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News
November 2003 -
The first storyline patent applications are submitted to the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.
September
2004 - PlotPatents.com
is launched. By October, PlotPatents.com appears in the top
search results of most major internet search engines when
searching "storyline patents" or "plot patents."
November 2004 - A widely read intellectual property law
journal has agreed to publish Mr. Knight's law review article
entitled, "A Potentially New IP: Storyline Patents."
December 2004 - "A Potentially
New IP: Storyline Patents" is published in The Journal of
the Patent and Trademark Office Society, Vol. 86, No. 11.
July 2005 - Knight and Associates issues its first
press release.
August 2005 - Forbes.com publishes
"Box Office Patents."
November 2005 - The U.S. Patent Office publishes the first
and
second Storyline Patent applications (click
here to search the official Patent Office database of
published applications). Knight and Associates
issues its second press release.
Storyline Patents are covered in various sources, including the
National Law Journal.
December 2005 - The U.S. Patent Office publishes the third
and
fourth Storyline Patent applications (click
here to search the official Patent Office database of
published applications).
January 2006 - The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
(JOLT) publishes
"Pure Fiction: The Attempt to Patent Plot."
August 2006 - A widely read intellectual property law
journal has agreed to publish Mr. Knight's law review article
entitled, "A Patently Novel
Plot: Fiction, Information, and Patents in the 21st Century."
October 2006 - The Motion Picture Association of America,
concerned that Storyline Patents might indeed be patentable under
current law,
submitted comments to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
regarding Patent Subject Matter Eligibility.
December 2006 -
"A Patently Novel
Plot: Fiction, Information, and Patents in the 21st Century"
is published in IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review,
Vol. 47, No. 2.
June 2007 - In a first response from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, further information is requested regarding known
prior art and legal precedent for the allowability of Storyline
Patents.
April 2008 - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issues
first Office Actions on the Storyline Patent cases.
Surprisingly, no prior art is cited. The primary basis of
the rejections is constitutional.
May 2008 - Fordham Law Review publishes
"Are Storylines Patentable? Testing the Boundaries of Patentable
Subject Matter." Hollywood suddenly gets scared that the
legal community may be taking Storyline Patents seriously.
Hollywood considers jumping off bridge.
August 2008 - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issues
final Office Actions on the Storyline Patent cases. Mr.
Knight will likely wait to respond until a decision is made in the
case of In re Bilski.
September 2008 -
The Mobius Strip, the world's first
patent-pending novel, is published by Knight Publications and is
made available as a free downloadable eBook. Knight and
Associates issues its third press release.
November 2008 - After the Federal Circuit's confusing
holding in In re Bilski (Mr. Knight's
analysis), Notices of Appeal
are filed on the pending Storyline Patent cases to the Board of
Patent Appeals and Interferences.
January 2009 - Appeal briefs are filed on the pending
Storyline Patent cases to the Board of Patent Appeals and
Interferences.
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