Archive for 2007
Patents Lead to Breakthroughs in Medical Technology
After reading my post ‘The Patent-Innovation Circle of Progress’, many of my friends called me up to express their opinions, for or against. After hearing all sorts of views, I’d like to point out here that I hadn’t drawn any inferences in my post; I simply made an observation based on a couple of quotes in an article in Law.com. But whether or not everyone agrees that pate... Read More
Are Patent Rulings Impacting Court Cases?
The Wall Street Journal sure thinks so. Here is an excerpt from a WSJ article titled ‘ How a Patent Ruling Is Changing Court Cases’ that drives the point home – Last week, a federal judge in San Francisco who previously had allowed a patent-infringement lawsuit to proceed against RealNetworks Inc. changed course and dismissed the case, citing the Supreme Court’s April ruli... Read More
Surge in Patents creating More Patent Patent Office Jobs
As I reported in yesterday’s post ‘New Patent Appeals Need to be Clear and Precise’, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) is presently experiencing a large increase in the number of ex parte appeals. From 3,349 appeals in FY 2006, the Board expects the figures to cross 4000 and 5000 in FY 2007 and FY 2008 respectively. The patent office is not only having to creat... Read More
New Patent Appeals Need to be Clear and Precise
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) is presently experiencing a large increase in the number of ex parte appeals. In 2006 (Financial Year), the Board received 3,349 ex parte appeals. In 2007, the Board expects to receive more than 4,000 ex parte appeals; and in 2008, it expects to receive over 5,000 such appeals. In order to keep the process functioning smoothly in the face of thi... Read More
The Patent-Innovation Circle of Progress
A few days ago, I had drawn your attention to an article touting a surge in medical patents in the past few years. According to the article in Law.com, about 100 medical-process patents are now being issued every month. I also couldn’t help noticing how a couple of views quoted in the same article explained so clearly how patents and innovations complement each other – "My b... Read More
