European Court Gives Microsoft Win Against Lindows
Lindows.com ordered to drop Lindows name Dump Lindows name or we’ll take all your money, says MS
Category «Patent and Trademark»
A Commentary on Whether the Patent Process is Broken
From the Washington Post’s Jonathan Krim, this article Patenting Air or Protecting Property? reviews the growing criticism of the USPTO’s patent process, and details the marked increase in lawsuits involving Internet-related technologies from companies that include high-profile Amazon, Microsoft, Blackberry, and eBay.
New Microsoft Patent for Writing Windows Apps Using HTML
TechDirt posted on a patent awarded by the USPTO to Microsoft yesterday for a “Method and apparatus for writing a windows application in HTML.” See also Microsoft wins HTML application patent
USPTO Launches Trademark Assignments on the Web
Trademark Assignments on the Web System is Now Available on the United States Patent and Trademark Office Web Site: “The United States Patent and Trademark Office is pleased to announce the availability of the Trademark Assignments on the Web System, effective December 3, 2003. The system is accessible from a number of pages, including the …
Google Seeks Ruling on Trademarks and Keyword Searching
In anticipation of widely reported plans for a initial public offering (IPO) in early 2004, Google is seeking a ruling from District Court in San Jose, California to determine whether keyword searches associated with advertising sold by the site constitute trademark infringement. (Google, Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. (Complaint) , ND Ca) …
OCLC and NYC Hotel Settle Trademark Dispute
As an update to my September 22 posting OCLC Sues NYC Hotel Over Classification System, see this press release from OCLC, dated November 24, stating OCLC and The Library Hotel settle trademark complaint: “Under the settlement terms, The Library Hotel will receive permission from OCLC to use the Dewey Decimal Classification® trademarks in its hotel …
Patent for E-Mail Filtering May Counter Spam
The USPTO granted patent 6,643,686 on November 4, 2003. It is “a system and method for circumventing schemes that use duplication detection to detect and block unsolicited e-mail (spam). InternetNews.com quotes the executive director of the SpamCon Foundation as seeing the technology as a “…potentially…effective tool against spam…”
Patent Office to Undertake New Review of Critical Web Patent
On August 12, 2003 I posted that Microsoft Will Appeal $521M Patent Infringement Verdict. Today, InternetNews.com reported that Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examiners will undertake a new, thorough review of the patent on “a system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access …
USPTO Expands Electronic Filing Services for Trademark Disputes
“The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has expanded the options for electronically filing documents in trademark disputes. Using the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA) system, parties to a dispute now can file more documents electronically with the TTAB, …
Challenge to Browser Patent by Web Consortium
From the World Wide Web Consortium: “Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the ‘906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to US Under Secretary of …
Microsoft Obtains Patent on Unique User IDs
United States Patent 6,632,248, Customization of network documents by accessing customization information on a server computer using uniquie (note: the word unique is misspelled in the patent document itself) user identifiers. “The customization options may include a wide variety of information such as, for example, network addresses (e.g., URLs) of a user’s favorite sites, types …
Upcoming Changes to IE
Microsoft Confirms Changes to Windows, IE in Wake of Lawsuit: “On Monday, Microsoft verified that it will be making what it calls “modest” changes to Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) to meet the requirements of a jury verdict against it in the Eolas patent infringement case.”
