Patent & IP news for October 13, 2009

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post image Death is no obstacle: Another patent for Lemelson from www.1201tuesday.com

Jerome Lemelson died almost exactly 12 years ago, and today he received yet another patent. This one is the fourth -- and last -- in a chain of continuations going back only to 1996. That's forty ...

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post image Declaratory Judgment Standing: Must All Patent Owners be Joined? from www.patentlyo.com

In re KGK Synergize (Fed. Cir. 2009) (nonprecedential order) KGK’s patent No. 6,987,125 covers the use of polymethoxyflavone to treat cardiovascular disease and is co-owned by the US Government. (Trade Name Sytrinol ...

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post image Two bits of Jeremy news from ipkitten.blogspot.com

IPKat team member Jeremy is heaving a sigh of relief, now that the ninth edition of the Butterworths Intellectual Property Law Handbook, of which he is consultant editor, has finally been published. This is because ...

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post image Tuesday Titbits: Mashelkar, Correa and "Unnatural" Crimes from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

1. The Eco Times published an editorial of mine today on the Mashelkar vs Correa Controversy. I find it incredulous that Prof Correa himself has now trained his guns at Dr Mashelkar with a rather ...

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post image Memo on some UNCITRAL issues now available from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Ahead of tomorrow's seminar on the UNCITRAL proposals on secured interests in intellectual property rights (details here), a memorandum has been prepared which addresses some of the issues that are thought to cause concern ...

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The UK-IPO: trendy but pointless? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat has just noticed an amusing quote in a recent case that may have passed many of his readers by. In EI Du Pont Nemours & Co v United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office [2009] EWCA ...

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Changing Trends in Grant of Temporary Injunctions in IP Cases from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Last month, we had reported on the Indian Supreme Court's observations on parties in IP cases squabbling over temporary injunctions. Apparently, this view is shared by China's Apex Court as well. In a ...

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Sarkozy Government Allegedly Caught Red-Handed Infringing DVD Copyrights from www.ip-watch.org

While the French Constitutional Council is considering the constitutionality of the rabble-rouser HADOPI 2 law (IPW, Coopyright policy, 2 October 2009), pushed by the French government to authorise legal authorities to suspend internet access of ...

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Legal Conference Directors from www.patentbaristas.com

Job opening from American Conference Institute: Legal Conference Directors Are you an attorney or JD looking for an alternative career path? Are you intelligent, creative, resourceful and highly motivated? Do you enjoy the challenge of ...

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Assessing the Impact on Entrepreneurial Outcomes of Publicly Funded Business Advisory Services from www.iposgoode.ca

Douglas Cumming is an Associate Professor in Finance and Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Eileen Fischer is a Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University. In both ...

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Artmob: An Open-Source, Fair Dealing Content Management System for the Arts from www.iposgoode.ca

Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This past summer I was fortunate enough to work on Artmob, an interdisciplinary project here at York. Headed by Canada Research Chairs Rosemary Coombe ...

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Work in Progress: Navigating the New USPTO Website from www.ipwatchdog.com

Recently I went to USPTO.gov and like many others noticed that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has launched its new website. You may recall that on August 31, 2009, the beta test ...

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Air New Zealand criticizes IBM from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The National Business Review wrote of the IBM failure:

A failed oil pressure sensor on a backup generator could be the reason Air New Zealand’s computer system crashed on Sunday [11 Oct 09] for ...

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Microsoft Questions Strong Presumption of Patent Validity over Newly Found Prior Art from www.patentlyo.com

Lucent v. Gateway, Dell, and Microsoft (Fed. Cir. 2009) In its original opinion, the Federal Circuit vacated a $350+ million verdict against Microsoft based on improper damages calculations. On remand, the court must conduct a ...

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Does My Degree Qualify Me to Take the Patent Bar? from www.ipwatchdog.com

Some of the most popular pages month after month on IPWatchdog.com are our Patent Bar information pages, and given that I teach for the PLI Patent Bar Review Course we get a lot of ...

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SpicyIP Tidbit: PIL filed at the Madras HC against GI for Tirupati Laddu from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Sumathi ran quite a few interesting posts on the grant of GI to Tirupati Laddu. In the last post, a regular reader of the blog and a scientist from Kerala, Mr.Praveen Raj, posted in ...

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Partnering in Patents from just-n-examiner.livejournal.com

The AIPLA is in town again this week for their Annual Meeting.

As part of that Annual Meeting, they will be holding the 16th incarnation of Partnering in Patents, 'An Open Dialog Between the USPTO ...

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Protecting Regulatory Data in the Agricultural Industry from www.iposgoode.ca

George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In an article on Intellectual Property Watch, Javier Fernandez, a lawyer for CropLife Latin America, argues that better protection of regulatory data is necessary ...

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Authorship of "This is it" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

"This is it", billed as Michael Jackson's new song, is a song that Jackson had written with Paul Anka around the time of Thriller [ca. 1983] and which had previously been released as "I ...

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Ranking Government Patents from 271patent.blogspot.com

Government Agencies do not patent heavily, as they account for approximately 1% of all utility patenting per year. Many government agency patenting efforts are more for defensive purposes. However, governments contribute significantly to patenting innovations ...

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Chinese Gov't to Fund Foreign Patent Filings for SMEs from 271patent.blogspot.com

The Chinese Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced today that approximately 100 million yuan ($14.65 million) will be made available to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) applying for patents abroad. According to one report,
SMEs ...

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Lobbying Efforts Not Privileged With Respect to Specific Patent from docketreport.blogspot.com

Defendant's motion for a protective order quashing the deposition of its attorney who was defendant's policy counsel/legislative strategist was granted in part. "Defendant’s lobbying activities are generally protected by the First ...

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