PriceWaterhouseCoopers has made a damages study available – a summary that asserts that damage awards are increasing and trial tactics are changing. You may use this link to sign up to receive the short 32 page brief study. I found this study by reviewing this post. My comments to the post are reproduced below. ========== [...]

I am certainly not a financial advisor and I am not recommending that you invest in this product. I am writing about something that is new to me, and therefore I believe it may be new to some of you. (When I started working at Townsend and Townsend as a young associate almost 20 years [...]

In view of the official closing of the Federal Government offices in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), on Tuesday, January 2, 2007, the day proclaimed by President Bush as a National Day of Mourning, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will consider Tuesday, January 2, [...]

Last Friday, the USPTO issued a? press release? describing its performance as the best on record in over 20 years. The press release summarizes it annual report? and included this chart: ??? I am not sure why the USPTO chooses to emphasize this. Similar to a judge’s desired impartiality (e.g, she is not supposed to care who wins), [...]

Today was a busy day for many bloggers, commenting that Microsoft had applied for patents on RSS or that Microsoft was going to get “the” patent on web feeds! As? we’ll see, this is? not? the case at all so we can all rest easy. Here are the two applications so you can read along yourself and see [...]

we are about to launch our new website – www.yourpatentguy.com. In this space, I will provide some of my own views on the happenings in the world of patent law. This BLOG (or blawg) is just underway, please continue to check back. There are many people who have been blogging for a good long time [...]