We are pleased to have the opportunity to host Blawg Review #179, the carnival of law blogs , here on Securing Innovation, the business blog of IP.com Inc. Today is a very special day for everyone interested in writings and discoveries that promote the progress of science and useful arts.
September 29th is Día del Inventor in Argentina where they celebrate inventors on the birthday of an individual inventor, much the same as National Inventors Day in the United States is celebrated on Thomas Edison’s birthday -- but this particular invention is worthy of worldwide commemoration.
His new invention would sweep the world one day - and so too would his name.
Biro... Laszlo Biro.
No prizes, then, for guessing what his brilliant idea was.
The ballpoint pen is 70 years old this summer and Laszlo was its creator - a man with a vision and a stained shirt front.
He designed it in his garage in Buenos Aires. By the time he died in 1985, a millionaire ...
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A diagram in Apple’s iPhone status patent application.
Apple has filed a patent application to add always-on status indicators to the iPhone. The innovation would address a common task for cell phones but a headache for owners of the touch-screen handset.
In most flip-phones and even other touch-screen devices, users can instantly know when they’ve missed a call or received a voice-mail message. However, for iPhone users, it requires turning on the phone and goi... more
I wasn’t paying attention, but the Patent Office awarded me a second patent in July, United States Patent #7,394,813 for “Systems and methods for implementing an acknowledgement mechanism for transmission of a real-time data stream”
Systems and methods for implementing an acknowledgement mechanism for transmission of a real-time data stream from a sending system to a receiving system are disclosed. An exemplary method implemented in a sending system involves establishing a... more
For an object or idea to be patentable, it must fit into one of the following four categories; process, manufacture, machine or composition of matter. The subject matter must also be original, an unmodified, previously existing invention is never patentable. There must be a significant improvement over previous inventions for the new one to qualify. If two previous inventions are combined together, the combination must yield new and unexpected results for the invention to be considered patentab... more
EPO: now we are 35 From: ho1e.dl-holo.com Post Date: 2008-11-13 18:48:12
The EPO has just announced that the government of Macedonia (apparently added finer accepted as “the above Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, to analyze it from a next aperture bit of Greece) deposited their apparatus of acceptance to the European Patent Convention on 28 October. (right: a acceptable Macedonian apparatus of ratification, which can be purchased here ) Macedonia, which is currently an addendum accompaniment will, as from 1 January 2009, become the 35th a... more
Roger Parloff , senior editor (legal affairs) at Fortune, practiced law for five years in Manhattan before becoming a full-time journalist writing on the Legal Pad , the business magazine’s blog "about legal issues that matter to business people" that is geared for nonlawyers and lawyers alike.
In a lengthy article on the Legal Pad , he provides a thorough backgrounder on the End Software Patents project.
At the moment, the End Software Patents project is fo... more
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Joe Mullin, a reporter at IP Law & Business magazine, discusses here on his personal blog, The Prior Art, recent reports in The Daily Journal’s Tuesday edition that Troll Tracker author Rick Frenkel, and his employer Cisco, has been sued for defamation by two East Texas attorneys who are players in that district’s patent litigation scene. ... more
All In Magazine reports that a digital entertainment enterprise is going after patents with an application for patent re-examination by the USPTO. Bodog founder Calvin Ayre explains here :
A patent reexamination is a process in which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is advised of the existence of "prior art" that raises a "substantial new question of patentability". "Prior art" simply means public information that may impact an assessm... more
The Platform, Cisco’s official blog , has a post announcing that Nobel Laureate, Oscar Winner and former Vice President Al Gore will join Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers in a virtual conversation on climate change and technology innovation on Wednesday, March 19, 2008.
They will be joined by Cisco’s Sue Bostrom, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, in a Cisco TelePresence session before a live audience at VoiceCon to examine the critical role that technology and innovation ca... more
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