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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
A few months ago, a story broke about a secret program at the USPTO, the “Sensitive Application Warning System”. The upshot was that the USPTO had a program under which…
(March 19: see update here.) Israel has national elections next month, in which, yet again, Israelis will get to go to the polls to vote for a party that won’t…
This morning the USPTO launched a revamped version of its website, http://www.uspto.gov. They'd had a beta version up for a month or so, but when I took a look at…
While visiting a friend and fellow lawyer recently in her DC office, her firm's senior partner stopped in to discuss an amicus brief they were preparing for filing before the…
I came across this article about Manjul Bhargava, a Princeton professor who was recently awarded the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics. What sets him apart from most mathematicians…
In Czarist Russia, one of the local government enforcers, a Cossack and known anti-Semite, approaches the town rabbi. “I understand you Jews have a book called ‘Talmud’”. “Yes”, says the…
Upon firing up my computer this morning, I found an email warning me that some changes had been made to PAIR; this was confirmed upon logging into PAIR. The changes…
Here's a story from the good side of the ILPTO: I recently filed an application and received a filing receipt containing a typographical error. It was clear the error originated…
The notice below, announcing that as of today the Israel PTO will be available (on a limited basis – nor more than 75 applications per quarter) as an International Search…
Suppose you’re an Israeli company with a newly-drafted patent application. You think it’s got an enabling disclosure and clear claims, and it’s not something likely to get flagged as defense-related…
God bless the people at the USPTO who set up the Electronic Filing System (EFS). In addition to randomly revoking login privileges without warning, there are at least two delays…
As of last night a fair number of comments had been submitted to the USPTO about its examination guidelines under Myriad. My two cents are here Download Comments on Myriad…
US 20140208439 published yesterday, with the intriguing title, "INJUSTICE DETECTING SYSTEM, INJUSTICE DETECTING DEVICE AND INJUSTICE DETECTING METHOD". Thinking that someone may have invented a way to identify rogue regimes –…
One question I repeatedly hear from non-Israelis is, Why is there so much innovation coming out of Israel? It’s a question that a number of people have tried to answer,…
On July 13 the ILPTO posted the notification at right on its website. The notification links to this notice from the Justice Ministry, also dated July 13. (A separate notification…
In Israeli slang there’s the person who is a “rosh gadol” versus the person who is a “rosh katan”, literally “big head” versus “small head”. A “rosh gadol” is someone…
Yesterday Elon Musk of Tesla Motors put up this blog post, in which he is apparently trying to say that as long as he's in charge, Telsa won't enforce any of…
Last year I helped organize a panel for the AIPLA national meeting on the intersection between IP rights and free speech. One of the speakers was Paul Levy of Public…
If you're going to sue someone for infringement, it's a good idea before filing suit to make sure that you've got at least a colorable argument that your claims cover…
Yesterday I discussed the ILPTO’s new policy requiring applicants, in certain situations, to submit to the ILPTO certified copies of their own Israel priority documents, notwithstanding the fact that the…
Last week the Israel PTO published two more “Commissioner’s circulars” (חוזרי רשם in Hebrew) to add to the burgeoning number of such expressions of ILPTO policy. A jar of Jelly…
Here in the Holy Land, we’ve just finished the seven-day Passover festival. (Our brethren who are silly enough to still be living outside of the biblical Land of Israel are…
Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alice Corporation v CLS Bank. The question before the court is whether or not an otherwise patent-eligible invention becomes patent-ineligible…
So many things going on in the patent world here and in the USA to write about, but so much work, so little time to blog. There’s been a lot…
Last week I wrote about the disappearance of lists of ILPTO decisions and announcements from its web site, and their replacement with a non-functional search engine. It appears that the…
Today Don Zuhn at PatentDocs posted about a report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association, which lists the universities worldwide that received the most…
In an announcement sent out yesterday by email and which is buried on the PPH page on the ILPTO’s website (as explained yesterday’s post, don’t try finding it on the…
In order to fulfill his duties, which include deciding inter partes disputes concerning patent and trademark applications and registrations (e.g. oppositions and cancellation proceedings), the ILPTO Commissioner has quasi-judicial powers. …
Yesterday the ILPTO published the latest installment of the Patents Journal (the local equivalent of the USPTO Gazette), which includes various bits of information, including patents that have lapsed for…
In previous posts I've quoted my colleague who refers to Israel as a country with 21st century technology and a 19th century patent office. I usually mention this when complaining…
I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.
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