Guide of Patent Protection

NEW YORK In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer .

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Because of the internet and ecommerce, the USPTO could not distinguish the difference between computer generated business programs and a business method. The patent officials decided to make each patent application follow the same rules as to patent an invention. The business method must use technological arts to receive a patent. This was then done away with in 2005 by the administrative judges of the USPTO.

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PositiveID Corp. said that it has filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a non-provisional patent application for its iGlucose system, currently under development, which uses wireless SMS messaging to automatically communicate a diabetic patient’s blood glucose levels from any data-capable glucose meter to an online database.

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Another qualification is that the idea must be unique. When the USPTO first started issuing patents back in 1790, the list of unique items contained business method patents. In recent years, these have been rejected. This goes to show that this is a subjective process by the patent approval officers and just because you have a great idea and it is original, you still might not be granted a patent.

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Sign in or join Seeking Alpha Yesterday’s passage of comprehensive health reform no doubt opens a Pandora’s box.

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Most employers assume that they hold the unspecified right over their employee’s inventions that were made on the job. The thought comes from the fact that they have achieved the invention by using the resources available at the work place and otherwise, the invention would not have been possible.

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This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com . Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the author.

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Patent application procedures are universally governed by the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. The Agreement on TRIPS is an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation. Although different countries have different internal policies for innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) protection, the common minimum derivatives from the TRIPS agreement need to be adhered to.

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The newly issued patent number US 7,681,228 titled “Method of one time authentication response to a session-specific challenge indicating a random subset of a password or PIN character positions” and patent numbers US 7,644,433 and JP 4421892 titled “Authentication System and Method Based upon Random Partial Pattern Recognition” describe “what user …

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Patent application procedures are universally governed by the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. The Agreement on TRIPS is an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation. Although different countries have different internal policies for innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) protection, the common minimum derivatives from the TRIPS agreement need to be adhered to.

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