Posted by: Ophir Tal in USPTO, United States, prosecution, Patents Opposition, Patents, Patently-O, Patent search, Patent Prosecution, patent opposition, patent, oppositions, intellectual property, consultation, blogging on
Jul 08, 2008
A possibility for opposing pending patent applications in the US is presented by Dennis Crouch in his blog Patently-O under the title "poor-man's opposition proceedings ".
The US law does not allow opposing a patent application (in contrary e.g. to israeli procedures which are partly based on receiving third party's oppositions), however they do commit applicants to submit to the patent office any relevant subject matter.
So, the procedure comprises sending such subject matter to the applicant, thus making him obligated to disclose it to the patent office!
I like this
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) has released its annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents in 2007. The IPO's list is the only major compilation since the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office discontinued publishing an annual list of top patent recipients in order to “discourage any perception that we believe more is better."
The following five companies topped the 2007 list:
1. International Business Machines Corp. - 3,125
2. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - 2,723
3. Canon K.K. - 2,047
4. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 1,972
5. Intel Corp. - 1,864
The full list is available here.
Michael Kondoudis
The Law Office of Michael E. Kondoudis, PC
a Washington DC patent firm
Michael Kondoudis, a US patent attorney with offices just like the USPTO runs the only blog on the web known to me which is dedicated entirely to US patent prosecution.
Michael provides very good tips on how to write a patent but more importantly how to deal with good examiners and bad examiners by drafting optimal responses to office actions.
This is a blog which I think to be a must for every patent attorney which is engaged in drafting office actions.
Michael also agreed to take over the forum we recently established here on RelatIP. You can ask him questions about patent prosecution using the forum:
http://www.relatip.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,67/func,showcat/catid,5/
Michael's blog:
http://patentablydefined.com/
Michael also posted a few of his posts from his blog on his
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