IP Newsflash [1], an IP meta-information portal that browses your information channels for you and presents only relevant, recent and customizable IP information on a single page, just got better. IP Newsflash is touted as being for “patent professionals who want to stay up to date but dislike the tedious task of browsing through countless sources of information.” See other reviews at the Invent Blog [2], IP Menu [3], Patently-O [4] and Securing Innovation [5]. We really like the new look. We love the free price.
Filed under Your Tax Dollars at Work, the Congressional Budget Office has released its cost estimate on the patent reform bill [6]. Note that this includes an estimated $1 billion in compensation for DataTreasury’s check processing patents (5,910,988 [7] and 6,032,137 [8]). Why Congress is wanting to give free immunity to one industry from infringement of a private company’s patent [9] can probably be spelled c-a-m-p-a-i-g-n-d-o-n-a-t-i-o-n-s. More at the Patent Prospector [10].
Listed as the “first worldwide Web 2.0 pharmaceutical news portal,” World Pharma News.com now has World Pharma News.net — a web application that allows you to submit pharmaceutical news articles or other related web resources that will be reviewed by our registered users and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. When a registered user submits a news article it will be placed in the “unpublished” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.
A Denver judge showed trial attorneys how to lose $51 million [11] for “cavalier and abusive” misconduct and for having a “what can I get away with?” attitude during a patent infringement trial. Meanwhile, New Mexico has been finding new uses for lasers [12].
Also, Legal Andrew [13] has an update on lawyer advertising.