Are US copyright industries doing poorly? from duncanbucknell.com Apparently not! According to a recent report from the International Intellectual Property Association US copyright industries are in fact booming compared to US GDP. Ars Technica picked up the issue and highlighted it in this ...
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SpicyIP Tidbits: Anjali Prasad to be new DIPP JS from spicyipindia.blogspot.com It's all in the family: The incoming Joint Secretary (JS) of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), is going to be Anjali Prasad, who also happens to be the wife of the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Net profit saved though springboard loses its spring? from ipkitten.blogspot.com A few short but busy weeks have passed since the IPKat first received word of
Vestergaard Frandsen A/S and others v Bestnet Europe Ltd and others [2009] EWHC 657 (Ch) and its sequel at ...
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More talent on offer! from ipkitten.blogspot.com Another individual bubbling with talent and enthusiasm has invoked his friendship with the IPKat in order to cadge a handy plug with a view to a bit of career development. He writes:
"I have a ...
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Trumpet's Patent Attorney Website Framework from honoringtheinventor.blogspot.com The folks at Trumpet Marketing, in their 10th year in business, have a new Patent Attorney web framework that can be viewed at
http://demo.patentattorneywebsites.com, and a full list of features can be ...
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Michael Jackson's trade mark troubles from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat was interested to
read an Associated Press piece about the aftermath of Michael Jackson's death in IP terms. His passing, common with other celebrities who have died young, such as Elvis Presley ...
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Patent Quickie: Getting a Quick Patent Can Help from www.ipwatchdog.com It is no longer news that the United States Patent Office is hopelessly behind, and many inventors and the companies they work for are waiting extraordinary periods of time to even get a patent examiner ...
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Inter Partes Reexamination Estoppel does not Arise Until Reexamination Certificate Issues from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that defendant was "estopped under 35 U.S.C. § 315(c) from asserting in this action that the ‘605 patent is invalid based on grounds that ...
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Sun, Medimmune settle over amifostine (ETHYOL) from ipbiz.blogspot.com Sun Pharmaceuticals has settled with Medimmune (Astra Zeneca ) concerning the (Hatch-Waxman) patent dispute over Ethyol (amifostine), a drug which is used to reduce toxicities associated with chemotherapy and radiation in head and neck cancers. Sun ...
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BPAI Reverses Rejection of Metabolite Claim from inventivestep.net Last week, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) at the PTO reversed a rejection that the claims in a reexamination proceeding were invalid for obviousness in Ex parte Competitive Technologies, Inc. Normally, this ...
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Inventor Pitfalls: What is the Patentable Feature? from www.ipwatchdog.com As you can probably imagine, over the years I have had the opportunity to work with many inventors. In fact, over the years I have worked with or advised literally thousands of inventors, the overwhelming ...
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"List of troubled agencies" from ipbiz.blogspot.com An AP story of 4 Aug 09 titled
Post office looks at changing hundreds of offices noted
Just last week the Government Accountability Office [GAO] added the Postal Service to its list of troubled agencies ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Patent Statistics and Economic Development: Pros and Cons from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com Patent attorney Stephen Nipper and fellow blogger Chris Blanchard make some interesting comments on the use and misuse of patent statistics as measures of economic development and technological innovation. Both point to the case of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Cooper Cameron: First Inter Partes Reexam Appeal to the Federal Circuit from www.patentlyo.com Cooper Cameron v. SAFOCO (Fed. Cir. 2009) (2009-1435) (Reexam No. 95/000,017) The Cooper Cameron case looks to be the first inter partes reexamination appeal heard by the Federal Circuit. In a recent filing ...
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Green Patent Acquisitions: Rentech Buys SilvaGas Gasification Technologies from greenpatentblog.com Rentech, Inc. (Rentech) is a Los Angeles company that provides clean energy solutions including biomass gasification technology and processes for converting synthetic gas (syngas) into synthetic jet fuel and diesel fuels. Last month Rentech announced ...
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Another chapter in TiVo versus EchoStar, and another chapter in bad reporting of patent matters from ipbiz.blogspot.com In a post titled US Patent Office Initially Rules For Dish In TiVo Patent Case , Roger Cheng of the WSJ wrote:
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office initially ruled that TiVo's claims that ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
CAFC Pushes Back on PTO Actions from 271patent.blogspot.com In Re McNeil-PPC, Inc., 2008-1546, July 31, 2009
McNeil owns a patent claiming a tampon for feminine hygiene with a solid fiber core in which the core is denser than the radially projecting "ribs" and ...
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