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Entrepreneur June 2007 |
In the Know Find out all you can about patents, trademarks and copyrights now - your business will thank you later.  |
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer |
How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens |
New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.  |
AskMen.com Jim Bauer |
How To: Register A Trademark If you're in business (even if it's a small, part-time operation) or you have an idea for a product, then chances are that at least part of what makes your operation unique can be protected under trademark law.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar |
Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.  |
CIO August 1, 2003 Radcliffe & Rosen |
Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret -- What's the Difference? - The intellectual property in software can be protected three ways: patents, copyrights and trade secrets.  |
Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike |
U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.  |
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike |
Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.  |
CIO February 15, 2003 Geoffrey James |
Patent Office Stops Shuffling Paper The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced in December the latest stage in its two-year, $40 million project to make accessible via the Web all the documents that accompany the patent applications process by Oct. 1, 2004.  |
The Motley Fool April 26, 2005 Dave Mock |
The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes.  |
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond |
Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.  |
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike |
Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.  |
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike |
You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.  |
Salon.com March 21, 2001 Damien Cave |
Patents are your friends Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers? Publishing work on IP.com ensures the patent office will see it and not issue patent for the idea to someone else.  |
Financial Advisor October 2006 Michael Brier |
Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill.  |
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike |
Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Mr. Smith Went to Washington For Patent Reform Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith calls for patent reform at the American Enterprise Institute.  |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2003 John Teresko |
Intellectual Property, It's Worth Keeping An Eye On Making sure intellectual property is protected can reap benefits and prevent hassles.  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Why High-Tech Firms Can't Afford to Ignore Patents When it comes to patents, high technology firms are, out of necessity, interdependent...  |
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Cathryn Campbell |
Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 John Grgurich |
How the Patent Wars Are Hurting High-Tech Well-intentioned patent laws are threatening to stifle innovation.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Gunderman & Hammond |
File Now, Pay Later The pitfalls of the provisional patent application.  |
Information Today December 9, 2002 Nancy Lambert |
MicroPatent Announces New Products and Plans MicroPatent, the Connecticut-based information company that currently provides the largest range of full-text-searchable patent databases, recently announced some new products and services.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Kirk Teska |
Provisional Patents Are Quick, Cheap, and Worthless Patience is a patent virtue  |
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Paul Allen |
Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility.  |
Bank Technology News January 2004 Karen Krebsbach |
Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time.  |
Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames |
The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.  |
CIO September 28, 2011 Grant Gross |
Controversial Business-Method Patents Face New Attacks A new law revamps the patent system and gives rivals an eight-year window to challenge IT-related patents in the financial-services industry.  |
CIO September 28, 2012 Kim S. Nash |
Companies Race to the Patent Office to Protect Their IT Breakthroughs There's a patent gold rush under way as savvy companies seek to lock in the competitive advantage from their IT innovations. CIOs ought to seek patents for unique business methods and other inventions made possible by new technology.  |
Search Engine Watch October 18, 2007 Grant Crowell |
Trademark Law - What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 2 Important tips and tactics used by online intellectual property attorneys and legal counsels for search engines, for both protecting trademark material and respecting the trademarks of others.  |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Intellectual Property Help Findlaw.com has launched the Intellectual Property Center. The new site presents a substantial amount of free resources, including how to obtain, enforce, and protect patents and trademark rights.  |
Information Today June 10, 2002 Nancy Lambert |
Patent Express: The End of an Era Patent information is a growth industry these days, and customers are demanding inexpensive access to international as well as U.S. patent documents.  |
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
PubPat Claims 'Prior Art' on JPEG Patent The Public Patent Foundation is asking the U.S. Patent office to take another look at the data compression format.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft's FAT Patent Upheld The United States Patent & Trademark Office completed a reexamination of two Microsoft patents and decided to let them stand.  |
Information Today March 24, 2003 Nancy Lambert |
Thomson Opens Its Patent Store This service plans to provide a truly comprehensive patent document delivery service, with one-stop shopping for virtually all patents from any time period, anywhere in the world, and to provide it via high-speed Web access.  |
Fast Company January 2006 Jennifer Reingold |
Patently Aggressive Forgent Networks sues software giants for patent infringement. Is it protecting inventor - or driving a stake through the heart of innovation?  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Gunderman & Hammond |
How the U.S. Patent Office's New Patent Rules Affect You What you need to know about the USPTO's new patent rules to protect your intellectual property.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar |
Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.  |
InternetNews June 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Patent in Review The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a request by the Public Patent Foundation to review one of Microsoft's many patents, the organization said today.  |
Information Today July 2, 2013 George H. Pike |
Why Patent Litigation Was on the Upswing in 2012 2012 was a "banner year in patent litigation," with increases in the number of patent infringement lawsuits filed in the federal courts and larger damage awards.  |
Entrepreneur October 2005 Chris Penttila |
Patent Pending Have an idea for the next big thing? You'll need a patent, but pay attention to big changes in store for U.S. patent law.  |
CIO August 1, 2003 Lawrence Rosen |
Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property.  |
CFO May 1, 2008 Marie Leone |
Patents under Pressure The battle over business-method patents heads to court in what may be a landmark decision.  |
Entrepreneur December 2007 Nichole L. Torres |
Getting Intellectual An idea can be your most valuable asset, but first you need to own it.  |
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest |
IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament.  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey |
No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.  |
InternetNews June 23, 2010 |
After Microsoft Spat, VPN Player Gets Patent OK VirnetX is given the all-clear from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, paving the way to hit up other vendors for licensing fees - with some potential impact on IT buyers.  |
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.  |
CFO November 1, 2007 Avital Louria Hahn |
Innovators' Dilemma New patent laws may complicate life for inventive companies.  |