Patent Litigation Weekly: DataTreasury Wins First Patent Trial, Against U.S. Bank from thepriorart.typepad.com While the patent world awaits a Bilski ruling that could have a dramatic impact on business-method patents, an East Texas trial victory in a case involving, yup, business-method patents adds fuel into a what could ...
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Copyright, the Era of the Author and the Statute of Anne at Blawg Review #258 from www.ipadrblog.com Blawg Review #258 at Cathy Gellis' Statements of Interest recounts the glorious history and ignominious decline of the Statute of Anne and issues a call for change.
Take a look, you won't regret it ...
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Spring Into Action! Intellogist Weekly Update from intellogist.wordpress.com Spring is finally here in the Washington DC area and the cherry blossoms are in bloom. But that’s not the only reason the Intellogist team has to be happy this week! Thanks to your ...
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Call for IP Golden Oldies (Redux) from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat thanks all of you who responded both on-line and off-line to his call for a reconsideration of IP Golden Oldies
here. In particular, we thank the IPKat's friends, Bob Sacoff and his ...
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Judge Refuses to Reconsider Denial of Stay of Patent Litigation Pending Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com On March 23, 2010, Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia refused to revisit his decision of February 22, 2010 to deny a stay of ...
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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org April 7, 2010 - First Annual Board Conference (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences) - Alexandria, VA April 7-10, 2010 - 25th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference (American Bar Association Section of ...
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USPTO Seeks to Effectively Double Provisional Application Period from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Friday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (75 Fed. Reg. 16750) seeking comments regarding a proposed change in practice that would, according to ...
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An Indian Bar Exam in the Offing? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Despite being passed in December 2009, a Supreme Court judgment with tremendous ramifications for the practice of law came to our notice only recently.
In
Bar Council of India v. Bonnie Foi Law College, Justice ...
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Philly news on April 4: what earthquake in Los Angeles? from ipbiz.blogspot.com Viewers of CBS KYW channel 3 in Philadelphia who thought they might hear of the LA quake at 11pm were treated to a great deal of discussion of Donovan McNabb going to the Redskins.
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Butler v. Duke - The Finals are Here! from dailydoseofip.blogspot.com Tens of millions of people will be tuning in this evening to watch the NCAA basketball finals, being held here in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recognizing how this sport has changed history, I wanted to share a ...
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Non-Practicing Entity Entitled to Permanent Injunction Where Infringed Patent Was The Subject of Prior Exclusive License from docketreport.blogspot.com In granting plaintiff's motion for a permanent injunction, the court found that monetary damages were insufficient. "According to the plain terms of [an earlier license of the patents-in-suit], [plaintiff] promised that he would not ...
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Delayed Examination: USPTO Proposes 12-Month Optional Fee-Deferral (and Examination Delay) from www.patentlyo.com The USPTO is seeking comments on a fee-deferral program that would allow patent applicants to delay patent application processing for 12-months before paying the full non-provisional application fee. This process could be coupled with provisional ...
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PTO Proposes to Extend Provisional Applications to 24 Months from inventivestep.net Notwithstanding the fact the the patent statute provides that provisional applications expire 12 months after their filing date, the PTO published a request for comments in the Federal Register last week that would effectively extend ...
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A Patent Litigation Cost Tool? from www.infringementupdates.com A reader wrote that they would be interested in seeing updated information on the costs of patent infringement litigation presented in my July 1, 2008 post. These costs were originally obtained from a Fox Rothschild ...
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Implications and Meaning of a Perpetual Licence from www.iposgoode.ca Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In BMS Computer Solutions Limited and AB Agri Limited the meaning and interpretation of a perpetual licence came under debate in an application for ...
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Bilski Predictions: Justice Stevens from www.patentlyo.com On the Concurring Opinions Blog, Professors Magliocca (Indiana) and Miller (Lewis & Clark) have been wondering when the Supreme Court will release its decision on patentable subject matter. Professor Miller writes the following: I … did a ...
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UPDATE: Change Proposed in USPTO from info.inoviaip.com It seems that the deferred examination fee policy currently in effect in the Japanese Patent Office has caught the attention of the USPTO. The USPTO has just proposed a similar change that would effectively provide ...
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USPTO Looking at a Two Year Delay For Converting Provisional Apps Into Non-Provisional Apps from 271patent.blogspot.com The USPTO is proposing to change the process for converting provisional patent applications by providing a 12‑month extension to the existing 12-month provisional application period. In stead of simply providing a two year period ...
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Bilski Predictions: Justice Stevens from www.patentlyo.com On the Concurring Opinions Blog, Professors Magliocca (Indiana) and Miller (Lewis & Clark) have been wondering when the Supreme Court will release its decision on patentable subject matter. Professor Miller writes the following: I … did a ...
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Hatch-Waxman Patent Term Extension Deadlines: Business Day or Calendar Day? from 271patent.blogspot.com 35 U.S.C. section 156(d)(1) provides:
To obtain an extension of the term of a patent under this section, the owner of record of the patent or its agent shall submit an ...
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I don’t want to share my Legos! from tacticalip.com by Mark Malek We here at TacticalIP like to monitor intellectual property news and try to report it to you. You may have noticed that we pride ourselves on pointing out improper enforcement actions taken ...
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Patent Litigation Weekly: DataTreasury Wins First Patent Trial, Against U.S. Bank from thepriorart.typepad.com While the patent world awaits a Bilski ruling that could have a dramatic impact on business-method patents, an East Texas trial victory in a case involving, yup, business-method patents adds fuel into a what could ...
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Case law you can use: claim terms are interpreted in the context of the claim as a whole from allthingspros.blogspot.com Takeaway: The next time the Examiner picks your claim terms apart one by one rather than considering how the limitations are linked together by the claim langauge, consider citing these two cases used by the ...
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Disrupting settled expectations from www.717madisonplace.com In the recent en banc decision in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Co., 2008-1248 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 22, 2010), the majority opinion contains the following statement about not disrupting settled expectations of the ...
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Ninth Circuit: Hyundai Entitled To Insurance Defense In Patent Infringement Lawsuit Where Patent Covered Advertising Method from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Hyundai’s website had a “build your own vehicle” (“BYO”) feature and a parts catalogue feature. The BYO feature allowed users to build their own vehicle by responding to choices on a menu, including color ...
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