Patent & IP news for June 1, 2010
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“Torture Room” Movie and Screenplay Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filed from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Randles Films is the owner of the copyright registrations in the original “Torture Room” screenplay and the revisions thereto. Randles also produced the movie and also registered the copyright therefor. Defendants Quantum ...
Low-level protection drives up Russian patent litigation threat from patlit.blogspot.com Writing for International Law Office, Eugene A. Arievich (Baker & McKenzie - CIS Limited), in"Patently absurd? Fear of patent trolls drives protective utility model filings" (here), explains how the threat of patent trolls has driven some ...
Bilski Watch: Another No-Bilski Day at the Supreme Court from www.ipwatchdog.com In what is turning into a broken record, the Supreme Court once again did not issue a decision in Bilski v. Kappos. We have been waiting 6 months and 22 days since the oral argument ...
Whiff of TM reform for EU, as Council views anti-counterfeiting role for OHIM, local offices from ipkitten.blogspot.com The air of Europe is redolent with the heady scent of amendment to European trade mark law, says the IPKat. This is not just a matter of prophecy, but rather the dropping of a heavy ...
Photo Finish from www.patenthawk.com Jack C. Benun must really have wanted to be in pictures. Benun had a string of companies in film roll processing (lens-fitted film packages (LFFPs)), which digital technology has rendered obsolete. In the process of ...
Troll kalla mik from ipfinance.blogspot.com Mega firm litigation woes: you win a big patent litigation instruction only to find that you cannot act because it may cause a potential conflict with a big corporate the firm is trying to win ...
Close Calls: Declaration Practice in Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com As pointed out in our post on shielding declarants from litigation discovery in patent reexamination, the submission of declaration evidence is quite commonplace in patent reexamination as compared to application prosecution. Last week the Board ...
A serious reference -- or is someone winding us up? from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat still can't find it on the Curia website, but lurking somewhere in the netherworld of Court of Justice web pages is a new reference to for a preliminary ruling. It's Case ...
Was Thomas Edison a Patent Troll? from www.ipwatchdog.com Thomas Edison, perhaps the greatest US inventor.
To hear some people tell it, Thomas Edison was nothing but a scurrilous “patent troll.” That, at least, is the impression given in a recent article in Corporate ...
Former Chief Judge H. Robert Mayer to Take Senior Status from inventivestep.net Yet another Federal Circuit judge is stepping down from active duty on the court. On the day that Judge Rader becomes the new chief judge of hte court, Judge Haldane Robert Mayer has announced that ...
Bilski Watch: Timing of Supreme Court Decisions from www.patentlyo.com The US Patent world continues to await the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos. The case was argued on November 9, 2009 — 204 days ago. Professor Joe Miller (Lewis & Clark) looked at the ...
Google's ambitious plans to make published books available for download on most internet-connected electronic devices by leveraging its position as the world's largest search engine could have far-reaching repercussions on electronic publishing and ...
Professors Megan Richardson and Andrew Kenyon and Vicki Huang edit a new online publication “The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law”. So far, it is up to issue #7 and features, amongst other things ...
The creation of a new European Patent System meets some firm opposition and obstacles from various sides. Debates have been going on for decades now whether we should have a EU – or in older terms ...
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Tuesday, May 25 the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-29 to amend the legislation protecting the personal information of Canadians (Personal Information Protection ...
The following is excerpted from a May 28, 2010 article by Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, published at TechWorld: The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is suing three of the largest U ...
Here are two interesting news stories about company brands. A story in this morning's Washington Post - Political ads are tough sell for image-conscious corporations - describes how companies are being careful not to associate their ...
Life magazine did 30 dumb inventions, and now Time magazine does The 50 Worst Inventions.
Early in the Time magazine article is the Segway, followed by "New Coke," and Microsoft's "Clippy."
Then "Agent Orange ...
Recently, David Kappos discussed in his blog the importance of the written description requirement for patent applications. He described how, despite the impression from practitioners in the patent field that the requirement is "little used ...
and Provides No Basis for Retaining Venue
In granting defendants' motion to transfer venue, the court rejected plaintiff's incorporation in Arkansas as a basis for retaining venue. "The only connection this case has to ...
IT Improvements
On May 5, 2010, USPTO director David J. Kappos testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the USPTO's operations, programs and initiatives. In line with the USPTO's goal of increasing ...
The United States and China are strengthening their relationship on innovation and intellectual property rights as the global economy is slowly taking an upward turn. Those may come as signs of positive collaboration on the ...
Chief Judge Rader: Federal Circuit Judge Randall Rader is now Chief Judge Randall Rader. Chief Judge Rader was appointed to the Court of Federal Claims by President Reagan and to the Federal Circuit by George ...
After some political drama, the House passed the H.R. 5116, America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 on Friday (see House S&T; Committee press release). The bill reauthorizes various federal R&D; programs and ...
Bloomberg reports:
Desmarais, 46, in December bought a portfolio of 4,500 patents from Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. maker of computer-memory chips. Today he opens the doors of a new law firm ...
At least one false marking plaintiff is following the lead of the most prolific false marking plaintiff, Thomas Simonian, by borrowing, word for word, the additional paragraph Mr. Simonian began including in amended false marking ...
Many of you will wish to take note of the fast approaching submission deadlines for Canada’s IP Writing Challenge and the IT.Can Student Writing Competition. Canada’s IP Writing Challenge is run by ...
By Laura D. Castner and Jan Jensen || The Federal Circuit clarified that extraneous and “inapposite” past license evidence should not be used to calculate reasonable royalty rates in patent infringement cases. In ResQNet.com Inc ...
The pro se plaintiff lost:
The district court continued to find the complaints in-
adequate, for Yip did not describe, explain, or particularly
reference facts in her pleadings, despite the guidance of
the district court ...
One of the issues percolating at the Federal Circuit is to what extent a hybrid claim, i.e., a claim that includes claim elements for more than one class of patentable subject matter in 35 ...
Many online websites provide assistance in filing a provisional patent application at a low price. Based on my understanding of these online sites, the website prompts the user with a series of questions. Your answers ...
By James DeGiulio -- After a 15-year effort, the team of Daniel Gibson (at right), Hamilton Smith, and Craig Venter (below left) have created the first cell controlled by a purely synthetic genome. In a press ...
By Nate Chongsiriwatana -- BioNanomatrix, Inc. recently announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,670,770 for nanochannel arrays that enable high-throughput macromolecular analysis. Previously, single-molecule DNA analysis has been limited by the difficulty ...
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