Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Just as I started to consider IP aspects of the green wave, I
stumbled upon the Eco-Patent
Commons, a repository for IP relating to sustainable growth and other ‘green technologies’ placed into the public domain.  The agency is sponsored by the World

An ongoing project reviews patent claim construction orders adding the salient features into a thesaurus of claim constructions. Additionally, I characterize the constructions according to several factors including the ‘prevailing construction’, or more simply, ‘who won.’ Presented here is a summary chart of a limited set of outcomes.

In the context of aspects S1145 for Patent Reform, attached is a chart that illustrates the effect of patent reexaminations and litigation on patents. This compares 4522 instances of assertion of reexamined patents in both Federal Courts and the ITC. It simply shows the number of litigations initiated before or after the filing of a reexamination.

Technology transfer, and the exchange of patents in particular, entering a phase reflecting a maturing of the practice. In the past I’ve reported about the Ocean Tomo patent auctions based on open-outcry bidding. Recently two additional efforts are starting.

Web 2.0 creates Web 2.1 opportunities.

This morning I passed the offices of Reputation Defender in Menlo Park. Intrigued by the name, I checked out their site. Their business scours the web -- social network sites in particular -- for potentially adverse commentary. An additional service works to eradicate offsensive content.

http://www.reputationdefender.com

What's the world coming to? The Madison County Record reports:

"In an article entitled, "TV Ads Lures Inventors," the IP Law & Business reports that ubiquitous TV lawyer James Sokolove refers 90 percent of patent leads he generates to SimmonsCooper.

From the most serene and blissful town of Marshall, TX comes Patent Litigation Haiku from Michael Smith's Eastern District of Texas Practice blog.

http://mcsmith.blogs.com/eastern_district_of_texas/all_patent_litigation...

Not as serene and blissful are some poems entitled 'Ode to Patent Trolls' and 'Patent Trolls Got No Souls' on http://www.savebodog.com/.

A rare Inter Partes patent reexamination just emerged from the PTO, cancelling all 5 claims. Patent 6,614,729 issued to Griner, et. al., for a SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING DIGITAL RECORDINGS OF LIVE PERFORMANCES, is no more. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was the Third Party Requestor.

Claim 1 is

[1. An event recording system, comprising:

Let me clarify: '102(b)' refer to a portion the US statute for patentability of inventions, and '401(k)' refers to the ubiquitous retirement account vehicles.

Forbes.com has a good article entitled "Hedge funds and institutional investors are financing the latest wave of IP lawsuits." See, http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0507/044.html.

Semiconductor Insights, a firm that reverse engineers products, took the screwdriver and pliers to an iPhone. They have a video on YouTube.

http://www.semiconductor.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPhciMud0MM