Patent & IP news for January 18, 2010

Breaking news: Nokia triumphs over IPCom from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A report from Reuters ("Nokia says UK High Court rules for it vs IPCom") declares that giant mobile phone-maker Nokia has claimed victory in its Patents Court (England and Wales) patent dispute with German company ...

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes from www.patentlyo.com

President Obama to the Forum on Moderninzing Government: “Believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and promoting innovation -- our patent office receives more ...

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Letter from AmeriKat I: Secrecy, ACTA and Google from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yesterday the AmeriKat enjoyed a refreshing early Sunday morning breakfast at The Modern Pantry with a dear old friend. Having not seen him in over six years, the catch-up that ensued was a whirlwind of ...

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Call for Papers: Conference on Emerging Issues of Law and Justice from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

SpicyIP is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on behalf of the organisers at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, of an upcoming conference on "Emerging Issues of Law and Justice ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Happy new week, everyone -- and let's make it a memorable one!


Via a Tweet from Duncan (IP ThinkTank) Bucknell comes news from TorrentFreak that the official logo for Hadopi -- the new French mechanism for ...

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Letter from AmeriKat II: Bits 'n' Pieces from ipkitten.blogspot.com

• Obama calls USPTO “Embarrassing” – Last Thursday President Obama told the Forum on Modernizing Government that "believe it or not, in our patent office -- now, this is embarrassing -- this is an institution responsible for protecting and ...

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HMRC on the attack on image rights? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

IP Finance thanks Angus Bujalski (Michael Simkins LLP) for the following post:

Amid the general outcry over Manchester United’s proposed £500 million bond issue, one of the many risk factors listed seems to have ...

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Wyeth v. Kappos. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Section 154(b)’s language is clear, unambiguous, and intolerant of the PTO’s suggested interpretation. (Fed. Cir. 2010, 09-1120) The CAFC affirmed summary judgment for Wyeth, holding that the USPTO has been calculating patent ...

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Madrid Privacy Standard Still in its Infancy from www.iposgoode.ca

Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In November of last year, as part of the 31st International Data Commissioners Conference, privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid ...

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"CBS Sunday Morning" in need of a history lesson? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Relatively recently [December 20, 2009], "CBS Sunday Morning" discussed the Louisiana Purchase, illustrating the purchase with a map which included Texas within the purchase. [IPBiz neglected to mention the error at the time.] The connection ...

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The temporal dimension of obviousness from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a post titled Was the Federal Circuit Feeling Guilty Over KSR? Study Suggests They Were, the 271Blog discusses material by one Ali Mojibi which discussed obviousness determinations by the CAFC during three time intervals ...

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The death of the slush pile? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

KATHERINE ROSMAN, writing on wsj.online, discusses the unwillingness of publishers to accept unsolicited manuscripts, for fear of later accusations of plagiarism.

Unsolicited material is termed slush, and Rosman wrote:

Now, slush is dead, or ...

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Why entrepreneurs hate lawyers from inventblog.com

Read: Venture Hacks blog on Top 10 reasons why entrepreneurs hate lawyers. Note: Eight of his reasons are about failures to communicate, the other two are about money. Related posts:Five by Five – The Entrepreneurs ...

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Himalaya horror story from New Scientist now questioned from ipbiz.blogspot.com

TimesOnLine has an update on a 1999 interview conducted by Fred Pearce, which was used by the IPCC in a benchmark report with a central claim that the world's glaciers were melting so fast ...

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