Our Locations
Media Office
For meetings and deliveries:
12 Veterans Square
1st Floor Left
Media, PA 19063 U.S.A.
Click here for maps and directions to us in realspace.
Postal Address
P.O. Box 209
Swarthmore, PA 19081-0209 U.S.A.
Phone: (610) 892-9942
Twitter: @TechLaw_Elman and @ElmanTechNews
eFax: (925) 226-4995
Contact Us
Send a written message. Note: there is no attorney-client relationship without a signed Letter of Engagement.
Elman on Tech News via Twitter
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Issues A Host of New Proposed Rules to Implement Amended Patent Law
With hundreds of pages of documents published during in the Federal Register during the last few days, the USPTO has issued a series of proposed rules and an upcoming fee schedule to take effect next year. See America Invents Act implementation micro website.
Sign up for free
Register here to receive email notifications of podcasts, blog posts and other informative material from Elman Technology Law. And join the annual mailing list for our calendar with images from historic patents.
Click Below & Use Social Media
Our Most Recent Postings
- Supreme Court, snowed by ACLU smear campaign, resurrects archaic requirement of “invention” as a test of patent eligibility.
- State of Vermont Declares War on “Patent Trolls”
- Are Human Genes Patentable?—The Experts Weigh In
- Spark Your Creativity: participate online in Tina Seelig’s MOOC via Stanford’s Venture Lab
- Patentability: “non-obviousness” and “common sense”
Archive of Our Postings
Search Our Site
Our Related Websites
- Biotechnology Law Report – Gerry J. Elman, Editor-in-Chief Mary Ann Liebert, publishers
- Internet-Atty.com Our law practice for eBusiness and Cyberlaw matters
- Stanford Club of Philadelphia
Recommended Websites
- American Innovators for Patent Reform Fix the system – don’t break it.
- Chemistry & Its History Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia
- LawGuru.com Answers to general legal questions.
- Luupz Shared shopping with your friends, especially for environmentally-friendly products
- PACT Merger of Eastern Technology Council and MAC Alliance.
- PIPLA Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
- Potentialities Lois S. Levine-Elman, M.S.
- World Technology Network
Websites of Interest
- Dropbox easily share video & audio files, sync folders among computers
- ellman International Medical device company in Oceanside, NY. No relation to us, but watch out if you have a sticky keyboard.
- Genomics Law Report
- Innovation Tools Memory Jogger workbook for innovators
- Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies
- IP Advocate advice and support for academic researchers
- IP Scientific Integrity Watch Do some US PTO practices breach scientific integrity?
- Newsworks site of WHYY Philadelphia PBS station’s local news website
- PLI Patent Law Center Practising Law Institute’s site for patent lawyers
- Qwiki Alpha-test version of an online multimedia encyclopedia
- Royalty Connection licensing rates database from Invotex
- Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Alpha computation engine and “A New Kind of Science”
- TechnicallyPhilly local tech & innovation news
- The Singularity is Near Ray Kurzweil’s documentary. We sponsored the private showing in NYC June 25, 2010.
- VC Deal Lawyer Chris McDemus’ blog for startups & emerging growth companies
- Visualization of weekly US patent data
- Manitowoc Cranes Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Crawler Cranes
- Bowman v. Monsanto Co. Raises Concerns for Buyers of Patented Self-Replicating Products
- A Myriad of Issues: Supreme Court Rules on DNA Patents
- What Elephant? Supreme Court Downplays Inquiry into Patent Strength in Hatch-Waxman Settlements
- ALJ Essex Grants Motion To Terminate Investigation As To L’Oreal In Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging (337-TA-874)
- Maximizing the Value of Pre-AIA Patent Applications Using First-to-File Regime - Part I
Retaggr-enabled site


