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[ILUG] [Patents] PATNEWS: WWW.BUSTPATENTS.COM - PATNEWS' new Web site (fwd)Justin Mason jm at netnoteinc.comWed Jan 26 14:29:08 GMT 2000
Apropos of the current ILUG discussion! --j. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 03:26:40 -0500 From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran at world.std.com> To: patent-news at world.std.com Subject: [Patents] PATNEWS: WWW.BUSTPATENTS.COM - PATNEWS' new Web site !20000124 WWW.BUSTPATENTS.COM - PATNEWS' new Web site For five years, the folks at the University of North Carolina have kindly provided space on their servers to host my patent Web site. Many enjoyed viewing it, and hopefully it played a small role in getting the PTO to place the full text of patents on the Internet. But I have always wanted a more commercial site, and a more activist site. Thus for six months, I have been slowly building a new Web site, to to the point where I can expose it to the world. The site focuses on the economics and legal analysis of patents for software/Internet/ecommerce and biotechnology/bioinformatics. The URL is, quite naturally: www.bustpatents.com The Web site has two sections - an extensive public area, and a smaller more indepth private section. Other than my large regular clients, access to the private section is available for a fee (see below). Here is a quick guide to the Web site, sections of which will be covered in more detail the rest of the week. First are Web pages from the public section: www.bustpatents.com/exam.htm Commentary and past PATNEWS on problems the Patent System has in general that leads to the low quality of many patents being issued. www.bustpatents.com/software.htm Critiques of software patent examination, governmental guidelines on software patents, and legal reviews/articles on software patents most available at law firms' and law schools' Web sites. www.bustpatents.com/invalid.htm A list of software patents that have been invalidated either by the PTO (reexam) or the courts (lawsuits). I have tracked down 53 so far, and would appreciate being informed about others. A smaller list (but to be greatly expanded in the future) of patents which should be invalidated (with some prior art examples) is also provided. www.bustpatents.com/biotech.htm Reviews of bioethics of patent technologies, governmental guidelines on biotech patents, and legal reviews/articles on biotech patents most available at law firms' and law schools' Web sites. www.bustpatents.com/economics.htm Collections of data on the economics of patenting (especially law firm Web sites that publish a list of the costs of their services), as well as an extensive list of links to papers on the Web dealing with the economics of patent litigation, licensing and national policy. www.bustpatents.com/sites.htm A length list of sites on the Web offering rich sources of information on the patent system - 21 government agencies, 20 private organizations, and a variety of online law school journals. www.bustpatents.com/archive.htm A list of the titles to the 1000+ PATNEWS sent out over the last seven years, most of which in the past few years have only been sent out over PATNEWS. www.bustpatents.com/photos.htm Photographs of parts of the Patent Office (an examiner's office, some shoeboxes), and in time, photographs of the many libraries around the country I use to bust patents (including the eggheads at UCDavis :-). You should find these Web pages quite informative, and I would appreciate suggestions for additional links to add to the pages. Lawyers and academics with papers that they want to have posted at the site, please contact me. ==== The private section (samples of which are available in the public section) have even more valuable information on their Web pages. To support the further development of these Web pages, and to expand PATNEWS, I will be charging for access to these Web pages (except for my largest clients). These Web pages offer (and the fee includes a CDROM snapshot of the entire Web site): - HTML full text versions of PATNEWS 10 megabytes of stories going back to the first PATNEWS sent out in August 1993. - Infringement awards and license fees A table of data on patent infringement awards, settlements, and license fees greater than $1,000,000. Over time I will be making available tools to help determine the value of patent portfolios, including a licensing spreadsheet. A list of all of the prior awards publicly disclosed, with a few samples, is available at www.bustpatents.com/awards.htm - Filewrappers, reexams, lawsuits, decisions I am gradually building up a collection of HTMLed versions of software/biotech patent filewrappers, reexam requests, infringement lawsuit filings, and court decisions. A list of all of the available documents, with a few samples, is available at www.bustpatents.com/filings.htm - 10-K and 10-Q patent commentaries I am gradually going through 10-K and 10-Q reports, extracting the commentary that deals with patenting and intellectual property. This page will be a basis for offering stock market investment advice based on companies' IP activities. A list of all of the available summaries, with a few samples, is available at www.bustpatents.com/sec.htm - CAFC appeals court decisions on software patents and copyrights Mostly of historical interest, HTML versions of CAFC and Supreme Court decisions going back 20 years that trace key developments in software patent and copyright rulings. A list of all of the available rulings, with a few samples, is available at www.bustpatents.com/cafc.htm - IP rights around the world Excerpts of analyses of intellectual property rights laws and practices for over 100 countries around the world. A list of all of the available analyses, with a few samples, is avaiable at www.bustpatents.com/foreign.htm - Automated patents claims analysis For some time, I have been developing a tool to analyze patent claims, the beginning of an effort to develop a tool to determine how invalid a portfolio of patents is (call it the anti-Aurigin). The private area has a Web page where you can enter the text of a set of claims, and have returned an analysis of the claims. The public area has a sample output for some modified claims from one of the worst written set of patent claims. For more, www.bustpatents.com/claims.htm ==================== As you can see, a lot of goodies. Unfortunately those goodies in the private, Members Only, area will require a fee to get access to. Much of the monies I receive will be used to hire assistants to type in mounds of paper I have been collecting, as well as acquire more. The fees: Individuals - $100 Lawyers/Executives - $200 Law firms/Corporations - $2,000 Large Corporations / Government Agencies - $20,000 Access to the Members Only area requires a password, which will be supplied by email or phone when we process your order form. The fee is currently a one time fee, but a few years hence may become a reduced annual fee, or be eliminated altogether as STO raises investment funding to buildup the Web site. And for most of those who have received PATNEWS for many years (especially those in the developed countries), the fee will become mandatory. Members also are provided with a CDROM that is a snapshot of the Web site at the time of ordering, including an archive of the fulltext to all PATNEWS stories since 1994, over 1000 email news items, comprising over 10 megabytes of HTML text. To order, please use the following form. _______________________________________________________________________ | | | IPNS MEMBERS ACCESS / CDROM ARCHIVE | | | | O R D E R F O R M | | | | | | Name:________________________________ Title:________________ | | | | Company:_____________________________________________________ | | | | Address:_____________________________________________________ | | | | Address:____________________________ City:___________________ | | | | State:___________ Zip:_____________ Country:______________ | | | | Email:_______________________________________________________ | | (to receive the password) | | | |_______________________________________________________________________| | DESCRIPTION |# Items| Price | Total | |_________________________________________|_______|__________|__________| | | | FEE FOR ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY AREA AND ARCHIVE CDROM | |_______________________________________________________________________| | | | | | | INDIVIDUAL | 1 | $100 | $100 | |_________________________________________|_______|__________|__________| | | | | | | LAWYER/EXECUTIVES | 1 | $200 | $200 | |_________________________________________|_______|__________|__________| | | | | | | CORPORATION/LAW FIRM | 1 | $2000 | $2000 | |_________________________________________|_______|__________|__________| | | | | | | LARGE CORPORATION/GOVERNMENT AGENCY | 1 | $20000 | $20000 | |_________________________________________|_______|__________|__________| | | | | | Shipping and Handling - North America | $12.00 | | | - non-North America | $25.00 | | |_________________________________________________|__________|__________| | | | | | Send your Check or Money Order | SUB TOTAL | | | (US Dollars only) to: | | | | | | | | | | | | Source Translation & Optimization | | | | P.O. Box 475847 | | | | San Francisco, CA 94147-5847 | | | | | | | | Tel. (415)-981-0441 | | | | Tel. (617) 489-3727 | TOTAL | | | clients at bustpatents.com | ENCLOSED | | |____________________________________|_______________________|__________| _______________________________________________ Patents maillist - Patents at liberte.aful.org http://liberte.aful.org/mailman/listinfo/patents ------- End of Forwarded Message
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