patents – Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is understaffed and overwhelmed. Could the answer to its problems lie in crowdsourcing the patent-review process? Could crowdsourcing result in better patents...

https://www.lawnext.com/2009/08/lawyer2lawyer-crowdsourcing-patent.html

Patents Online LLC, the company that operates the free patent-search site FreePatentsOnline.com has launched a more feature-rich companion site targeted at law firms and IP professionals. Called ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2008/08/new-patent-search-service-sumobrain.html

From an article I wrote for the newsletter of IMS Expertservices: “Ronald A. Katz once predicted that he would someday become the wealthiest patent holder ever. By most estimates, he has achiev...

https://www.lawnext.com/2007/12/worlds-wealthiest-patent-owner.html

I recently moderated a roundtable discussion by three top patent lawyers to assess the significance and impact of the Aug. 20 en banc decision of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, In re Seaga...

https://www.lawnext.com/2007/09/roundtable-assessing-impact-of-seagate.html

Today is the 131st anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s historic first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, during which he uttered the famous words, “Mr. Watson — come here...

https://www.lawnext.com/2007/03/lawyer-behind-bells-telephone-patent.html

A newly launched Web site, LegalForce, offers an online “marketplace” for buying, selling and licensing patents. Through July, listing patents for sale costs nothing. Interested buyers can vi...

https://www.lawnext.com/2007/03/buy-and-sell-patents-at-new-site.html

Some patent lawyers might consider the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to be a circus, but a new Web site aims to tame the lion of patent caselaw. Called FedCirc.us, the site is the latest and m...

https://www.lawnext.com/2007/01/new-portal-tames-patent-caselaw.html

Google Patent Search is a new Google feature that searches the full text of more than 7 million U.S. patents. It covers the entire collection of USPTO patents, from the 1790s through the middle o...

https://www.lawnext.com/2006/12/google-adds-patent-searching.html