In an effort to push forward patent reform, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) posted a press release using the highly publicized Supreme Court decision in Bilski v. Kappos
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court handed down the Bilski decision Robert W. Bahr, Acting Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy sent a memorandum to the patent examining corps which
To summarize today’s Supreme Court ruling in Bilski (PDF), business method patents remain viable subject matter and the machine-or-transformation test enunciated as the sole test by the Federal Circuit is
How does a trademark benefit your company? Every one knows the value of a name. I wonder what the value of the Nike name and swoosh design is versus all
What’s taking the Supreme Court so long to hand down an opinion on the Bilski vs Kappos case? Bilski was argued on Nov. 9, 2009… 225 days ago. There has
What Inventors Need to Know… Tom Demitry is an entrepreneur, an inventor, a salesman, a marketer, a man of ideas and as he will tell you first and foremost a
Recently I met with Ron Roberts, President of Rolite Manufacturing. Rolite is a roll forming manufacturer that produces metal products of all shapes and sizes for large and small companies.
What is patentable subject matter? Many people believe that they can patent anything. But the truth is there is only certain statutorily allowable subject matter that can be patented (35
Can you patent an idea? No. Many potential inventors say to me “I have an idea I would like to patent” but what they do not understand is that the
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