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		<title><![CDATA[PTO to Fast Track Green Tech Patents]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/pto-track-green-tech-patents/23075/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Under new pilot program, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office hopes to slice at least a year off the patent process for green technology patent applications. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the initiative will allow inventors to secure funding, create businesses and bring green technologies into use much sooner.The USPTO...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:59:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EFF Challenges VOIP Systems Patent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its Patent Busting Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims it has discovered prior patent, as well as published reference material, that should invalidate a patent granted to Acceris for implementing Voice over IP using analog telephones as endpoints.The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the USPTO (U.S....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:00:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Court ruling puts brakes on sales of Microsoft Word]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA['Custom XML' at the heart of patent dispute; Microsoft must pay $290 million in damages Microsoft's loss in a patent dispute with Toronto-based i4i LP means that it will have to stop selling Microsoft Word in U.S. markets. The issue concerned the use of "custom XML" in Word in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:15:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Patent Lawsuit Could Spell Trouble for Open-Source Format]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Word was ruled in violation of an XML-related patent by a Texas judge, who ordered Microsoft to stop selling its productivity suite and pay a small Canadian company, i4i, nearly $300 million. However, the lawsuit could also present trouble down the road for XML-based OpenDocument Format, an open-source alternative...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:03:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kappos Officially Head of USPTO]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former IBM IP legal chief David Kappos has been confirmed by the Senate just before it left for the summer recess, and so becomes the new Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, otherwise known as the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He certainly understands patents and served...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:36:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kappos One Step Closer to Heading USPTO]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002967/kappos-one-step-closer-to-heading-uspto/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Former IBM top IP lawyer David Kappos is officially one step closer to becoming the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. According to the U.S. Senate's executive calendar for tomorrow (and thanks to Foley & Lardner partner Hal Wegner for passing this on), the Kappos nomination has become...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:34:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[USPTO Backing Off New Patent Rules?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002814/uspto-backing-off-new-patent-rules/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO may be backing off the controversial rules changes that the agency proposed in 2007. A joint motion filed on Friday (coming via the email list of Foley & Lardner partner Hal Wegner) requested a stay of the en banc proceedings in the appeal of the Tafas v. Doll...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:02:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Back to Court for Tafas v. Doll Suit and USPTO Rule Changes [UPDATE]]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002512/back-to-court-for-tafas-v-doll-suit-and-uspto-rule-changes/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March I wrote about the closely-watched Tafas v. Doll lawsuit challenging new patent rules put into place by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. At the time, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit CAFC came down with a mixed ruling that could...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:07:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[USPTO: Dropping Income, Growing Lines]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002347/uspto-dropping-income-senate-considers-bailout/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Being underwater seems to be a fact of life for the US Patent and Trademark Office, and things have only been getting worse. With current applications down, so are fees and, therefore, USPTO revenues. The agency has frozen hiring and just cut examiner overtime, meaning that patent applications will only...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:35:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kappos Gets USPTO Nod, But What Will He Do?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002319/kappos-gets-uspto-nod-but-what-will-he-do/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Barak Obama last week announced David Kappos as his choice to head the US Patent and Trademark Office. That wasn't completely unexpected -- in fact, back in May, I suggested that evidence indicated that Kappos would get the nod. The question now is what this means for high tech and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:20:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Will Head the USPTO? [Updated]]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10001634/who-will-head-the-uspto/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With a new administration and new Secretary of Commerce comes a new head of the US Patent and Trademark Office -- an administrative body of particularly keen import to the high tech industry. After years of the USPTO and the patent bar often sniping at each other, new leadership could...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:35:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Law: Intel May Pull AMD License, Discovery Sues Amazon, More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10001170/tech-law-intel-may-pull-amd-license-discovery-sues-amazon-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel threatens to pull AMD patent cross-licensing agreement; Nintendo beats patent challenge over analog joysticks; Discovery sues Amazon.com for alleged patent infringement by Kindle; Apple sends cease and desist letter to small company over trademark application; Psystar thumbs nose and releases another Mac clone model; and the SEC dropped its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:25:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mixed Results in Tafas v. Doll Appeal Over New Patent Rules]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10001136/mixed-results-in-tafas-v-doll-appeal-over-new-patent-rules/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The industry has been closely monitoring the Tafas v. Doll (formerly Tafas v. Dudas) lawsuit over whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would be able to make rule changes that would significantly limit patent applications. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit CAFC announced its ruling,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:39:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[China Races to Front of Global Patent Activity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/1000852/china-races-to-front-of-global-patent-activity/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm on a private patent email list run by Foley & Lardner partner and George Washington University Law School Professor Harold Wegner. He was recently digging through patent application statistics from various countries and found that China has pulled far ahead of the rest of the world in patent applications...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pharma Roundup: Sanofi Axes Reps, Glaxo Fights Patent Office, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000464/pharma-roundup-sanofi-axes-reps-glaxo-fights-patent-office-and-more/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sanofi-Aventis cuts 650 sales reps, Glaxo heads to court, FDA deals Roche a setback, Deerfield may purchase all of Nitromed. by John Maas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:48:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bilski Q&A with Foley & Lardner's C. Edward Polk]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/1000510/bilski-qa-with-foley-lardners-c-edward-polk/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit CAFC decision on In re Bilski continues to keep in the air the future of business method patents. It doesn't automatically eliminate them, as many reports have erroneously suggested, but, if upheld in a likely appeal to the Supreme Court, will likely...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Compellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Awarded Second Broad Patent From the U.S. Patent Office for Novel Obesity Therapy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200810/ai_n30945113]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Compellis Pharmaceuticals, an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel mechanism-based therapeutics for the treatment of obesity, announced today that they have been issued a second broad patent (7,138,107) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO for its invention entitled "Inhibition of olfactory neurosensory function to treat obesity and related disorders."...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Key Fondaparinux Patent Allowed by U.S. Patent Office]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRISBANE, Australia -- Australian drug developer Alchemia Limited (ASX:ACL) today announced it had received a 'notice of allowance' for the United States patent application titled Synthetic Heparin Pentasaccharides (number 10/488,677). A notice of allowance is a notification to the patent applicant that they are entitled to a patent under the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Biometric Systems Announces That the US Patent Office Has Issued the Company a Patent for the Bio-Pen]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dynamic Biometric Systems, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: DYBO), a Nevada corporation, and its subsidiary, DynaSig Corporation (jointly the "Company"), announced today that on October 7, 2008, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the "USPTO") has issued and assigned to the Company Patent No. 7,433,499 B2, titled, "Method and Apparatus for Capturing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Monotype Imaging Licenses Chinese Font Solution to Sharp]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Oct_15/ai_n30894399]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[iType Font Engine and SmartHint-Enabled Chinese Fonts Integrated within a Range of Handsets  WOBURN, Mass. -- Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has announced that Sharp Corp. of Japan has licensed Monotype Imaging's iType([R]) font engine and a selection of Traditional...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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