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April 22nd, 2016
Cyber-crimes, such as data breaches and cyber-attacks, have posed a constant threat to the United States Government and its citizens in the post-Snowden era. A study suggests that in 2015 a total of 58 cyber-attacks occurred on US companies, which marked a significant increase from the previous year. The average cost per attack ...
BTLJ Blog
April 14th, 2016
On February 3, 2016 a federal jury returned a verdict finding Apple guilty for willfully infringing four VirnetX Inc. patents in its products, including Apple’s VPN on Demand, iMessage and FaceTime. Apple was ordered to pay $625.6 million in damages and ongoing royalties. Following the verdict, Apple filed a motion for ...
BTLJ Blog
April 13th, 2016
Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit brought by drivers who claim that they have been misclassified as independent contractors rather than as employees. The distinction between contractor and employee is significant. Drivers classified as employees would need to be paid in accordance with state wage and hour laws, reimbursed for ...
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April 10th, 2016
H. Whei Hsueh ABSTRACT This comment relates to the third pillar, excellence in customer service, and in particular, Proposal 5: review of current compact prosecution model and the effect on quality. Patent examination quality can be improved by requiring that all examiners pass the patent bar and complete mandatory continued ...
Commentaries
March 31st, 2016
Proposal 1 Under Pillar 1: OPQA Review Richard B. Almon Use PTO’s Critics to Enhance Patent Quality Donald L. Champagne Opening the Prosecution History’s Black Box Bernard Chao Adding to PLUS: The Promise of Automated Pre-Examination Search Andrew Chin Common Knowledge and Non-Patent Literature in the Internet Age Jorge L. ...
BTLJ Blog
March 13th, 2016
Transparent. Accessible. User friendly. Many of the key principles that serve as the foundation for inclusive elections resonate strongly with the startup community. In order to foster joint discussion and problem solving, the brought together lawyers, technologists, policy wonks, and investors for “Moving Politics to the Web: How Technology Can ...
Commentaries
March 12th, 2016
May 5, 2015 Commissioner for Patents of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Attn: Michael Cygan Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 via email: WorldClassPatentQuality@uspto.gov Re: Comments in response to USPTO’s Request ...
Commentaries
March 12th, 2016
Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman Policymakers have long posited that the Patent and Trademark Office may be allowing too many low quality patents in part because patent examiners are not given sufficient time to conduct high-quality review of patent applications. Such sentiments have been echoed by patent examiners ...
Commentaries
March 12th, 2016
Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman Commentators have noted two key concerns with the patent system in recent years—the quality of patents that the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or Agency) issues and the crippling backlog of applications facing the PTO. We believe that these two concerns are not ...
Commentaries
March 12th, 2016
Brenda M. Simon The quality of prior art located for a given application is limited by ability and resources. Automated searching has the potential to mitigate some of these constraints, though the risk of overreliance might offset some of its benefits. Increased use of automated searching may facilitate consideration of ...