{"id":5997,"date":"2013-05-30T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2013-05-30T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T20:48:48","slug":"odds-and-ends-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5997","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1)  The House Committee on Small Business conducted a hearing on the impact of the AIA earlier this month.  Patently O&#8217;s Dennis Crouch was one of the witnesses.  You can see more materials here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusiness.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=326571\">Link<\/a>]. \u00a0Small companies develop 16 times more patents per employee than large firms.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hMAUGHBC2Iw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hMAUGHBC2Iw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>2)  The Federal Circuit sat <em>en banc<\/em> last Friday for oral argument in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Berry v. Conyers<\/span>, a merit systems protection board case.  You can listen to that oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2011-3207_5242013.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>3)  The BNA PTCJ ran an interesting article a few weeks ago that might interest readers. \u00a0The article addressed three recently issued &#8220;informative opinions&#8221; by the PTAB that construed &#8220;processor&#8221; as a means plus function term. \u00a0The author of the article is Andy Spence. \u00a0You can access the article here [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithmoorelaw.com\/pubs\/xprPubDetailSmithMoore.aspx?xpST=PubDetail&amp;pub=700\">Link<\/a>]. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure what the process is for designating a PTAB opinion as an informative opinion, as opposed to a standard opinion. \u00a0By happenstance, all three opinions were by five judge panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) The House Committee on Small Business conducted a hearing on the impact of the AIA earlier this month. Patently O&#8217;s Dennis Crouch was one of the witnesses. You can see more materials here: [Link]. \u00a0Small companies develop 16 times more patents per employee than large firms. 2) The Federal Circuit sat en banc last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6008,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/6008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}