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
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
Trademark Law News - Fross Zelnick Leads US Law Firms With 12...
"Having so many attorneys so highly regarded by colleagues at other law firms and corporate legal departments around the world is something we greatly appreciate."
Law Firm Newswire - Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, a leading firm in trademark, copyright, design patent and unfair competition law, announced today that 12 of its attorneys were named to the 2008 list of the ... via LawFuel.com
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
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
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
