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Gene Quinn over at IP Watchdog is conducting a survey to determine the top patent blogs. The survey asks only the following two questions. What is your favorite blog?  Which patent blogs do you regularly read?  Votes are cast by making selections from a list of patent blogs. If you think us deserving enough of…

I received a communication from the USPTO today concerning future refinements to the CEP program.  As you will recall, I reported on my participation in that pilot program in an earlier post here. From the Office of Enrollment and Discipline: Thank you for volunteering to participate in the USPTO Continuing Education for Practitioners Pilot Program. …

As 2008 comes to an end, I want to thank all of my readers for continuing to return to this blog.  In particular, I want to say a special “thank you” to those who have posted public comments and those who have contacted me privately via email.  I am glad that so many of you…

This blog has received a sizable uptick in readership over the last couple of months.  In fact, Patentably Defined now enjoys around 3,000 unique visitors every month and a far greater number of  subscribers to the RSS feed.  So, I wanted to make sure that my new readers were taking full advantage of the content…

I recently completed participation in the USPTO’s new pilot continuing legal education system called “Continuing Education for Practitioners” (CEP).  As I explained in my earlier post on the CEP system, the USPTO solicited volunteers to try out their new CLE system.  I volunteered, was selected, and, as promised, the following is my report on the…