Starting on my exploration of IP coming from CIVET countries, I came across Colombian patent holder Manuel Patarroyo. Who is most famous for his vaccine for malaria.

While most people are rushing to file their patents for defensive, strategic or even plain old trolling purposes, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo took the good guy approach and licensed his patent free of charge to the World…

The Civet cat might be most famous for its involvement in the outbreak of SARS in Asia, or more recently he is the star producer of the world's most expensive coffee. However, now CIVETS has a new coinage. Move over BRICS, here come the CIVETS.

Coined by Robert Ward, global forecasting director for the EIU, the…

Bacon Patents for the Baconpocalypse

Get ready for bacon!

The Knovel system has seen a number of updates during the month of September, including a new Titanium Alloy Database, a new subject area covering Fire Protection Engineering and Emergency Response, and an Excel Add-In which users can download to integrate the Knovel search and unit converter tools into their Excel worksheet.

 Eolas Technologies, Inc., a private company founded by a tech entrepreneur, has accused three companies of violating four of his software patents, two of which were ruled invalid in the most recent of a LONG series of similar lawsuits.

Lets take a closer look, what's really going on between Apple and Samsung :)

The easy to use Apple vs Samsung guide…

Have you read any good books on intellectual property lately?  Where do you get your recommendations for IP-related books?

ClearViewIP is an Intellectual Property Consultancy providing a range of services to help companies monitor, expand and better understand their IP portfolio and its position within their industry. To help us do this, we look at trends relating to intellectual property and various high-tech fields. This latest article takes a broad look at the merits of three different methods applied to IP valuation and their applicability to 21st century patent deals:

"Patent valuation is,…

On Thursday, September 20, 2012, Skyhook Wireless (plaintiff) recorded a suit against Google (defendant) for patent infringement in the U.S Court of Delaware (case no.…

Oracle (plaintiff) filed a complaint for declaratory judgment against Advanced Dynamic Interfaces (ADI) (defendant) on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 in the U.S. Court of Delaware (case no. 1:12-cv-01154).

Oracle is a computer…

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Sun Products Corporation (plaintiff) launched a complaint against Procter & Gamble (defendant) for patent infringement in the U.S Court of Utah (case no. 2:12-cv-00892).

Plaintiff is in…

Clio USA, Inc, (CLIO) filed a complaint for a declaratory judgment (DJ) action against Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 in the U.S District Court of New Jersey (case no. 2:12-cv-05711).…

Here is a round-up of multilingual query expansion tools on PATENTSCOPE, PatBase, and Orbit.com

The WIPO website is a massive resource that offers a variety of information and search tools for IP professionals, and patent searchers will find the PATENTSCOPE search system to be a very useful free tool for searching through patent documents from multiple country collections and millions of PCT applications. 

Learn how recent changes to patent law due to the America Invents Act will impact your patent searches!

 PATENT MARKER

Patent Marker provides an online environment for patentees and the public to mark products with patent numbers and to search for patent related details about…

iPhone? Try old phone (patents)!

A fun post about some really really old patents!

Oil States Energy Services (OSES) (plaintiff) has launched a complaint Greene’s (defendant) for patent infringement (case no. 6:12-cv-611) on…

Here is a look at the August 2012 updates to the Scientific Literature collection coverage, search, analysis, and viewing options on Thomson Innovation.

Patent Foreign Filing License (FFL) Law India by Trustman full service law firm at Delhi, India

The provision of foreign filing licence was for the first time introduced by Section 39 of…