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	United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
		The U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on November 15, 2007, released record breaking year-end numbers that reveal historic improvement in the quality of patent and trademark reviews and subsequently the quality of issued patents and registered trademarks.
		The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a final rule notice in the Federal Register to revise the rules of practice in patent cases relating to continuing applications and requests for continued examination practices, and for the examination of claims in patent applications.
		USPTO employees are to continue processing and examining patent applications under the rules and procedures in effect on October 31, 2007, until further notice.
	www.uspto.gov (581 words)

	US Patent Office Photo Tour
		The US Patent and Trademark Office is located in Arlington County, Virginia, at Crystal City.
		The US Patent and Trademark Office is mostly located in the Crystal Plaza and Crystal Park office complexes.
		The US Patent and Trademark Office Public Search Room, the Scientific Library, and the majority of examiners are in Crystal Plaza buildings 2, 3, 4, and 3-4.
	www.bustpatents.com /photos.htm (471 words)

	US Patent Office, United States Patent Office, patent search, patent law firms Arlington Virginia
		patent on a new invention gives its creator the exclusive right to control the use, manufacture and sale of the invention for a period of twenty years from the filing date of the patent application.
		Your claims may therefore have to be amended to avoid conflict with another patent reference, while still securing you the maximum claims coverage to which you are entitled.
		After you pay the issue fee, you will be issued a US Patent which entitles you to control the use, manufacture and sale of your invention for 20 years from the date your application was filed.
	www.premierpatents.com /us-patent-office-search-law.htm (667 words)

	United States Patent and Trademark Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent and trademark protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions and corporate and product identification.
		This fee diversion is controversial to patent practitioners, who would rather use the funds to improve the patent office and patent system.
		An individual inventor may file and prosecute pro se a patent and does not need to be a registered pattent attorney or agent to do so on his own behalf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_Patent_Office (595 words)

	The UK Patent Office - About us an Policies - Consultation conclusions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the autumn the Patent Office published a consultation leaflet inviting views on how far computer software and ways of doing business should be protectable by patents (a copy of the leaflet is at Annex A).
		Patents evolved in manufacturing industry, to provide an incentive to innovate which would otherwise be weakened by the risk that inventions which are expensive to develop would prove to be capable of being copied by rivals, who would not have borne the development costs.
		Patents are more likely to stimulate innovation because of the scale of the RandD, and may spur competition because they offer would-be entrants one way of gaining a foothold.
	www.patent.gov.uk /about/consultations/conclusions.htm (1623 words)

	Bush boosts US Patent office (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The patent office operates from the money it gets from patent fees; under the proposed budget it would receive 100% of all the fees it collects.
		Patent applications fees would rise by approximately 19% and trademark applications fees by 10% under the plan.
		Although the US government has had difficulty attracting top technology talent in recent years, Rogan said the current job market is making government employment more attractive.
	www.computerweekly.com /Article109745.htm (246 words)

	US Patent Office will review Eolas claim \| The Register
		Berners-Lee in his role as head of the W3C provided the patent office with a lengthy document in which he claimed significant “prior art” - effectively proving that the current patent holders were not the first to come up with the idea and so their claim is invalid.
		Large numbers of amazingly broad and ambiguous patents have been approved by the USPTO and people on all sides see this case as setting the standard by which other patents will be dealt with in the future.
		As the real implications of a relaxation on patent and trademark law in the 90s is becoming clear, it seems increasingly apparent that the system is unsustainable unless some clear and intelligent decisions are made early on.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2003/11/12/us_patent_office_will_review (677 words)

	RIM granted handheld email patent – clobbers Handspring \| The Register
		Have a close look at the patent [6,452,588, here], because it's sure to cast a very long shadow over the handheld wireless and cellular businesses in the coming months.
		It patented the hinge and the key contact: and both it could be argued, were genuine innovations.
		Patents were originally designed to protect small inventors, but as with copyright law, the system has been abused to create private monopolies.
	www.theregister.co.uk /content/7/27205.html (576 words)

	General Information about Patents
		The preparation of an application for patent and the conducting of the proceedings in the Patent and Trademark Office to obtain the patent is an undertaking requiring the knowledge of patent law and Patent and Trademark Office practice as well as knowledge of the scientific or technical matters involved in the particular invention.
		Patents may be owned jointly by two or more persons as in the case of a patent granted to joint inventors, or in the case of the assignment of a part interest in a patent.
		The application for patent in the United States must be made by the inventor and the inventor must sign the oath or declaration (with certain exceptions), differing from the law in many countries where the signature of the inventor and an oath of inventorship are not necessary.
	www.abanet.org /intelprop/comm106/106general.html (15196 words)

	US patent office
		Pinkham transfers „the rights to the masts“ and to the bar to a „Flanigan Patent“ No. 3 790 164 which is granted by your office although it should not have been granted due to my valid and correctly protected German patent No.1 908 220 that existed at the time.
		The Faust Patent was examined by your Examiner Mr.
		Pinkham for years (see Gaul Patent), and was granted by your office on 4 July, one of the most important bank holidays in your country.
	www.us-patent-3625511.com /html_us/patent-office_us.htm (478 words)

	Cover Pages: US Patent and Trademark Office Electronic Filing System
		The goal is to provide the mechanisms to companies, independent inventors, patent and trademark practitioners, and other information exchange partners to file applications, make payments, record assignments of patents and trademarks, exchange office actions and other correspondence, and retrieve forms, publications, and other information from the USPTO with a minimum reliance on paper.
		The PTO is one of the world's largest Intellectual Property Offices, processing in excess of 400,000 patent and trademark applications and in excess of 1,600,000 transactions in connection with these applications in 1999.
		[19981222] The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) "is a non-commercial federal entity and one of 14 bureaus in the Department of Commerce (DOC).
	xml.coverpages.org /uspto.html (3996 words)

	US man seeks movie plotline patent \| The Register
		Moviemakers could sleepwalk into patent infringement if the US Patent Office grants an application that it published yesterday for a “storyline patent.” It is a groundbreaking attempt to protect a fictional storyline with a patent, rather than relying on copyright protection.
		Andrew Knight, a rocket engine inventor and registered patent agent, filed the test application in November 2003, the first of its kind, arguing that fictional plots are patentable under the US system.
		His Patent Office application is drafted more widely than this synopsis, to protect his rights, should they be granted, against a range of potential Hollywood adaptations.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2005/11/04/movie_plotline_patent (743 words)

	Disclosing Prior Art to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
		As there is no obligation to conduct a patentability search either prior to filing a patent application or during the pendency of the same, the duty to disclose amounts to the sharing of information with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
		For example, a U.S. applicant will frequently learn of relevant prior art after filing the U.S. application as a result of an action taken by a foreign patent office or through office actions or searches obtained in connection with other inventions relating to the same or similar areas of technology.
		By statute, a U.S. patent is presumed to be valid.
	www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9707.html (1096 words)

	US Patent Office Strikes Again: Awards Broad Patent to Blackboard \| Academic Commons
		The filing date for the patent is June 30, 2000 and I find many of the statements regarding this invention to be mindboggling.
		I wonder what criteria/expertise was used by the patent office to validate if these claims were true at the time the patent was filed.
		Please contact us so that we may demonstrate a truly innovative learning assessment and course author tools.(Development started in 1997) We also have an LMS which is scaleable and far richer in technology than is covered by these patents or current Blackboard systems.
	www.academiccommons.org /commons/announcement/us-patent-office-strikes-again-awards-broad-patent-to-blackboard (1930 words)

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		Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box 4 Patent and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231 Dear Commissioner: Along with many other computer scientists, I would like to ask you to reconsider the current policy of giving patents for computational processes.
		The Patent Office has fulfilled this mission admirably with respect to aspects of technology that involve concrete laws of physics rather than abstract laws of thought.
		But I strongly believe that the recent trend to patenting algorithms is of benefit only to a very small number of attorneys and inventors, while it is seriously harmful to the vast majority of people who want to do useful things with computers.
	lpf.ai.mit.edu /Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt (761 words)

	US Patent Office '906 Letter
		A patent whose validity is demonstrably in doubt ought not be allowed to undo the years of work that have gone into building the Web.
		The enormous expense and the more general threat the '906 patent poses to the Web community is completely unwarranted because the '906 patent is, we firmly believe, invalid in view of the prior art described in our filing to the Patent Office under the authority of 35 U.S.C. Section 301.
		While that case was nominally a bilateral dispute between a patent holder and an alleged infringer, it should be clear now that the ruling and particularly its failure to consider relevant prior art will likely have a highly detrimental impact on the entire Web community unless you initiate reexamination of the patent..
	www.w3.org /2003/10/27-rogan.html (2038 words)

	IT Chief Bourgeois Leaves US Patent and Trademark Office
		Office automation, improved systems process and patent E-filing are but a few of the cornerstones of the strategic plan that fell under the eye of the CIO.
		The patent office has struggled with wholesale adoption of its electronic filing system however, as customers complained about the unfriendliness and difficulty in implementing the software.
		Andy Gibbs, CEO of PatentCafe.com and architect of the company’s Latent Semantic Analysis international patent database was appointed as Chairman of the PPAC E-filing and E-Government Subcommittee.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2004/9/prweb154473.htm (802 words)

	Entrust: Success Stories: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
		Their mission: to administer laws relating to patents and trademarks, and promote industrial and technical progress in the United States.
		When it comes to patents and trademarks, the USPTO has to know who they are dealing with online, be able to do it confidentially, and do it in a trustworthy manner.
		The solution makes use of both encryption and digital signatures to positively identify the customer, verify the authenticity of their patent application data submission, and ensure the privacy of that information, all within a security infrastructure that is transparent to the user.
	www.entrust.com /success/index_uspto.htm (763 words)

	- Update: Eolas patent defended before US patent office - Internet Business News
		The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted to the university in 1998 patent number 5,838,906, which covers technology for the broad practice of embedding interactive elements in Web pages.
		Shortly afterwards, the USPTO initiated the process of reviewing the patent's validity, which could result in the stripping of the technology from patent protection, a rare occurrence in the agency's history.
		Before a final decision is reached, a patent that is being re-examined is presumed valid in its entirety, which means that in this case the University of California still holds the patent and that all the claims that make up the patent are considered valid, she said.
	www.thestandard.com /article.php?story=20040512165119302 (696 words)

	Eolas browser plug-in patent invalidated by US Patent Office (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The US Patent and Trademark Office has now stepped in and invalidated the Eolas patent.
		But while this recent decision is a score for Microsoft, the half isn't over; Eolas has 60-days to respond, and with a potential payoff of half a billion dollars, you can expect them (err, or their lawyers) to not go gentle into that good night.
		What's curious is that clearly patent issues are still being taken to the court rather than the USPTO, suggesting that the process is still not very respected.
	arstechnica.com /news/posts/1078681223.html (608 words)

	US patent office says antigravity is ....ok
		I want a patent for a flying cheese log to be used as a flying skateboard that you can eat on your way to work.
		The one that was just approved for a genuine US patent works by fluxuating the space time continuum with enterprise style force shields.
		to apply for a patent and get it all you need to do is write a technical brief on how its to work and what makes it work, Convince the engineers at the patent office and you get a patent.
	channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=137641 (856 words)

	Eolas' web patent nullified \| The Register
		In a very rare, but not unprecedented move, the US Patent Office has nullified a contentious technology patent.
		US Patent 5,838,906, granted in 1998, protects the execution of remote code embedded in hypertext pages.
		Founder Dr Mike Doyle was formerly director of the Academic Computer Center at UCSF and is an adjunct professor at two other universities, and is a veteran scientific advisor to public institutions including the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/03/05/eolas_web_patent_nullified (234 words)

	USPTO Design Search Code Manual - Table of Contents - Introduction
		Plumbing fixtures such as sinks, bathtubs and toilets are found in category 12.
		Office machinery such as computers, photocopiers, and cash registers can be found in category 15.
		Receptacles for laboratory use such as beakers and test tubes can be found in category 19.
	tess2.uspto.gov (1801 words)

	US Patent Office rejects Microsoft's FAT patents - The INQUIRER
		While Microsoft can appeal for the Patent Office to consider it again, objections could quite conceivably cause it to be ruled invalid, once more.
		According to the Public Patent Foundation, however, the Office has confirmed that the Microsoft patent is bogus.
		The Patents Office rejected the proposed applications for several reasons, including the fact that some of its grounds for applying were unpatentable.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=18790 (317 words)

	Neifeld IP Law, PC, Patent Attorneys Located Near the US Patent Office
		Patent attorneys located near the US Patent Office
		We are patent attorneys located near the United States Patent and Trademark Office, providing IP counseling, US and foreign patent and trademark prosecution, search, licensing, interference, and related services.
		We will not review any information that you believe to be confidential or proprietary until after performing a conflict check to ensure that our Firm does not represent any party whose interests may be adverse to yours.
	www.neifeld.com (121 words)

	US Patent Office Exercises
		United States Patent and Trademark Office to locate detailed information and images of at least one patent for the following individuals.
		Capture an image of the patent and paste the image on a word document.
		Title each images with the title of patent, patent number, date of patent, and inventor name.
	www.csun.edu /~gah8920/patentExercise/inventor.htm (193 words)

	Daemonite: Eolas & the US Patent Office break my balls
		The pop-up frenzy apparently neutralises the Eolas patent by ensuring that embedded multimedia content is never automatically introduced, the visitor being notified of every element before it is displayed.
		Here we have a patent on the concept of a plug-in -- a conept mind, not an architecture or a code library or anything in the least bit inventive.
		A patent to which there is crystal clear prior art as outlined by the makers of Lotus Notes.
	blog.daemon.com.au /archives/000205.html (901 words)

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