Patent & IP news for March 21, 2010

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post image False Marking: Lobbying against the Senate Bill from www.patentlyo.com

A battle over the false marking statute is rising. The currently pending patent reform bill (S.515) would severely weaken, . In a recent press release, the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) has argued that the statute ...

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Design Patents and Repair Parts from www.patentlyo.com

On Monday, March 22, 2010, the House of Representatives is holding hearings on Design Patents and Automobile Replacement Parts. Even when they offer no technologic advantage, many automobile body parts are protected through design patent ...

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False Marking: Lobbying against the Senate Bill from www.patentlyo.com

A battle over the false marking statute is rising. The currently pending patent reform bill (S.515) would severely weaken, . In a recent press release, the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) has argued that the statute ...

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Design Patents and Repair Parts from www.patentlyo.com

On Monday, March 22, 2010, the House of Representatives is holding hearings on Design Patents and Automobile Replacement Parts. Even when they offer no technologic advantage, many automobile body parts are protected through design patent ...

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Posner plagiarism fallout reaches Facebook from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a piece titled Posner Plagiarism Flap Disturbs Garden's Peace, JANIE CAMPBELL describes how the Posner "Miami Babylon" plagiarism flap entered the Miami Beach Botanic Gardens and thence to Facebook:

The real sparks came ...

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Bringing back the old favors change to the new? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Finance yahoo (by way of TheStreet) talks about brand loyalty and innovation.

The setup was WalMart bringing back some brands that it had previously removed from its shelves:

Earlier this month, Wal-Mart returned Clorox's ...

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IP Blogroll Updated from inventblog.com

I’ve updated my IP Blogroll to include more of the IP blogs that I read every week.  It is my personal “Best IP Blogs” list. The blogroll can be found here:  http://inventblog.com ...

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James Lewis gives "lawyerly" advice to the journal Science from ipbiz.blogspot.com

James Lewis concludes a piece in MND with a warning for the journal Science:

If Science wants to save its last shred of credibility it would be far better off keeping completely quiet on global ...

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Predicting before, or analyzing after? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

On 14 March 2010, "60 Minutes" had a piece on a new book by Michael Lewis:

His new book, called "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," comes out later this week and it explains ...

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Aram Saroyan Sues Over Copyright Ownership Of “Come On A My House” Song from www.iptrademarkattorney.com

Los Angeles, CA – William Saroyan, the Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author and screenwriter, co-wrote “Come On-A My House” with his cousin Ross Bagdasarian, the creator of “Alvin and the Chipmunks.” Saroyan’s son ...

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Paris Court revokes granted European Software Patent from www.tangible-ip.com

One of our interests on Tangible IP is the never ending story of software patents. Just to recap: the European Patent Office is currently considering the degree to which computer-implemented inventions are patentable. On the ...

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False Marking: Starbucks Coffee Cup Insulator from www.patentlyo.com

I am at Barnes & Noble in Columbia Missouri drinking a Starbucks Brand latte. My cup is insulated with a removable corrugated cardboard insulator that is marked with U.S. Patent. No. 5,205,473. By ...

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False Marking: Starbucks Coffee Cup Insulator from www.patentlyo.com

I am at Barnes & Noble in Columbia Missouri drinking a Starbucks Brand latte. My cup is insulated with a removable corrugated cardboard insulator that is marked with U.S. Patent. No. 5,205,473. By ...

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How to respond when the Examiner says "cannot show nonobviousness by attacking references individually" from allthingspros.blogspot.com

In my practice, the most common type of § 103 rejection is one in which the Examiner alleges that specific elements are taught by Reference #1, and other elements are taught by Reference #2. In response ...

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Patent Searches: A Great Opportunity to Focus on What is Unique from www.ipwatchdog.com

The last thing you want to do is spend a lot of money preparing and filing an application when there is easy to find prior art that will prevent a patent, or at the very ...

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"Cold Case" episode alludes to junk science from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In the episode "Flashover" of "Cold Case" on 21 March 2010, a chemical engineer (character Dr. Goran Petrovic played by Elya Baskin) refers to the work of a Philly fire marshall ("Ray Crawford" played by ...

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"Say hello to YouTube" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

After a story about the "invention" of undergarments for dogs on March 22, one KYW commentator praised a thong, and another said of complimenting a thong on a dog, "say hello to YouTube."

One has ...

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