Patent & IP news for January 11, 2010

A book of substantial gravity ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Let no-one assert that the IPKat's reading preferences are so blinkered that he's only interested in books that deal purely with intellectual property. He also sometimes takes a look at books that only ...

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Trade Dress Regsistration Rejected Out of Habit from www.patentlyo.com

The Foundation for a Christian Civilization, Inc. v. Mary Queen of the Third Millenium, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2010) If nothing else, the caption of this case is interesting. In 2009, the Trademark Trial and Appeal ...

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NUJS I(P)DEATE Series: Graham Dutfield on Traditional Medicines and IP from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The NUJS IP Chair and IPTLS present the first IP speaker in the "I(P)DEATE" series this year. Yes, owing to protests from certain quarters of engendering a classist bias, we've changed the ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Happy new week, everyone, from the IPKat, Merpel and the AmeriKat!


The IPKat's not sure why, but he discovers that the United States Library of Congress has selected his website for inclusion in its ...

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TXED Denies Stays Pending Ex Parte and Inter Partes Reexam from docketreport.blogspot.com

Defendant's motion to stay pending inter partes reexamination was denied based upon "the [trial setting in 10 months] and timing of the request for reexamination."

Zapmedia Services, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., 2-08-cv-00104 (TXED January ...

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Does The Status And Character Of The Litigant Or Litigant-Related Participant Influence Judicial Decision Making And Therefore The Result? from www.iposgoode.ca

Munyonzwe Hamalengwa is a Ph.D candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. There are millions of words that have been written both by conservative and progressive judges, lawyers, scholars, political scientists, social scientists, historians and ...

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Requesting Deadline Extension on BPAI Rules of Practice from www.ipwatchdog.com

On January 20, 2010, the Patent Office is hosting a 3-hour “roundtable” to discuss the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) regarding Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. USPTO published ...

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Helping Independent Inventors Find a Patent Attorney or Patent Agent from www.patentlyo.com

I occasionally receive requests from independent inventors and very small companies (or their non-patent attorney representatives) looking for patent prosecution representation from someone qualified, inexpensive, and open to a fixed-budget who will honest, quality work ...

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Patent Litigation Weekly: So What Do E.D. Texas Jurors Really Think? from thepriorart.typepad.com

This week: The Prior Art returns after its winter blogging break. As Microsoft gets set to scrap software found to infringe a Canadian company's software, The Prior Art discusses the case with three of ...

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Courts Reluctant to Stay Patent Litigation Pending Reexam from www.ipwatchdog.com

Over the last several months large law firms have opened Reexamination Practice Groups and even starting blogs dedicated solely or in part to exploring the issues presented by Reexamination. And as I am writing, PLI ...

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