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Posted: Monday, December 31, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

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Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc.
US Patent Attorney (Reg. No. 44,294)

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$99 Provisional Patent Application

No Comments » | Page viewed 4,584 times | Written by Gene Quinn
Posted: Monday, December 31, 2007 @ 11:52 am
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Posted in: IPWatchdog.com Blog, Inventors Information, Patent Fools™

We are pleased to announce the unveiling of the latest version of the Invent + Patent System™, which is brought to you by IPWatchdog, Inc. This system provides an innovative approach to creating patent applications in a cost-effective and timely manner. In the past, an inventor would contact a patent attorney with an idea. The inventor would provide notes, comments, drawings or whatever else they might have collected during the initial inventive stages.

The attorney would then try to interpret this information and put it into the format required to file a patent application at the United States Patent Office. The procedure could involve many sessions – back and forth – between the inventor and attorney before a satisfactory first draft could be produced. The process was, and is, slow, expensive and frustrating. Ultimately, an application would be filed not because it has covered the invention to the fullest extent possible but because the inventor could not afford to pay the patent attorney to spend any additional time working on the application.

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Chuck Norris Sues Penguin Group

No Comments » | Page viewed 10,369 times | Written by Gene Quinn
Posted: Saturday, December 29, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
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Posted in: IP News, IPWatchdog.com Blog, Trademark

On December 21, 2007, Chuck Norris sued Penguin Group in the United States Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York over a book they published in November 2007 titled The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World’s Greatest Human.  Norris is also suing author Ian Spector who runs several websites that promote the book.  The basis for the book and the websites are mythical rumors that have been circulating around the Interent since at least 2005, one of them being that Norris’ tears cure cancer.

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Welcome

No Comments » | Page viewed 15,231 times | Written by Gene Quinn
Posted: Sunday, December 23, 2007 @ 5:35 pm

Posted in: IPWatchdog.com Blog, Museum of Obscure Patents, Patent Fools™

Welcome to the newly formed IPWatchdog.com blog.  My name is Gene Quinn and I am a patent attorney, law professor and author.  I founded IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has been a trusted resource for well over 1 million visitors, making IPWatchdog.com one of the most popular websites devoted to intellectual property issues. 

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