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US Patent Office To Re-examine 1-Click
News The US Patent Office is to re-examine the validity of Amazon.com's controversial patent for 1-Click online shopping facility after a New Zealand actor claimed that another patent for the same process predates Amazon's.
[May 19, 2006, 13:50]
US Firms Face Up To Office Patent Nightmare
News The software maker said last month that as the result of a patent dispute, companies will have to use tweaked versions of Office XP and Office 2003 when they install the software on new machines. It was recently decided in a court of law that...
[February 7, 2006, 7:50]
Five Years Ago: UK Patent Office Backs US MMX Ruling
News The Patent Office ruled that MMX "is a term that is customary in the trade" and said "the application was accepted in error". First published 2 April, 1997. We are delighted that common sense has prevailed," said Richard Baker, regional marketing...
[April 1, 2002, 7:01]
UK Patent Office Backs US MMX Ruling
News The Patent Office ruled that MMX "is a term that is customary in the trade" and said "the application was accepted in error". We are delighted that common sense has prevailed," said Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for PC products at AMD.
[April 2, 1997, 12:22]
US Patent And Trademark Office Electronic Filing System
White Papers USPTO Electronic Filing and Communication Goals: "Electronic filing and correspondence over time will include the two-way electronic exchange of information that the USPTO has with individual applicants and inventors, corporate filers, registered...
[January 16, 2004, 3:48]
US Firm Claims Patent Win In Online Rich Media
Talkback Isn't it the task of a patent office to check for prior art before granting it, rather than leaving it to a judge to decide afterwards? It's possible that Balthaser may struggle to enforce its patent, because of prior art — the process where a...
[February 26, 2006, 20:53]
US Firm Claims Patent Win In Online Rich Media
News Balthaser announced on Tuesday that it has been granted US patent 7,000,180 by the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Balthaser, a US company, has been awarded a patent which it claims covers the design and creation of rich media applications...
[February 22, 2006, 17:25]
Venture-capital Firms Oppose US Patent Changes
News Doll said the US Patent and Trademark Office would "fully support and implement whatever programme Congress thinks is appropriate". One point of contention has been a recurring proposal that the Patent Office set up a "post-grant opposition...
[April 2, 2007, 11:36]
IBM Leads US Patent Pack
Talkback The idea of a database with prior art the open source community could look in and the patent office. Looking at the crappy quality of the average patent getting out the door of the USPTO and the European Patent Office you realy wonder how much...
[January 16, 2006, 23:36]
Wiki Site Involves Public In Patent Process
News But even the US Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged recently that such judgments are no small feat. Patent Office representatives have responded positively to the site, Johnson said. The US patent system is supposed to ensure that the latest...
[August 29, 2006, 15:00]
JPEG Patent Under The Microscope Again
News The US Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine the validity of the so-called JPEG patent held by Forgent Networks, an action that could deprive the company of its multimillion-dollar revenue stream.
[February 3, 2006, 8:50]
Regulator Asked To Revoke Windows Patent
News The Public Patent Foundation on Thursday asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to revoke one of Microsoft's patents related to the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, the older of two main systems used by Windows to store files.
[April 19, 2004, 13:00]
US Govt To Reconsider Microsoft Patent
News In April, the Public Patent Foundation asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to revoke a patent that covers the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system -- the older of two main systems used by Windows to store files.
[June 14, 2004, 8:55]
Another NTP Patent Gets A 'final' Rejection
News The US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday issued a second final rejection of an NTP-held patent at the heart of the long-running BlackBerry dispute. The final notice, which can be appealed to both the Patent Office and the federal courts, came...
[February 27, 2006, 8:25]
Microsoft Loses File-system Patent Claims
News The US Patent Office has rejected two Microsoft patents over the FAT file format, but the software maker said on Wednesday it's not ready to give up its battle to protect the widely used method for storing data.
[October 6, 2005, 9:05]
Actor Dispatches Amazon's 1-Click Patent
News The US Patent and Trademark Office has demolished Amazon.com's bid to patent its 1-Click online purchasing system — thanks to the efforts of a New Zealand actor and amateur patent watcher. The US Patent and Trademark Office rejected 21 of Amazon's...
[October 19, 2007, 17:21]
IBM Sustains Patent Dominance
News The computing giant said the US Patent and Trademark Office granted it 3,415 patents, marking the 11th consecutive year the company has been the top recipient. But the company's current portfolio is not the best indicator of future products due to...
[January 12, 2004, 7:35]
Microsoft Frowned At For Smiley Patent
News The patent application, which was published by the US Patent Office on Thursday, covers selecting pixels to create an emoticon image, assigning a character sequence to these pixels and reconstructing the emoticon after transmission.
[July 22, 2005, 17:15]
Microsoft Patents Widely Used IM Feature
Talkback One wonders if the officials in the US patent office have any coding/"software development" credentials of any kind, or do they just patent everything they see dumped on their desk and leave expensive litigation processes to sort out the men from...
[October 8, 2003, 10:07]
EU Directive 'could Spark Patent War'
Talkback Years ago on non IT related matters it was explained to me that the US Patent office could not possibly process all the patent claims correctly as they did not have the technical knowledge. The US Patent Office is now granting Software and other...
[October 6, 2003, 13:28]
