Patent & IP news for May 4, 2024

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Cong. Collins <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Jeffries, and expert panel, will look a innovation policy and IP on May 8 in&nbsp;Washington from ipcloseup.com

WASHINGTON, DC –– What is innovation policy? What does it mean to U.S. competition and jobs? Who is responsible for it? These are among the questions that will be addressed at an afternoon briefing held ...

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post image Del Toro and The Shape of a&nbsp;Lawsuit from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On 4 March 2018, the Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro won the Academy Award both for Best Director and Best Picture for the movie “The Shape of Water”. Together with these two Academy Awards ...

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CAFC in SOPHOS LIMITED v. IANCU. PTAB's understanding of process found to be&nbsp;backwards. from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The outcome of SOPHOS LIMITED v. IANCU:


In this inter partes review, Finjan Holdings, Inc. challenged
various claims of Sophos Limited’s U.S. Patent
No. 8,776,218, which describes and claims computer
programs ...

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Oracle v. Google Again: The Unicorn of a Fair Use Jury&nbsp;Reversal from writtendescription.blogspot.com

It's been about two years, so I guess it was about time to write about Oracle v. Google. The trigger this time: in a blockbuster opinion (and I never use that term), the Federal ...

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Shelf is not a Place of Business Under Patent Venue&nbsp;Statute from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' alternative motion to transfer for improper venue because defendants did not have a regular and established place of business in the district. "The full extent of Defendants’ physical presence in the ...

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IGA National Conference – April&nbsp;17-19. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Innovation is the backbone of the U.S. economy. Who drives innovation? Individuals. This April, the recently formed not-for-profit Inventors Groups of America (IGA) will host two-dozen grassroots leaders for its inaugural three-day conference. At ...

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BREAKING: EU Commission publishes paper on consequences of Brexit on&nbsp;copyright from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat has just been alerted that the EU Commission has published today a document detailing the consequences of Brexit on UK copyright.

"Subject to any transitional arrangement that may be contained in a possible ...

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Oracle v. Google: The Federal Circuit goes all-in on copyright and&nbsp;software from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC (Fed. Cir. 2018) Read opinion Panel: O’Malley (author), Plager and Taranto* This is a huge decision on multiple levels, and the latest exchange in the ...

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Are We Running out of Trademarks? College Sports&nbsp;Edition from writtendescription.blogspot.com

As I watched the Kansas State Wildcats play the Kentucky Wildcats in the Sweet Sixteen this year, it occurred to me that there are an awful lot of Wildcats in the tournament (five, to be ...

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Blockchain patent applications doubled in 2017 to over&nbsp;1,200 from ipcloseup.com

1,240 blockchain patent applications were filed worldwide in 2017, up from 594 in 2016 and 258 in 2015.  Among the leading filers were Bank of America, MasterCard, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, JPMorgan, and IBM. According ...

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Global Health Funding Flows As WHO, Gavi, Global Fund&nbsp;Benefit from www.ip-watch.org

Actions by governments in recent days show funding for global health continues to be a priority for some countries. Geneva-based institutions and their programs around the world are among the beneficiaries.

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US Files WTO Case Against China For Violations Of Global Patent&nbsp;Rules from www.ip-watch.org

It has been considered for years that China has not been as strong as developed country trading partners in protecting intellectual property rights. Now, as China gains ground in building its own patent war chest ...

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EU competition commissioner Activistager going off the deep end with Google break-up&nbsp;talk from www.fosspatents.com

In Europe, there's already an abundance of signs of a continent in decline, with no realistic hope for a turnaround. Yet the EU--especially its executive government, the European Commission--keeps the bad signs coming. Here ...

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What You Can Do to Prevent Multiple Petitions (or How You Can Successfully File One) -- Part I: The PTAB's "Multiple Petition&nbsp;Study" from www.patentdocs.org

By George "Trey" Lyons, III -- As an endcap to a recent webinar Andrew Williams and I did on the most important PTAB stories from the past year, I addressed the effects that multiple, often serial ...

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