Patent Baristas

In the same year that the international patent system marked the filing of the one millionth international patent application, a record number of applications, just over 120,000, were filed in 2004 using the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Despite reports of the early demise of its research capabilities, the […]

The Baristas will be attending the Ohio Valley Affiliates for Life Sciences Group (OVALS) regional conference  "The Promise of Innovation: OVALS Making It Happen" on March 7-8, 2005, at the Dayton Marriott Hotel in Dayton, Ohio.  Register and see Agenda. The OVALS Partnership developed in 2002 as a forum to discuss and stimulate economic development […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published a manual entitled “Exchanging Value – Negotiating Technology Licensing Agreements,” which provides a review of some of the basic issues that arise in licensing negotiations of intellectual property, particularly patents. The publication offers a practical introduction to negotiating licensing agreements and is designed to address the needs […]

The Baristas have updated their look and gotten a new attitude.  Thanks to Barbara, at CaricatureConnection, we now have new images on our Get to Know Your Baristas page.  We’ll be brewing up news and comments on a regular basis and appreciate your comments and suggestions. Let us know if you like our new look.  […]

Blogger and Patent Attorney Axel H Horns posted a nice review of the recent EU-CREST Committee on “IPR and Research” report. The Committee for Scientific and Technical Research (Crest) is the advisory committee to the Council and the Commission on subjects relating to scientific and technical research and in particular, on the co-ordination of national […]

It hasn’t a great month for the Big Pharmas when it comes to battling the on-slaught of generics. Despite being the time for Valentines and amore, Pfizer is feeling blue since the Technical Board of Appeal revoked Pfizer’s “Viagra-Patent” EP-0 702 555 by dismissing the appeal against an earlier lost.

Well, I have decided to give up my Bio-IP.com site on TypePad and switch to PatentBaristas.com on a new hosting service running on MovableType. I like the idea of having the flexibility of MT and my new hosting service on iPowerWeb provides plenty of bandwidth. Many thanks to Christina at Moxie Design Studios for helping […]

Under a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy, which is designed to provide easier access to tax supported research, researchers who receive grant money from the National Institutes of Health will be "asked" to submit their results to a public Web site within a year after they are published in a scientific […]