Disparaging patent specifications or your fish can stinks from ipkitten.blogspot.com Patent specifications often contain a part that explains the perceived disadvantages of the state of the art. In the case of the German patent
DE 43 32 545 for a tear-off lid of sheet metal ...
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The Google AdWords ruling: some comments on today's three cases from ipkitten.blogspot.com Here are some early comments on today's decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the three cases referred by the French Cour de Cassation for a preliminary ruling (noted by ...
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"I love IP Dispute Resolution because ..." from ipkitten.blogspot.com Earlier this week the IPKat offered readers the chance to win a free place to this week's
IP Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management conference, which is being held on
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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE, if you're attending the IPKat's Google AdWord Rapid Response seminar. With over 150 people registered, and a burgeoning reserve list,
tomorrow afternoon's seminar looks like being a huge event in ...
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The iTeddy® from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk I occasionally come across the patents of those who have appealed for finance on Dragons' Den. Here is another, Imran Hakim of Bolton, Lancashire, whose background is as an optometrist and "serial entrepreneur". His iTeddy ...
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"Film" includes the copyright in it for tax purposes, says Court of Appeal from ipfinance.blogspot.com Last week the Court of Appeal, England and Wales, in
Micro Fusion 2004-1 LLP v Revenue & Customs Commissioners [2010] EWCA Civ 260 (not yet on
BAILII, but noted on
Lawtel), had to consider the meaning ...
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Split Federal Circuit Panel Finds Preamble Language Not Limiting from www.grayonclaims.com Marrin v. Griffin (Fed. Cir. Mar. 22, 2010)
In this case, a split panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's finding of anticipation as the only distinguishing feature of the claimed invention ...
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How would Shakespeare construe the claim? from www.717madisonplace.com In the oral argument in WNS Holdings, LLC, v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 2009-1498 (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2010), the attorney for UPS used an analogy to Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” for purposes ...
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Fleshing-Out Design Patent Infringement Doctrine from www.patentlyo.com Crocs, Inc. v. US International Trade Commission (ITC) (Fed. Cir. 2010) ("In the matter of CERTAIN FOAM FOOTWARE") In 2006, the ITC began an investigation to determine whether knock-off imports of the iconic Crocs foam ...
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Top 10 IP Strategy practicalities from thinkipstrategy.com This top 10 comes from a lengthy tool that we use to review a client's intellectual property strategy and prepare an immediately actionable list of tasks, in priority order (do this today, these within ...
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Moral rights: no grey areas from ipkitten.blogspot.com A debate entitled "International Perspectives on Moral Rights", organised by the UK's Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy (
SABIP), was held this morning. The debate, according to a handy press release from SABIP ...
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Class 705 Issuances Rising from www.1201tuesday.com For searching purposes, the USPTO classifies patent applications according to their general subject matter. If you're the type to read the Patent Act cover-to-cover, you may already know that there is actually statutory authority ...
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Class 705 Issuances Rising from www.1201tuesday.com For searching purposes, the USPTO classifies patent applications according to their general subject matter. If you're the type to read the Patent Act cover-to-cover, you may already know that there is actually statutory authority ...
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Patent marking, bounty hunting? from patlit.blogspot.com Writing on the Intellectual Property Watch weblog, Foley & Lardner special counsel Phillip Articola ("Forest Group Decision Has Led To Great Rise In Patent Marking Lawsuits") discusses the US decision in
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House Passes Health Care Reform Bill -- Biosimilar Regulatory Pathway Makes Cut, Pay-for-Delay Ban Does Not from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Sunday night, the House of Representatives voted by a narrow 219-212 margin to agree to the version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) that the Senate ...
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Breaking news: Court of Justice rules on sale and use of AdWords from ipkitten.blogspot.com Hot off the press, the IPKat brings you news of this morning's ruling in Joined Cases C-236, 237 and 238/08
Google France, Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier; Google France v Viaticum Luteciel ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Indian IP Policy Formulation: From Confusion to Coherence from spicyipindia.blogspot.com We reported earlier on the promising appointment of
V Bhaskar, a distinguished civil servant to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the nodal agency for all matters relating to IP in India. We ...
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Fleshing Out Design Patent Infringement Doctrine from www.patentlyo.com Crocs, Inc. v. US International Trade Commission (ITC) (Fed. Cir. 2010) ("In the matter of CERTAIN FOAM FOOTWARE") In 2006, the ITC began an investigation to determine whether knock-off imports of the iconic Crocs foam ...
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WIPO Sees Decrease In Cybersquatting Complaints, Warns Of Domain Name Expansion from www.ip-watch.org The expansion of internet domain names as proposed is worrying to trademark owners as a significant number cybersquatting cases continue to be filed in the World Intellectual Property Organization dispute resolution system, WIPO said this ...
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Biodiversity Negotiators Seek To Finalise Draft Access, Benefit-Sharing Regime from www.ip-watch.org Delegates to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity today begin the last formal meeting before a late-2010 deadline to negotiate an agreement ensuring fair and equitable access to and benefits from the world’s scarce ...
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Forest Group Decision Has Led To Great Rise In Patent Marking Lawsuits from www.ip-watch.org The recent Forest Group case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has made it more financially viable for plaintiffs to sue for under the false marking patent statute ...
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New reports on economic development from www.athenaalliance.org I would like to draw your attention to two new reports on economic development in the knowledge economy. The first is a study of what universities have been doing successfully to promote economic development. The ...
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Counsel's Prior Representation of Defendant With Respect to IPO Due Diligence Did Not Warrant Disqualification from docketreport.blogspot.com Defendant's emergency motion to disqualify plaintiff's counsel was denied despite plaintiff's counsel's work on defendant's IPO. "The [defendant's] IPO matter involved due diligence tasks necessary to ensure proper disclosure ...
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Ariad v. Eli Lilly – The Written Description Requirement from 37thoughts.wordpress.com Monday, March 22, 2010, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its long-awaited en banc opinion in Ariad Pharms. v. Eli Lilly & Co. (No. 08-1248). In that opinion, the Court confirmed that 35 ...
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Health Care: The End of Freedom from hallingblog.com The passage of the health care bill is the end of the American experiment with freedom. This experiment with freedom created the greatest country in the world that propelled the world out of the Malthusian ...
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East Meets West 2010 from dailydoseofip.blogspot.com The European Patent Office (EPO) recently announced additional details regarding its East Meets West 2010 forum to be held from April 21-23, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. As noted by the EPO (main forum webpage
HERE ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
False Marking Causes and Statistics from docketreport.blogspot.com In the months following the Federal Circuit's decision in
Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co.,
Docket Navigator has collected a comprehensive group of over 150 patent cases alleging False Marking . Of these known ...
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Other IP Blogs from www.mxlegal.com Twitter | digg it | reddit | delicious | StumbleUpon
Steve Nipper, long-time patent-attorney blogger at the Invent Blog, recently published an excellent list of IP bloggers. Many on that list are already in my RSS feed, though I ...
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Ariad v. Eli Lilly: Pragmatism Prevails over Coherent Patent Doctrine from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com Yesterday in
Ariad v. Eli Lilly, a majority of the en banc Federal Circuit decided to retain both traditional and Lilly written description as distinct requirements of patentability. I filed an amicus brief in the ...
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Google Claims Ads Found Not Infringing Trademarks from www.ip-watch.org The European Court of Justice has ruled that Google did not infringe trademark law “by allowing advertisers to bid for keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trademarks,” according to the Google blog. The internet search engine ...
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Made in Italy Act from www.iposgoode.ca Giovanni Maria Riccio is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Salerno and is also an associate in the Mazzetti Rossi e Associate law firm in Italy. The Industrial Production Committee of the ...
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Digital future for the entertainment industry: Global Opportunities and Challenges from www.iposgoode.ca Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Thursday, March 4, IP Osgoode hosted a talk by Frances Seghers, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government Affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Her talk ...
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Not Losing the Forest for the Trees: Newman Concurs in Ariad from www.ipwatchdog.com Coming as no surprise, a majority of the en banc Federal Circuit just ruled in Ariad Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly &Co.; that there is there is a separate and distinct “written description” requirement in the ...
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Peer-To-Patent Australia Commences Second Phase from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Peer-to-Patent Australia (see
here and
here) is a joint initiative of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and IP Australia's patent office, and is designed to improve the patent examination process and the quality ...
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Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 327 from www.patentlyo.com Supreme Court: My sense is that Ariad v. Eli Lilly has essentially no shot for Supreme Court review unless the Ariad can do a great job of convincing the court that the written description requirement ...
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@USPTO: *Wyeth* didn’t you calculate my patent term correctly? from tacticalip.com by Daniel Davidson These days it’s all about that little extra. Why should it be any different when it comes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office? It was recently decided in Wyeth ...
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Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 327 from www.patentlyo.com Supreme Court: My sense is that Ariad v. Eli Lilly has essentially no shot for Supreme Court review unless the Ariad can do a great job of convincing the court that the written description requirement ...
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Rader as Trial Judge Hands Google & AOL Victory in ED of Texas from www.ipwatchdog.com Sitting by designation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, soon to be Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, Judge Randall Rader, granted summary judgment to Google Inc. and AOL ...
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ITC Clears Nanya of Patent Infringement from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from a March 24, 2010 Taipei Times article by Lisa Wang: Nanya Technology Corp, the nation’s biggest computer memory chipmaker, yesterday won a patent case against US chip company LSI ...
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