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Internet Publishing: Online Today, But What About Tomorrow Or Where Have You Gone, 406,302?

In the January, 2006 issue of Intellectual Property Today, attorneys Thomas J. Van Gilder and Carl A. Kukkonen cited to a document on the webpage of the United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] for the proposition that “patent filings have grown from 353,394 to 406,302, an increase of nearly 15%, from FY 2002 to FY 2005.” In footnote 3 of their article, they carefully provided the page number of the document and the link to the document: See USPTO 2005 Annual Report at 61, http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/2005/2005annualreport.pdf.
The interesting, and troubling, aspect about this is that one will not find in the cited document at the given link the number “406,302″.


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Invention Help… Don’t Get Scammed!

Invention help is available for a fee and a signed contract to split the profits. An invention submission company will take care of all the details.


The invention help expert will validate your invention through:


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Protect Your Invention in Foreign Countries

Once you file your patent application in the United States, you have started a clock running that when it runs out will prevent you from getting a patent in a foreign country if you don’t take timely action. That clock runs for one year.


Your alternatives are to file in the foreign countries (or country groups) of your choice within the year or file a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application to extend the deadline for filing to at least two-and-one-half years.


As of the date of this article, 136 countries are member states that abide by the PCT. This includes nearly all countries in the World, and those that aren’t members are unlikely to

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have significant markets that require patent protection.


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Legal Terms - A Quick Guide

Legal issues and problems are stressful, complex and inevitable. If you get wrapped up in legal issues, it sometimes helps to understand the lingo being bandied about.


Legal Terms


Contract: An agreement between two or more parties in which each party agrees to provide something in exchange for the other party doing the same. Typically, one party provides money while the other provides a service or product. Contracts can be oral or written, but oral contracts are difficult to enforce.


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How To Verify An Expert’s Credentials

Experts, sad to say, are not always honest about their credentials, as several recent news items confirm. Knowing how to verify the background of an expert whether yours or your opponent’s could prove critical to your case.


In perhaps the most dramatic recent example, a New Orleans federal judge threw out a jury verdict in favor of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. after a cardiologist who testified for the defense in a Vioxx trial was found to have misrepresented his credentials.


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