The Dead Sea Scrolls Meet the Court Room Once Again from ipkitten.blogspot.com There are few, if any, parchments that create the emotional charge of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since their discovery, beginning in the late 1940's, debate has raged over their authorship, what light they cast ...
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Juniper Network’s Texas Two Step a Success from www.patentspostgrant.com As discussed previously, defendants accused of patent infringement that are hauled before a plaintiff friendly Texas court, not surprisingly, tend to seek transfer to a less favorable venue where possible. Often times, the “favorability” of ...
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Former Judge Paul Michel to Speak at Upcoming Fall Lecture Series Event from www.iplawalert.com A Message from the Chair, David E. De Lorenzi:
On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at 6:00 pm, the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association (NJIPLA) will ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Angry readers accuse one another
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Forthcoming Events sidebar feature "They seek it here, they seek it there ..."
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Recent Trademark Registrations from ipelton.wordpress.com Here is another sampling of recent registrations our clients have received from the USPTO, so readers can see real examples of brands and marks which are being protected [click trademark or logo to open USPTO ...
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Dispute over "Ceausescu" trade mark from ipkitten.blogspot.com German news sites
RP-Online and
Stern.de report on a slightly unusual trade mark related dispute in Romania. Valentin Ceausescu the son of former Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is suing the Odeon theatre in ...
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ABA Legal Blog Ranking from www.patentspostgrant.com Just a quick note that the ABA is in the midst of their yearly blog ranking process. Any kind words of support would be greatly appreciated. (Click the link below)
http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs ...
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Facilitating Freedom-to-Operate Searches from www.patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch
A good freedom-to-operate (FTO) search will include a search of pending patent applications with an eye toward potential future threats. Over the past decade, the USPTO has published over 2.5 million ...
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IP and Finance conference: a reminder! from ipfinance.blogspot.com Intellectual Property and Finance 2010: exploring and explaining the financial dimensions of IPRs is the title of a one-day conference, organised by CLT Conferences and scheduled to be held in Central London on 20 October ...
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Biotech/Pharma Docket from www.patentdocs.org By James DeGiulio -- Sandoz, Momenta Fail to Invalidate Teva Patents in Copaxone Suit Teva Pharmaceutical Industries received a favorable ruling in its Copaxone patent infringement suit against Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals after their motion for ...
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The Medicines Company Clearing Last Hurdles to Patent Term Extension for Angiomax® from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last week, Judge Claude M. Hilton, District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, denied APP Pharmaceuticals request to intervene in The Medicines Company's lawsuit against the U.S ...
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USPTO Implements Patent Examiner Technical Training Program from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Wednesday, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos announced that the USPTO was instituting a Patent Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP) that would formalize the process by which the ...
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Skyhook Suing Google Over Location Biz from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from a September 16, 2010articleby Rodney H. Brown and Galen Moore of the Boston Business Journal:
Skyhook Wireless Inc. has taken on Google Inc., suing the Calif.-based giant ...
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Court’s Decision, not “Jammin’” – Bob Marley’s Loses Copyright Battle from tacticalip.com By Daniel Davidson It is most likely the blues are playing in the Marley home rather than any uplifting music the late Bob Marley recorded with his band the Wailers. Maybe the repeat button has ...
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More on that Medeva CJEU Reference from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat, and his esoteric companion the
SPC Blog, have written previously (
here,
here and
here) about the reference made earlier this year to the EU Court of Justice regarding Articles 3(a) and 3 ...
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Inventing 101: Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help from ipwatchdog.com So how do you decide whether you have a mere idea or a conception that is on the road to a full blown invention? That is a difficult question to answer and one that has ...
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Go West, to China, for innovation? from ipbiz.blogspot.com The Huffington Post reported:
On Wednesday [15 Sept.], the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said that patent applications in China jumped 18.2 percent in 2008 and another 8.5 percent in 2009. Over the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
LEGO, an (un)happy end from www.ipeg.eu Just one year after the German Federal Court (BGH) ruled about the trade mark claims by LEGO for its building bricks, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in its judgment of this week picks up ...
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Defendant Cannot Willfully Infringe Claims That Did Not Issue Until After Suit Was Filed from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment of no willful infringement. "[T]he bases upon which the Court has found that [the accused product] may infringe [plaintiff's] patents result from the construction ...
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Court Decision Not Jammin – Marley Family Loses Copyright Battle from tacticalip.com By Daniel Davidson It is most likely the blues are playing in the Marley home rather than any uplifting music the late Bob Marley recorded with his band the Wailers. Maybe the repeat button has ...
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Stem Cell Divides from www.iposgoode.ca Ivy Tsui is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On August 23rd, 2010, American human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers suddenly found themselves banished from their labs, due to District Court Judge Royce ...
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Anti-trust and hiring employees from www.athenaalliance.org Here is an issue that I'm not really sure how I feel about. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal - DOJ, Tech Firms Near Deal in Hiring Probe:
Several of the U ...
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Highlights (or Lowlights?) of the World Intellectual Property Indicators 2010 Report from info.inoviaip.com WIPO recently published its World Intellectual Property Indicators 2010 Report. Not surprisingly, the data it contains reflects our own analysis of the economic climate’s effect on global innovation over a similar period.
There’s ...
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Alice in Wonderland — Part II from www.717madisonplace.com Alice in Wonderland made an encore performance at the Federal Circuit recently during the oral argument of Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Mylan Pharma, 2009-1511 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 9, 2010). The panel was trying to assess ...
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Burrill Personalized Medicine Meeting from www.patentdocs.org Burrill & Company will be holding its 6th Annual Burrill Personalized Medicine Meeting on September 27-28, 2010 in San Francisco, CA. The meeting will offer presentations on the following topics: • Personalized medicine industry update; • Company presentation ...
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Biosimilars Conference from www.patentdocs.org Visiongain will be holding its 7th Annual Biosimilars Conference on October 5-7, 2010 in London, UK. The conference will allow attendees to: • Gain insights of the competitive landscape in biosimilars: U.S., EU, and emerging ...
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