USPTO’s New Patent Fee Proposal

February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

USPTO’s New Patent Fee ProposalThe USPTO has released a series of documents about the proposed new rules for patent fees. These new rules are part of the Patent Reform act of 2011, and were one of the main reasons the act received such wide bipartisan support, the patent office has a strategic issue with pendency, there are more patent application coming in than there are resources to handle the volume. Here’s a list of the issues addressed in the announcement and the image of the proposed fee structure.

Overview of the  changes:

PowerPoint deck of the fee changes.

While this announcement may mean higher fees for larger R&D departments, Patent fees are overall a smaller portion of the cost of patenting when considering the costs of attorney fees. The bigger issues for R&D departments arise in making decisions about what to patent and what not to patent in light of the Patent Reform Bill’s changes from first to invent, to first inventor to file, and the effects those changes have on choices about what to patent when and if an invention is within a company’s overall technology strategy. [Read more...]

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2 Approaches To Cosmetics Preservation Strategy

November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In2 Approaches To Cosmetics Preservation Strategy this week’s cosmetics and personal care industry roundup, Newlogic’s strategy team review some of the latest developments in preservation systems.

The method for preserving formulations has always been a challenge in cosmetics and personal care products. Cosmetic formulators need to adopt an appropriate strategy that is safe for users and able to preserve products from microorganism contamination. An effective way to achieve both goals is to combine safe preservation with protective packaging. [Read more...]

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Marc Drucker’s Packaging Outlook Summit Presentation

November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Marc Drucker's Packaging Outlook Summit PresentationMarc was in Atlanta today giving a presentation on cloud computing for innovation management. He attended the Packaging Outlook Summit and talked about Newlogic’s new research on regarding Project Portfolio Management, Innovation Management and Idea Capture tools for R&D packaging professionals.

Insights from the research reveal what strategies packaging R&D professionals need to use when investing in idea capture, innovation platforms, project management and portfolio management software.

Here’s Marc’s packaging R&D cloud computing presentation, and also the new infographic to support the packaging R&D research.

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#innochat @uspto Responses On Patent Pendency

November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

#innochat @uspto responses on patent pendencyToday I moderated the #innochat community chat on the topic: How does the US Patent office period of time for application, compare to other Patent offices around the world? As part of the Twitter chat I’d invited the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to join the discussion regarding Patent Pendency. Jim Dwyer the Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations was tweeting for the office. Here’s a synopsis of my exchange with Mr. Dwyer.

@johncass What is ‘pendency’ and how is it measured? #innochat

@USPTO We have two major pendency components. 1- First Action Pendency is time from filing to first office action. #innochat

@USPTO 2- Total Pendency is time of filing to disposal of the case. (Disposal is either patent granted or abandonment) #innochat

@USPTO Regarding First Action Pendency, it is currently 26.9 months. Total Pendency is 33.9. #innochat

The community was discussing the issue of patent pendency at several patent offices around the world, and in response @uspto tweeted the following:

@USPTO  We have data from the “Four Office Statistics Report” covering data from the European, Japanese, Korean patent offices and USPTO. #innochat

@USPTO The report provides information on each individual Office, worldwide patenting activity, and patent activity at the Four Offices. #innochat

@USPTO The report with data for calendar year 2010 can be found here: trilateral.net/statistics/tsr… #innochat

 @johncass Why is pendency important? #innochat

@USPTO  Short pendency provides patents quicker, which allows patent holders to access capital more quickly & with certainty. #innochat

@USPTO But that’s just one major reason why shortening pendency is a top priority of the USPTO. #innochat

@johncass What influences pendency? #innochat

@USPTO What influences pendency? Examiner resources, such as the # of examiners & volume of new patent applications. #innochat

@USPTO We received over 506k new patent applications in FY11. We currently have 6664 examiners at USPTO. #innochat

And from Kris Ronald Anderson  @berkshire_ideas what segment of business has the most applys. #innochat

@USPTO Typically the biggest volume is electrical-based inventions. #innochat

 @johncass What is the USPTO doing to decrease pendency? #innochat

@USPTO We r decreasing pendency by hiring examiners & improving examination processes-such as worksharing among participating IP offices. #innochat

@USPTO Other pendency reduction efforts include resolving issues w/ applicants early in prosecution by strengthening interview practices. #innochat

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Jim Dwyer, USPTO, Special Guest For #innochat

November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Jim Dwyer, USPTO, Special Guest For #innochatWe have a new guest from the Patent office joining us tomorrow for our scheduled #innochat on the topic of Patent office pendency rates around the world has changed. Peggy Focarino, Deputy Commissioner for Patents for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), can now, no longer to join us. However, in her place, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations Jim Dwyer is joining us.

Jim Dwyer has been with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for over 33 years. He has served as a Patent Examiner, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Quality Assurance Specialist and Group Director in a variety of electrical technologies. His current position is the Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations overseeing the operations of Technology Center 2600 (Telecomm) and Technology Center 2800 (Circuits, Semiconductors and Physics). For many years, Jim has been instrumental in the USPTO’s Patent Examiner recruitment and training programs; and is currently managing the Office’s Patent Process Reengineering initiative. He has a BSEE from the University of Maryland.

Join us tomorrow for the overall discussion on Patent durations around the world and questions for Jim Dwyer.

Check out our new chart on World Patent Office Pendency rates.

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Patent Office #innochat: Patent Duration & Pendency Infographic

October 17, 2011 By 2 Comments

The Patent Office #innochat will take place on November 3. For the event, Newlogic are collecting data on Patent Office research and to compare any variations in worldwide patent office duration between submitting a patent and the patent being registered or the pendency rate. To show the difference, we created an infographic based on the data we’ve collected in the #innochat Google Doc.

Feel free to participate in the #innochat on November 3. Margaret A. (Peggy) Focarino Jim Dwyer, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patents Operations for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will join us. We look forward to hearing more voices on Patent offices from around the world.

Compiled by Sandra Huang & John Cass

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R&D—From China?

October 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

R&D-from China?How global is R&D? A new technology from a German company is an instructive example. It recently arrived on U.S. shores where it’s been used extensively in the new wing of the Boston Museum of Art.

I’m in love with it: it’s function, versatility, beauty.

What it is, is this: A thin, stretched, translucent, foil with an array of nano-scale pores scattered over its surface. Simple, but elegant, low-energy and sustainable. It does three things: (1) let’s light pass through it (to allow daylight indoors and building light to illuminate the exterior in the evening hours, (2) reflect sunlight and heat away from the huge glass-boxed interior space; and (3) diffract (or breaks up) sound waves in order to dampen noise and prevent reverberation from annoying occupants moving about in the open, interior gallery spaces. It even looks German with its elegant, mathematically spaced nano-pores.

Here’s the first surprise: it was developed in Russia. But wait, that’s neither the end nor the beginning of it. In fact, this little R&D story has a tail as long as a Chinese dragon.

The big secret is that it was invented in communist China. Several decades ago. By a scientist trained at Harvard. Long before Mao Tse Tung led the long march to the Chinese Communist revolution. [Read more...]

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Patent Office #innochat: Change Of Date & Guest

October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

My scheduled #innochat on the topic of Patent office pendency rates around the world has changed. Robert L.Stoll, Commissioner for Patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, can now, no longer to join us. However, in his place, Deputy Commissioner Peggy Focarino is joining us.

Margaret A. (Peggy) Focarino is currently Deputy Commissioner for Patents for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Ms. Focarino was appointed to this position in September of 2009. Prior to that, from January 2005, she was Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations.

I’m continuing to look for #innochat participants who want to represent different countries and provide some of the pendency rates and how different world patent offices approach patents. Let me know if you’d like to take part.

Ref: Determining the pendency of patents

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Packaging Outlook For Innovation At Ball Corporation

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Packaging Outlook is fast approaching on November 9th in Atlanta.  Marc Drucker, President of Newlogic, and Andy Schroepfer, VP of Enterprise Strategy at Rackspace are speaking together there on the topic of, “Is Packaging SaaS Innovaton the Future for Packaging?“.

Innovation Packaging Outlook From Jim Peterson

Packaging Outlook For Innovation At Ball CorporationIn a follow up to our first interview with one of the speakers, Ken Wilkes, President, Smart Bottle Inc., we invited Jim Peterson, V.P. of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Ball Corporation to answer some questions about the industry, his background, and how Ball approaches R&D. Here’s what Jim had to say:

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Are You An R&D Glazomanic?

September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Are you an R&D glazomanic?Glazomania is the obsession with list creating. Drew Marshall wondered if the innovation industry is becoming too glazomanic, and debated the point in this week’s innochat where he queried the current obsession with making innovation leader boards.

Drew asked the following questions:

  1.    What’s the value of stack ranking innovative organizations?
  2.    Does any single list provide value over and above the others?
  3.    Are there commonalities in assessment methods that could yield more meaningful discussion about innovation?
  4.    What can learn and apply from this information to our own practices as innovation thought leaders?

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