The USPTO has proposed rules to limit the number of continuing, CIP and RCE applications that can be filed by patent applicants. See here for the notice. Why have continuations become the current whipping boy for the Patent Office? The Notices states that “current practice allows an applicant to generate an unlimited string of continued […]

“What To Do About Bad Patents” under Briefly Noted by Profs. Lemley, Lichtman and Sampat (the Profs.) bemoans today’s patents, and then asks whether past problems provide a formula for new solutions. In their equation, opposing values are placed on either side of the equal sign. (If not for our talent of scaling justice, and […]

Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground hosts Blawg Review #38 this week with a timely theme: resolutions. His list of Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Bloggers was born from his recent talk at BlawgThink 2005 in Chicago. We most appreciated Resolution 1: Mix It Up. This is one we want to strive for in 2006. Even though […]