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In the history of cryptography, M-325, also known as SIGFOY, was an American rotor machine designed by William F. Friedman in 1936. Between 1944 and 1946, more than 1,100 machines were deployed within the United States Foreign Service. Its use was discontinued in 1946 because of faults in operation. Friedman applied for a patent on the M-325 on 11 August, 1944; it was granted on 17 March, 1959 (US patent #2,877,565).

Like the Enigma, the M-325 contains three intermediate rotors and a reflecting rotor.

See also

• Hebern rotor machine
• SIGABA

References

• Louis Kruh, Converter M-325(T), Cryptologia 1, 1977, pp143–149.

External

links

• Operating and Keying Instructions for Converter M-325(T) Headquarters, Army Security Agency, July 1948, scanned and transcribed by Bob Lord.
• Friedman M-325 — information and photographs.

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A chemical patent is an important source of technical and bibliographic information. Chemical patents are different from other sources of technical information because of the generic, Markush structures contained within them, named after the inventor Eugene Markush who won a claim in the US in 1925 to allow such structures to be used in patent claims. These generic structures are used to make the patent claim as broad as possible.

Chemical patents are particularly important in the pharmaceuticals industry where they are used to protect the large investments that are necessary to develop drugs.

External links

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The term of a patent is the maximum period during which it can be maintained into force. It is usually expressed in number of years either starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, renewal annuities or maintenance fees have to be regularly paid in order to keep the patent in force. Otherwise the patent lapses before its term.

The term of a patent or specific “claims” in a patent may also be curtailed by judgment of a court, as where a claim or patent is held “invalid” under the relevant law, and thus no longer enforceable.

Significant international harmonization of patent term across national laws was provided in the 1990s by the implementation of the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement). Article 33 of the TRIPs Agreement
provides that the

“The term of protection available [for patents] shall not end before the expiration of a period of twenty years counted from the filing date.”

Consequently, in most patent laws nowadays, the term of patent is 20 years from the filing date of the application. This however does not forbid the states party to the WTO from providing, in their national law, other type of patent-like rights with shorter terms. Utility models are an example of such rights. Their term is usually 6 or 10 years.

In the United States, under current patent law, for patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term of the patent is 20 years from the earliest claimed filing date. For patents filed prior to June 8, 1995, the term of patent is either 20 years from the earliest claimed filing date or 17 years from the issue date, whichever is longer. Extensions may also be had for various administrative delays. (See: Term of patent in the United States). The exact date of termination may be zealously litigated, especially where daily profits from a patent amount to millions of dollars, e.g., pharmaceuticals.

Other types of patents may have varying terms. For example, in the U.S., design patents (based on a decorative, non-functional design) typically have a 14-year term.

The term of patent protection may also be affected by specific multi-lateral, international agreements. Protection of patents issued in European Union countries were only enforced for three years (until 1995) against pharmaceuticals manufactured in Spain (and cheaply available). Prior to its Treaty of Accession, Spain did not offer patent protection for pharmaceutical products.

Term extensions

If the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) delays the issuance of a patent, it is possible to receive extensions. This may result in patents being issued for periods longer than 20 years. The reasons for extensions include:

• Delayed response to an application request for patent.
• Exceeding 3 years to consider a patent application.
• Delays due to a secrecy order or appeal.

It is possible to receive time extensions equal to the amount of delay.

References

• USPTO - Patent Term
• USPTO - Adjustment of patent term.
• How long is a patent good for

See also

• Maintenance fee
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, provides what is called the “priority year”
• Provisional patent application
• Submarine patent
• Supplementary protection certificate (SPC), provides a limited time extension to the protection conferred by certain patents in the European Union

References

• Patents.Com Answers to frequently asked questions about patents, copyrights, and trademarks, from the law firm of Oppedahl & Larson.
• Patent Plaques From Patent Awards Recognition plaques and certificates for US patents, trademarks, European patents, PCT publications, and foreign patents.
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• Software Patents - League for Programming Freedom Note that some of the material about patents on this site is dated, and some of the patents mentioned may have expired in some countries.
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• International Classifications at WIPO Entry point for information about the International Classifications at WIPO.
• Freshpatents.com: Patent Applications Updated Each Week, RSS Listing of recent US patent applications with keyword monitoring and RSS feeds.
• The NBER U.S. Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights, and The NBER US Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights, and Methodological Tools. Free download.
• Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) now offers World-Wide Web (Web) access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases.
• Derwent World Patents Index - Thomson Scientific Comprehensive database of value-added patent documents. 1.5 million patent documents from 41 patent-issuing authorities are added into the database each
• Patent Room | Design Ideas from US Patent Office Files This design was assigned to the Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company. Lamont also did work for Sikorsky Aircraft. This patent was issued in 1954.
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The kokoku or kokoku tokkyo koho is the name given to the examined and approved Japanese patent application, as opposed to the kokai, the published, unexamined Japanese patent application.

See also

• Japanese patent law

References

• PLANT PATENT ACT: Summary from Federal Wildlife Laws Handbook PLANT PATENT ACT 35 U.S.C.

Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc., 525 U.S. 55 (1998), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that determined what constituted being “on sale” for the purposes of barring the grant of a patent for an invention.

Background of the case

In November of 1980, the plaintiff, engineer Wayne Pfaff, was asked by Texas Instruments to design for them a socket for the mounting and removal of semiconductor chip carriers. Pfaff proceeded to draw designs for the socket, which he showed to Texas Instruments in March of 1981. On April 8, 1981, Texas Instruments provided a written purchase order to buy over 30,000 of the sockets. The sockets were not actually built, however, until July of 1981.

Pfaff applied for a patent for the socket on April 15, 1982, and received the patent in 1985. He then proceeded to sue the defendant, Wells Electronics, Inc., for patent infringement when Wells made a socket that was too similar to Pfaff’s design. Wells, in defense, claimed that Pfaff’s patent was invalid. In support of this assertion, Wells pointed to 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), which states that an inventor shall not be entitled to a patent if:

…the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the US.

Wells asserted that by accepting the purchase order from Texas Instruments, Pfaff had placed the invention “on sale” one year and one week before applying for the patent, which would make it invalid under § 102(b). Pfaff countered that the invention had not been reduced to practice, meaning that a working model had not yet been made. Pfaff’s contention was that the invention was not complete at the time of the purchase order, and therefore could not have been “on sale” yet.

The District Court upheld Pfaff’s patent, but the Court of Appeals reversed, finding the patent invalid because the invention was “substantially complete” at the time of the sale. Pfaff then appealed to the Supreme Court.

Issue

The Supreme Court noted that lower courts had offered different opinions on the question of whether an invention could be “on sale” within the meaning of the statute before it had actually reduced to practice. The Court therefore had to set a standard for when an invention would be considered complete enough to be “on sale”.

The Court’s decision

The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens, noted that an invention can actually be patented before it is reduced to practice, because the “invention” occurs when the inventor has a fully formed idea of how the invention will be made. Pfaff could have patented his idea based on the drawings that he had showed to Texas Instruments, because they were complete enough to allow another engineer to build the invention from the designs.

Furthermore, if an invention could be sold before it was reduced to practice without any consequence, then inventors would be able to evade the time limits placed on the patent itself by simply delaying the construction of a working model. This would, in turn delay new inventions from reaching the public, which would undermine the reason for having patents in the first place.

Based on these considerations, the Court concluded that the “on sale” bar applies if two conditions are met:

• 1. That the product was the subject of a commercial offer for sale; and
• 2. That the product could have been patented at that time, either because it had in fact been reduced to practice, or because it was sufficiently well described for another person skilled in the art to build the invention from the designs.

Because these conditions were satisfied, the Court held that Pfaff’s patent was invalid.

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In the mathematical subfield of linear algebra, the linear span, also called the linear hull, of a set of vectors in a vector space is the intersection of all subspaces containing that set. The linear span of a set of vectors is therefore a vector space.

Definition

Given a vector space V over a field K, the span of a set S (not necessarily finite) is defined to be the intersection W of all subspaces of V which contain S. When S is a finite set, then W is referred to as the subspace spanned by the vectors in S.

Let <math>v_1,…,v_r \in V</math>. The span of the set of these vectors is

<math>{ \rm span } \left(v_1,…,v_r\right) = \left\{ {\lambda _1 v_1 + \cdots + \lambda _r v_r |\lambda _1 , \ldots ,\lambda _r \in \mathbb K} \right\}.</math>

Notes

The span of S may also be defined as the collection of all (finite) linear combinations of the elements of S.

If the span of S is V, then S is said to be a spanning set of V. A spanning set of V is not necessarily a basis for V, as it need not be linearly independent. However, a minimal spanning set for a given vector space is necessarily a basis. In other words, a spanning set is a basis for V if and only if every vector in V can be written as a unique linear combination of elements in the spanning set.

Examples

The real vector space R³ has {(1,0,0), (0,1,0), (0,0,1)} as a spanning set. This spanning set is actually a basis.

Another spanning set for the same space is given by {(1,2,3), (0,1,2), (−1,1/2,3), (1,1,1)}, but this set is not a basis, because it is linearly dependent.

The set {(1,0,0), (0,1,0), (1,1,0)} is not a spanning set of R³; instead its span is the space of all vectors in R³ whose last component is zero.

Theorems

Theorem 1: The subspace spanned by a non-empty subset S of a vector space V is the set of all linear combinations of vectors in S.

This theorem is so well known that at times it is referred to as the definition of span of a set.

Theorem 2: Let V be a finite dimensional vector space. Any set of vectors that spans V can be reduced to a basis by discarding vectors if necessary.

This also indicates that a basis is a minimal spanning set when V is finite dimensional.

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In patent law, a patent pool is a consortium of at least two companies agreeing to cross-license patents relating to a particular technology. The creation of a patent pool can save patentees and licensees time and money. Competition law issues are usually important when a large consortium is formed. Patent pooling has recently become a hotly debated field.

One of the first patent pools was formed in 1856, by manufacturers Grover, Baker, Singer, Wheeler, and Wilson, all accusing the others of patent infringement. They met in Albany, New York to pursue their suits. Orlando B. Potter, a lawyer and president of the Grover and Baker Company, proposed that, rather than sue their profits out of existence, they pool their patents (See also: Isaac Singer/I. M. Singer & Co).

As in that example many industries could not function without patent pools since the coordination costs (risk, negotiation, etc.) would otherwise be too high. Patent pools are only one example of cases where members of an otherwise competitive industry join in common cause to create some resource that is to their collective benefit. For example the insurance industry pools claims data to collectively reduce risk; the catalog sales industry pools sales data to better model their customes; the auto industry collaborates to standardize components; and in the software industry we see open source collaboration. All these are examples of pooling to reduce risk and lower coordination costs.

In a more modern example in August 2005, a patent pool was formed by about 20 companies active in the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) domain [1][2]. The RFID Consortium picked Via Licensing to administer its patent pool in September of 2006 [3].

Patent pools do not eliminate risk, they only temper it. Patent holders (including other patent pools) outside the pool can still create cost and risk for the industry. While it is rare for a patent pool to indemnify licensees the pool does help to assure a common interest will emerge should one member be
accused of infringement by a third party. Flaws in the design of the pool’s governance can create the risk that one member can break the common cause of the group. Examples of well-known such cases include the MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 and H.264 video coding standards, and the DVD6C pool.

See also

• Essential patent
• Open Invention Network
• Patent portfolio
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• 501(c)(6) — i.e. industry specific nonprofits
• Patent holding company
• Cross-licensing

References

• United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Pools: A Solution to the Problem of Access in Biotechnology Patents?, December 5, 2000 (PDF file)

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Tanzania competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Results by event

Athletics

Men’s Marathon

• Zebedayo Bayo
  1. Final - 2:26:24 (61st place)

• Angelo Peter Simon
  1. Final - DNF

• Fokasi Wilbrod
  1. Final - DNF

Women’s 5,000m

• Restituta Joseph
  1. Round 1 - DNS (did not advance)

Women’s 10,000m

• Restituta Joseph
  1. Round 1 - 33:12.18 (did not advance)

References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 11/12/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site

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References

See also

• Official Journal of the European Patent Office
• PCT Gazette
• List of intellectual property law journals

External links

• PCT Newsletters since 1999 available online on the WIPO web site

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Boarfish is the common name of two unrelated groups of fishes:

• All fish of the family Caproidae are called boarfish.
• Some fish of the family Pentacerotidae are called boarfish.

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The Ensign-Bickford Industries, Incorporated (formerly The Ensign-Bickford Company) was started in 1836 in Simsbury, Connecticut as a manufacturer of William Bickford’s safety fuse for use in mining. Safety fuse was a great advance in mining technology over the practice of filling holes with black powder. The next step in mining technology was detonating cord. Ensign-Bickford and other companies developed different versions of detonating cord. Ensign-Bickford’s “Primacord” or “primercord” became the functional generic name for detonating cord in North America. In 2003 Ensign-Bickford sold the trademarks and processes to Dyno Nobel Inc of Australia (formally of Norway).

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Goskomizobretenie (Russian: Госкомизобретений), which stood for Gosudarstvennyi komitet po delam izobretenie i otkrytii, was the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries in the former Soviet Union.

It maintained a registry of inventions and discoveries and gave out authors certificates and patents.

It has been succeeded by Rospatent in the modern day Russian Federation.

See also

• Patent office

External links

• Website of Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent)
• Soviet and USSR patent document search and delivery site

References

• Patent Portfolio Management Career Opportunities | Contact Us | Press Room | Privacy Policy.

Josiah Vavasseur was an inventor who patented several mounting devices for artillery and machine guns. These were known as Vavasseur mountings.

External links

Patents

References

• System Overview Patent-Management.net brings the latest in web technology to the patent management world, enabling Intellectual Property (IP) law professionals and legal
• IP Management Services, Trademark & Patent Renewals, IP Software - CPA Trademark renewals and patent renewals/analytics services from Computer Patent Annuities (CPA). Services include trademark renewals, domain name management
• STN focuses on patent search and management - Information World Review Document management tools and Derwent data added to science resource.
• IQ Sys Ltd - ThinPrint European Basic Patent for Bandwidth Management ThinPrint receives European basic patent for bandwidth management. The European Patent Office granted the patent in twenty European countries.
• Lock-free cache management - US Patent 6904456 Lock-free cache management - US Patent 6904456 from Patent Storm. A data structure and method implemented in accordance with the invention enable reading a
• LXer: NEC to Invest in Linux Patent Management Company Open NEC to Invest in Linux Patent Management Company Open Invention Network (OIN). Posted by dcparris on Sep 19, 2006 10:42 AM Japan Corporate News; By Aki
• ANTITRUST, PATENT POOLS, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLANTITRUST, PATENT POOLS, AND THE. MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY. Joshua A. Newberg*. I. INTRODUCTION. Much has been written in recent years on the role of
• Document management patent Health Management Technology - Find Document management patent from Health Management Technology in Array provided free by LookSmart Find Articles.
• creativepro.com - Extensis Awarded Patent for Font Management Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc., today announced that it has been awarded a patent for a method that examines font files for corruption.
• Kiyon Granted Patent for Improved Wireless Network Management Kiyon Granted Patent for Improved Wireless Network Management Method. Oct 6, 2006, News Report. Kiyon, Inc. has been granted a US patent for its "System and
• Patent data mining and effective patent portfolio management File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLpatent management strategy. By Bob Stembridge and Breda Corish Effective patent mining. Intellectual Asset Management October/November 2004 31
• Patent Strategy Management File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLPatent Strategy. Management.

A patent classification is a way the examiners of patent offices or other people arrange documents, such as patent applications, disclosing inventions according to the technical features of the inventions. They arrange documents using a patent classification so that they can quickly find a document disclosing the invention identical or similar to the invention for which a patent is claimed. The same document may be classified in several classes.

A patent classification is fixed under an agreement among people, otherwise it is useless. The International Patent Classification (IPC) is agreed internationally. The United States Patent Classification (USPC) is fixed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The European Classification (ECLA) is based on the IPC but adapted by the European Patent Office to its own requirements. The Derwent classification system is fixed by an enterprise.

See also

• European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention

External links

• Patent classification by the British Library

References

• Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery: Patent Portfolio Management Patent Portfolio Management. The management of intellectual property has become a critical competitive arena in global commerce.
• Patents and Licensing LLC - Daniel W. Juffernbruch, Patent Patent attorney based in Barrington.
• Patent for content management is granted Software solution provider GraphOn have been granted a patent that cover 'Method and apparatus for providing a dynamically-updating pay-for-service web
• Marketing: a key element in patent management The article provides basic elements about the use of marketing in patent management. It illustrates the phenomenon through a study concerning French
• Worldwide Patent Annuity Services File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLPortfolio Management Quality. With an experienced staff of patent shop for all patent management. activities. Clients simply provide
• Patent Management: Preserve Your Damages by Proper Marking and In a recent decision of potentially far-reaching implications for patent property management, the Federal Circuit has significantly extended its
• Portfolio-Xpert Helps Companies Find Infringed Patents Strategic More importantly, the new tools deliver consistently objective and reliable patent information needed for effective strategic portfolio management and
• FindLaw's Legal Technology Center - Software Patent and Trademark Management Software Products. Help | Site Map | Contact Us | Media Kit | About Us | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
• Unlimited - Doug Calhoun talks about budgeting for patent management There

A reversible fuel cell (RFC) is a fuel cell that is designed to consume chemical A to produce electricity and chemical B and be reversed to consume electricity and chemical B to produce chemical A. A hydrogen fuel cell, for example, uses hydrogen (H₂) and oxygen (O₂) to produce electricity and water (H₂O); a reversible hydrogen fuel cell could also use electricity and water to produce hydrogen and oxygen.

By definition, the process of any fuel cell could be reversed. However, a given device is usually optimized for operating in one mode and may not be built in such a way that it can be operated backwards. Fuel cells operated backwards generally do not make very efficient systems. Because of this, fuel cells operated in forward-reverse mode are not suited for energy storage systems in small and medium scale. Most fuel cells operated in the reverse mode are sold as learning kits or curiosities.

See also

• Hydrogen technologies

References

• Lead acid battery efficiency reference
• Reversible fuel cell learning kit.
• Example US Patents: 4048383 , 4338167 etc.

References

• Patent of the Week A large collection of strange, unusual and interesting patents on the web.
• PUBPAT > Monsanto Anti-Farmers Patents In September 2006, PUBPAT filed formal requests with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to revoke four patents owned by Monsanto Company that the
• Patents & Designs Journal We publish our patents and designs journal (PDJ) weekly, every Wednesday in Proceedings under the Patents Act 1977, including information on both United
• PUBPAT > Monsanto Patents Asserted Against American Farmers 24 Jul 2007 MONSANTO PATENTS ASSERTED AGAINST AMERICAN FARMERS REJECTED BY PATENT OFFICE: PUBPAT Initiated Review Leads PTO to Find All Claims of All
• UK Intellectual Property Office A Practice Notice setting out a change in approach to patents for computer UK Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office
• Patently Absurd - Forbes.com Corporations are increasingly converting the shield of patent protection into the sword of Too many patents are just as bad for society as too few.
• Apple patents perturb PNG programmers | The Register At issue is patent number 5379129, filed by Apple in May 1992 and granted to the company in January 1995. The patent describes a "method for compositing a
• The Edison Movie Monopoly In December 1908, the motion picture inventors and industry leaders organized the first great film trust called the Motion Picture Patents Company,
• United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) patent databases - includes AIDS patents.
• A History of the United States Patent Office by Jason O. Watson "The patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius." Abraham Lincoln (the only U.S. President to be issued a patent)1.
• Slashdot | Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents — article related to Microsoft, Patents, and Linux.
• Why There Are No GIF files on GNU Web Pages Advocates against the use of image formats that are protected by patents. Presents a brief history of the GIF format as well as its open alternatives.
• Are Software Patents Evil? A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three.
• Internal Market - Industrial Property - Patents The European Council held in Lisbon in March 2000 called for the creation of a Community patent system to address existing shortcomings in the legal
• Software patent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Software patent does not have a universally accepted definition. [1] One definition suggested by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is
• Patent Office - Main The patent office is part of the ministry of justice dealing with rights in industrial intellectual property in Israel by registering Patents, Designs and
• O'Reilly Network — Stallman on the Harm of Patents Tim O'Reilly discusses software patent issues with Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.
• U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications Potentially tens of thousands of businesses could be subject to licensing fees when using rich-media technology over the Internet.
• letter to the patent office from professor donald Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box 4 Patent and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231 Dear
• Delphion Research intellectual property network - international For international patent and us patent information, the Delphion intellectual property network's patent search database helps businesses perform
• Linux.com :: The patent infringement suit: A playbook Last week's announcement of a patent infringement suit against Red Hat and Novell set in motion speculation about motives, theories, agendas,
• Technology Review: Origin of the Patents Now reinventing recent patents, genetic programming heads toward automated.
• The IP Golf Guy - The Golf Patent Lawyer (Golf Inventions, Patents David Dawsey is that golf patent lawyer that brings you the Golf-Patents blog; the only online golf resource dedicated to the intellectual property issues
• MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE THE PATENTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005 No File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLIn section 2 of the Patents Act, 1970 (hereinafter referred to as the . of filing the patent application in India and a reference thereof shall be
• Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims — Linus The holder of the Linux trademark suggests Microsoft should name the patents it alleges have been violated so the claims can be tested in court.
• Patents Act 1977: Patentable subject matter This notice announces an immediate change in the way patent examiners will assess whether inventions are for patentable subject matter.
• List of Crazy Patents Crazy Patents! For the USPTO to issue a patent, the invention must be novel, non-obvious, and "useful." The standard for usefulness is certainly the weakest

The Global Electronic Party Information Register (GEPIR) is a distributed database that contains basic information on over 1,000,000 companies in over 100 countries.

You can search by GTIN (includes UPC and EAN-13), SSCC and GLN numbers or by company name in some countries. Results can be returned in HTML or XML for some countries.

The service is provided jointly by different GS1 Member Organizations.

External links

• http://www.gepir.org

References

• Blackboard Sues for Course Management Patent Infringement Original Message ——– Subject: [IP] Blackboard Inc. files first course management patent suit Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:55:11 -0400 From: David Farber
• Method of herd management - Patent 7278373 A method and system to generate the highest level of return on investment of a cattle ranch producing beef to the consumer. Through the use of computer
• Lock-free cache management - US Patent 6904456 Lock-free cache management - US Patent 6904456 from Patent Storm. A data structure and method implemented in accordance with the invention enable reading a
• Automated Patent Portfolio Management: From Potential to Profit Companies are increasingly under attack by entities with no business model other than earning revenues and profits from patent litigation. At the same time,
• Patent Applications Management Software (PCT-ROAD) Patent Applications Management Software (PCT-ROAD). General Information about PCT-ROAD. What is PCT-ROAD? Background of PCT-ROAD Project
• Towards rational management of the patent ductus arteriosus: the Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is common problem, with rates of 40

See also

• List of Governors General of Canada
• Timeline of Prime Ministers of Canada

References

• IPcentral Weblog: Greg Aharonian on Patent Office Management and The crux of the matter is the failure of the legislation to address or even recognize internal patent office management woes (which are nightmarish indeed).
• General Patent Corporation Intl. - About Us - Management Team Prior to establishing GPC in 1989, Dr. Poltorak was the president of Poltorak Associates Inc., an IP management consulting and patent licensing firm,
• Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery: Patent Portfolio Management Patent Portfolio Management. The management of intellectual property has become a critical competitive arena in global commerce.
• Coller IP Management - Patent & Trade Mark Attorney Services We also provide IP portfolio management, strategy and renewal services and conduct patent searches, patent watches, trade mark searches and trade mark
• Top 10 Practical Tips for Strategic Patent Portfolio Management Top 10 Practical Tips for Strategic Patent Portfolio Management. By Michele Liu and Dennis Fernandez, Fernandez & Associates LLP, Menlo Park, CA,
• System Overview Patent-Management.net brings the latest in web technology to the patent management world, enabling Intellectual Property (IP) law professionals and legal
• PatentCafe Patent Search, Analytics and IP Management Solutions Home > Links of Interest > PatentCafe Patent Search, Analytics and IP Management Solutions >. 08 | 30 | 2007 Posted By Kristie Prinz print this article
• FindLaw's Legal Technology Center - Software Patent and Trademark Management Software Products. Help | Site Map | Contact Us | Media Kit | About Us | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
• Top Ten Tips for Patent Portfolio Management - R & D Guiding a technology through the US patent process requires strategic planning by managers. Use preliminary and supplemental amendments.
• NEC to Invest in Linux Patent Management Company Open Invention NEC will join IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony as an investor and licensee in Open Invention Network (OIN), an intellectual property company formed to
• NetApp Smacks Sun With Patent Suit - Information Lifecycle According to NetApp, Sun approached company management about 18 months ago and NetApp's attempt to use patent litigation to inhibit the meteoric rise of
• Technology - Patent & Trademark Management System | Thompson Hine LLP Thompson Hine offers technology toolkits for our clients and lawyers. Our client toolkits include extranets, electronic invoicing, communications,
• PatentCafe Integrated Suite of Patent Management Software PatentCafe Integrated Suite of Semantic Patent Search, Portfolio Management, Patent Analytics and International Patent Data Solutions for enteprise.
• PatentHunter 3.5 - Patent Downloading, Searching and Management Patent searching, downloading and management software for inventors, businesses and patent attorneys. Download and search patents from the US Patent Office
• Microsoft Digital Rights Management Operating System - US Patent This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/105891 filed on Oct. 26, 1998, which is herein incorporated by
• Hype: Patent Management Innovation Management · Suggestion Box Software · Idea Management Patent reporting, controlling and monitoring; Standardized data collection and
• SBH Patent Group Patent Group. The U.S. Constitution guarantees legal rights for intellectual property. "The Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science
• Delphion partners with top companies for patent research See the Delphion partner page to learn about top companies for patent research, intellectual property, and intellectual asset management, and intellectual
• What is Patent Management? Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is Patent Management?
• The Journal of High Technology Management Research : A text-mining Recently, the strategic importance of patent analysis is more highlighted in high-technology management as the process of innovation becomes more complex,
• Contemporary Management of Patent Foramen Ovale Contemporary Management of Patent Foramen Ovale. Bernhard Meier, James E Lock circulationaha 107:11, 5-9, 2003. In 1877, Cohnheim performed a necropsy on a
• Welcome to IPB, PATENT VALUATION, PATENT MANAGEMENT, PATENT The company based in Hamburg gives its clients advice in all economical questions concerning the management of patent portfolios with the objective of
• IP Management Services, Trademark & Patent Renewals, IP Software - CPA Trademark renewals and patent renewals/analytics services from Computer Patent Annuities (CPA). Services include trademark renewals, domain name management
• Laparoscopic Management of Patent Urachus in an Adult Man Laparoscopic Management of Patent Urachus in an Adult Man Alexandra Pusta, Ralph Ovenbecka, Andreas Erbersdoblerb, Klaus-Peter Dieckmanna
• creativepro.com - Extensis Awarded Second Patent for Digital Asset "Extensis' Portfolio family of products continues to be a leading solution for digital asset management needs and we are thrilled to receive a second patent

The Register of European Patents, or European Patent Register, is a public register (or registry) kept by the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains legal information relating to the published European patent applications and the European patents granted under the European Patent Convention (EPC).

See also

• epoline
• esp@cenet
• European Patent Bulletin
• Official Journal of the European Patent Office

External links

• Online European Patent Register search page
• Legal basis
  •  : Register of European Patents
  •  : Entries in the Register of European Patents

References

• Top 10 Practical Tips for Strategic Patent Portfolio Management Top 10 Practical Tips for Strategic Patent Portfolio Management. By Michele Liu and Dennis Fernandez, Fernandez & Associates LLP, Menlo Park, CA,
• PatentCafe Patent Search, Analytics and IP Management Solutions Home > Links of Interest > PatentCafe Patent Search, Analytics and IP Management Solutions >. 08 | 30 | 2007 Posted By Kristie Prinz print this article
• Blackboard Sues for Course Management Patent Infringement Original Message ——– Subject: [IP] Blackboard Inc. files first course management patent suit Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:55:11 -0400 From: David Farber
• PatentHunter 3.5 - Patent Downloading, Searching and Management Patent searching, downloading and management software for inventors, businesses and patent attorneys. Download and search patents from the US Patent Office
• IP Management Services, Trademark & Patent Renewals, IP Software - CPA Trademark renewals and patent renewals/analytics services from Computer Patent Annuities (CPA). Services include trademark renewals, domain name management
• Patent Prosecution & Portfolio Management The attorneys who Patent Prosecution & Portfolio Management · Trade Secrets Litigation and assisting in numerous other aspects of patent portfolio management.
• Document management patent Health Management Technology - Find Document management patent from Health Management Technology in Array provided free by LookSmart Find Articles.
• Sherry M. Carty - Inside Patent Management - Our Business sherry carty, sherry m. carty, phd, duke, nc, patent, patents, rtp, research triangle park, biotechnology, biotech, pharmaceutical, patent agent.
• Agency's aggressive patent management protects public, professors Agency's aggressive patent management protects public, professors. May 28, 2002. by Michael Penn. Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin
• ANTITRUST, PATENT POOLS, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLANTITRUST, PATENT POOLS, AND THE. MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY. Joshua A. Newberg*. I. INTRODUCTION. Much has been written in recent years on the role of
• Management Forum DRAFTING A PATENT APPLICATION FOR EUROPE AND THE USA DRAFTING A PATENT APPLICATION FOR EUROPE AND THE USA.
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• Microsfot Digital Rights Management Two - US Patent No. 6327652 Microsoft Digital Rights Management Patent Applications Pending 2001-2002 Data current through 11 July 2002. (Links are to the USPTO site). PUB. APP. NO.
• Lock-free cache management - US Patent 6904456 Lock-free cache management - US Patent 6904456 from Patent Storm. A data structure and method implemented in accordance with the invention enable reading a
• High Security System for Invention & Patent Data Management PatentCafe Introduces IP Appliance Server at Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting.
• Continuous play background music system - US Patent 5726909 Continuous play background music system - US Patent 5726909 from Patent Storm. A continuous play broadcast system having a central computer with a master
• LXer: Patent Infringements: Information management system with Patent-nr, 6167394. Title, Information management system with remote access and display features. Date, 2000-12-26. Patent-holder, General Electric Company
• Patent Management Roundtable KUESTER: Much has been said and written about the topic of patent management, but what does the term "patent management" actually mean?
• LXer: NEC to Invest in Linux Patent Management Company Open NEC to Invest in Linux Patent Management Company Open Invention Network (OIN). Posted by dcparris on Sep 19, 2006 10:42 AM Japan Corporate News; By Aki
• Method of herd management - Patent 7278373 A method and system to generate the highest level of return on investment of a cattle ranch producing beef to the consumer. Through the use of computer
• Web based delivery of a patent management courseware in virtual a Patent Management Courseware in. Virtual Augmented Reality. Mary Mathew. Indian Institute of Science, Dept of Management Studies, Bangalore
• Portfolio-Xpert Helps Companies Find Infringed Patents Strategic More importantly, the new tools deliver consistently objective and reliable patent information needed for effective strategic portfolio management and
• Patent Portfolio Management Career Opportunities | Contact Us | Press Room | Privacy Policy.

Primary legislation is legislation made by the legislative branch of government. This contrasts with secondary legislation, made by the executive branch, usually within boundaries laid down by the legislature.

In the UK, primary legislation is known as an Act of Parliament (In Wales, an Assembly Measure), and in the U.S., it is (at federal level) an Act of Congress. In European Union law, the founding treaties are the main primary legislation.

External link

• UK primary legislation since 1988

References

• Patent fracas blurs Nokia, Qualcomm management focus Ongoing legal disputes over mobile phone patents between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. are consuming much executive management time, generating substantial
• Web based delivery of a patent management courseware in virtual a Patent Management Courseware in. Virtual Augmented Reality. Mary Mathew. Indian Institute of Science, Dept of Management Studies, Bangalore
• Orange Book Blog: ACI's Pharma/Biotech Industry Forum on Patent American Conference Institute will present its "Pharma/Biotech Industry Forum on Patent Portfolio Management" conference in New York City on February 27-28,
• Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery: Patent Portfolio Management Patent Portfolio Management. The management of intellectual property has become a critical competitive arena in global commerce.
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLPlaintiff-Appellant, Biomedical Patent Management Corporation (