Stevens v. Broad Reach, 79 USPQ2d 1501 (W.D.Mo. 2006). Feeling he had been slighted by not being listed as the inventor on a patent application directed to a liquid polymer blender, Kirt Stevens sued — seeking a judgment that he…
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By Kevin Noonan. The peripatetic case of Amgen v. HMR has once again been reviewed by the Federal Circuit. No. 05-1157, decided August 3, 2006. Once again the Court has failed to lay the several issues in the case to…
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Serio-US v. Plastic Recovery Tech (Fed. Cir. 2006). The jury found that PRT did not infringe Serio’s patents on automatic trash dumpster locks. Post-Trial Practice: After the jury’s finding, the plaintiff did not move for JMOL or a new trial…
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Tegic v. U.Texas (Fed. Cir. 2006) Tegic sued UT in district court in the state of Washington for a declaratory judgment of patent invalidity and unenforceability. UT had previously sued dozens of Tegics cellular phone companies for infringement based on…
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Did you know that the USPTO holds regular on-lin chat sessions with inventors?
Well, they do. They will answer your questions live. We have compiled a list of these questions on our main site which you may find here…
You may find the answer to a patent related question you need the answer to here.
Exactly 134,073 international patent applications were filed in 2005, breaking all previous records. This was a 9% increase from the number filed the previous year.
About one-third of these international patent applications were filed from the U.S. In addition to the high numbers of U.S. filings, South Korea and China also contributed heavily to the number of international patent applications filed last year.
The World Intellectual Property Organization attributes the increase due to the increasing “technological strength of these countries”. On another positive note, patents are increasingly filed more often by developing countries.
