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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.   |
Searcher
January 2001
Nancy Lambert |
The Better Mousetrap - BountyQuest: Let the Hunt Begin On October 18, BountyQuest Corp., a Boston-based start-up, launched a new Web site that has fired the imagination of professional patent searchers... |
Bio-IT World
June 17, 2004
Cathryn Campbell |
Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more. |
Information Today
October 30, 2000
Nancy Lambert |
BountyQuest Introduces New Service to Help Strengthen U.S. Patent System On October 18, BountyQuest Corp., a Boston-based start-up, launched a new Web site that has fired the imagination of professional patent searchers... |
Salon.com
February 15, 2002
Damien Cave |
Losing the war on patents Market-based attempts (like BountyQuest) to fix the intellectual property system are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds? |
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. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Crowdsourcing science site to launch According to the founders of Marblar, three PhD science students, 95 -- 99% of patented research goes unused, and all that research could lead to big money for the owners. |
Salon.com
October 23, 2000
Damien Cave |
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers... |
InternetNews
December 10, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft? New legal initiative is designed to ensure quality patents and get rid of bad ones. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 20, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Exposed Sender ID Patents Up Debate Critics chime in about Microsoft's patent applications involving anti-spam technology, now that they have been posted. |
Information Today
April 2, 2001
Nancy Lambert |
BountyQuest Revisited: The Coin Has Two Sides BountyQuest is in a state of high excitement right now. As shown on its Web site, the company has awarded the $10,000 bounty that Tim O'Reilly posted against Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com "1-Click" patent. Or has it? |
Chemistry World
February 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity. |
InternetNews
July 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Streaming Media Dispute Closer to Trial A preliminary Markman Order sets out the terms of the patent infringement dispute between Acacia and 11 porn sites. |
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
December 10, 2013 |
EBSCO Discovery Service Integrates Full-Text Patents EBSCO Information Services added content from the United States Patent and Trademark Office to EBSCO Discovery Service. |
InternetNews
January 10, 2006
Clint Boulton |
USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S. |
Information Today
October 28, 2002
Nancy Lambert |
Thomson Derwent Announces Derwent Web of Software Thomson Derwent has announced the launch of Derwent Web of Software, a new Web product that provides access to prior art in software and business-method technology. |
Information Today
June 19, 2008 |
Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Report on Pilot Project Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to an open network of scientific and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process. |
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. |
PC World
April 2006
Andrew Brandt |
Patent Overload Hampers Tech Innovation Application backlog and continuing patent disputes add up to a mounting crisis. |
Chemistry World
January 26, 2009
Jia & Yuan |
China pushes for higher quality patents In an effort to boost the quality of patent applications, and encourage Chinese firms to obtain international patents, China has revised its patent law. |
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. |
Chemistry World
June 2006 |
Careers: The Diverse World of Regulatory Affairs How a PhD student in chemistry switched gears from research to pharmaceutical regulation and now enjoys a career where people's lives and vast sums of money are at stake. |
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. |
Information Today
September 1, 2011 |
Thomson Reuters Adds New Patent Authorities to Derwent World Patents Index This comprehensive collection of editorially enhanced patent documents from 47 global issuing authorities also includes English language abstracts and titles making it easier for researchers to quickly find the information they need. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 21, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Bio-piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine Raj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna examine the history of herbal patent applications, challenging a stereotype that characterizes Western firms as innovators and emerging markets as imitators. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Amazon.com Hit With 'Recommendation' Suit Online retailer Amazon.com was hit by a patent infringement suit that strikes at the core of its business. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2014
David Dalke |
New Patent-Defense Path for Pharma Inter Partes Review can potentially offer a more economical and streamlined litigation strategy for pharma and biotech players. |
Information Today
August 18, 2003
Barbara Quint |
CAS Pursues Patent Searching Market with Science IP Chemical Abstracts Service has long had a custom search service available to do intermediated searches, primarily sophisticated searching of chemical files. Now, CAS has re-named and re-targeted its custom search service to focus on patents, both within and outside the chemical field. |
Wired
June 2000
Evan Ratliff |
Patent Upending The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian, who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago.... |
InternetNews
March 5, 2007
Roy Mark |
The 'Wikifying' of Software Patents Utilizing social networking tools, a Patent and Trademark Office pilot program aims to speed applications and better inform patent examiners. |
Chemistry World
December 16, 2013
Anthony King |
Database of 15 million chemical structures set free A collection of over 15 million chemical structures from patents -- SureChem -- is to be made freely available through the European Bioinformatics Institute. |
InternetNews
May 19, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
A Tale of Two Patents Google applied for a patent on serving ads to Gmail users. But an upstart called Sponster might have beaten it to the punch. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Patently Unfair? Overworked patent examiners and outdated rules are just two of the reasons critics of some tech patents say the process needs fixing. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2006 |
Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you? |
InternetNews
November 28, 2006
Roy Mark |
High Court Tackles The Not-So-Obvious The United States Supreme Court will talk gas pedals today in a case the technology industry hopes the justices will find all too obvious. The outcome could be a landmark decision that redefines how patents are issued. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2005
M.D. Mitchell |
Big Problems for Big Pharma Creating new drugs is never easy, but the companies that excel in three key areas are the ones for investors to watch. |
InternetNews
November 28, 2006
Roy Mark |
High Court Debates Patent Challenges A highly engaged United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case that could have wide implications for the future of the country's patent system. |
Bank Technology News
March 2001
John Hackett |
In Pursuit of Patents Bankers and their suppliers fear fallout from an over-burdened Patent and Trade Office... |
InternetNews
May 21, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
PalmOne Graffiti Is No Infringement A U.S. Court invalidates Xerox Corp.'s patent on single-stroke writing. |
InternetNews
July 31, 2007
Larry Barrett |
RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law Supreme Court ruling puts patent trolls on notice. |
Bio-IT World
November 12, 2002
Paula Campbell Evans |
Patently More Difficult The PTO has targeted gene patents with new application guidelines. Here's what they mean and how biotech companies can satisfy them. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Wins 'Tabbed Browsing' Patent Redmond stakes a claim to tabbing between links on a Web page. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google's Search For Patents Google Patent Search is a natural extension of its mission to make public domain government information more easily accessible. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Mark Radcliffe |
Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
University, Startup Sue Google Over Database Technology A patent-infringement suit filed in a federal court in Texas last week claims the core technology behind Google's search engine misappropriates the intellectual property of a Northeastern University professor and the startup he co-founded. |
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. |
