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USPTO To Accelerate Examination of Green Tech Patents

December 7, 2009

Inventors Digest is reporting here that the USPTO is launching a pilot program (“Green Tech”) which will permit patent applications pertaining to environmental quality, energy conservation, development of renewable energy resources, and greenhouse gas emission reduction to be accorded special status and be examined on an accelerated basis. The program is designed to accelerate the development [...]

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Summary of the Kappos Confirmation Hearing

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The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary conducted a nomination hearing on July 29, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:14 a.m. for David J. Kappos to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Beverly Baldwin Martin (to be United States Circuit Judge for the [...]

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WIPO To Debate IP vs. Greentech

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The Financial Times reported today that efforts to avert a clash between the U.S. and emerging economies over patents at a climate change meeting later this year will top the agenda at a two-day conference that opens today on IP and public policy and organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
At the G8 summit [...]

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Foreign Affairs Bill Passes With IP Text

June 11, 2009

The House voted overwhelmingly late Wednesday to establish new U.S. policy in opposition to any global climate change treaty that weakens the intellectual property rights of American green technology as part of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act.  The vote comes as diplomats prepare for December negotiations as part of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate [...]

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Energy Secretary: Drop IP Protection To Promote Greentech?

March 30, 2009

Interesting (and some may say ominous) story in the NY Times Dot Earth blog last week. 
At the end of a tour of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy and a Nobel laureate in physics, met with reporters to discuss the Obama administration’s goals for promoting energy innovation.  He was asked, among other [...]

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