Patent & IP news for April 3, 2010

Letter from AmeriKat II - Tiffany v eBay (False Advertising) from ipkitten.blogspot.com

False AdvertisingUnder section 43(a) of the Lanham Act an individual is prohibited from

"in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresenting the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person ...

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Letter from AmeriKat I - Tiffany v eBay (Trade Mark Infringement) from ipkitten.blogspot.com


The AmeriKat is on Kat duties this weekend and so to that end she has been dosing herself up on caffeine ready for any breaking IP news. In days gone by, the Easter weekend would ...

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Piramal acquired i-pill from Cipla from patentcircle.blogspot.com

Lately Cipla sold its money-spinning contraceptive brand product “i-pill” to Piramal Healthcare for INR. 95 crores. I-pill is an emergency contraceptive pill containing 1.5mg of Levonorgestrel which was launched by Cipla in the Indian ...

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Guest Post: Arguments against Software Patents in India from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

re inventions (while earlier the Patent Office objected to method claims, allowing only device claims with hardware components). This Draft Manual was withdrawn from circulation, with Shri N.N. Prasad (then Joint Secretary of DIPP ...

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Formalities Review of BPAI Briefs from www.patentlyo.com

Director Kappos writes the following: I thought I would let you know about a new streamlined procedure we have instituted for review of briefs filed in ex parte appeals in patent applications. Under the new ...

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在Who就假冒伪劣药品问题吹风会上观点激烈交锋 from www.ip-watch.org

世界卫生组织就处理假冒伪劣（conterfeit）药品问题继续开展工作，但是上周晚些时候召开的一个会议暴露出一些方面对该组织的工作方式表示担心。 Related Articles:

• Débat houleux lors d’une réunion d’information organisée par l’OMS sur les médicaments contrefaits
• 高级人权工作组把目光投向健康和知识产权问题
• WHO Meeting On Pandemic Flu Reconvenes Under Pressure

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DNA evidence unreliable? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Buried within several stories in The Trentonian of April 3, 2010 under the huge headline "Rapists' Rite?", about the "jitterbug rapes" in Trenton, one has an allusion to Robin Lord and DNA evidence:

As argued ...

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Avandia from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Philly's KYW-TV has a blistering report on Avandia on 3 April 2010.

Earlier, from "aboutlawsuits":

In a blistering editorial, writers for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), lambasted GlaxoSmithKline’s activities in ...

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"Patent Reform Act of 2010″ and Best Mode Requirement from www.lotempiolaw.com

The patent reform legislation has been amended and introduced in the Senate as Amendment to S. 515 (“Patent Reform Act of 2010 (.PDF)″). When and if it will ever be enacted is a question in ...

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