Internet citations: the EPO gets up-to-date from ipkitten.blogspot.com A reader has kindly drawn to the IPKat's attention to a 7-page document from the European Patent Office, published in the Official Journal EPO 8/9 2009 (click
here for full text): it's ...
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Can Branding Save Motorola's Handset Business? from ipfinance.blogspot.com The handset, and more particularly, the smartphone industry, is particularly interesting from the IP point of view. I can think of no consumer hi tech industry in recent times where there is such a variety ...
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Friday forever! from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's almost everyone's favourite day of the week, time to check out the IPKat's ever-growing list of forthcoming events in the left-hand side bar of his weblog. There's so much on ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Funds For US State Dept. Global IP Enforcement Training from www.ip-watch.org The United States State Department has received requested funding to operate 11 projects totalling nearly $4 million in fiscal year 2009 “combat transnational crime and promote the protection of intellectual property rights worldwide,” according to ...
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Why Have Software Patents and Not Literary Ones? from www.iposgoode.ca Software patents have been criticized frequently in recent years for a multitude of reasons. Computer programmers argue that they can make programming impossible for both commercial and for non-profit projects. Some analysts have noted that ...
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Seinfeld defends/wins copyright infringement case from ipbiz.blogspot.com Jessica Seinfeld, wife of Jerry, successfully defended in SD NY against a copyright infringement suit brought by Missy Chase Lapine.
In terms of bad reportng, note the text:
The judge in New York threw out ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
BIO on patent reform 2009 from ipbiz.blogspot.com PatentDocs has the following text:
Andrew Noyes from Congress Daily asked about patent reform, and Brent Delmonte, BIO's Vice President for Governmental Relations said that BIO hopes for support for the Senate bill, a ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
"Catch and release" model is catching from ipbiz.blogspot.com Recall the recent flurry of media coverage over the "catch and release" model of Intellectual Ventures? [IPBiz:
Intellectual Ventures' "catch and release" gambit]
Allied Security Trust is doing a similar thing.
From Ars Technica:
Zemlin ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Withholding Documents Concerning Plaintiff's Standing Warrants $335,000 Sanction from docketreport.blogspot.com Following the court's dismissal of plaintiff's claims on the basis of lack of standing, the court awarded defendant $335,000 in fees and costs incurred litigating the standing issue as a sanction for ...
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World Patent Court? You're off your trolley ... from patlit.blogspot.com The best thing to come out of the IPKat's recent Dilbert post ("Not enough to make a Kat laugh ..."
here) was the anonymous posting of an item the Hemi Patent Sketch. Its subject-matter is ...
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The Meaning of “Patented Invention” in 35 U.S.C. § 271(f) from www.ipwatchdog.com In the 1972 case of Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp, a bare majority of the Supreme Court ruled that exporting three separate boxes of parts that could be assembled abroad into a patented deveining ...
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IP, Technology And The Next Green Revolution For Africa from www.ip-watch.org Achieving poverty alleviation, particularly in rural areas, will require aid to agriculture, on which three-quarters of the world's poorest depend for their livelihoods. Intellectual Property Watch asked Kanayo Nwanze of the International Fund for ...
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Professor Aarti Rai to the Patent Office? I Sure Hope Not! from www.ipwatchdog.com I wish I had some inside information to pass along, but I do not. All I can seem to come up with is unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo, but the report the other day from Patently-O ...
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Federal Circuit Vacates Damage Award Against Microsoft from inventivestep.net The Federal Circuit today vacated a damage award of $358 million against Microsoft in Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. The court ruled that the jury’s damages verdict lacked sufficient evidentiary support. Many in ...
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IgniteOKC – Leadership Committee Meeting from dunlapcodding.com Want to be a part of something cool in Oklahoma City? Well – come help us prepare for IgniteOKC. We will provide some snacks and drinks – you provide your brain and creativity. What is Ignite, you ...
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Inventors Digest Extends Deadline for Teen Essay Contest from www.ipwatchdog.com About 6 weeks ago I mentioned that Inventors Digest was holding an essay contest for teens in order to celebrate National Inventors Month, which is in August ever year. Realizing that the timing was conflicting ...
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