#watchtroll editor Eileen McDermott says "Senate Judiciary Committee Sends Vidal and Stark Nominations to Senate Floor" so it looks like #biden still wants to shoehorn #microsoft person into #uspto leadership http://techrights.org/2021/11/29/microsoft-vidal/
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Oddball criteria for #patent eligibility to help fake the actual novelty and basically rubber-stamp tons of laughable fake 'inventions' in exchange for fees http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/01/strict-us-written-description.html #uspto
The #USPTO just grants lots and lots of rubbish #patents to raise more money at the public's expense (externality) https://patentlyo.com/patent/2022/01/2021-patent-grants.html see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/USPTO
#USPTO #Patent reexaminations double according to #UnifiedPatents because #fakepatents should not be tolerated anymore
"The PTAB invalidated some parts of both patents in 2020, but found others valid. Intel appealed the board's decisions on the surviving parts of the patents." https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/court-says-intel-can-contest-parts-qualcomm-mobile-patents-2021-12-28/ #uspto #fakepatents #ptab
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#USPTO liaising with deeply corrupt #INPI to promote #litigation agenda at the expense of #science https://www.uspto.gov/subscription-center/2021/uspto-announces-pph-pilot-program-national-institute-industrial-property see http://techrights.org/2018/09/22/philippe-cadre-inpi-epo/
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"The Order begins with the Board's rejection of any of these motions being "threshold" motions (as the parties had argued)" https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/12/ptab-sets-motions-and-times-in-broad-vs-sigma-interference-no-106133.html #ptab #uspto #patents #monopolies
If you think #uspto works for inventors rather than #monopolies then you have not been paying attention http://techrights.org/2021/09/10/corporate-uspto/ Lee now works for #bezos BTW.
#biden has thus far been a faithful servant of #microsoft and he's even prepared to put a Microsofter in charge of #uspto http://techrights.org/2021/11/29/microsoft-vidal/
When #patents pertained to actual machinery https://patentlyo.com/patent/2021/12/bottom-sanford-kepner.html #uspto #scotus #patent
Who 'owns' the word "naked"? Turns out that a bunch of total dicks. http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2021/12/on-remand-from-cafc-ttab-denies.html #Trademarks #Trademark #USPTO #monopolies
As the year closes #watchtroll is taking more shots and snide remarks at #ptab ("Noteworthy 2021 developments at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) were primarily driven by oversight...") for the 'crime' of abolishing #fakepatents from #uspto and courts
#USPTO is Changing Policy for Electronic Retrieval of European Priority Applications https://www.oblon.com/uspto-is-changing-policy-for-electronic-retrieval-of-european-priority-applications #EPO is chaotic in recent years http://techrights.org/2021/12/13/quality-of-ep-or-epo-patents/
"The '595 #patent relates to real-time vulnerability monitoring." #swpats = #fakepatents https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2021/12/27/2000-for-securityprofiling-prior-art #uspto #ptab
Equitable IP entity #Optic153 #patent likely invalid https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2021/12/21/equitable-ip-entity-optic153s-patent-likely-invalid #ptab #uspto #fakepatents