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What makes a powerful Patent Practitioner your champion, is in part, defined by knowing what makes a Patent Examiner tick. The Patent Examiner The Patent Examiner must have at least a bachelors degree, but can start with a much higher salary by entering with a Masters or PHD, and with working time in their profession....Continue reading

Blockchain patent application from consulting giant Accenture aims to revolutionize its logistics network. At the core of this technology are methods of using testing devices and smart contracts to document each stage of a shipment from seller to buyer and to test the chemical status of the product at each leg of it’s journey by truck, rail, air and vessel. The testing devices can be stationary and robotic and are able to monitor temperature, humidity, barometric pressure an...d use analyzing techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, gas chromatography mass spectrometry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, high performance liquid chromatography, DNA extraction, X-ray fluorescence, energy dispersive, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, ion chromatography, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and more. The smart contracts will have predefined parameters and tolerances that will be authenticated by the devices and those events will be recorded in the blockchain for each step of the transaction. The blockchain will provide an immutable and transparent history of the shipment for the buyer, seller and authorities to review. There will be no need for any slow moving and fallible third parties to verify and process shipping documentation and events that transpired from end to end. As with smart contracts, the buyer and seller do not need to know or trust each other. CCPA - Blockchain Patent Law Experts Source: Cointelegraph & USPTO

Largely, a patent application is only as good as the information the inventor(s) provides to the patent practitioner. Specifying the heart of the invention, the non-obvious or novel features in great detail and how it differs from known solutions gives the patent practitioner the information needed to write the claims for the invention. The inventor's specifications are what the claims reference. The claims are what defines the invention as patentable subject matter and are w...hat the patent examiner may reject and accept to grant the patent. Writing quality claims is an acquired skill that makes a great patent practitioner able to provide the inventor with the broadest protection. https://bit.ly/2LPIQVV

Blockchain News - The Last 24 Hours, July 31, 2018 Forrester Research posted that 90% of Blockchain initiatives by US companies will never become operational. Since 2016 their reports about blockchain have be hot and cold. One of the world's forth largest auditing firms, KPMG, says that US Blockchain investment thus far has already surpassed 2017. They see blockchain as moving beyond experimentation stage and drawing attention from investors. ... ABC is the world’s fourth largest bank in China. They are testing blockchain loans with land as collateral. China is quickly adopting blockchain technology with the goal to deploy industry-wide standards sometime next year. Australian government funds a blockchain project for sustainable sugar. The Distributed Ledger System provides a fast and secure database where all transactions are immutable and easy to audit. The outcome will ensure that the quality of sugar produced from the growers of sustainably-grown cane can be traced throughout the supply chain giving agents and customers confidence in what they are purchasing. Commonwealth Bank of Australia ships almonds to Europe with Blockchain. They used Internet of Things (IoT) to track the temperature and humidity of the 17 tons of almonds within the container as it traveled from Melbourne to Hamburg Germany. A smart contract was used to execute the step-by-step handling of all physical operations, verification of documentation and the financial transaction. Blockchain Patent Applications & Patents 41 From 4 companies in China 93 IBM 44 Mastercard 49 BofA 34 Intel 34 Eitc Holdings Dr. Craig Wright UK London 39 nChain Holdings (was Eitc Holdings) (source: Google Patents - blockchain keywords within titles and content)

Why is the Federal Circuit still not up to speed with technology? While its fair to say that Judges in the Federal Circuit cannot be experts in all technologies, we might expect that they would have a basic understanding of things such as knowing the difference between a web page and a web server. See link below. The disconnect between the technology in software and knowledgeable authorities in the USPTO also continues to be a problem for software patent applicants. ... Thank goodness for Andrei Iancu who is now the director of the USPTO. He's not only able to grasp an understanding of the technology in software, but is an advocate for software patent rights, as seen in his Berkheimer Memorandum issued last April. Not all patent practitioners are well versed in software patent law, especially in the strategies necessary to overcome rejections by a patent examiner. Source: http://www.ipwatchdog.com//federal-circuit-rule-/id=99202/