Apple granted patents involving QuickTime, iTunes, iPod Dock
Apple has been granted patents involving QuickTime, iTunes and the iPod Dock by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. via Macsimum News
Court weighs whether to restrict 'business method' patents
"A narrow focus on physicality requirements is not well suited to the electronic age"
Is a baseball pitcher's method for throwing a curveball patentable? How about a chiropractor's techniques? A federal appeals court wrestled with those kinds of questions Thursday when it considered placing ... via News Observer
Unconstitutional Appointments
"Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments."
Under a 1999 law, the head of the Patent and Trademark Office has the authority to appoint administrative judges to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. via Government Executive
Small Business Guide for Success
Watch Watch BOOKS Small Business Guide for Success Launching a business? Here are tips to get you started--the right way! Here's a list of matters entrepreneurs should consider in forming a business courtesy of ... via Black Enterprise
Fibre-rich chews could join healthy confectionery market
Cargill has filed a patent application to the US Patent and Trademark office for a fibre-filled confectionery chew. via Confectionery News
Colligo Networks Issued U.S. Patent on Peer-to-Peer Database Synchronization
Colligo Networks Inc. , a leader in desktop collaboration solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the issuance of patent No. via Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
