Breaking News - Gilead files tenofovir appeal at IPAB from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Close on the heels of falling prey to pre-grant oppositions in August-September 2009 for two of its key anti-retroviral drugs, Gilead Sciences, Inc., has filed an appeal with the Intellectual Property Appellate Board in India ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Federal Circuit Lowers Bar for Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction When Patentee is a Holding Company from www.patentlyo.com Hewlett-Packard v. Acceleron 09-1283.pdf (Fed. Cir. 2009) Acceleron's patent No. 6,948,021 covers a hot-swappable server blade. In September 2007, Acceleron wrote to "call [HP's] attention to the referenced patent." HP ...
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Europe Moves Toward European Patents and European Patent Court from www.patentlyo.com The European Union (EU) is working toward a major reform of its patent laws that would create a European Patent and a European Patent Court for handling patent infringement litigation. Although the European Patent Office ...
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India's First Innovation Czar and the Creation of an Innovation Eco-System from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Dr Sam Pitroda, a leading innovator, entrepreneur and thought leader was recently appointed as India's first
Innovation Czar, a post curiously titled as the “Infrastructure, Innovation and Information” adviser to the Prime Minister. Perhaps ...
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48% of surveyed students admit to cheating from ipbiz.blogspot.com Within an article by Amy Dalrymple of INFORUM, note the text:
Rutgers University professor Don McCabe has done surveys for the Center for Academic Integrity each year since 2002 on the issue.
His results show ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Does the Patent Act Include a Written Description Requirement Separate From the Enablement Requirement? from inventivestep.net This afternoon, the 11 active judges of the Federal Circuit will hear argument in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co. The issue is whether 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1 contains a written description ...
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Does the Patent Act Include a Written Description Requirement Separate From the Enablement Requirement? from inventivestep.net This afternoon, the 11 active judges of the Federal Circuit will hear argument in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co. The issue is whether 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 1 contains a written description ...
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48% of surveyed students admit to cheating from ipbiz.blogspot.com Within an article by Amy Dalrymple of INFORUM, note the text:
Rutgers University professor Don McCabe has done surveys for the Center for Academic Integrity each year since 2002 on the issue.
His results show ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Google: Don't be evil? from ipbiz.blogspot.com Included in an article titled
Google - from friend to foe? is a reference to the Google Books/copyright issue:
Google Books is a prime example, Rob Enderle said. It's an open debate whether the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Marshall, TX Treating Plaintiffs So-So in 2009 from 271patent.blogspot.com From Michael Smith's
Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice Weblog:
Last Thursday a Marshall jury in Judge Ward's court in Fiber Systems Int'l v. Applied Optical, 2:06cv473 returned a defense ...
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USPTO To Fast-Track "Green" Patents from 271patent.blogspot.com From today's USPTO press release:
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will pilot a program to accelerate the examination of certain “green” technology patent applications, Secretary Gary Locke ...
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USPTO Will Speed Reviews Of Green Tech Patents from www.ip-watch.org The United States Patent and Trademark Office today announced a pilot programme to accelerate examination of some environmental technology patent applications to speed commercialisation. The US-oriented initiative was announced by US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke ...
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Don't protect your ideas - thoughts on Seth Godin's post from duncanbucknell.com Seth Godin paints a pretty picture of the abuse of intellectual property rights in his recent post. (Re-produced below without permission, but in order to spread the idea, as I'm sure he would agree ...
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Exergen v. Wal-Mart: Raising the Pleading Requirement for Inequitable Conduct from www.lawupdates.com By Yuri Mikulka and Thomas F. Zuber || The Federal Circuit has established a heightened pleading requirement for claims of inequitable conduct, requiring more than “a mere showing that art or information having some degree of ...
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