Law360 (September 4, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT) -- A federal judge has ruled that the inventor of a thigh-mounting mouse pad is not entitled to retroactive protection under an old set of patent term-length rules and has dismissed the suit in favor of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia signed the order Tuesday after deciding that Thomas D. Sykes' patent did not qualify for the old rule set.
Under the old rules, Skyes' patent would have expired 17 years after the...
Mouse-Pad Patent Term Can't Be Grandfathered
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