invention promotion firms. -
Looks at changing regulations in business methods patents and pre-grant publication. -
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, a 150-attorney law firm specializing in intellectual property and complex litigation, secured a major patent victory on behalf of computer software developer Intergraph Corporation over microprocessor giant Intel. Following a bench trial, U.S. District Court Judge T. John Ward of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Texas held that Intel's Itanium processors infringe two Intergraph patents directed to parallel instruction computing. -
Intellectual Property is the group of legal rights in things that people create or invent. Intellectual property rights include patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret rights. In Europe and some other countries, "moral rights", which are rights of the artist not to have her work greatly altered, are also included. -
The costs of patent litigation - both in terms of time and money - have been well documented. For example, a patent lawsuit can require several years of concerted effort by company management and outside counsel to complete pretrial discovery and trial. Then, the trial may be followed by an appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. -
There are many different types of claims available to the patent drafter. By far the most common are method claims, which define novel actions (such as a process), and apparatus claims, which define novel structure (such as a machine). However, a type of claim element known as a "means plus function" element is something of a hybrid between these two types, and controversy surrounds the interpretation of the scope of claims containing these elements in a software invention. -
Nanotechnology is an emerging field that concerns the development and use of compositions of matter that generally have a size of between 1 and 100 nanometers. At such small sizes, the compositions take on novel and potentially useful properties. Examples of these compositions include: smart molecules capable of targeting and eliminating infection and disease; carbon nanotubes and nanowires (potentially useful for advanced composites, electrical circuitry, systems for targeted delivery of pharmaceutical agents, and hydrogen storage mediums to power fuel cells); quantum dots; and high density DNA storages devices. -
When is your invention "known" from a prior art reference thus rendering your invention unpatentable? If a prior art reference teaches your invention but does not explicitly recite each and every element, must the presence of the unrecited element, the inherent element, be apparent from reading the reference?