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
Wisconsin Biomedical Engineering Students Design Meaningful Medical Solutions
"One of the main challenges of today's state-of-the-art medication is in the delivery of complex and multi-component therapeutics"
When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Claire Flanagan graduates in May 2009 with bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering and biochemistry, she might display her diploma next to an equally prestigious ... via Newswise
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
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
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
John Whealan headed to GWU
Marcia Coyle reports: John Whealan, deputy general counsel for intellectual property law and solicitor for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, has joined the faculty of George Washington University School of ... via IPBiz
