Patent & IP news for February 14, 2010

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Patent & IP Blogs

post image A Comment on the Vires of 'The Protection, Conservation and Effective Management of Traditional Knowledge relating to Biological Diversity Rules, 2009 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Earlier this year the National Biological Authority, had invited comments on - The Protection, Conservation and Effective Management of Traditional Knowledge relating to Biological Diversity Rules, 2009 (TK Rules, 2009). The rules have been drafted by ...

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post image Letter from AmeriKat I - DoJ v Google Book Settlement from ipkitten.blogspot.com


The AmeriKat has been a bit AWOL the past few weeks due to her recent onslaught of LPC exams this month. She has made an interim appearance just in time for Valentine’s Day to ...

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post image Letter from AmeriKat II - Bits 'n Pieces from ipkitten.blogspot.com


An Almighty Wind – Last week General Electric, the largest maker of wind turbines in the US, filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas federal court against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited. A GE spokesperson stated that ...

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post image Soros Sells Back Film Rights to Viacom: Did I Get It Right? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Whenever I read a news summary of a transaction involving material IP assets, I try to understand the commercial and financial interests lying behind the deal. This is especially so in the motion picture business ...

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Master's in Intellectual Property Law :Opportunities from spicyipindia.blogspot.com



Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), School of Law , in association with Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia has launched a first of its kind Master’s Programme in Intellectual Property Law (MIPL). A two ...

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UAH Bishop matter and biotechnology start-ups from ipbiz.blogspot.com

from the NYT:

The shootings on the university campus [University of Alabama/Huntsville] opened a window into the pressure-cooker world of biotechnology start-ups, where scientists often depend on their association with academia for a leg ...

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Abraham Lincoln and a different kind of patent from ipbiz.blogspot.com

from the Orange County Register :

You can see it clearly in his [Lincoln's] neat, upright flowing signature on the document that returned Mission San Juan Capistrano to the Catholic Church on March 18, 1865 ...

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Left with no choice- IPAB just standing around from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

My response to this post by Swaraj may take a little while - one needs to brush up on one's fundamentals in economics before putting forth a sound argument to counter his fancy graphs :-)

However ...

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To Stay or Deny? Recent Motions to Stay Proceedings Pending Reexamination and USPTO Statistics from www.ipwatchdog.com

Only one court (District of Minnesota) seemed to give much consideration to the argument that plaintiff would be unduly prejudiced by defendant’s continuing allegedly infringing activity during the stay. One court acknowledged that a ...

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Patent Profile: NexBio Granted U.S. Patent for Flu Therapeutic from www.patentdocs.org

By James DeGiulio -- Last week, NexBio, Inc. announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,645,448, entitled "Class of Therapeutic Protein Based Molecules." The '448 patent, issued January 12, 2010, is the company ...

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