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not to be a buzzkill, but it'd be beneficial to reduce the data set examiners (and defendants) have to sift through to find relevant prior art. speaking as an ex-examiner, that's t…

a couple of nits on twistedmack's generally good response: * a prior art search is not required (that's the PTO's job) but i usually recommend it since it'll save money in the end …

a silly patent (even by design patent stds), but the complaint illustrates that this patent is a pretty small part of a [smallish] thicket of patents on the ribbon concept, as well…

if you're looking for public transportation options, this is probably the best bet. getting from NYC airports to penn station (where the Vermonter leaves from) depends on whether y…

FWIW, i used a mid-2011 2.3Ghz i5 with 8 GB of RAM for about 4 years as a lightly used dev machine (read: basically ruby/rails, pg, and sublime text with some crud stripped out and…

congrats on the launch, linking figure/element numbers to is a feature i've had on my list of features of things i'll never build for awhile. also, have recently added thumbnail se…

Almost certainly invalid today (as to all claims). Even before recent decisions, the method claims in particular were pretty much rejected as a matter of course (see e.g., https://…

The main reason is to fund the office as it's one of the few agencies that is 100% funded by fees (versus appropriations). So much so that Congress often skims money from the fees …

Cost. Cost is the biggest issue with post-grant proceedings. I don't know how many times I've seen people that have air-tight cases but they, understandably, won't, or can't, pay h…

An interesting question, I would assume this would be governed by the sites TOS which usually prevents "unauthorized" use which implicates trademark issues, which in turn gives TM …

Agreed. I think a lot of that is based on Meteor (understandably) pushing their entire stack. I've always been intrigued by their docs which state: By default all apps include the …

can't speak to django, but i've worked with rails, node, and meteor (caveat: not "professionally," only on some personal (failed) startups) rails: always have had pains with mainta…

somewhat agree that it's a tough topic to start with, but regexes are one of the few things that can be immediately applied. a lot of the practice of law (esp. early in your career…

agreed. a close second is the confusion between a published application and an issued patent.

while the decision is pretty tightly tailored, it seems like it's SCOTUS' way of opening the door for subsequent arguments regarding pure software patents. take google's page rank …

generally agree. however, 10k is a pretty high estimate unless you want to patent something extremely complex or in operate in a complicated area (generally limited to SC fab or ph…

while this isn't 100% inaccurate, one major headache are vague rulings from SCOTUS. the "reasonable certainty" test is a good example as well as their "abstract means abstract" pse…

My main concern with these bond requirement bills (of which there have been many, most notably the SHIELD act introduced by DeFazio and Chaffetz) is the creation of "super trolls" …

> In many situations, people with legitimate claims have been unable to overcome the heightened pleading standard, not because their claim is weak, but because the evidence require…