April 2010 Blog Posts (22)

Our first winner!

Well-well, we have our first winner! :-)

But before I announce the most successful contributor, little bit about the statistics. Since my announcement one month ago, Intellectual Property Network has had:

2,160 visits;

5,919 page views;

1,537 visitors from 86 countries;

27 new blog posts;

3 new forum discussions;

5 new videos;

1 new group;

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Added by Mikk Putk on April 30, 2010 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Marlboro Cigarettes are Good

A brief look at Australia's recent announcement to ban cigarette branding ... see Marlboros

Added by Mark on April 30, 2010 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

Learn to use Keyword Weighting in a Patent Search

The Intellogist Blog explains what "keyword weighting" is and how to use it in FreePatentsOnline, SumoBrain, and Delphion: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/keyword-weighting-in-freepatentsonline-and-delphion/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 29, 2010 at 11:49am — No Comments

Patent Humor

A humorous take on all of the patently (blank) and patent (blank) catchphrases used in mainstream media and on the internet. What's your favorite phrase?

Check out the Intellogist Blog post here: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/patently-overused/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 28, 2010 at 9:37am — No Comments

Backward citations - part 1

Recently,conducted a short study on quantity of backward citations. We took only US granted patents into
account which were published between period 2005 – 2009 and for each
patent, quantity of backward citations were calculated.

Thanks,
Bik

Added by Bikramjit Singh on April 26, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

TotalPatent's Semantic Search

The Intellogist Blog looks at patent search system TotalPatent's Semantic Search feature, a latent semantic analysis tool: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/totalpatent-semantic-search/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 22, 2010 at 9:33am — No Comments

Madrid System - applications - a Key to the Two- Letter Country Codes

As the two letter country codes are not immediately obvious in all cases for the WIPO website I thought I would set them out in my Two-Letter Country Code blog....

Added by Mark on April 22, 2010 at 1:54am — 3 Comments

FreePatentsOnline vs. SumoBrain

We look at the two popular free patent search sites on the Intellogist Blog and give you the scoop on which is more popular and which is better: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/freepatentsonline-vs-sumobrain/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 21, 2010 at 9:27am — No Comments

Change is Coming to the Intellogist Blog

Starting today, we are making a change to the Intellogist blog. Read all about it at http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/change-is-coming-to-the-intellogist-blog/

Added by Julie Cook on April 20, 2010 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Is eBay liable for false advertising?

Most publications this week have declared eBay as victorious in light of the failed claims of trademark infringement and trademark dilution this week but is the question of false advertising going to come back to haunt them? See the some of the courts findings at Tiffany v eBay and see for yourself!

Added by Mark on April 16, 2010 at 4:13am — No Comments

Free trade mark similarity search tool with ranked results for CTM and UK (US and WIPO coming soon)

Having seen Mikk's list of free search tools I thought our AssuredTM system might also be of interest.

It uses unique patent-pending technology to return ranked search results in seconds. So a user simply enters the name they want to research or protect, and our system returns all aurally and visually similar CTM and UK registered trade marks (US and WIPO coming soon). And the results are ranked with the most similar appearing first.… Continue

Added by Mark Kingsley-Williams on April 15, 2010 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Patent Landscape Analysis – Manual or Machine Based

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Added by Bikramjit Singh on April 13, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Should you take a Patent Bar Review course?

The Intellogist Blog examines who should take a Patent Bar review course and why it's a good idea: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/should-you-take-a-patent-bar-review-course/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 13, 2010 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Goals, Goals, and More Goals (Not Completely of the Hockey Variety)

What do hockey and Intellogist have in common?

Find out here, http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/goals-goals-and-more-goals-not-completely-of-the-hockey-variety/

Added by Julie Cook on April 13, 2010 at 11:24am — No Comments

USPTO Director Kappos’ Speech at William Mitchell College of Law

If you'd like to hear about future initiatives being undertaken by the USPTO but don't have time to listen to all 79 minutes of the speech - this post is for you.

To read the post see, http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/director-kappos-speech-at-william-mitchell-college-of-law/

Added by Julie Cook on April 13, 2010 at 11:20am — No Comments

IBM - Technology evolution for period 1999 - 2009

Patent activity is one of the most important parameters to determine

company’s innovation, their technology evolution, current focus of

R&D department and any joint research done with other companies.

Also, we know that since 1993, every year IBM has won the title of

filing most number of patents.

"But what are they inventing and where they are

heading ?" This question was the only motivation for us to go ahead

with the study. In…

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Added by Bikramjit Singh on April 9, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Worldwide Patent Search System for Examiners

See what the IP5 wants to do to standardize searching between the world's biggest patent offices and debate what should be in the product!

Check out the Intellogist blog: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/one-search-system-to-rule-them-all/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 8, 2010 at 9:40am — 2 Comments

Check out some latest blog posts about US Gene Patent Case

Holman's Biotech IP Blog: The ACLU Gene Patent Decision from an Investor's Perspective: A Black Eye for the US Patent System

"I am trying to put myself into the shoes of a biotechnology investor, and when I do I'm not real happy with the US patent system right now."…

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Added by Mikk Putk on April 8, 2010 at 9:38am — No Comments

Google V Louis Vuitton - Judgement Summary

For some of the key points and law for the European Court of Justice decision on 23 March please see: Google v Louis Vuitton

Added by Mark on April 8, 2010 at 4:24am — No Comments

Update on Xyggy Patents

An Intellogist Blog post that shines a light on new information about Xyggy and Xyggy Patent: http://intellogist.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/revisiting-xyggy/

Added by Chris Jagalla on April 6, 2010 at 12:31pm — No Comments