Spark Your Creativity: participate online in Tina Seelig’s MOOC via Stanford’s Venture Lab
Delivered via Stanford's platform Venture-Lab, this free MOOC will springboard from her book inGenius.
Patentability: “non-obviousness” and “common sense”
On May 30, 2012, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("CAFC") put further gloss on the term "common sense" as used by the Supreme Court in the 2007 case of KSR v. Teleflex. This new case (Mintz v. Dietz & Watson) involved a patent on casings for hot dogs with a woven mesh [...]
Gerry Elman named in Super Lawyers 2012
Gerry Elman has been listed in the Super Lawyers 2012 magazine for Pennsylvania in the intellectual property category. [HTML2] Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer [...]
US PTO to Hold Hearings on Effects of Patents on Genetic Testing
Two hearings have been scheduled by the US PTO on the effect of patents for Genetic Testing, to support the study that the PTO is mandated by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") to generate for Congress. The first of the hearings is today. It will be broadcast via the Web. The second of the [...]
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.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012
Congress Passes “Patent Reform”—The America Invents Act As the editor of Elman’s Patent Reform News and chair of the Patent Legislation Committee of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association (PIPLA) for much of the past decade, I had a ringside seat this year as Congress gave a painful birth to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act [...]
BIO International Convention – June 27-30, 2011 – Washington, D.C. – let’s get together
Flip over your June 2011 issue of BLR. The back cover features a spectacular illustration where I am fancifully transported into a science fiction story.
Watson, Come Here … You’re Needed at the PTO
WITHOUT A TRANSFORMATION OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING PATENT EXAMINERS, "PATENT REFORM" WOULD BE LIKE REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC
Guest Post: “INFORMATION AND THE NATURE OF REALITY” (Greg Aharonian)
INFORMATION, RATHER THAN MASS AND ENERGY, IS COMING TO BE SEEN AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CURRENCY OF THE UNIVERSE. ... any judge or lawyer who argues that information isn't physical in the context of patent law - SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY DISBARRED.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011
World Technology Network During the past year, Elman Technology Law, P.C. (“ETL”) sponsored two programs of the World Technology Network. Earlier this month, we participated in a World Technology Summit, an annual event that I first attended in London in 2001 as a founding member of the WTN. Each Summit is a two-day conference with [...]
Science Fiction Roundtable at the World Technology Summit, sponsored by Elman Technology Law
By reading science fiction, we stretch our minds towards a vision of the future that we, as technologists, then help to engender.
Guest Post: Physicists convert information into energy – info is physical (Greg Aharonian)
ALL references to "information" in patent claims should never, ever, never, ever again get 101 rejections for not manipulating something physical. And ALL references to "data" should equally never, ever, never, ever get 101 rejections as well, given the relational connection between data and information. It's all physical - it's all technical.