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Comment on U.S. patents awarded to Orange County companies increased by 14% in 2011 by O.C. inventions win 14% more patents in 2011 - Jan Norman on Small Business : The Orange County Register

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:17 +0000

[...] Tweet Orange County inventions were granted 2,709 patents in 2011, 14% more than in 2010, reports Bruce Itchkawitz, a registered patent attorney in the Irvine office of Knobbe Marten, Olson & Bear LLP. Bruce [...]

Comment on Socket for testing integrated circuits; Titan Semiconductor Tool, LLC; U.S. Pat. No. 7,918,669 by Front-end circuit for RF transceiver; RFaxis, Inc.; U.S. Pat. No. 8,019,289 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:22:29 +0000

[...] patent is the first of the set of six applications to be granted, and it was allowed in a “first action allowance.” The other four continuations and the first patent application are all still pending at [...]

Comment on Socket for testing integrated circuits; Titan Semiconductor Tool, LLC; U.S. Pat. No. 7,918,669 by Padlock retail display packaging; Hampton Products Int’l Corp.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,971,714 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:52:15 +0000

[...] interview with the examiner in February 2011, and the application was allowed soon afterwards in a “first action allowance.” I find that such interviews, either by telephone or in person, are a helpful tool for getting [...]

Comment on Delivering oxygen-supersaturated solutions to the body: US Pat. No. 7,641,628 by Socket for testing integrated circuits; Titan Semiconductor Tool, LLC; U.S. Pat. No. 7,918,669 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Sun, 01 May 2011 22:36:30 +0000

[...] file such claims to avoid “leaving money on the table,” as I described in an earlier blogpost. If these claims are impermissibly broad in the examiner’s opinion, the USPTO sends [...]

Comment on Aquifer replenishing gutter: US Patent No. 7,699,557 by Surface drainage system; Shaw & Sons, Inc.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,909,531 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:35:46 +0000

[...] According to its website, Shaw & Sons was founded in 1948 by Leroy Shaw, and is now run by his sons, Lee and Ron, both of whom are listed as co-inventors of the ’531 patent. The two brothers are prolific innovators, listed as co-inventors on various U.S. patents for Lithocrete, an architecture structural material, as well as on other patents in the construction field (e.g., for an acquifer replenishing gutter, discussed previously here). [...]

Comment on Process for making detergent; Advanced BioCatalytics Corp.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,759,301 by Storm water drainage management system; AMEC Geomatrix, Inc.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,887,255 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:59:47 +0000

[...] flow limiting structure. The ’255 patent is a continuation and the ’158 patent is a divisional that both claim priority from a U.S. patent application that was originally filed in 2003 and is [...]

Comment on Delivering oxygen-supersaturated solutions to the body: US Pat. No. 7,641,628 by Storm water drainage management system; AMEC Geomatrix, Inc.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,887,255 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:59:41 +0000

[...] Pat. No. 7,556,158 in 2009 for a different flow limiting structure. The ’255 patent is a continuation and the ’158 patent is a divisional that both claim priority from a U.S. patent application [...]

Comment on Gearbox for tiltrotor aircraft transmission; Karem Aircraft, Inc.; US Pat. No. 7,866,598 by Tweets that mention Gearbox for tiltrotor aircraft transmission; Karem Aircraft, Inc.; US Pat. No. 7,866,598 « OC TechInnovation™ blog -- Topsy.com

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:13:58 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Don Hicks, Bruce Itchkawitz. Bruce Itchkawitz said: Gearbox for tiltrotor aircraft transmission; Karem Aircraft, Inc.; US Pat. No. 7,866,598: http://wp.me/pOUnj-GL [...]

Comment on Solar-tracking skylight; Ciralight Global, Inc.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,813,041 by Qamil Qehaja

Qamil Qehaja — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:32:30 +0000

My best respects and regards to Ciralight Global

Comment on Seal for hydrogen storage tank; Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.; U.S. Pat. No. 7,837,054 by Immediate immunization; Altermune Technologies, LLC; U.S. Pat. No. 7,850,975 « OC TechInnovation™ blog

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:42:13 +0000

[...] actions by the USPTO (which included rejections based on insufficient disclosure; see my earlier discussion of such “enablement” rejections), Altermune filed a U.S. continuation application in [...]