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Will ICANN Approve Limiting Access to Domain Registery Data?

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Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find – Proposal could aid infringers on the Net, by Lynne Marek, The National Law Journal: ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – is considering a new policy that will allow domain name holders to keep their registration information private.” EPIC Supports Privacy for WHOIS… Continue Reading

Free, Third Party Search Engine for Patent Searches

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PTO Direct was created by intellectual property professionals for intellectual property professionals and their clients. Its purpose is to provide an efficient way to search, gather and share relevant intellectual property record information from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. PTO Direct provides free patent searches.” [Ted McClure] Continue Reading

Global Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative

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“Counterfeiting and piracy costs U.S. companies between $200-$250 billion a year and roughly 750,000 jobs to date. Nearly all industries are being affected, from apparel and footwear, high-tech industrial goods, medicines, autos and auto parts, food and beverages, and cosmetics to copyrighted works, including entertainment and business software, movies, music, and books. The U.S. Chamber… Continue Reading

GAO Identifies Factors Hampering Development of New Drug Applications

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New Drug Development: Science, Business, Regulatory, and Intellectual Property Issues Cited as Hampering Drug Development Efforts, Full text GAO-07-49, and Highlights, November 17, 2006. “Recent scientific advances have raised expectations that an increasing number of new and innovative drugs would soon be developed to more effectively prevent, treat, and cure serious illnesses. However, industry analysts… Continue Reading

Google Launches Patent Search With Over 7 Million Patents Granted by USPTO

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About Google Patent Search: “As part of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we’re constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents… Continue Reading

Procedures for Submitting Amendments/Corrections to Trademark Applications After Publication

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USPTO press release, August 28, 2006: “To improve the tracking and disposition of amendments and requests for corrections to trademark applications submitted after publication, the Office is providing the following recommended procedures. Once an application has been “approved for publication” by the examining attorney, all amendments and requests for corrections are processed as amendments/corrections after… Continue Reading

Doors Open to the Public at Patent and Trademark Appeal Hearings

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Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office, July 25, 2006: “Hearings open to the public will be posted in advance on the respective websites of the BPAI and the TTAB. The posting will contain the time, date, hearing room, and proceeding number set for a particular hearing session. Due to last minute cancellations or… Continue Reading

Article Examines Digital Rights Management and Consumer Consent

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Matwyshyn, Andrea M., “Technoconsen(t)sus” (May 2006). Posted July 19, 2006 [Link to download] “Law is contributing to an information security paradox. Consumers are regularly “consenting” to the installation of computer code that makes them more vulnerable to harms such as identity theft. In particular, digital rights management technology accompanying digital music has recently left a… Continue Reading

Report Examines Government Patenting and Technology Transfer

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From the Economic Research Service, USDA: Government Patenting and Technology Transfer, by Paul W. Heisey, John L. King, Kelly Day Rubenstein, and Robbin Shoemaker, Economic Research Report No. (ERR15) 60 pp, March 2006. “This report examines the use of intellectual property rights in Federal technology transfer, focusing primarily on the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). ARS… Continue Reading