The Official Gazette published this week includes reinstatement notices for 41 patents that had previously expired due to a failure to pay applicable maintenance fees. We have added a comment indicating the reinstated status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

We were able to calculate the length of the period between expiration and reinstatement for 38 of the 41 reinstated patents. The reinstatement comment for these patents includes this information as well.

The Official Gazette published this week includes maintenance fee related expiration notices for 1173 patents. We have added a comment indicating the expired status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

The Official Gazette published this week includes reinstatement notices for 20 patents that had previously expired due to a failure to pay applicable maintenance fees. We have added a comment indicating the reinstated status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

We were able to calculate the length of the period between expiration and reinstatement for 20 of the 20 reinstated patents. The reinstatement comment for these patents includes this information as well.

The Official Gazette published this week includes maintenance fee related expiration notices for 1329 patents. We have added a comment indicating the expired status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

We pushed through a major coverage update tonight. The PatentFizz database now includes an expiration comment for every patent that has expired for failure to pay a maintenance fee since October 22, 1999. Check out the earliest expiration in our database for an example - US Patent No. 5,058,213 for a Raw Sewage Drying Apparatus.

Yum….public domain never smelled so good.

For those keeping track, we count 461,456 maintenance fee related expirations since that date.

Last week, our Steve Jobs, Inventor Extraordinaire Report was quite popular. For this week’s FridayFun Report, we thought we’d cast a spotlight on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Patent Busting Project. If you haven’t heard about the Project, it’s probably safe to say you’ve had you’re head in the sand of the patent world. In essence, the Project is the foundation’s attempt to bring down some of the most hated of the “bogus software patents” (their words). You can read about the Project in detail here.

The patents in the Project make up a “Top Ten Most Hated Software Patents,” of sorts. To help get the word out, we’ve made a FirstPage Report that includes the first page of each of these patents. You can download the Report here. Circulate it as much as you like….

Come back each Friday for a free example of our FirstPage Reports. The Reports give you a single .pdf document containing the first page of every patent document in your project. Ordering is easy - you can even copy and paste USPTO search results (read this post and watch the movie here to learn more about that option). Try the free 5 page Report today!

The Official Gazette published this week includes reinstatement notices for 23 patents that had previously expired due to a failure to pay applicable maintenance fees. We have added a comment indicating the reinstated status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

We were able to calculate the length of the period between expiration and reinstatement for 21 of the 23 reinstated patents. The reinstatement comment for these patents includes this information as well.

The Official Gazette published this week includes maintenance fee related expiration notices for 1248 patents. We have added a comment indicating the expired status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

Today we’re starting a new “Friday Fun” series that will present a fun FirstPage Report for your viewing pleasure each and every week. They’re free for the taking…our way of introducing you to the usefulness of our FirstPage Reports.

First up - Steve Jobs, Inventor Extraordinare.

We’re big fans of Apple and card-carrying members of the all-hail-Steve club. His impact on the company - and the industry in general - has reached phenomenon status. We’ve heard the stories about his legendary micro-managing (er, attention to detail), and thought it would be interesting to generate a FirstPage Report that lets people quickly see the inventing he has done at Apple.

The Report didn’t disappoint - 86 issued patents (we elected not to include published applications) that touch (pun intended) everything from the diminutive Mac Mini to the huge glass staircases in the company’s flagship stores (no kidding). And the in-between stuff is nothing short of darn near every major product the company has ever made. Seriously.

Go ahead…see for yourself. Download Steve Jobs, Inventor Extraordinaire.

FirstPage Reports give you a single .pdf document containing the first page of every patent document in your project. Ordering is easy - you can even copy and paste USPTO search results (read this post and watch the movie here to learn more about that option). Try the free 5 page Report today!

The Official Gazette published this week includes reinstatement notices for 24 patents that had previously expired due to a failure to pay applicable maintenance fees. We have added a comment indicating the reinstated status to the FizzDisplay for each of these patents.

We were able to calculate the length of the period between expiration and reinstatement for 21 of the 24 reinstated patents. The reinstatement comment for these patents includes this information as well.