Patent Baristas

The Pharmacy Technician Certification blog posted its round-up of the 50 Best Twitter Feeds for Pharma News.  While there is no shortage of feeds you can find in pharma, this list provides a breakdown of the best feeds in various categories.
Best Pro Twitter Feeds for Pharma News include:
Pharma Twits
Café Pharma
Fierce Pharma

Best Individual Twitter Feeds [...]

I received information from SyncIDS on their new, on-line service that provides patent practitioners with a prior art database for filing Information Disclosure Statements with the U.S. Patent Office. When new documents or matters are added to the database, SyncIDS automatically shows all of IDSs that need to be filed, and everything needed to file [...]

The U.S. Patent Office has learned of a new technological advance called “rss feed” and has instituted the system for the USPTO Systems Status and Availability site a mere 10 years after Netscape started using it.
On the Electronic Business Center, you can check the web page for the latest information on operating status and availability [...]

The Federalist Society has a new patent law podcast posted on the Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics case before the Supreme Court and its impact on patent licensing.   In Quanta, the Supreme Court is being asked whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions of this Court and other courts of appeals, [...]

Dinesh Vadhia, CEO of Xyggy Corporation, gave us an early look at a new patent search tool Xyggy Patent, which allows you to search for similar patents using known patents as the query.
The queried patents are selected by patent number or patent title and the results are returned in ranked order according to their relevance [...]

SCOTUScast is presenting a podcast debate between Professor Michael Risch (WVU) and Professor Joshua Sarnoff (American) on the In re Bilski case.  They each filed competing amicus briefs before the en banc panel last year, and so are ideal opponents.
This 30-minute podcast, part of a podcast series called SCOTUSCast run by the Federalist Society, [...]

To empower users to find the relevant patent and technology information and connect people they need to advance technology.
~Mission, Patents.com
Patents.com is looking to provide the most comprehensive worldwide source of patent data – to include 450 million searchable, indexed patent pages available in 15 native languages.  It’s a source for patent data and analytic tools [...]

PatentCluster, a free clustering based patent search engine, provides a different way to search patents.   PatentCluster was founded after observing that existing patent search engines did not make it easy to understand the context of the patent search results and did not articulate the “big picture” of the overall concept of the search.
Instead of giving [...]