Patent & IP news for March 16, 2010

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post image Art as Art; Art as Income Stream; Art as Collateral from ipfinance.blogspot.com

It is unusual when a photography collection becomes the focus of a publicized debt workout. It is for that reason that we have been following for some time the financial woes of the well-known photographer ...

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

PTO General Counsel James Toupin is retiring this week. Raymond Chen is the Deputy GC and Solicitor. Next Week's Miami-Based IP Law Summit (March 25-27). Speakers include top IP counsel from Home Depot, Alcoa ...

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post image Supreme Court Rules On Copyright Registration: What Does It Mean? from iplitigator.huschblackwell.com

I previously wrote that I was hoping the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick would finally answer the question of whether copyright registration is necessary for courts to have ...

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post image Google AdWords Rapid Response Seminar from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Does the sale and use of AdWords infringe the rights of brand owners who have registered those words as trade marks in Europe? We'll soon find out! Next Tuesday, 23 March the Court of ...

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post image Be polite, damn it from duncanbucknell.com

tompeters! latest book is fun, especially if you're listening to him read it to you in the audio version.  Just like being in one of his seminars with him prowling the room and practically ...

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post image Be polite, damn it from thinkipstrategy.com

tompeters! latest book is fun, especially if you're listening to him read it to you in the audio version.  Just like being in one of his seminars with him prowling the room and practically ...

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post image Checklists Could be the Key for Managers to Understand Whether Their Company’s Patents are Worth the Paper They’re Written On from ipassetmaximizerblog.com

Checklists can reveal whether a company's patent team is obtaining quality patents

My friend Mary Adams of the Smarter Companies blog posted a brief article about Atul Gawande’s recent book The Checklist Manifesto ...

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SC reiterates the need for speedy trials of IPR cases from patentlyyours.co.cc

The Supreme Court of India has once again stressed the need for speedy disposal of Intellectual property cases. This need was reiterated by Justice Markandey Katju while disposing off Cadila’s appeal against the ex-parte ...

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Le Conseil des ADPIC envisage la tenue d’un atelier sur un amendement relatif à la santé publique from www.ip-watch.org

Le groupe Propriété Intellectuelle de l’Organisation Mondiale pour le Commerce s’est réuni plus brièvement que prévu, le 2 mars 2010, pour discuter d’un éventuel atelier sur un amendement visant à faciliter l ...

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Some Consideration of Patents and Traditional Knowledge Implications: The 2009 UN Report on the Status of Indigenous Peoples from www.iposgoode.ca

Michael McClurg is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. In late 2009, the United Nations Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples released its report ...

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For Patent Plaintiffs, Divided (Infringement) Means Conquered from eyesonip.blogspot.com

How much control do you have over visitors to your e–commerce web site?  As any IT professional working in the retail world will likely tell you, not much.  Therein lies a potential escape hatch ...

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What's really going to happen with S.515's version of patent reform from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a piece titled Big Tech Can't Get Its Way in D.C., the Recorder tries to explain what happened with S.515, and what might happen in the House:

Much smaller changes have ...

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Manufacturing Innovations from www.athenaalliance.org

Who says manufacturing isn't innovative. Here is a list of Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME):

2010
• Printed RFID Tags
• Nanoporous Silicon Electrodes
• High-Temperature, High-Power ...

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IP as trade retaliation heats up again -- US v Brazil from www.athenaalliance.org

As I mentioned last September, the WTO ruling on US cotton subsidies allows Brazil to impose counter penalties on US trade. Those countermeasures could include penalties on services and intellectual property. Now Brazil has announced ...

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WIPO Announces 23rd Trademark Standing Committee Session from dailydoseofip.blogspot.com

On April 19-22, 2010, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be hosting its Twenty-Third Session of the "Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs, and Geographical Indications" in Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting ...

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Servant Whose Participation Exceeds "Mere Direction or Control" by Master May be Liable for Joint Infringement from docketreport.blogspot.com

Defendants' renewed motion for summary judgment regarding joint and several liability was denied despite the two defendants' claims that they were "servants" and could not be found liable under "respondeat inferior." "Plaintiff responds that 'one ...

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California Highway Patrol to weigh on on Sikes' Prius story from ipbiz.blogspot.com

First Toyota challenged Sikes' story on the runaway Prius; now the California Highway Patrol is challenging Toyota's account:

From the WSJ online:

California Highway Patrol spokesman Brian Pennings said there are "some serious discrepancies ...

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Building new models for innovation and R&D requires effective collaboration from www.iposgoode.ca

Dr. Stan Shapson is Vice-President Research and Innovation at York University.  I recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, which centred on the ...

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The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of a new book edited by Lionel Bently (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge), Catherine W Ng (Lecturer of Law ...

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SyncIDS Helps with IDS Filings from www.patentbaristas.com

I received information from SyncIDS on their new, on-line service that provides patent practitioners with a prior art database for filing Information Disclosure Statements with the U.S. Patent Office. When new documents or matters ...

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The digital economy is all about the content from intangitopia.blogspot.com

Yesterday I and about 100 other people attended a seminar here in London, jointly arranged by Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) and the Institute of Computer and Communications Law. The focus was the ...

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Vacating an Invalidity Rulings as a Condition of a Negotiated Settlement from www.patentlyo.com

Block Financial v. LendingTree (W.D. Mo. 2010) [File Attachment: Block.v.LendingTree.Invalidity.pdf (25 KB)] [File Attachment: DismissalReq.pdf (16 KB)] In 2001, Block Financial sued LendingTree for infringement of its US Patent ...

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PLI Patent Bar Review Spring/Summer Tour 2010 from www.ipwatchdog.com

It is about that time of the year where our calendar really starts to heat up. This course, which happens every year during law school spring break, finds us in Chicago during St. Patrick's ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat was amused to receive a little verse from the excellent and ever-entertaining Tony McStea (Senior Patent Attorney, Global Patents, Givaudan Schweiz AG) who writes:
"When I saw the mail today [this being the ...

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Introducing Eyes on eCom Law from eyesonip.blogspot.com

While we focus our attention at Eyes on IP on those recent developments in IP litigation that matter most to the business community, some of our colleagues have launched a sister blog, which tracks legal ...

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Patents AND Diane Neal appear in NCIS "Jurisdiction" episode from ipbiz.blogspot.com

M. Allison Hart may have competition as a love interest for Gibbs in NCIS.
Diane Neal (of "Law & Order SVU" fame) guest starred as CGIS Special Agent Abigail Borin in the "Jurisdiction" episode.

Patents come ...

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Katie Couric does stem cells on 16 March 2010 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

CBS News and Katie Couric did embryonic stem cells on March 16, with the usual promise of things to come, and not much about what already has happened. The last sentence did mention something about ...

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May an examiner search under any tree and under any rock? from www.717madisonplace.com

The recent case of In re Thorpe, 2010-1021 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2010) concerned the issue of whether the cited references in a 103 rejection were non-analogous art.  Judge Gajarsa took the opportunity at oral ...

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