Intellectual Property Creators

Patent Enforcement and Public Policy for Inventors

Testimony of Paul Heckel and Peter Theis before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property

Supreme Court rules unanimously for inventors in Festo

Operation Brandeis -- An IPC mission to spotlight injustice to independent  inventors by establishment institutions

---Sunlight is the best disinfectant,-- Justice Louis Brandeis

• IPC Launches Operation Brandeis to spotlight injustice to independent inventors by establishment institutions.

• September 3: Judge Whyte rules against Theis in troubling decision.

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• August 30: IPC writes letter to Judge Whyte protesting bias in Model Patent Jury Instructions.

• August 30:  IPC Festo Brief filed with U.S. Supreme Court

• JUNE 18:  Supreme Court takes Festo-- major Doctrine of Equivalents case

• May 9 IPC files Amicus Brief supporting certiorari in Festo.  Festo Documents here

• IPC letter to President Bush informs the former F-102 pilot that Festo would have made Wright Brother's patent worthless, suggests actions he could take to help inventors, and includes plaques quoting inventors whose busts he has in the oval office. 

• IPC renominates its last years nominees to the Patent Advisory Committee 

• Federal Circuit guts Doctrine of Equivalents.  IPC to file Amicus Brief with Supreme Court in Festo

• Inventors, Corporate Money and the Presidential Debates and a Pat Oliphant Cartoon 

• Eighth Circuit in Anastasoff rules  non-precedential decisions unconstitutional.  Why this is important to inventors  

• Patent Advisory Committee  member Responds to Letter to Commerce Secretary 

• The following IPC ad ran Washington Post Ad on Page A2, August 24, 2000:

• IPC asks Mineta to rescind Patent Advisory Committee appointments as illegal.  Copies all appointees, Gore, Lieberman, Bush, Daley and McCain, Nader and others.

• Patent Advisory Committee Appointments are a Disaster for Inventors.  Urgent: Commerce Hearings of Mineta Nomination on  Thursday, July 20.

• IPC FOIA Request for Nominations to the Patent Advisory Committee Denied. IPC Appeals.

• IPC nominates William Nordhaus, Economist to Patent Advisory Committee

• Supreme Court Denies Wang v. Winner Cert petition.

• Federal Circuit in Wang v. Winner Guts Zurko.   IPC submits Amicus Brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court take case 

• Inventor Reiffin sues Microsoft and Microsoft's lawyer for antitrust conspiracy.

• IPC makes Nominations for Patent Advisory Committee.  Commerce Secretary's nominations crucial to patent system.

• IPC Runs Full Page ad in South Carolina Presidential Primary

• Legal Malpractice and conflict of interest against inventors--Action alert on Theis v. Brown and Bain

• Congress passed the anti-inventor patent reform bill on Nov. 19

• Hawaii's Gov. Cayetano rallies fellow governors to stop HR 1907

• Supreme Court Victory in important inventor case: in re Zurko

(IPC Filed Amicus Brief in Zurko)

Other IPC Information

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• Patent and other inventor public policy issues.
• Patent enforcement.
• Collecting and developing information of interest to inventors
• Information on Intellectual Property Creators

IPC has three primary interests:

1. Patent and other inventor public policy issues.

IPC formulates and disseminates a seasoned inventors perspective on public policy patent issues.

• Upcoming Inventors Bill - your input appreciated.
• IPC files two Amicus brief with Supreme Court
• Proposed patent legislation in Congress
• Text of Agreements between Ron Brown and Bruce Lehman and Japan
• Forces underlying attempts to change the patent system
• Scheduled 105th Congress Hearings on patent issues
• Articles and Congressional Testimony on proposed changes to the patent system
• Funding of the Patent Office
• Maintenance Fees

2. Patent enforcement.

IPC provides a clearinghouse of information and helps network inventors who deal with patent enforcement. Many IPC members have had to enforce their patents through litigation and so are experienced in the realities of obtaining strong patents and enforcing them.

• Background information on patent enforcement
• Large awards in patent infringement lawsuits.
• Recent CAFC and other patent decisions of interest to inventors.
• For information on firms that fund patent litigation
• Information on patent insurance firms.
• Information on patent arbitration and mediation
• Information on contingency fee litigation
• Information on fee for service legal representation
• Inventor Horror Stories