Patent & IP news for October 6, 2009

Now we know: Austria is as significant as bits of Benelux from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat, pink-faced and fluffy-tailed after a day away from the smoke of Central London, has just encountered Case C‑301/07, PAGO International GmbH v Tirolmilch registrierte Genossenschaft mbH, today's ruling by the ...

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Looking for a new suit? Try Woolworths from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Apple has attacked the validity of Woolworth's trade mark application in Australia arguing that their green stylized W-shaped apple is too similar to Apple's own corporate logo. In 2008 Australia's largest supermarket ...

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Blow Job from www.patenthawk.com

GE blew Mitsubishi into the ITC for infringing wind turbine patents 5,083,039; 6,921,985; and 7,321,221. Mitsubishi was initially found in violation for '039 and '985. Then the political breeze ...

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Eastern District of Texas Court Finds "Close Issue of Claim Construction" Supports JMOL of No Willful Infringement from www.grayonclaims.com

Centocor Ortho Biotech, Inc. v. Abbott Labs., Case No. 2:07-CV-139-TJW (E.D. Tex. Oct. 1, 2009)

In this case, the defendants ("Abbott") moved for judgment as a matter of law ("JMOL") of no willful ...

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Excavate fossils to make your reservation - is IP lost in translation? from duncanbucknell.com

Working on upcoming trips to Japan, China, Singapore and Malaysia and a few clunky machine translations later, it made me stop and think about the IP communication issue from another angle.

We've often talked ...

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If (legal) knowledge is wealth, then you can get it for free now! from spicyipindia.blogspot.com





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The India Business Law Journal is a monthly magazine (published 10 times a year) that specializes in providing detailed and comprehensive analysis of the legal, financial and regulatory scenario challenges that feature prominently ...

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The Poll Kat from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat thought he'd just report on how a couple of weblog-driven opinion polls are going.


If you take a peek at the left-hand sidebar of the IPKat's own weblog you can see ...

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New Text Shows Delegates Must Overcome Conceptual Differences On IP, Climate from www.ip-watch.org

BANGKOK – Delegates gathered in Thailand to try and pull together a slow-moving UN negotiation on a plan to fight climate change have yet to bridge fundamental conceptual differences on key issues, including intellectual property. The ...

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"Course Hero" and copyright infringement from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Remember when students went after Turnitin over copyright issues?
[see
Turnitin beats students over copyright issue in ED Va]

Now, profs may be going after "term paper mills / outline factories" on the internet over copyright ...

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Big Pharma deals with Baucus on health care reform from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Bloomberg notes:

New York-based Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies overcame attempts to torpedo a deal they made with Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Obama that limits their contribution to the overhaul to $80 billion ...

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Anti-Trust and Misuse Defenses Severed and Stayed Pending Resolution of Infringement Issues from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted plaintiffs' motion to bifurcate the infringement claims from defendant's antitrust and patent misuse claims, and to stay discovery on the antitrust and misuse claims. "With respect to conserving judicial economy, defendants ...

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India, "Extreme Innovation," and "Reverse Innovation" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

RA Mashelkar, former head of India's CSIR [see IPBiz post Dr. R.A.Mashelkar of CSIR ] is now working on an innovation team of Ambani's Reliance Industries directed to "extreme innovation." Mr. Ambani ...

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No Touchdown for Jim Brown in Suit Against Electronic Arts from www.iposgoode.ca

Alex Gloor is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A recent District Court decision out of California dismissed the case of NFL Hall of Fame player Jim Brown against video games giant Electronic ...

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The Future of Business Method and Software Patents? Keep Your Eyes on the Bilski Case from sharpip.blogspot.com

The pending Supreme Court case of Bilski v. Kappos may do much to clarify the role of "business method" and software patents in the U.S. The In re Bilski case added some new hurdles ...

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Obama Friend Appointed to be Deputy at USPTO from www.ipwatchdog.com

On Friday, October 2, 2009. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke appointed Sharon Barner to the post of deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Schmid ...

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Ariad v. Lilly Appellant's Brief and Follow-On Biologics from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

Ariad's brief in this important Federal Circuit en banc rehearing of Araid v. Lilly, which asks the court to consider revising or perhaps completely eliminating written description as a separate requirement of patentability is ...

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Supreme Court Indicates Interest in International Exhaustion Case from www.patentlyo.com

Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A. (Supreme Court 2009) The Supreme Court has asked the Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the Obama Administration’s view on this pending international copyright exhaustion case ...

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Expanding First Action Interview Pilot Program from www.patentlyo.com

“Washington — The Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it is expanding its First Action Interview Pilot Program in which an applicant is entitled to an interview with the ...

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Free Patent CLE Seminars on Searching and Illustrations from inventblog.com

I stumbled on two free 1.0 hour webinar CLEs being offered by “Legal Advantage” (a legal support services firm (they offer patent searching and other services): Best Practices in Prior Art Search — How can ...

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Patent Reform: Obama Favors Major Changes to Patent Law from www.ipwatchdog.com

There has been something brewing for at least a couple weeks now on the patent reform agenda, and I have been trying to make sense of it all. I am not sure I have my ...

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns state anti-counterfeiting law from ipspotlight.com

The Pennsylvania Trademark Counterfeiting Act, codified at 18 Pa.C.S. 4119, established trademark counterfeiting as a crime under Pennsylvania state law. Violations of the law could result in penalties of up to three times ...

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USPTO Fees: Look for Increases from www.patentlyo.com

Gary Locke (Secretary of Commerce) has again indicated the Obama Administration’s support for the pending patent reform bill S. 515. [Letter]. The letter also suggests that the PTO should be given authority to raise ...

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First Action Interview Pilot Program Expanded by the USPTO from 271patent.blogspot.com

Lat week the USPTO announced that it is expanding its First Action Interview Pilot Program, where an applicant is entitled to an interview with the patent examiner prior to the first office action on the ...

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