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IPWatchdog.com Takes Over PatentFools.com

Beginning Monday, January 5, 2009, IPWatchdog.com will take over the PatentFools.com blog.  IPWatchdog.com has added a blog category titled “Patent Fools™” and will continue to publish full length patent articles on the latest news, cases and legislation.  You can access the Patent Fools section of the IPWatchdog website through the URL below:
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/category/patent-blog/
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Over the past several years I have been a harsh critic of the United States Patent & Trademark Office because there are substantial problems facing the US patent system and I do not believe any of the reforms urged by the USPTO are calculated in any meaningful way to address those problems. According to [...]

Tilting at Windmills: Patent Troll Style

RPX Corporation is a new start-up company that is attempting to pull together resources to acquire patents in an ill-defined attempt to thwart patent trolls.  It seems that RPX wants to build a defensive portfolio of patents, but this is not calculated to prevent patent trolls from doing anything that could potentially be useful.  If [...]