where to patent

A good post for information on where to patent.  

Provisional Patent vs. Nonprovisional Patent

Should I file a provisional patent application or a nonprovisional patent application, and what's the difference?  What is a provisional patent?  What is a nonprovisional patent?

Patent & Patent Application Related Rush Orders

Patent & Patent Application Related Rush Orders

How do I respond to a USPTO office action?

How do I respond to a USPTO office action?

How to Write a Provisional Patent

How to Write a Provisional Patent

Affordable Provisional Patent Applications

Affordable Provisional Patent Applications

How To File a Patent Online

How To File a Patent Online

Affordable Patent Agent

Affordable Patent Agent

Should I use a patent attorney or a patent agent?

Should I use a patent attorney or a patent agent?

What is a provisional patent?

What is a provisional patent?

Affordable Patent Services.  

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MPEP Random

PatentNerd is a web-page that randomly selects a page out of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure.  A great study tool or to quiz yourself on the go on your cell phone.  Bookmark the automatically loading page at http://www.patentnerd.webs.com/autoload.html

Patent Bar Study for Free

One good way to study for the patent bar for free is to use PatentNerd and PatentNerdAuto. The site randomly select a page out of the entire MPEP, think of it as a word of the day. It's a useful tool for getting to know the entire MPEP, and it helps you quiz yourself on the context of specific rules. Great for studying on your mobile phone while at a stop light.

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I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer

Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth. ( The Guardian)

Nobel Season and a note on RNA

Nobel Season. In the Pipeline:

Interesting to note:

The Nobel in Medicine has gone this year to the inventors of gene-knockout techniques for mice, which seems well-deserved, considering how much has been learned through such experiments. This is, in fact, one of those discoveries that you'd think was already recognized by a Nobel if you hadn't been keeping count, which is as good a criterion as any. (It's rather odd, for example, that gene knockouts were recognized after RNA interference, don't you think, since a good ten or fifteen years separate the two in real life?)

My previous post noted that over 46,000 hits came up for "knock-out mice" search on PubMed.  Interesting, RNAi gets only 9868,  Certainly not a perfect measures but informative on some level. 

Nobel Season. In the Pipeline:

Nobel Season. In the Pipeline::

"... Wednesday morning is the announcement of the Chemistry award, so I'm throwing open the gates of speculation, as I do every year around here. Our track record (mine and the predictions in the comments) has not been very good, but nobody has a good batting average when trying to read the minds of the Nobel committees. I feel pretty safe in saying that this year will be a "real" chemistry prize - we're one out of the last four, compared to overflow from the nonexistent Nobel in molecular and cell biology.

So, who's it going to be? Last year's uninformed gossip is here, and there's plenty more over at Chembark. Put your bets down, but only with money you can afford to lose. . .

Update: Still more speculation."

Three Americans Win Noble Prize for Medicine

Two Americans and a Brit won the noble prize for medicine for their
work in gene targeting, a process using homologous recombination to
turn off a single gene. When used in mice it is known as using
"knock-out mice", as that gene has been knocked out. Having a single
gene, and only that gene, turned off helps to understand how that gene
functions.

The two Americans are Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. Sir
Martin J. Evans is British.

To give an idea of how important this technique is today, a search on
pub med, the medical research literature database, for "knock-out
mice" gives you over 46,820 research papers.

New Cure for Depression: Fear (DrugWonks)

New Cure for Depression: Fear (DrugWonks): "'While some degree of decline in antidepressant prescribing was not unexpected after the black box warning was issued, few if any had predicted diagnosing to decline, or that other modes of treatment (psychotherapy or other medications) would remain relatively unchanged,' Dr. Robert J. Valuck told Reuters Health. 'It was thought that the latter two may increase to compensate for fewer antidepressant prescriptions being written.' That's worth repeating -- the black box warning has resulted in a decline not only in prescribing (no surprise there) but in diagnosis."

As patent reform is debated and makes it way through the congress it's good to have some background. This is the best example I could find of a nuisance suit.