A yardstone
I started blogging here at TFOG on May 6. Today, the site passed the 3,000 mark for visits, and the 6,000 mark for page views, in SiteMeter. That’s about 55 visits a day (generating 110 page views a day), for the past 55 days.
Thank you for visiting the site. I hope you’re enjoying it. I am!
I’m also eager to hear your suggestions for how to improve TFOG, and topics you’d like to see discussed. For example, what survey question would you like to see in the upper left corner (in TFOG’s “Cast Your Vote …” feature)? What unsung corner of patent law should I explore? What sleeper case do you think is the next big thing?
I’d be interested in hearing your prognostications on potential outcomes for the patent cases being heard this term by the Court (KSR, MedImmune), as well as which cases you think the Court is likely to grant cert on for the next term. Thanks for the commentary!
Comment by Derek — June 30, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
I would be interested in your views about outsourcing of IP related work to India. How about ‘Invented in US, drafted in India?’. Currently some kind of Patent prior art searches are being outsourced to India by some famous Law firms. What’s your take on the future of this?
Patent Analyst,
India
Comment by cK — July 1, 2006 @ 8:06 am
Writing from Europe, I am curious whether USA sees its national interest in continuing with its own special patent law, or in signing up to the model that the rest of the world uses.
US commentators all seem to have the mindset that harmonisation inevitably requires a half way house compromise between USA and ROW but, from here, it looks like the optimal compromise between civil law ROW and common law USA/England was reached when England and Germany together built the EPC. For me, the EPC contains all that is needed, but no more. It works really well, and I don’t see how it can be bettered, but I do see how it can be wrecked, by unfortunate political compromises. For me, that explains why ROW is so reluctant, in harmonisation talks with USA, to tinker with the EPC.
What do your readers think?
Comment by MaxDrei — July 2, 2006 @ 8:41 am
Congratulations! Keep doing the heavy lifting. The glib ones among us count on the likes of you…
Comment by Ron Coleman — July 13, 2006 @ 8:43 pm