Thursday, February 19, 2015

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As of January 2015, the Patent Librarian's Notebook has moved to WordPress at http://patentlibrarian.com/ .
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

U.S. Patent Statistics and Numbers for 2013

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The USPTO issued 305,081 patents in 2013, an increase of 10.2 percent over 2012. The agency also published 347,148 utility and plant patent...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Tangle toy puzzle

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A few days ago I took my four-year old daughter to get a flu shot. As a reward for being brave and not crying (too much) the nurse gave her ...

Humble Egg Carton Invented by Canadian 100 Years Ago

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Canadian newspaperman Joseph Coyle invented the humble egg carton nearly one hundred years ago. Coyle was not the first inventor to tackle ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

PatentScope Adds Canadian National Collection

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An early Christmas present from the WIPO: PatentScope now includes the Canadian national collection from ~1920 forward. No PDFs ye...
Monday, August 26, 2013

USPTO Adopts PDF for Patent Documents

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The USPTO has adopted PDF as the default format for displaying patent documents from its databases, making it one of the last (if not last)...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

US Patent Milestone: 8,500,000

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The USPTO reached another milestone on August 6, issuing patent no. 8,500,000 B2 to Elmer Berendas of Germany for a "Device for lockin...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Obit: Amar G. Bose (1929-2013), Bose

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Amar G. Bose , inventor of the audio system that bears his name, passed away on July 12 at the age of 84. In addition to being a successful ...