USPTO Town Hall Meeting in Houston 3/22

Information about next week's USPTO Town Hall meeting @ UHLC is available here. Background and presentation materials from last month's Town Hall meeting in Chicago are also available here.

The third Town Hall Meeting on the proposed rule changes for claims and continuations will be held March 22 in Houston, Texas. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the University of Houston Law Center will co-sponsor the event at the University of Houston Law Center in Krost Hall. The meeting will be held from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The USPTO will demonstrate its new Web based Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) prior to the Town Hall Meeting from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. at the same location.

Houston IP Lawyer Appeals MSFT Patent Infringement Case

CNet News reports on the appeal by local Houston IP attorney, Kenneth Nash, in his patent infringement case against Microsoft. Judge Kenneth Hoyt granted Microsoft's MSJ last year.

Speaking of... Judge Arthur Gajarsa, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will be speaking in Houston later this month on "Patents in a Changing Economy." The UH IPIL 2006 Baker Botts lecture is Tuesday, March 28, at the Coronado Club downtown. Contact info to RSVP is available here.

Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink - Part II

The slip opinion for this previously mentioned Supreme Court case is now available online.