a r b o r l a w » Patent http://arborlaw.biz/blog for entrepreneurs and small business — a legal blog from Arborlaw PLC Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 US PTO Processed Record Number of Applications in 2006 http://arborlaw.biz/blog/2007/02/02/pto-processed-record-number/ http://arborlaw.biz/blog/2007/02/02/pto-processed-record-number/#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:13:44 +0000 Arborlaw http://arborlaw.com/blog/2007/02/02/pto-processed-record-number/ 2006 was a banner year for intellectual property, according to a press release issued by the the US Patent and Trademark Office.  440,000 patent applications were received, and 332,000 applications were examined by the Office.  The allowance rate (the ratio of patents granted to applications) was 54%, the lowest on record.

The PTO processed 378,111 trademark applications in 2006, a 36% increase over the previous year.  In total, 354,775 trademark applications were filed, a 9.4% increase over FY 2005.

I keep hearing they’re getting their act together.  I’ll be looking for statistics to report on how quickly the average trademark application moves through examination and final determination.

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Michigan patent attorney Ernie Brooks accomplished what the EU and the US Government have had a devilishly hard time doing: he won a significant courtroom victory against Microsoft. The $118M verdict against Microsoft in z4 Technologies, Inc. v. Microsoft, — F.Supp.2d. —, (E.D.Tex. April 19, 2006, Docket No. 6:06-CV-142) is the second-largest ever awarded against the company. Plaintiff z4 is a maker of anti-piracy technology. The jury found that z4’s technology was infringed by Microsoft Office and XP.

Brooks’ strategy? “Keep it simple” for the jury and be enormously selective about which patent issues to take to trial.

Score one for the little guy with the “aw, shucks” Midwestern lawyah.

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