Monthly Archives: June 2007

US Patents: US Patent Reform

In the latest issue of her excellent monthly “Intellections“, Toni Tease has analysed two identical patent reform bills that were introduced simultaneously into the House of Representatives and Senate on 18 April 2007. Toni had previously forwarded me the draft … Continue reading

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General Kite Flying: Are Patent Agents Lawyers?

I was jolted from my reverie during the UK-IP Office’s IP awareness seminar at the Thackray Museum in Leeds last week while listening to Bobby Smithson justifying the existence of patent agents (oops “attorneys”) by reading out claim 1 of … Continue reading

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