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USPTO Adopts PDF for Patent Documents 27 Aug 2013 | 06:26 am
The USPTO has adopted PDF as the default format for displaying patent documents from its databases, making it one of the last (if not last) of the major patent offices to switch to the world's most po...
US Patent Milestone: 8,500,000 22 Aug 2013 | 06:06 am
The USPTO reached another milestone on August 6, issuing patent no. 8,500,000 B2 to Elmer Berendas of Germany for a "Device for locking and unlocking the jalousie (rolling shutter) of a container."Acc...
Obit: Amar G. Bose (1929-2013), Bose 24 Jul 2013 | 07:03 am
Amar G. Bose, inventor of the audio system that bears his name, passed away on July 12 at the age of 84. In addition to being a successful inventor and entrepreneur, Bose taught acoustics and electric...
Roswell-Inspired Inventions 9 Jul 2013 | 07:50 pm
UFO enthusiasts and true believers are celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, the alleged crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft outside the small town of Roswell, New Mexico in...
USPTO Launches Global Patent Search Network 9 Jul 2013 | 06:07 pm
The USPTO has launched a new patent search system called the Global Patent Search Network (GPSN). Initial coverage includes Chinese published applications, patents, utility models from 2008 through 20...
Obit: Inventor of Computer Mouse, Douglas C. Engelbart 5 Jul 2013 | 11:57 pm
Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, died this week at the age of 88. He patented his simple but highly innovative invention, called an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display Syste...
Statutory Invention Registration Abolished 3 Jun 2013 | 06:06 am
On March 16, 2013, the Statutory Invention Registration was abolished under the provisions of the America Invents Act. The purpose of the SIR was to allow an inventor who did not wish to get a patent ...
Patent Milestone in August? 3 Jun 2013 | 05:45 am
The USPTO is on track to issue patent no. 8,500,000 later this summer. At the current rate of about five thousand new patents each week, no. 8,500,000 should appear sometime in August. Patent no. 8,00...
US Patent Statistics for 2012 29 Jan 2013 | 07:09 am
The USPTO issued 276,820 patents and published 331,583 applications in calendar year 2012, 7 percent more than in 2011 and an all-time high of 608,403 patent documents.Table 1 shows the number of docu...
Jury Awards Carnegie Mellon University $1.16 Billion in Patent Lawsuit 2 Jan 2013 | 06:46 am
A jury has awarded Carnegie Mellon University more than $1.16 billion in a patent infringement lawsuit against a tech firm based in Santa Clara, California. An appeal is expected, but if the verdict s...
