Was this an attempt to avoid the prior art effect of author’s paper on a patent application(s):
We regret to inform that the published paper included a few parts that disclosed confidential information which should have been protected under patent law. We admit that the request for retraction is due to the indiscretion of the authors, [...]
Revision 9 of the 8th Edition of the MPEP is out.
Finally, electronic filing at the Federal Circuit:
Pursuant to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 25(a)(2)(D) and 25(c), and Federal Circuit Rule 25(a), the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has authorized the filing and service of documents by electronic means.
See: Admin. Order Re Electronic Case Filing (Fed. Cir. Apr. 24, 2012) [PDF].
The Federal Circuit just ruled that the 25% rule can no longer be used to calculate reasonable royalty damages in patent cases:
This court now holds as a matter of Federal Circuit law that the 25 percent rule of thumb is a fundamentally flawed tool for determining a baseline royalty rate in a hypothetical negotiation. Evidence [...]
Probably not after KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007) (”A person of ordinary skill is also a person of ordinary creativity”) :-).
Source: Ape Lad, Laugh-Out-Loud Cats No. 39 (June 25, 2007).
Source: http://legallydrawn.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/its-like-teaching-physics-to-a/.
A San Antonio company and an inventor won a $72.6 million damage award Thursday against a prominent law firm that botched its patent application. The verdict is against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld[.] … After four weeks of trial in San Antonio before Senior U.S. District Judge W. Royal Furgeson, a federal jury [...]