Patent & IP news for February 10, 2010

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post image Carving out an exception to injunctive relief from patlit.blogspot.com

Virgin Atlantic v Premium Aircraft (t/a Contour) [2009] EWCA Civ 1513, a decision at the tail-end of last year from the Court of Appeal for England and Wales (Lords Justices Jacob and Patten, Mr ...

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post image Appealing A Stay Pending Reexamination? from www.patracer.com

2010-1142 Sorensen v. Dorman Products SD/CA 09-cv-1579 Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz Pantentee Sorensen (sometimes also spelled "Sorenson") attempts to appeal from the Order of Judge Barry Moskowitz granting defendants' motion to stay the case ...

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post image Reines and Greenblatt Publish "Interlocutory Appeals of Claim Construction in the Patent Reform Act of 2009, Part II" from www.grayonclaims.com

Today, Dennis Crouch's Patently-O blog published an article by Edward Reines and Nathan Greenblatt  of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP entitled "Interlocutory Appeals of Claim Construction in the Patent Reform Act of 2009, Part II ...

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post image No short-cut to passing-off where forgery alleged from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A couple of years ago, the IPKat seemed to come across cases involving applications for summary judgment almost every week; these days, however, applications for a knock-out order on the basis that the defendant hasn ...

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post image Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Official Journal of the European Union confirms, in its Information concerning the date of entry into force of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, that those two treaties ...

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post image Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 320: LegalZoom from www.patentlyo.com

Today, the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog is hosting a “Competition in Agriculture Blog Symposium.” Much of the focus will be on the interplay between antitrust and patent law in the world of genetically modified seeds ...

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post image Jinx for Blinxx from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Spotted recently on Thomson Reuters' Lawtel subscription service is the decision last week of Mr Justice Floyd (Chancery Division, England and Wales) in Blinxx UK Ltd v Blinkbox Entertainment Ltd.

Blinxx, which since 2004 had ...

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USPTO Closed on Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010 from www.patentdocs.org

By Sarah Fendrick -- On Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was closed due to weather. As a result of the closing, the USPTO will consider each of Monday ...

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Global warming academics as playground bullys? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Jillian Kay Melchior at Commentary gets into the "tribal" aspects of ClimateGate:

The leaked e-mails did not surprise [Ross] McKitrick [of Guelph]. He told me that scientists closely interacting with the IPCC had resorted to ...

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Interlocutory Appeals of Claim Construction in the Patent Reform Act of 2009, Part II from www.patentlyo.com

Edward Reines and Nathan Greenblatt have returned with an extension of their 2009 article on the proposed right of interlocutory appeals of claim construction. This new article considers the impact of the recent Supreme Court ...

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CAFC shuts down on February 10, 2010 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From the CAFC website:

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will be closed on Wednesday,
February 10, 2010 due to the continuing snow emergency in Washington, DC. For purposes of computation of time ...

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Data Privacy Day and an EU State of the (Privacy) Union from www.iposgoode.ca

Alex Gloor is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School January 28th was Data Privacy Day, in case you needed a reminder. This day, celebrated in Canada, the United States and 27 EU countries ...

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Cookies-Functional Web Browser was Ready for Patenting When Initial Draft of Source Code was Logged Into Repository from docketreport.blogspot.com

For purposes of the on-sale bar, a cookies-functional web browser was "ready for patenting" prior to the critical date of the patent-in-suit. Even though the web browser was not released until after the critical date ...

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TecSec Files Patent Infringement Suit Against IBM, SAP, SUN, eBay, Adobe, Cisco, Oracle, and Others from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from a February 9, 2010 PR Newswire release found at U.S. Politics Today: Hunton & Williams LLP and DiNovo Price Ellwanger & Hardy LLP filed a patent infringement suit on behalf of ...

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USPTO Notice of Document Faxed Upside Down. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Per a pair of articles recently published by Erik Sherman at BNet.com, found here and here, an applicant recently received the following notice when attempting to fax papers to the USPTO. Submitter United States ...

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December trade in intangibles -- and 2009 from www.athenaalliance.org

BEA's trade data for December showed an unexpected increase in the deficit, up to $40.2 billion from November's revised $36.4 billion. Our trade surplus in intangibles also went in the wrong ...

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The CIPO Announces Three New Updates from dailydoseofip.blogspot.com

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) recently announced a number of updates to its website and the type of information that is available to the public. On February 1, 2010, the CIPO announced (link HERE ...

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Return to normal? from www.athenaalliance.org

Today's press coverage of international trade news had an interesting take. For example, look at these excerpts from two stories in the New York Times: Trade Deficit Widened in DecemberRising demand for foreign goods ...

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Patent Office Remains Closed for February 10, 2010 from www.patentdocs.org

By Sarah Fendrick -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office remains closed today, February 10, 2010, due to weather. The USPTO will consider February 10, 2010 to be a "Federal holiday within the District of ...

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Google display for patent troll tracker from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Do the right search on Google for patent troll tracker and one gets, in return, a wheel and spokes image, with troll tracker / Cisco in the middle and spokes including Dennis Crouch and niro scavone ...

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Indian "Bayh Dole" and Parliamentary Committee Hearings from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

CH Unnikrishnan of the Mint has an excellent review of the recent Parliamentary (standing committee) hearings on the Indian Bayh Dole bill. As Unni rightly notes:

"In the first instance of its kind in Indian ...

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Inducing Infringement: Knowledge-of-Patent Element Satisfied by "Deliberate Indifference" from www.patentlyo.com

SEB (T-Fal) v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Part of the SEB decision revolved around the question of induced infringement. Under 35 U.S.C. 271(b) "[w]hoever actively induces infringement of a ...

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WTO Members To Consider Review Of TRIPS Public Health Amendment from www.ip-watch.org

A waiver to World Trade Organization rules intended to aid people in poor countries in gaining access to medicines has remained essentially unused in the over six-and-a-half years since it was put in place. On ...

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