For those who could not attend the talk on Patent Prosecution Highway by Mark Powell, here are the slides from the presentation. Hope it helps. University of New Hampshire 111511a
European patent attorney and Bournemouth University Professor Paul Cole will speak about non-analogous art for a lunch-time seminar.
Prof. Jeff Hawley provides an overview of changes to patent law due to the recently approved and sign America Invents Act.
The Patent Law Forum will be hosting an event at the University of New Hampshire School of Law in Concord, NH, to discuss the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act on Monday (9/19) at 12 p.m. in Room 282, located in the new Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property building. UNH Law’s Professor Hawley will discuss the intricacies of this important new legislation and what to look for on the horizon.
Prof. Peter and Katherine McGovern presented at the IP Cafe on the intersection of art, theatre and cultural property law. The following is a brief synopsis.
The America Invents Act passed the Senate and is moving onto the House possibly by the end of the month. (Quick overview here) There was a large bipartisan majority with only 5 votes against the bill, all coming from western states. There are a range of views and commentaries on the advantages and disadvantages of the bill and we have decided to show a few of different sides of the debate in this post.
Kanav Hasija, a fellow Forum officer and MIP student at UNH Law, and I are returning from the Samsung-Stanford Patent Damage Conference, hosted at the Stanford Law School on Friday on February 18, 2011. I am very grateful for Samsung, Stanford Law and Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology to have hosted such a wonderful conference on patent damages, and the faculty at UNHLaw for their contribution to our research, in particular Professor Jeffrey Hawley, Professor Ann McCrackin, Professor William Murphy, and Professor Gordon Smith. I am also appreciative of the feedback and comments received from valuation experts and practitioners, including Russell Parr and Phil Green.
In the global deflated state we find ourselves in, everyone seems to be focusing on getting back on track economically. One important way to do this is through innovation. This is the crux of what most people are talking about, at least in the U.S. government: How do we maintain our edge on the rest of the world? How do we encourage businesses to grow? How do we plan for the future generation? President Obama recently answered these questions: “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” The answer is to innovate, now.
The Patent Law Forum (PLF) will be hosting its second talk for the semester. We are proud to invite two GE Leaders to give a talk on ‘Strategic Innovation and IP Management’.
Software patents are occasionally denounced as providing improper and excessive protection. However, they continue to withstand the ridicule and procedural gauntlet placed before them. A few recent cases and activity are proving the undeniable fact that software continues to be granted patent protection.
