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IP5 Patent Statistics Report for 2013
The IP5 patent offices (China, Europe, Japan, Korea and the US) have released their annual patent statistics report for 2013. In 2013, more than 2.1 million patent applications were filed in the IP5 offices, an increase of 11 percent over … Continue reading
Posted in EPO, IP5, JPO, KIPO, Patent statistics, SIPO, USPTO
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Obit: Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of first home video game
Ralph H. Baer, inventor of the first home video game system, recently passed away at the age of 92. A television engineer by training, Baer had a vision in 1966 of an interactive gaming system that could be used with … Continue reading
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PatentScope Adds German and Eurasian Patent Org. Collections
As of December 3, 2014 German full-text patent documents (published applications and patents) published from 1987 forward are now available in PatentScope. In addition, German utility models from 1999 forward are also available. Approximately 4.5 million older full-text documents were … Continue reading
Obit: CorningWare Inventor Revolutionized Cooking
Dr. S. Donald Stookey, inventor of synthetic ceramic glass, died on November 4 at the age of 99 (New York Times, Nov. 6). Dr. Stookey joined Corning in 1940 as a research scientist and spent the next four decades working … Continue reading
New Drug Patent Resource from the Lawyers Collective (India)
The Lawyers Collective, a public service interest group in India, has compiled a searchable drug patent status information database for key medicines. The list currently includes about twenty drugs containing information from the following sources. U.S. Food & Drug Administration … Continue reading
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USPTO Report on Virtual Patent Marking
A new report from the USPTO discusses the effectiveness of virtual patent marking. What is virtual patent marking? From the 1920s to 2011, U.S. patent law required patent owners to mark their products with the number or numbers of associated … Continue reading
Entrepreneurs on Campus
The Globe and Mail has an interesting article about Canadian universities providing training and support to student entrepreneurs (Is University the Place to Learn to be an Entrepreneur?, Oct. 10). This reminded me of an earlier article in the New … Continue reading
Scientists Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Enhancing the Power of Microscopes
Three scientists, Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Germany, and William E. Moerner of Stanford University, are the recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry … Continue reading
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Tagged Fluorescence Microscopy, Germany, Microscopes, Nobel Prize, United States
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Inventors of Blue LEDs Receive Nobel Prize in Physics
Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University and Nagoya University, Hiroshi Amano or Nagoya University and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara are the recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED) … Continue reading
Korean Patent Office Adopts Cooperative Patent Classification System
The USPTO and KIPO announced today that starting in January 2015 the KIPO will classify its patent applications and utility models under the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system. Korea ranks fourth after China, the U.S. and Japan in the number … Continue reading
Patent Librarian's Notebook 