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USPTO Director Announces New Initiative To Accelerate The Patent Process For Independent Inventors

November 9, 2009

On November 5, 2009, USPTO Director David Kappos delivered the keynote address at the 14th Annual Independent Inventors Conference held at USPTO’s headquarters in Alexandria, Va.
During the address, Director Kappos announced a new initiative that is specifically designed to accelerate the patent process for independent inventors.  He called it a “backlog reduction pilot project” that [...]

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Reminder: Voting In Survey of Patent Blogs Continues Through End of June

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Gene Quinn at IPWatchdog is conducting a readership survey of patent blogs.  Voting will continue through the end of June 2009.  Question 1 asks which patent blog is your favorite and question 2 asks which patent blogs you regularly read.  Only one selection is permitted for question 1, but multiple selections are permitted for question [...]

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AIPLA Spring Meeting: District Court Judge Has Not Seen Impact post-eBay

May 18, 2009

After hearing presentations describing a different “post-eBay world” in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s much debated decision on injunctive relief, Judge Joseph J. Farnan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware argued that the high court’s 2006 ruling “hasn’t done a whole lot,” and rather can best be seen as [...]

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Event Canceled: Emerging Tech Forum – Highly Selective Replacement Catalysts and Supercomposite Armor Materials

March 19, 2009

This presentation, described in an earlier post and scheduled for Wednesday, March 25,  at 4 p.m., has been canceled.  I’ll post news about other Emerging Tech Forum events when known.
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Emerging Tech Forum: Highly Selective Replacement Catalysts and Supercomposite Armor Materials

March 16, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m
Precious metals-based catalysts such as platinum and rhodium provide a critical role in emissions control, petroleum refining, and pharmaceutical and chemical manufacture. SDCmaterials has developed a unique materials processing and integration platform that delivers drop-in replacement catalysts with superior reaction properties at substantial savings when compared to traditional [...]

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