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		<title><![CDATA[Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Announces Patent Office Maintains Rejections of All Claims for Tessera Patent and Issues Right of Appeal Notice]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Sept_18/ai_n28569134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON & SAN FRANCISCO -- Today, the United States Patent Office PTO, through its specialized Central Reexamination Unit, issued a Right of Appeal Notice in the pending reexamination of Tessera's litigated US Patent No. 6,433,419 (the '419 patent). This patent has been the subject of earlier PTO rejections, and the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Patents Page Scrolling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Patents Page ScrollingRE: Microsoft Patents Page ScrollingMicrosoft is not that naÃ¯ve to go around asserting such basic patents.  It is cheaper to hoard these â€œobviousâ€ un-defendable patents than to fight these patents in the court.  PTO is not going to improve its standards for issuing patents any...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[/ CORRECTION - Invesco PowerShares to Introduce Family of Global Asset Allocation ETFs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news release, "Invesco PowerShares to Introduce Family of Global Asset Allocation ETFs," issued Thursday, May 01, 2008 by PowerShares Capital Management, we are advised by the registered investment advisor that the source name should have been "Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC", and that the stock exchange in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Patent Office Upholds StemCells, Inc.'s Patents in Reexamination Decisions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PALO ALTO, Calif. -- StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTO has upheld two of the Company's neural stem cell patents, with only minor amendments, thereby rejecting the arguments raised by Neuralstem, Inc. in its reexamination petitions of last year.  The upheld patents,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Partnering ASABE and ISO Tractor PTO Shaft Standards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5409/is_200802/ai_n29493105]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The need for standards of interchangeability between the tractor PTO shaft and implement drive lines began in the 1920s, when there were many cases of farmers not being able to connect implement drive lines to tractor PTO shafts. Tractors often had different PTO shaft splines or diameters that were not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Profits as commercial success.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courts often use the extent of a patented invention's commercial success as crucial nontechnical proof of the patent's validity. Relying on misguided economic reasoning, most courts use revenue as the primary yardstick for commercial success. This Note argues that courts instead should use profits as the proper measure of an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consumer Groups File Comments Supporting U.S. Patent Office's Stem Cell Patent Rejection]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200707/ai_n21909788]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: HEALTH EDITORSContact: John M. Simpson, +1-310-392-0522, x 317, +1-310-292-1902 or Dan Ravicher, +1-212-796-0571 both of Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two consumer groups have filed comments with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office supporting its rejection of human embryonic stem cell...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nebraska Tractor Test Lab]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eighty-six Years and Going Strong   The Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory NTTL was established in 1920 in response to the Nebraska Tractor Test Act of 1919, which required all agricultural tractors sold and advertised in Nebraska to have manufacturers' performance claims verified by the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Understanding Patent Applications]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km3608/is_200611/ai_n17100397]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[You're confident that your invention has commercial potential. You've done a thorough patent search, and you can show that your invention is significantly different from earlier developments in its field. Now you have to convince the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office USPTO to grant you a patent. Each patent application...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It.(Book review)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[INNOVATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: HOW OUR BROKEN PATENT SYSTEM IS  ENDANGERING INNOVATION AND PROGRESS, AND WHAT TO Do ABOUT IT. By Adam B.  Jaffe and Josh Lerner. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.  2004. Pp. ix, 236. $29.95.    INTRODUCTION    The Patent...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Faro's Second Request for Reexamination of Romer Cimcore Patent.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAKE MARY, Florida, January 13 /PRNewswire/ --    - As previously announced on November 29, 2005.    Faro Technologies, Inc. Faro announced today that the United  States Patent and Trademark Office PTO granted Faro's Second  Request for Reexamination of Romer Cimcore Patent No. 5,829,148...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Circuit's much-awaited en banc pronouncements about claim construction in Phillips (1) overshadowed many of the court's other decisions this year, both in the press and on the conference circuits. But the court has issued a number of decisions in other areas of patent law in 2005 that both...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The changing meaning of patent claim terms.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6402/is_200510/ai_n25601713]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TABLE OF CONTENTS      I. PRINCIPLES OF CLAIM CONSTRUCTION       A. Situating the Meaning of Claim Terms in Time          1. Novelty and Nonobviousness         ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Patent applications so abundant that examiners can't catch up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- If you go into the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to meet actual patent examiners for the first time, you might expect a stereotype -- offices full of middle-aged Napoleon Dynamite types who luxuriate in bureaucratic arcana and wear their pants too high at the waist. ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals  rules inventor's patent valid but was not infringed]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5943/is_200507/ai_n24015710]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A flurry of problems surrounding an inventor, his patent and the company using it caused the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to split the baby, affirming the validity of the patent and its inventor's conduct before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office but denying the inventor's claim of patent...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT Chief Bourgeois Leaves US Patent and Trademark Office]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By PatentCafe Staff   On Friday September 3, Douglas Bourgeois, who joined the USPTO as its Chief Information Officer in May, 2001, will leave the Patent Office to become the director of the Interior Department's National Business Center. His departure from the PTO is occurring at a time when...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politics in the PTOs Watchdogs say you should be told when money aids tax efforts.(News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Bob Susnjara Daily Herald Staff Writer    Noticing a parent-teacher group's cookie-dough sale at a local  school, you decide to make a purchase.    What you might not know is whether some of the proceeds are  destined for a committee campaigning for a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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