Chicago IP Attorney & Lawyer : R. David Donoghue : Chicago IP Litigation Blog

Australian Trademarks Law Blog*

Canadian Trademark Blog

Delaware IP Law Blog

E. D. Texas Blog

Florida IP Blog*

Georgia Patent Law Blog (N.D. Georgia)

Illinois Trial Pratice Weblog (okay, it is not IP specific, but it is regional and provides excellent content)

IP Dragon(China) 

IP Legal Lounge

Las Vegas Trademark Attorney

Los Angeles Intellectual Property Trademark Attorney Blog

Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog*

Patent Trademark Blog(some Orange County focus) 

Seattle Trademark Lawyer Blog

Tech Law Forum Blog (N.D. Cal.)

Washington State Patent Law Blog

[UPDATE]:  I was quickly reminded that I forgot the excellent Washington State Patent Law Blog, which has been added to this post, and in that process I discovered the Georgia Patent Law Blog, also added, thanks to Mark Walter's (Washington State Patent Law Blog) blog roll.

If you know of other regional IP blogs, post a comment or send me an email and I will add them to the list.  A hat tip to Mike Atkins for pointing out the new blog at his Seattle Trademark Lawyer blog.

*These are blogs developed and hosted by LexBlog just like this Blog.

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Delaware IP Law Blog

E. D. Texas Blog

Florida IP Blog*

Illinois Trial Pratice Weblog (okay, it is not IP specific, but it is regional and provides excellent content)

IP Dragon(China) 

IP Legal Lounge

Las Vegas Trademark Attorney

Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog

Patent Trademark Blog(some Orange County focus) 

Seattle Trademark Lawyer Blog

Tech Law Forum Blog (N.D. Cal.)

If you know of other regional IP blogs, post a comment or send me an email (david.donoghue@dlapiper.com) and I will add them to the list.

*The Florida IP Blog is another blog developed and hosted by LexBlog just like this Blog and, as usual, it is a great looking site with easy navigation.

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Usually I post a holiday-related patent on major holidays (which Halloween is in my house).  But in light of today's Eastern District of Virginia preliminary injunction hearing regarding whether to allow the PTO's new continuation rules to take effect tomorrow, November 1, as planned, I thought a post on the continuation rules was more appropriate.  The patent world, and more particularly the patent prosecution world, has been busy analyzing and preparing for the new continuation rules for several months.  For analysis of the new rules check out the Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog (click here and here) and the 271 Patent Blog (click here).

While most were just probing the rules for loopholes or preparing to comply with them, two also filed suits in the Eastern District of Virginia seeking to enjoin enactment of the new rules -- Triantafyllos Tafas v. Dudas, No. 07 C 846 (E.D. Va.) and SmithKline Beecham Corp./GSK v. Dudas, No 07 C 1008.  Click here for Patent Docs' excellent coverage of the SmithKline/GSK suit.

The two suits were consolidated and a preliminary injunction hearing has been set for today -- click here and here to download the briefs at Patently-O.  Numerous entities have taken sides, filing amicus briefs -- click here for a list of the briefs and links to some of them at the PLI Patent Practice Center Blog.  And for those of you who cannot wait to read the result here shortly after it comes out and who are not busy with legal work or preparing for tonight's trick or treating, click here for the PLI Patent Practice Center Blog's live blogging coverage of the PI hearing.

Update:  Click here for more coverage of the Eastern District of VIrginia cases by the WSJ Law Blog and click here for even more briefing from Patently-O.

Happy Halloween.

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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (subscription required) that patent reform is stalled. I blogged last month – Can Patent Reform Cross the Finish Line? – that it appeared that the patent reform efforts in this Congress were in trouble because the reform proponents were not maintaining a unified position. The WSJ’s article suggests that my analysis was correct, although the WSJ focuses on a new critic of the reform legislation – the AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO argues that the Patent Reform Act of 2007* will cost America, and specifically the AFL-CIO’s members, high tech manufacturing and production jobs. The union is concerned that patent reform would weaken the U.S. patent system, thereby causing high tech manufacturers to send their manufacturing and production work overseas where they will receive relatively stronger patent protection. It is an interesting view on the reform issue that, judging from other blog posts, most people in the IP community had not considered: FileWrapper.

* For more analysis of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 check out the Blog’s archives or the Maryland IP Law Blog’s excellent five part series on the Act: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

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This week the House Judiciary Committee sent its version of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 to the full body for a vote.  The damages provisions that Federal Circuit Chief Judge Michel publicly spoke against remained in the House bill, but the controversial post-grant review process was removed completely, instead of being limited as many interested parties are suggesting.  The Senate continues to markup its version of the Patent Reform Act, but so far has tightened venue requirements and is debating the damages provisions.  The Patent Reform Act feels like a long breakaway in the Tour de France.*  When a group of riders is leading the peloton (the large group consisting of most of the riders in the race) they each want to win the day's race, but in order to do that they must work together until the last 200-500 meters of what may be a 200 km ride.  If they stop cooperating before the last several hundred meters, they become disorganized, slow down and get swallowed by the peloton.  They are generally exhausted from their efforts in the breakaway and have no chance of winning once they rejoin the peloton -- all of their individual efforts are thrown away because they stopped cooperating with their competitors too early.  Cooperating with competitors is difficult and counter-intuitive, but is often the only way to achieve individual success.  The Patent Reform Act is just such an effort, but it looks like the interested parties may not win this race.

You can read more about Congress's deliberations at:

• Patently-O
  
• FileWrapper
  
• Patent Prospector
  
• Patent Baristas
  
• 271 Patent Blog
  
• Maryland Intellectual Property Blog -- a new regional IP blog & a new member of the LexBlog family.  Welcome to the conversation Brian.

* Forgive the analogy, but I love the Tour and today is the first individual time trial of this year's race.  Go Levi, Alberto & the rest of the Discovery Channel team!

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