Final Four team names and logos from ipelton.wordpress.com College Basketball this weekend has it’s Men’s Final Four® games. The games will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The stadium logo is the subject of a pending trademark application. But ...
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Treatment of the Recapture Doctrine at the BPAI post North American Container from www.patentspostgrant.com All hackers err… golfers know there are both appropriate and inappropriate times to take a mulligan. When is it OK to take a mulligan via reissue? The 3-step test to determine whether the recapture rule ...
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BPAI Revised Procedure for Appeal Brief Review from www.patentlyo.com As part of the PTO's efforts to streamline appeal practice, the office has (internally) announced a new procedure for reviewing appeal brief formalities. Notably, the BPAI has been given the "sole responsibility" for determining ...
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False Marking - Update on Number and Type of New Cases, Pending Legislation from www.grayonclaims.com Since the Federal Circuit's December 28, 2009 Forest Group decision, at least 130 newly-filed litigations contain false marking claims. Here is a breakdown of new case filings by month:
- December 2009 - 1
- January 2010 ...
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The Great Wall of Google Patents from intellogist.wordpress.com Convenient access to multiple patent drawings, be it simultaneously or sequentially, is a highly sought after feature for patent searchers in prior art searching fields such as the Mechanical Arts, due to the visual-friendly nature ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Friday's the day to check the sidebar -- make sure either that you're not missing or that you have some degree of choice in what you want to miss ...Before he writes about anything ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
AMP v. USPTO: What the Parties Are Saying About the Decision from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, the District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, finding the ...
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AMP v. USPTO: What the Parties Are Saying About the Decision from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, the District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, finding the ...
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MobileMedia Ideas Files Against Apple, HTC, and RIM from 37thoughts.wordpress.com Yesterday, MobileMedia Ideas LLC (MMI) filed patent infringement suits against three big tech companies, and they are doozies. MMI filed suit against Apple, HTC, and RIM in Delaware, Eastern Texas, and Eastern Texas, respectively. It ...
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Patently-O Bits and Bytes from www.patentlyo.com USPTO Design Day: April 6 at the USPTO. Speakers include Bob Stoll (Patent Commissioner), Jasemine Chambers (USPTO Tech Center Director), Clive Roux (ISDA), Perry Saidman (Saidman), Richard Stockton (Banner), Susan Farley (Heslen), Damon Neagle (Design ...
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Patently-O Bits and Bytes from www.patentlyo.com USPTO Design Day: April 6 at the USPTO. Speakers include Bob Stoll (Patent Commissioner), Jasemine Chambers (USPTO Tech Center Director), Clive Roux (ISDA), Perry Saidman (Saidman), Richard Stockton (Banner), Susan Farley (Heslen), Damon Neagle (Design ...
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The Great Indian Paradox - India preparing to challenge E.U. regulations at the WTO while also attempting to seal the Indo-E.U. FTA from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Yet again, an anonymous official of our democratically elected government, has informed the
ET that the Indian Government is ready to file a WTO complaint against the E.U. for the 'seizure' of transiting Indian ...
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Deliberate Copying, Litigation Conduct Warrant $10 Million Enhanced Damages Award from docketreport.blogspot.com Plaintiffs' motion for enhanced damages was granted where (i) "[t]he evidence at trial clearly supports a finding that [defendants] deliberately copied [plaintiffs' product];" (ii) "[defendant] dragged its heels in investigating its potential liability under ...
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Current Topics in False Marking from 37thoughts.wordpress.com First: Devoted readers will note that I had a number of posts on this blog in late February and early March on the topic of false marking, compiling cases and noting some of the issues ...
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BPAI Revised Procedure for Appeal Brief Review from www.patentlyo.com As part of the PTO's efforts to streamline appeal practice, the office has (internally) announced a new procedure for reviewing appeal brief formalities. Notably, the BPAI has been given the "sole responsibility" for determining ...
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A Scrap of Paper from eyesonip.blogspot.com If you are a copyright owner looking to transfer ownership, the
U.S. Copyright Act requires something “in writing and signed.” Seems straightforward enough, but, the question has recently arisen out of the Tenth Circuit ...
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USPTO proposes to allow patent applicants 12 months to defer payment of certain filing fees from ipspotlight.com The USPTO recently published a Request for Comments which announced an proposed procedure to allow patent applicants the opportunity to delay payment of certain fees in patent applications. Currently, a formal (nonprovisional) patent application must ...
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"60 Minutes" Examines Gene Patenting Issue on Sunday, April 4th -- Patent Docs Author Kevin Noonan to Appear on Program from www.patentdocs.org On Sunday, April 4, 2010, the CBS news program "60 Minutes" will take a look at the issue of gene patenting in a segment entitled "Patented Genes." According to the program's website, the segment ...
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Posner, as lawyer, ridiculed from ipbiz.blogspot.com In the context of allegations by Miami New Times of ADDITIONAL plagiarism by Gerald Posner in Miami Babylon,
Posner made a response, to which a commenter made an observation of "Posner as lawyer":
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