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If a Case Was Baseless, It Would Have Ended Sooner
Written by: Matthew Pham & Daniel P. Hughes OneSubsea IP UK Limited v. FMC Technologies, Inc. Before Clevenger, Moore, and Dyk. Appeal from the United States District...
Low-Bar for Corroboration
Written by: Matthew Friedrichs & Daniel P. Hughes MEDTRONIC, INC. v. TELEFLEX INNOVATIONS S.A.R.L. Before Moore, Lourie, and Dyk. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal...
Trademark Monitoring and Enforcement in the Digital Era: Tools and Techniques
In today's digital landscape, protecting your trademarks has become more challenging than ever before. With the rise of e-commerce platforms, social media, and online marketplaces, ...
Exploring the Use of Machine Learning in Prior Art Search: Advancing Patent Examination Efficiency
In the realm of patent examination, the search for prior art plays a critical role in determining the novelty and inventiveness of an invention. Traditionally, patent examiners...
Recessions and Patent Applications: Navigating the Ups and Downs of the Innovation Economy
Written by: Sophia Petrichenko & Jason J. Jardine As predictions of an economic recession in the United States loom, 2023 has started with extensive layoffs throughout the...
Feed tagged as "green technology":
Several new green patent complaints were filed in January and February in the areas of advanced batteries, waste-to-energy feedstocks, energy-efficient exercise... Read More »
University of Tokyo and RIKEN Institute researchers exploit a new type of magnetic phase in materials to eliminate electrical power loss. The team's device uses a ... Read More »
Richard Phillips, president of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, sent a powerful message to Washington the day before the Rio+20 UN Conference on... Read More »
Comments
Leonard PrietThe IP angle on the Rio+20 story is interesting, but I didn't hear about it at all in the news. Is this just a problem that the first world is ignoring because it doesn't really affect us?
Jul 2, 2012
Russell McOrmondThe United States did not honour foreign copyright while they were a developing nation. I do not see how having different levels of intellectual monopoly policy in different countries can ever be seen as a form of "foreign aid". Those taking risks based on the presumption of intellectual monopolies should not be presuming a global monopoly. In fact, they shouln't be presuming any specific monopoly in any country, given we may eventually move away from the presumption based to an evidence based policy setting to determine the right level of intellectual monopolies.
Jul 3, 2012
Outside of a few fake plastic trees, the lobby of a Bank of America branch does not resemble an organic farmer’s market or a warm place for an earth-saving... Read More »
A new technology designed by scientists at the British consultancy BMT Group is supposed to reduce the time it takes to detect a pollutant in water from weeks to... Read More »
While scientists worldwide work to develop novel materials to increase photovoltaic solar cell efficiency, researchers from the Loo Lab at Princeton University are... Read More »
Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have discovered how plants can make the 'decision' between growth and defense, a finding that could help them... Read More »
Clathrate hydrate formation and subsequent plugging of deep-sea oil and gas pipelines represent a significant bottleneck for deep-sea oil and gas operations... Read More »
International Business Machines, Inc. (IBM) has teamed with Západoslovenská energetika, a.s. (ZSE), the largest distributor and supplier of electricity... Read More »
It has taken a while for society to make “one man’s trash into another man’s treasure” pertinent to industry. Trash has been recognized as a... Read More »
CRES (the Colorado Renewable Energy Society) has formed partnerships with the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) and Urban Farmers Collaborative to develop a 2.5 acre... Read More »
CH2M HILL announced that as a milestone of the Active, Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Waters Programme , the Kallang River at Bishan Park project in Singapore recently... Read More »
Since Japan's Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the country has been in an energy crisis. All but two of Japan's 54... Read More »
‘Green’ may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of pharmaceuticals, but, recently, drug companies have been committing to more... Read More »
Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural... Read More »
The standard design of gasoline-powered and electrical engines hasn’t changed much during the last century. The motors have worked pretty well over the years... Read More »
If all the United Kingdom's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus... Read More »
For many decades, innovation and government support have had a close relationship. Lately, however, obtaining government support for innovation has become more... Read More »
In my previous post, I explained Canada's new accelerated examination process for "green" technologies. Of course, the USPTO was more than a year... Read More »
On March 3, 2011, the Canadian Patent Rules were amended to introduce a procedure for expediting the prosecution of patent applications relating to... Read More »
