The Costs of Confidentiality from ipfinance.blogspot.com As previously noted by Neil Wilkof on this blog, IP is only one aspect of a company’s competitive advantage, sometimes more crucial, sometimes less crucial to the success of a company’s activities. This ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
PTA Recalculation Submissions from www.patentlyo.com Although I have some problems with the USPTO's claim of authority to act, prudent patentees will submit a PTA reconsideration form for patents issued since August 1, 2009 that might be due additional patent ...
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Genuine use of a Community trade mark: MARQUES speaks out from ipkitten.blogspot.com Wasting no time in (i) issuing a decisive statement and (ii) agreeing with the position taken by the IPKat himself, European trade mark organisation
MARQUES has come down firmly against the controversial ruling of the ...
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Diabetic from www.patenthawk.com 5,820,551 claims single-use test strips for measuring blood sugar, useful for diabetics. Becton, Dickinson and Company threw down a declaratory judgment (DJ) action on competitor Abbott over a couple other patents. Abbott countered ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Once again it's Friday, time to take a break from the tests and traumas of the working week ... and to check the IPKat's fabled sidebar for news of forthcoming events.Reverting to Smarties ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Interim Procedure for Requesting a (Free) Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) Recalculation from the PTO from www.patentlyo.com In Wyeth v. Kappos, the Federal Circuit held that the USPTO has been miscalculating the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) owed to patentees due to delays in patent prosecution. The USPTO has now announced an interim ...
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Amended Pleading Adding a New Party Relates Back to the Original Filing Date for Purposes of the First-to-File Venue Rule from docketreport.blogspot.com Defendants' motion to dismiss under the first-to-file rule was granted where the court found that an amended complaint in a different lawsuit naming plaintiff party to that lawsuit related back to the original complaint. "[T ...
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British Virgin Islands Announces Intellectual Property Law Revision Plan from dailydoseofip.blogspot.com Earlier this month, the Financial Services Commission ("FSC") of the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") announced its plan to revise its existing intellectual property laws. As noted in a recent Mondaq article (available
HERE), the BVI ...
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Interpreting license agreements can be tricky from ipbiz.blogspot.com As seen in the diverging opinions by Judge SCHALL (majority) and Judge BRYSON (dissent) in Lawler v. Bradley, determining the meaning of provisions in licenses can be tricky, yielding consequences which are not foreseeable.
From ...
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USPTO Announces Interim Procedure for Patentees to Request Patent Term Adjustment Recalculation from www.patentabilityblog.com The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on January 28, 2010 that it will provide patentees with the ability to request a recalculation of their patent term adjustment without a fee or petition ...
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USPTO Provides Guidance For Claims Directed To Computer Readable Media from www.patentabilityblog.com In a notice dated January 26, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provided guidance for patent applicants who use claims directed to computer readable media (also called machine readable media and similar ...
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Chemistry plagiarism at University of Kentucky? from ipbiz.blogspot.com In an editorial in the Kernel, one finds the text:
according to a Jan. 25 Kernel article, reports of plagiarism are on the rise at UK. Students are especially being caught in the disciplines of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Rosetta Genomics issues press release over patent allowance from ipbiz.blogspot.com On 29 January 2010, Rosetta issued a press release about allowances by the USPTO of claims in two patent applications:
The first, covering human microRNA miR-21, was derived from the “Tuschl III” patent series that ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
USPTO Announces Interim Procedure for Patentees to Request Patent Term Adjustment Recalculation. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com Per this press release at the USPTO today: Procedure to Comply with the Federal Circuit Decision in Wyeth v. Kappos Regarding the Overlapping Delay Provision of 35 U.S.C.154(b)(2)(A) WASHINGTON ...
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Penalty for False Patent Marking from ocpatentlawyer.com Upon filing a patent application or issuance of a patent, a product disclosed by the patent application or covered by the claims of the issued patent may be marked either “Patent Pending” or “Patented” together ...
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IEEE opposing S.515 on patent reform from ipbiz.blogspot.com from a letter to Senator Reid from IEEE:
However, we are concerned that the patent reform language of S. 515 now before Congress, while well
intentioned, may not result in reducing the cost and latency ...
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