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		<title><![CDATA[Patent Finder 1.0 (Mobile)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patent Finder conducts its search using the United States Patent and Trademark OfficeUSPTO website and presents you with results in a friendly format. You can search by title, abstract, inventor, patent number, or application number and view pdf images of patents that interest you. You can also save copies of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Patent wars: EchoStar cheers reexamination of Tivo patent; Tivo scoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will reexamine the claims of Tivo's "Time Warp" patent--again--at EchoStarâ€™s request.    EchoStar, which recently lost a lawsuit against Tivo over the patent, requested the reexamination. Tivo won an injunction against EchoStar and asked the U.S. District Court to hold the satellite...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scene: An Irish preschool for toddlers. The children sit on the floor in a semi-circle, watching a TV screen. They squeal with delight at "The Little Mermaid," "Toy Story" and other Hollywood kids' fare. Enter a black-masked villain, carrying a fearful letter. He is not the true villain, though;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For SimplicityRather off opinion TomTom, respected your opinions for a long time, but this one is just way off base.  First off, anyone who tracks this space, as I do, knows that Hillcrest does not need any more publicity. It's probably one of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[USPTO rains on Dell's app for 'cloud computing' trademark]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Patent and Trademark Office has officially refused to grant Dell a trademark on the term "cloud computing," as News.com posts.    USPTO originally gave a thumbs-up to the trademark but earlier this month it overturned that preliminary decision.      The Patent Office declined...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:15:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Patent reform dead for 2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10535-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=47711&messageID=888355&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Patent reform dead for 2008Patent "REFORM"What annoys me about pundits who write about patents is that invariably they have never filed for or prosecuted a patent.  Thus, they inveigh for things that they have no clue about.  Most of the patent legislation is a balancing of special interests....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red Hat CEO decries software patents]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Hat CEO decries software patentsRed Hat CEO decries software patentsMore lies from the linux crowd.  Patents aren't slowing innovation, they are protecting companies properties.  If linux distros are so concerned about patents they should have had a better plan than to blatantly copy every one else. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 12:41:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Growing backlogs at USPTO as Supreme Court tightens standards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3109]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With two major patent decisions made today by the Supreme Court, the AP paid a little visit to the US Patent and Trademark Office. And what did the AP reporter find? Patent applications, lots of em.   The red folders are everywhere at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:52:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[USPTO: Filesharing poses national security risks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2981]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a report that finds filesharing programs "threaten the security of personal, corporate, and governmental data,&rdquo; according to Jon Dudas, the Bush Administration&rsquo;s point person on copyright policy.   According to a government press release,  distributors intentionlly included features to facilitate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:36:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=30930&messageID=573800&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeAdd the blind test to avoid biasDan, thanks for digging into this story and getting the details. The patent system needs help...and this open comment process could help a lot.It would be really great if the patent application could be reviewed while...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Patents get a wiki and a marketplace, now to put them together]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=270]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Two big announcements about patents hit the wires today. The first, covered by Dan Farber and others, which has the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO adopting the use of Web-based peer review and crowdsourcing in patent applications reviews, will change the nature of patents. The second, the introduction of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:59:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Patent Office 2.0?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11155-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=30926&messageID=573424&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Patent Office 2.0?Patent Office ReformWhat a great idea. Not very costly. Relies on people with vested interest to object those with prior art, and those with no veted interest to concur field experts. With USPTO examiners as referees and judges instead of clerks, it'll be a wonderful "plussing" of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Patent Office 2.0?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2968]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patent Office is taking steps to turn itself into a Web 2.0 web service, allowing the public to comment on software patent applications in an effort to improve and speed up the review process, The Washingotn Post reports.  The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:20:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4596]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As I reported last week from my interview with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Jon Dudas, the patent process is about to taste Web 2.0. The Washington Post reports that a pilot social software project that allows for third-party comments and voting, adding a community, peer review dimension to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:31:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Policy Summit: Silicon Valley missing in action]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4571]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I attended the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose at the Dolce Hayes Mansion, a southern tip of Silicon Valley. Speakers included top government officials, such as Jon Dudas, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Securitys cybersecurity czar; Congressman...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:48:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategyUSPTOI think the problem of the USPTO is bigger than we all imagined. There was I thinking we needed to have a discussion about what fundamentally constitutes a patent, and instead we told that there is an "error rate" of only...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:57:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Policy Summit: Patent Office head lays out reform strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4562]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The patent system is not broken, just not perfect. That is the viewpoint of John Dudas, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO. Dudas knows his way around the patent and intellectual property worlds. He was appointed to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:04:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: Cisco CEO calls iPhone suit 'minor skirmish']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report: Cisco CEO calls iPhone suit 'minor skirmish'It will be interesting to see sales reults.6 months after the Apple phone is released I will bet that Cisco's iPhone sales will be less than 5% of what Apples sales are. If Cisco was willing to license the name (it is only...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Experts: Cisco lost iPhone trademark last year]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11408-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=29137&messageID=542486&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Experts: Cisco lost iPhone trademark last yearI don't think so Jason.Request for change was on 8/11/2005. 3 months and a few days before expiration. It's status is currently "live" at the USPTO. Sounds like your experts, weren't.http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75076573&action=Request+StatusDo a status search at USPTO. The link I provided probably timed out. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On the fifth day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me Rrrrrrrrrr Ssssssssssssss Sssssss?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4191]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought youd seen it all, Microsoft has apparently applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a patent on the Really Simple Syndication protocol RSS. The blogosphere hasnt worked itself up into a tizzy quite yet. Although Dave Winer has already posted a Tale of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:14:24 -0800</pubDate>
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