Patent & IP news for October 7, 2010

Standards and Patents: a conference and a competition from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Fourth Annual Conference on Standards and Patents, organised by IBC Legal Conferences and which will be held in the Crowne Plaza London St James (whoever thought up that name for a hotel?), takes place ...

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Standards and Patents from patlit.blogspot.com

The Fourth Annual Conference on Standards and Patents, organised by IBC Legal Conferences will be held in the Crowne Plaza London St James on 16 and 17 November. PatLit is among the event's media ...

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Céline, c'est la vie -- mais ce n'est pas le fin from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Céline, with the accent ... In the dim and distant past, when dinosaurs ruled the world ... well, this may be a slight exaggeration but we're talking about September 2007, a long time ago in Kat ...

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Fact or myth? Now we know, it's a myth from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In "British Inventiveness -- Fact or Myth?", posted on Monday 27 September, the IPKat reported the content of a Chartered Institute of Patent Attorney press release which referred to a study by the Japanese Trade & Industry ...

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DHL v Chronopost: the Advocate General speaks, but not to some of us from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Oh, the sheer excitement of it. When he got up this morning, the IPKat washed behind his ears and prepared himself for another humdrum day of website-sniffing, quite forgetting that a whopping great story was ...

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CIPA greets Legal Ombudsman with a smile from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Now here's a good example of putting a brave face to a development that might have seemed a little unwelcome: a Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) press release today informs the IPKat of ...

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Tivo’s Change in Horses Leads to Termination of Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com

As I noted last week, patents exit reexamination everyday. Most such occurrences pass without much notice to the public (aside from typical Business Wire fanfare manufactured by some Patent Owners). Yesterday was different, since the ...

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More Evidence that Stealing Inventions is a Business Strategy from hallingblog.com

I was reading a post on the myth of the first mover advantage, which intrigued me because I have argued essentially this point in my post, Invention – A Financial Analysis .   One of the responses suggested ...

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Hard Rock Cafe Trademark Issues: Not Too Happy About Free Publicity from patentlawip.blogspot.com


Among the already-raunchy assortment of reality TV shows, the new “Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel” is pushing the envelope. And the Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. chain (a different company than Las Vegas ...

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The concept of patent quality as a hunt for unicorns from ipbiz.blogspot.com

A headline from the Hollywood Reporter about a Forbes list runs

Lady Gaga "more powerful" than Nancy Pelosi: Forbes

This assertion is based on relative positions on the list, with Lady Gaga coming in at ...

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Argument of counsel cannot take the place of evidence from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The BPAI case of Ex Parte Rhine, presents a relatively simple claim which was found to be obvious:

Claim 1 of the ‘652 patent [US 4,910,652 ], recites3:

A time keeping and displaying wrist ...

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First mover advantage? from www.athenaalliance.org

First mover advantage is part of the standard lore of the I-Cubed Economy. It means that the first company into a market generally wins. The idea is that the first mover benefits from technological lock-in ...

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Recap of Day One of the APLF 2010 Annual Meeting from ipwatchdog.com

Last week I attended the Association of Patent Law Firm's (APLF) Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Chicago, IL. The APLF is currently in it's 13th year of existence and was ...

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Trademark Double Dog Dare: Do Your Rendition Of Tarzan Yell from ipwatchdog.com

Did you know that the Tarzan yell is a registered trademark? So is the Looney Tunes theme song. And Homer Simpson’s “D’oh!” Trademarking a sound or series of sounds is really not that ...

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Product Capable of Infringing Use did not Infringe Absent Proof of Specific Instances of Such Use from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment that its gift card did not infringe plaintiff's patent which claimed a method of performing anonymous online purchases. "[Plaintiff] has not adduced any evidence of ...

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Fraudster Radhakrishnan discusses fraud in The Scientist from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Suresh Radhakrishnan who worked at the Mayo Clinic AND who was fired for scientific misconduct in May 2010 presents a piece in The Scientist titled Opinion: How to prevent fraud .

Aspects of peer review came ...

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100th Post Celebration! from intellogist.wordpress.com

Yes, you read that correctly, it’s our 100th post here on the Intellogist Blog! We’ll get you back to your regularly scheduled programming quickly enough, but we wanted to take this opportunity to ...

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WIPO Launches IP Advantage Database from info.inoviaip.com

Following the recent launch of WIPO Lex, WIPO announces the launch of IP Advantage. 

IP Advantage is an online database compiling the IP experiences of inventors, researchers, entrepreneurs and corporations. Developed by WIPO’s Communications ...

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Touré Re-Elected Head of ITU from www.ip-watch.org

Member states of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today re-elected Hamadoun Touré of Mali as ITU Secretary-General of ITU for a second four-year term. Related Articles:

• ITU In A Converging World: Interview With ITU ...

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When Can One Raise the Defense “Under” Section 107A (b): Purposive Construction from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The interpretation of the phraseology of Section 107A(b) of the Patents Act, 1970 was undertaken in the last three posts. In this post, I intend to attempt to answer questions on what is the ...

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USPTO Guest Blog: Visiting the USPTO, By Commerce Secretary Gary Locke from www.uspto.gov

On Wednesday, I met with employees at the USPTO headquarters to personally thank them for their outstanding progress over the past year toward reducing the patent backlog and encourage them to continue their great work ...

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Wikipedia wripped off by International Baccalaureate (IB) from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The BBC reported:

The Times Educational Supplement (TES) reports that guides for three history papers are being investigated by the IB's managing board.

The guides offer model essays and are used by examiners marking ...

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Affymax loses in Hematide arbitration from ipbiz.blogspot.com

BusinessWeek notes: Affymax said an arbitrator ruled that health care giant Johnson & Johnson is the sole owner of a patent related on erythropoietin receptor agonists. The decision could allow Johnson & Johnson to sue Affymax when ...

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Eli Lilly v. Teva from www.717madisonplace.com

In the oral argument of Eli Lilly v. Teva, 2010-1005 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 1, 2010), Chief Judge Rader noted a “supreme irony” that Lilly was the target of a written description defense shortly after Lilly ...

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USPTO Cordially Invites Guest Lecturers to Provide Technical Training to Patent Examiners from tacticalip.com

By Daniel Davidson Calling all scientists, calling all engineers, calling anyone with technical knowledge to train patent examiners.  The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced an offer to the public to participate in ...

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Update to Ex parte Sewald (indefiniteness rejection of "constructed in CMOS" ) from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Earlier this week I blogged about Ex parte Sewald, which involved an indefiniteness rejection of "constructed in CMOS." My post stated that I disagreed with the Board's affirmation of indefiniteness rejection.

After talking with ...

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Trademark Dilution, Speedy Trials and a "Supreme" Di from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

In an earlier post, I'd pointed to Supreme Court rulings that sounded the death knell for "interim injunctions" in India. With the latest judgment involving the "Raymond" trademark, it is clear that the Supremes ...

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