Patent & IP news for July 27, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Thomson Licensing SAS et. al. v. Chimei Innolux Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-23 in Delaware
- Genzyme Corporation v. Roxane Laboratories Inc. filed 2010-07-23 in Delaware
- Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., v. Sunbeam Products, Inc. filed 2010-07-23 in Virginia Eastern
- Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. et. al. v. Millipore Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-26 in Massachusetts
- Kaneka Corporation v. SKC Kolon PI, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-26 in Texas Eastern
- Supply Chain Finance Systems, LLC v. Bank of America Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-26 in Texas Eastern
- GeoTag Inc. v. Yellowpages.com LLC filed 2010-07-26 in Texas Eastern
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If you think software patents are a pain, try software copyrights from ipkitten.blogspot.com The judges who sit in the Court of Justice of the European Union must by now be thinking that the only way to stop Mr Justice Arnold sending them questions to answer is to have ...
Marijuana Trademarks from blawgit.com Trademarks
A trademark is a mark that identifies goods or services coming from a particular source. To register a trademark with the federal government, a trademark owner must identify the goods and/or services with ...
A blueprint to nurture the creatives: it takes Brains ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com A media alert from the Confederation of British Industry, "CBI launches blueprint to nurture UK’S creative industries", was circulated at the beginning of the week. According to its text:
The CBI is calling on ...
Do poor people like different patents to rich people? from ipkitten.blogspot.com That is the question - simplified - posed by a new paper by the economist Christian Kiedaisch of the ETH Zurich. The paper examines distributional implications of different patent policies. The proposed mechanism is that an increase ...
Lightening Up from www.patenthawk.com The USPTO today issued revised interim §101 guidelines in light of the SCOTUS Bilski decision. "The machine-or-transformation test remains an investigative tool and is a useful starting point." Other stated criteria include: applying laws of ...
USC/Shoah’s $7m Patent License from ipinsider1.wordpress.com Greater Good
IP Insider has been following the $7 million 11-patent license covering digital search algorithms discovered by the USC/Shoah Foundation.
University of Southern California licensing executive John Sweet, along with broker-adviser ICAP ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (75 Fed. Reg. 42079) to clarify how the Office will treat certain letters submitted by applicants ...
The World Health Organisation is following a complicated timeline for new mandates on combating fake medicines, creating alternative financing mechanisms for research and development on neglected diseases, and improving pandemic influenza preparedness. Related Articles:
An article on OpenETD or RUETD for Rutgers students to file their dissertations digitally, instead of paying the money to print multiple copies, ends with:
Now that other students have more access to dissertations online ...
The New York Times reported on July 26: The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an important copyright law [the DMCA], said on Monday [July 26] that it was legal ...
The second way to improve the USPTO.gov website would be to double check all of the information provided as facts.
For example, the Full-Text Database FAQ (among other pages) notes that (emphasis added):
Patents ...
The U.S. Patent Office has today released new Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos. This Guidance is a follow-up to its Memorandum to Patent ...
Sometimes less is more. At least that’s the theory behind PatBase Express USA (scroll to the middle of the page for more info). PatBase Express USA is a specific mask users can apply to ...
This morning the United States Patent and Trademark Office published Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos. The Interim Bilski Guidance is effective July 27, 2010 ...
In the newest Patently-O Patent Law Journal publication, Robert Matthews discusses the law controlling false-marking suits when multiple plaintiffs sue for the same act of false marking. Matthews extrapolates the case-law to make two primary ...
The United States Copyright Office this week completed its statutorily required review of the landmark Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Included in the ruling were three major exemptions: a renewal on the exemption for cell-phone ...
Yesterday Brookings released a new report on exports and metro areas. While the report contains good analysis and recommendations, I fear its scope is too limiting. The report highlights which metro areas are competitive in ...
The TheraSense en banc order states that “amicus briefs may be filed without leave of court but otherwise must comply with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 29 and Federal Circuit Rule 29.” Although I would ...
The following is excerpted from a July 27, 2010 article, "Local Exports Found Lagging," by Ann Belser of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The number of patents are important, Ms. Bradley said, because it shows whether the ...
In a Federal Register notice today, the USPTO has published interim guidance regarding how examiners are to assess whether an application's patent claims fall within the scope of patentable subject matter defined in § 101 ...
Considering how the University of Virginia agonized over revising its code concerning plagiarism, consider what the American Historical Association (AHA) was doing BEFORE the Alison Routman incident at Semester at Sea (run by UVa):
As ...
A little while back, PatLit noted Abbott Laboratories Ltd v Medinol Ltd, an ex tempore judgment of Mr Justice Kitchin in the Patents Court, England and Wales on relevance and proportionality in an application for ...
One of the constant challenges in crafting policy and law is to avoid unintentional consequences. This cannot be done by living in an ivory tower. When it comes to the business world in particular, there ...
The IPKat's eye was attracted to a US media release, "Article One Announces Completion of Funding from Alleghany Corporation". The release brings news that Article One Partners, said to be "the world’s largest ...
The office published their Interim Bilski Guidance for Examiners in the Federal Register today.
Surprisingly to me, they did so in the form of a Request for Comments.
I actually think that this is a ...
Takeaway: A month after Bilski v. Kappos, and we now have Ex parte Bigler, the second decision from the BPAI addressing § 101 in the post-Bilski world. The Board upheld the Examiner's § 101 rejection, finding ...
Takeaway: The new PTO guidelines for § 101 examination under Bilski are now available here. The guidelines identify a number of factors that should be weighed to determine whether a method claim is directed to an ...
By Juan Serrano -- The Mexican General Health Law was reformed on June 11, 2009 to include an article 222 bis, which defined biotechnological drugs, and allowed for the approval of "biocomparables." The decree came into ...
By Ignacio Sanchez Echagüe -- The Argentine Patent Office (Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial, INPI) has issued Regulation No. 147/2010, which restricts the ability of applicants to file divisional applications once substantive examination has ...
By Juan Serrano -- The Mexican General Health Law was reformed on June 11, 2009 to include an article 222 bis, which defined biotechnological drugs, and allowed for the approval of "biocomparables." The decree came into ...
Sanofi-Aventis, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al., No. 09-1495 (D.D.C. 2010)
The question in this case is "whether a vacatur entered by an appellate court overrides the terminating effect that ...
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