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Bio-IT World November 19, 2004 Spruill & Coulter	Intellectual Property: Following Festo Considered one of the most important patent decisions in history, the Supreme Court's Festo ruling has great significance for biotech inventions.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Andrew W. Torrance	After the Gene Rush About 20,000 gene-related patents have been granted in the U.S. so far, with twice as many on the way. The practical and political challenges are equally large.
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar	Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Gunderman & Hammond	File Now, Pay Later The pitfalls of the provisional patent application.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Sue Mayer	Are Gene Patents in the Public Interest? Two recent studies from Britain argue against the unbridled patenting of genes and raise tough ethical questions.
Salon.com April 24, 2000 Mark Compton	Lean, green gene-counting machine Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.
Information Today February 21, 2008	USGENE on STN Offers Improved Timeliness SequenceBase and FIZ Karlsruhe have announced significant improvement to the timeliness of the USGENE database to within only 3 days of publication by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Gunderman & Hammond	How the U.S. Patent Office's New Patent Rules Affect You What you need to know about the USPTO's new patent rules to protect your intellectual property.
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2008 Suzanne Sabroski	From Concept to Content: The Genesis of USGENE Last year a groundbreaking database known as USGENE was released on STN International, a service of FIZ Karlsruhe and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). USGENE allows searchers to perform freedom-to-operate, prior art, validity, and infringement patent sequence searches.
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike	Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike	You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2006	Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you?
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner	Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Cathryn Campbell	Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Kirk Teska	Provisional Patents Are Quick, Cheap, and Worthless Patience is a patent virtue
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.
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Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond	Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.
Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames	The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest	IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament.
Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike	U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Henninger & Feldstein	Safeguarding the Value of Patent Assets As small biotech firms test the water in partnerships with Big Pharma, the best calling card is a well-framed strategy on intellectual property.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Steven J. Frank	The Death of Business-Method Patents From now on, you can get a U.S. patent only on a mousetrap -- not on the idea of catching mice
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey	No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.
Bio-IT World November 19, 2004 Lentini & Bent	Intellectual Property: Patents and Genomic Medicine Patents, so critical to encouraging investment in developing new technologies, threaten to become a legal and economic minefield that could prevent effective commercial exploitation of genomics.
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
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IndustryWeek February 17, 2010 Jill Jusko	U.S. Patents, International Flavor IBM grabs top spot in 2009 patent rankings, but foreign firms receive more than half.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Hugh Loebner	Do-It-Yourself Patents Drafting a patent application is challenging, but for those with an engineering turn of mind, it's also a great deal of fun. Inventors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Kirk Teska	The Foreign Patent Money Trap You may well need patents in many countries, but that doesn't mean you can afford them.
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike	Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.
Bio-IT World August 13, 2003 Kevin Davies	Playing by Aussie Rules GTG's Mervyn Jacobson discusses the controversial patenting of non-coding DNA.
InternetNews September 20, 2004 Jim Wagner	Exposed Sender ID Patents Up Debate Critics chime in about Microsoft's patent applications involving anti-spam technology, now that they have been posted.
Information Today July 6, 2010 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Confirms Patentability of Business Methods, Denies Bilski Patent The lengthy and complex decision, entitled Bilski v. Kappos, affirmed the legality of business method patents, while leaving unanswered some questions about the scope and breadth of such patents.
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Erik Sofge	Inventors Slam Patent Reform Effort Some of America's most prolific inventors say the changes in patent law could seriously impair the culture of innovation that has long driven prosperity in this country.
National Defense January 2016 Gaudry & Golladay	What Happens When the Feds Decide an Invention Is 'Secret?' The Invention Secrecy Act provides authority for keeping inventions secret if the publication or disclosure of the invention would be detrimental to national security.
Chemistry World January 26, 2009 Jia & Yuan	China pushes for higher quality patents In an effort to boost the quality of patent applications, and encourage Chinese firms to obtain international patents, China has revised its patent law.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Steven J. Frank	Patent Reform Cacophy The Patent Reform Act may, in the end, merely contribute another layer of cost, delay, and uncertainty.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Kline & Greenhalgh	When Patents Persist What if that patent you're paying royalties on suddenly gets extended? Have you negotiated the best licensing deal possible?
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Wayne P. Sobon	Opinion: The Federal Circuit Must Uphold Patent Protection for Business Methods The decision in the Bilski case will have major implications for business method patents
Bio-IT World November 2005 Patrick R. Scanlon	Patent Term Extension Primer U.S. patent law includes provisions for extending the patent term of medical devices and pharmaceuticals in instances when lengthy FDA approval is taking place during the term.
Prepared Foods June 2, 2006	Patenting Sensory Profiles Thousands of patents have been issued to protect various aspects of food products and their methods of manufacture, except one. Can a food product be patented that is differentiated from other food products by a sensory attribute such as its taste?
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Rebecca Trager	GSK Blocks US Patent Law Changes Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has temporarily blocked the US Patent and Trademark Office from implementing new rules, which it fears could prevent innovators from obtaining adequate patent coverage on their inventions.
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InternetNews December 10, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Will Linux Defenders Save Linux from Microsoft? New legal initiative is designed to ensure quality patents and get rid of bad ones.