America-Israel Patent Law Blog

Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner

Category: Legislation

December 4, 2011

If Pigs Had Wings or, Is The Israeli Generic Drug Industry About to Ambush the Patent Statute? Proposals Waiting in the Wings of the 18-Month Publication Bill

The previous post analyzed the bill for 18-month publication that will be discussed in committee at the Knesset on December 7, and explained how one of the provisions in the…
December 1, 2011

Bad Moon Rising: Poor Policy Emplaced in Israel 18-Month Patent Publication Bill

In January 2010 I reported about the circulation of a draft bill to enable 18-month publication of Israel patent applications. As straightforward as such legislation might have seemed, apparently no…
November 22, 2011

Israel On Its Way To Becoming A PCT International Search Authority: Knesset Committee Approves Necessary Statutory Amendments

As a follow-up to the previous post, earlier today the Knesset’s Constitution, Statute and Law Committee – at least the lone member of the committee who was present for the…
November 21, 2011

Israel as a PCT Search Authority: Selling Ourselves Short? Or Showing the World How To Act Responsibly?

The Israel PTO’s push to become a PCT search and examination authority is slowly moving forward. This past March saw the publication of a Government-sponsored bill that would make the…
October 6, 2011

Does the Recent U.S. Patent Reform Prove that American Politicians are the Best That Money Can Buy?

Ok, notwithstanding the catchy title, my intent here is not to indict all members of Congress who voted in favor the recently-enacted “America Invents Act”, the real title of which…
June 24, 2011

The U.S.A. Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Duplicity When It Comes to Patent Reform

A few hours ago the House of Representatives passed HR 1249. HR 1249 is disingenuously called the “America Invents Act”; for reasons that have been explicated on other blogs, and…
June 22, 2011

Good News: USPTO, ILPTO announce Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program

On June 20, the USPTO announced on its web site that it had agreed with the Israel PTO to undertake a pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) project, beginning July 1,…
June 20, 2011

Smokey says, Only YOU can prevent passage of patent perversion

With the debacle that’s being touted by its proponents as “patent reform” being set for a vote this week in the House, I thought I’d share with readers a letter…
May 19, 2011

The USTR’s Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring describes, in musically graphic terms, the sacrificing of a young maiden as part of a pagan ritual. In recent years, the United States Trade…
April 22, 2011

The Cross-Purpose Congress and PCT Searches

While "patent reform" bills that make little sense continue their advance through Congress toward enactment (see extensive reporting on this at www.patentdocs.org), the same gang of idiots politicians can't get its act together…

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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.