Patent Baristas

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 [...]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) released its Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Manual, a publication designed to help businesses protect their consumers and brands. The manual features case studies on the proven strategies companies are implementing to protect their creative assets from criminal counterfeiting and piracy.
The Intellectual Property Protection and [...]

Joseph Scott, President of Patent Buddy, contacted me about their site.  Listed as “Where IP Professionals meet to gather & exchange information,” it is a new service that provides data (obtained from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office) on registered patent attorneys and their employment histories since 2001.
It claims to have data on 39,259 attorneys [...]