The Invent Blog
Tech tips, intellectual property law and law practice information.
Author: Stephen M. Nipper is patent lawyer. He is a partner at Dykas, Shaver & Nipper in Boise, Idaho.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Patent Law • Science & Technology Law
Recent Posts from The Invent Blog
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Podcast recommendation: Grammar Girl
As science majors, patent attorneys/agents aren’t typically thought of as being masters of the English language, particularly with respect to using correct grammar. Solution: start taking short grammar lessons by listening to the Grammar Girl…
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Google Wave Tips and Tricks
A group of my local (Boise) geek friends have been using Google Wave to share Google Wave tips and tricks with one another was we each kick Wave’s tires. Here are some of the most…
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Patenting Schrödinger’s cat
Not quite Schrödinger’s cat, but close. I won’t spoil it for you…see the 12:01 Tuesday patent blog post Be All You Can’t Be: Army Patent Ambushed by Friendly Fire for the story. Related posts:Patenting Legal…
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To Staple, or Not to Staple?
My office is slowing going paperless, doing a number of things including scanning all paper files to PDF when we close them. One little insight that those of you whom are not yet paperless should…
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USPTO considering opening access to public patent/trademark data?
According to the notice: Due to overwhelming interest from the patent and trademark community, the USPTO has scheduled a second public meeting to be held Monday, October 19th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Pacific…
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New USPTO.gov out of beta
It looks like the USPTO’s website’s redesign is out of beta: http://uspto.gov. The News page still doesn’t have an RSS feed or “subscribe by email” function (unlike the Copyright Office’s News Page (RSS)). Sad…but true.…
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Patently Silly is patently hilarious
One of the “old school” patent blogs is Daniel Wright’s Patently Silly blog where he covers the lighter side of patents. I’ve known Daniel for quite a few years (through blogging), and have been glad…
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Free Patent CLE Seminars on Searching and Illustrations
I stumbled on two free 1.0 hour webinar CLEs being offered by “Legal Advantage” (a legal support services firm (they offer patent searching and other services): Best Practices in Prior Art Search — How can…
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Google Wave and the practice of IP law
Perhaps the biggest tech buzz this last week was Google’s release of 100,000 invites to its new project, Google Wave. Google was kind enough to release a very long video (80 minutes) explaining Wave…a video…
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ClaimMaster patent drafting plugin for Microsoft Word
stumbled on a new Microsoft Word plugin for patent attorneys last night – ClaimMaster. ClaimMaster has an amazing set of features: Identify Errors in Claims. Find Missing Antecedents. Identify Inconsistent Element Numbers. Find Claim Terms…