Patent standards litigation: a judge's view from patlit.blogspot.com Attending Day Two of the "
Standards and Patents" conference this morning, I was among the international audience of participants drawn from industry, standards organisations and private practice who were privileged to hear Mr Justice Floyd ...
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Incoming from www.patenthawk.com J. Michael Jakes had one helluva day being slammed with well-deserved shots from Supreme Court Justices in oral arguments Monday. Jakes represents Bernard Bilski in his quest for a patent on a ridiculously vague claim ...
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Sharpened from www.patenthawk.com Samsung has been stung by Sharp at the ITC over flat-panel LCD display patents. One of the Sharp patents in the case went to LCD brightness and refresh rate, and another to minimizing flickering. Samsung ...
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The UPLS: will it make a real difference? from patlit.blogspot.com The final session of todday's "
Standards and Patents" conference was dedicated to the Unified Patent Litigation System (UPLS, or "Upples" as I like to think of it), the new reality now that EPLA, the ...
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Bilski Oral Argument at the Supreme Court from 271patent.blogspot.com "If you're not confused, you're not paying attention." -- Tom Peters
Well, the analysis has started to roll in, and one thing is certain about the Bilski case: almost no one believes that the ...
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Book Review Monday: Moral Panics and Copyright Wars from www.patentbaristas.com It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to ...
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The next EPO President - the results are in from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has been running a poll on the four candidates in the running for the next President of the EPO (mentioned in previous posts
here and
here). The Administrative Council couldn't decide, so ...
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Robots.txt, again from ipbiz.blogspot.com At news.sky:
[Rupert Murdoch] cited the Wall Street Journal as an example of where only the first paragraph comes up on search engines and is free. Anything after that is subscription-based.
He is planning ...
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Justice Sotomayor in Bilski from ipbiz.blogspot.com An interchange in Bilski oral arguments:
MR. JAKES: That’s right. But they have also defined “technology” in such a way as to exclude business methods. And I don’t think we can do that ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Generics Producers: Criminal Sanctions Can Stop Counterfeit Drugs from www.ip-watch.org The European Generic medicines Association today issued a call for criminal sanctions rather than technology to stem the flow of counterfeit drugs. This will stop counterfeiters, not bar-codes, said Antonyia Parvanova, a member of the ...
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Farmers’ Advocacy Groups Rejected As Observers In Plant Rights Organisation from www.ip-watch.org The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has denied two farmers’ advocacy organisations observer status to its governing Council on grounds that they have not demonstrated expertise relevant to the ...
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A Bird’s Eye View of the Bilski Oral Argument from www.ipwatchdog.com Unlike Gene I did not really plan very well. I did not have credentials and am not (yet) a member of the Court. So, I was in line with the public. A patent centric public ...
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Bilski v. Kappos Oral Arguments: Supreme Skepticism Toward Method Patents from thepriorart.typepad.com For the first time in almost 30 years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considered the issue of what types of technology should be eligible for patent protection when it heard oral arguments in ...
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Kappos Blog & First-to-File from www.patentlyo.com Director Kappos has created a new blog that is available via the PTO website. The blog (titled the "Director's Forum") looks to be an excellent avenue for the Director to stay in-touch with patent ...
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Announcing the winners of Canada’s inaugural IP Writing Challenge from www.iposgoode.ca Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada are proud ...
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Red Hat on Patents (VIDEO) from www.patentlyo.com The video prominently features BU law professor and economist Michael Meurer whose book Patent Failure (with Jim Bessen) uses economic analysis to make the case that patents (particularly software patents) are a net drag on ...
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"Director's Forum: David Kappos' Public Blog" from ipbiz.blogspot.com In his entry of November 10, 2009, Director Kappos writes:
The legislation [patent reform] is the product of a series of compromises in the eyes of virtually every segment of the IP community. But it ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
USPTO Director Kappos’ Blog from inventblog.com David Kappos, Director of the USPTO is now publicly blogging! See: http://www.uspto.gov/blog/. I look forward to reading his posts. The fact that USPTO.gov has RSS feeds (for the blog) now ...
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My favorite quote from the Bilski v Kappos SCOTUS oral arguments from inventblog.com Most of the other patent blogs have been covering the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Bilski v. Kappos case. [e.g., Patently-O] My favorite quote from the case comes from Justice Scalia (page 16 ...
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