12:01 Tuesday

Recent Posts from 12:01 Tuesday

• NTP patents alive, and other tidbits

  A few quick hits: NTP patents to come out of reexam? No need to refresh you on holding company NTP, Inc., who nearly shut down the federal government with an injunction on the use of…

• Patenting the Virtual World: Webkinz

  There's few situations more embarrassing than when your six-year old son figures out that you were playing his video game the night before. Okay, maybe when your wife stumbles upon you after midnight playing your…

• Army Had Received Two Previous Dead Patents

  It gets worse... It turns out there is more to the story of U.S. Patent No. 7,604,811, the Army patent that issued this week with an expiration date in 2004. Incredibly, the '811 patent is…

• Be All You Can't Be: Army Patent Ambushed by Friendly Fire

  You may recall the brouhaha back in the Reagan era when it was discovered that the Navy had purchased some very expensive ($600) toilet seats. I remember comedian Emo Phillips around that time joking about…

• Death is no obstacle: Another patent for Lemelson

  Jerome Lemelson died almost exactly 12 years ago, and today he received yet another patent. This one is the fourth -- and last -- in a chain of continuations going back only to 1996. That's…

• My hut's better than your hut: Patenting the Sukkah

  It's been over two weeks since my last post -- a long hiatus for 12:01. The lag is partly attributable to workplace demands and converging deadlines. While blogging is fun and often related to my…

• Contest: Longest claim ever?

  Last week the PatentlyO blog ran a guest post by Stephen Schott arguing for a repeal of the "single sentence" rule. Schott alluded to the existence of at least one patent claim consisting of "a…

• The Onion Gets a Patent

  No, not that Onion. But by the time you finish reading this post (and you really should finish reading this post), you'll have to wonder... Timed perfectly to coincide with today's Federal Circuit decision in…

• Prime Patents for Amazon

  There's no shortage of Amazon watchers who are quick to pounce on news of its patents and applications. So I'm guessing there will be at least some articles (probably a Slashdot posting) in the next…

• Angiomax AE Patent and Other Tidbits

  A few notes: Is the writing on the wall for Beauregard? In last week's post, I noted that the fate of CRM claims is uncertain in light of the Bilski decision. In actuality, however, the…