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	<title>Intellectual Property Law Blog &#124; HDP Magazine by Harness Dickey</title>
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		<title>Patent Attorney, Bob Siminski, Scheduled for Pharma IPR Conference in India</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 31 &#8211; February 2 Harness Dickey attorney Robert Siminski will be attending the Pharma IPR conference in Mumbai, India – January 31.-Feb.2. The conference is intended to bring pharmaceutical patent attorneys together from all over the world to discuss issues relevant to the pharmaceutical industry. &#160; You are invited to follow Mr. Siminski’s blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO Issues Nearly A Quarter Million Patents in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO issued a total of 247741 patents in 2011, more than any previous year. Of these, 224519 were utility patents. It is interesting to note that of these utility patents, 1693 were also filed in 2011, indicating that at least a small fraction (0.75%) of patents issue very expeditiously. Half of the patents that issued in 2011 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO Issues 21356 Design Patents in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO issued 21256 design patents in 2011, which is down slightly from 2010 (22799) continuing the downward trend since 2008 when issuances peaked at 25,565. The vast majority of design patents issue without a year of filing, although in 2011, two design patents: D635989 and D637616, both filed on June 14, 1991, issued, after pending well longer than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO Issues 239346 Trademark Registrations on 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO issued 239346 trademark registrations in 2011. The most active trademark classes are Class 9 – scientific and electronic apparatus (24,590); Class 16 – printed matter (9692); Class 25 – clothing (14,355). The most active service mark classes are Class 35 – advertising and business (26,542); Class 41 – education and entertainment (23335); and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Siminski, Contributing Author of The Innovation Superstar Workbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troy Attorney, Robert Siminski, was recently published as contributing author to The Innovation Superstar Workbook. Robert joined together with author, Nicholas Webb, to write this book focused on innovation. Nicholas Webb describes his book: &#8220;The Innovation Superstar Workbook is based on a large body of knowledge I gained while researching and writing two popular books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Siminski Gets Insight from the Korean Patent Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I met with the Korean Patent Court (KPC), which is essentially equivalent to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Despite its name, the KPC has jurisdiction over a wide variety of intellectual property matters, including copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, for example. The Justices at the KPC tend to sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Siminski Meets with The Supreme People&#8217;s Court in Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the privilege of meeting with five Justices of The Supreme People’s Court.  The Justices were very engaging and did a great job educating our group on procedural issues.  We discussed everything from injunctive relief to evidentiary considerations. The Justices were asked why there appears to be great disparity from court to court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Siminski&#8217;s First Meeting in Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I met with a delegation of the State Intellectual Property Office led by Deputy Commissioner Yang Tiejun in Beijing.  He participated in a question and answer session covering various topics.  Some of the more interesting questions and answers were as follows: Q:           Due to government incentives, the number of new patent application filings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADAPTING TO PATENT REFORM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patent &#8220;Reform&#8221; &#8212; the America Invents Act &#8212; which is being implemented over the next eighteen months, makes significant changes to America&#8217;s patent system that will require business to adapt their procedures for evaluating and protecting their innovations.  Here are ten suggestions for handling the transition: 1. File patent applications on all existing innovations before March [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Attorney, Bob Siminski, Scheduled for Asia Trip with IPO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Oct. 29 &#8211; Nov.5 Harness Dickey attorney Robert (Bob) Siminski will a delegate of The Intellectual Property Owners Association on an intellectual property rights fact finding trip to China and Korea. In China the delegation will be meeting with the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO); Supreme People&#8217;s Court; State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC); [...]]]></description>
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