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Get ready for a fiery conversation about the new patent reform law when Robert L. Stoll, Commissioner of Patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, takes to Got Invention Radio hosted by Brian Fried on Thursday. The show is 8pm ET/5pm PT. Click on the “listen live” button on the homepage, www.gotinvention.com. Call 877.474.3302 or email your questions [...]
Q. Now that passage of the America Invents Act (patent reform) is all but certain – it’s only awaiting the President’s signature – what will be the immediate and long-term effects of first-to-file? A. The administration, the Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office support the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents [...]
By Chelsea A. Loughran, Associate, Wolf Greenfield On April 14, 2011, the House Judiciary Committee approved (by a vote of 32-3) the House version of the “America Invents Act”— or what has been more commonly referred to over the past six years as “Patent Reform Act of [insert year].” This version is not hugely different [...]
The U.S. Senate Tuesday night adopted a resolution sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) designating May 2011 as National Inventors Month. Inventors Digest Magazine is an original founder of National Inventors Month, traditionally celebrated in August. The longest-running publication for independent inventors has worked behind the scenes since last year [...]
John Calvert, administrator of the Inventors Assistance Program at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and USPTO Special Programs Advisor Mindy Bickel are here this evening to talk about new programs the office has to help independent inventors, recent activity on patent reform legislation and the upcoming Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium this Friday, March 11. It’s a heavy-hitting agenda [...]
Under the leadership of Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) and Ranking Minority Member Charles Grassley (R-IA), the Senate, by a landslide vote of 95-5, approved a bill that includes adoption of a first-inventor-to-file patent system, funding for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that will bring budget predictability, and the creation of an ever more effective post-grant [...]
Now it was Inventors Digest’s turn to get into the ongoing debate in the U.S. Senate over patent reform, officially known as S. 23. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., cited a letter of support for patent reform from Louis Foreman, publisher of Inventors Digest, this week. Here’s his letter: February 14, 2011 The Honorable Patrick J. [...]
Those of us watching – and participating – in patent reform legislation were surprised and delighted to see U.S. Senator Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., repeatedly reference an article Inventors Digest friend and supporter Gene Quinn wrote in his IPWatchdog blog on Sunday. You can read Gene’s insightful commentary at IPWatchdog.com. The Senate resumed deliberation on the [...]
Q. Now that 2010 has come and almost gone, what is the status of patent reform? A. As the curtain closes on the 111th Congress, there is still a glimmer of hope for final action on patent reform legislation. In a recent letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, 25 Senators urged that patent reform [...]
Join Inventors Digest Editor-in-Chief Mike Drummond on The Launch Hour at 10 a.m. EST/7 a.m. PST on Friday, Sept. 15, to learn how to get your products featured in America’s longest-running publication for inventors. The Launch Hour (actually about a half-hour) is a weekly Internet radio program at http://thelaunchhour.businessradiox.com. It is devoted to helping innovators, [...]
