by Tony Guo | Oct 25, 2013 | Patent
A number of patent fee changes will go in effect January 1, 2014. Notably, the issue fees of all applications will decrease dramatically. Small and micro entity fees will now be available for a number of PCT fees. The assignment recordation fee has also been...
by Tony Guo | Sep 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes Ceremony was held at Harvard University last night. Established in 1991, the Ceremony allows Nobel laureates to present ten awards for odd and unusual research projects. This marks the 23rd year of the awards, which continues...
by Tony Guo | Nov 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that has been developing behind closed doors for the past several years. Bits and pieces of the text have leaked over time, but recently the entire draft chapter on Intellectual...
by Tony Guo | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Supreme Court has granted cert on several new cases today including four relating to intellectual property issues, including a copyright case, a trademark case, as well as two patent cases. Lyle Denniston of the Scotus Blog reports that the new cases will probably...
by Tony Guo | Nov 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
In an interesting decision handed down by the Federal Circuit this week, it has been found that electronic transmissions of digital data are not “articles” which the International Trade Comissision (ITC) has jurisdiction to exlcude under 19 U.S.C....
