Patent Your Inventions Blog

Federal Court Rejects Jurisdiction Over Inventorship Claim

lginger — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:40:24 +0000

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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Linkbait

lginger — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:39:04 +0000

Matthew Fried sends us to this site, designed to get McDonald’s to pay attention. At the same time, Matt McAllister points us to xcavator, a cool way to find certain types of images inside of Flickr. This site is going…
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Voice shifting

lginger — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:38:35 +0000

Conference calls are getting easier and cheaper to set up but, with several different people speaking at the same time, it can be hard to know just who is saying what.
Motorola has cooked up an interesting idea to help reduce conference call confusion – augment each caller’s voice so they sound much more distinct.

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Updated version of “What Drives Innovation?” available for download

lginger — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:38:23 +0000

We’ve updated the draft I posted last week of our most recent white paper, What Drives Innovation? A Heuristic Framework for Corporate Innovation. It’s the same paper I wrote about here, (and in fact the link to the paper is the same) — it’s just an updated version.

These are the updates we made based on comments sent by those who read the draft I posted last week:

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Noonan’s Corner Office: Amgen v. HMR

lginger — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:43:55 +0000

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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Object when jury instructions include disputed claim constructions

lginger — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:43:34 +0000

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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Burn sensor

lginger — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:43:06 +0000

It can be hard for doctors to assess the severity of a burn injury just by looking at it. This is important because an operation may be required if blood vessels are unable to get the oxygen they need in order to heal.
Now the National Research Council Canada, based in Ontario, has filed a patent application for a non-invasive probe that could make the job easier.

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States Win Two 11th Amendment Immunity Dismissals

lginger — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:32:57 +0000

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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Just because it’s hard…

lginger — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:31:51 +0000

Doesn’t mean it’s going to work. MJ Rose has a great post about the realities facing authors in a noisy world:This Just In: Flogging vs Blogging….
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Another brick in the wall

lginger — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:30:03 +0000

Most of the changes you make in your product are designed to grow your market share… to get you new customers (by having them switch from the competition) or to grow the market (by having people enter your market) or…
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