Patent & IP news for October 11, 2010

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post image The PCC Page, no.1: "All change at the Patents County Court" from patlit.blogspot.com

Starting today, PatLit is delighted to host a regular Tuesday feature on the new regime for litigation before the recently revamped Patents County Court for England and Wales. This feature is an initiative of the ...

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post image Perfecting security interests: Masters student needs urgent help! from ipfinance.blogspot.com

IP Finance has received an urgent request for assistance from Emmanuel Kedi Beh, a Masters student who is studying the Bank Management course at the University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon.  Emmanuel is preparing a Masters ...

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post image Is Facebook an Abstract Idea? Watch the Movie from www.lotempiolaw.com

Today is Christopher Columbus Day and if you remember he invented America. No that's not right... he discovered America. Of course he thought he landed in India and we've been mistakenly calling Native ...

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post image Costs: Amsterdam "nearer Newport" than other parts of UK, rules IPO from patlit.blogspot.com

From Amsterdam ... In Loadhog Ltd v Polymer Logistics BV, BL O/337/10, 29 September 2010, the UK's Intellectual Property Office was faced with a challenge to a costs claim in favour of Polymer ...

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post image What Are the Best and Worst Company Logos? from ipelton.wordpress.com

An Aol Small Business Article posted last week poses the question: What Are the Best and Worst Company Logos?

 

Graphic from AOL Small Business article (click for link to source)

 

The article certainly highlights several ...

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post image Fast Tracking Inter Partes Patent Reexamination by Agreement from www.patentspostgrant.com

Getting Your Case Stayed By Stipulated Acceleration

Many inter partes patent reexaminations are conducted concurrent to district court litigation (USPTO statistics indicating 70% ). At one point or another, the defendant(s) will seek a stay ...

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post image Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat thanks his good friend Miguel Angel Medina, of the excellent MARQUES Geographical Indications Team, for this link to E-SPIRIT-DRINKS, "the database on geographical indications protected in the European Community for spirits originating in ...

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post image Why be creative if you can be a mere conduit? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Music labels lose downloads case" is the title of an article in today's Irish Times which has been thoughtfully sent to the IPKat by his Irish friend Gemma O'Farrell.  The story is a ...

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post image Creative Barcode: will it do the trick? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

To this Kat, the words "creative" and "barcode" do not normally share much conceptual space.  While barcodes were undeniably created, in the sense that they do not exist in nature (not even in the old ...

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Have robe, will travel from www.717madisonplace.com

The judges of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are  a hard-working lot.  Despite being short-handed by  one - three circuit judges during the year, they have been sitting by designation in other circuits ...

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R&D tax relief - relaxation of rules finally making it into law soon from ipfinance.blogspot.com

The Government has finally enacted (in Finance (No.2) Bill 2010, which will become Finance (No.3) Act 2010, a relaxation for small and medium-sized companies' (SMEs) R&D; tax relief by removing the requirement ...

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Britain's Technology Strategy Board from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

Many of my discussions with inventors and companies mention problems with funding. The Technology Strategy Board, which has an annual budget of £200 million, funds and assists new technology...

(From Steve van Dulken's Patents ...

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Clarification on Section 107A(b) from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

In my posts on Section 107A(b), I had given the example of compulsory license under Section 84 of the Patents Act to further my interpretation of the provision. Subsequent to Prashant’s  brilliant question ...

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EU Patent: Italy Joining Spain In Fight Against Three-Languages-Regime from www.ipjur.com

Further to my yesterday's posting I would like to point to an article published today on EurActiv saying that the Belgian EU Presidency will try to narrow the distance between national delegations on the ...

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Understanding innovation as a learning process from www.athenaalliance.org

In Sunday's Washington Post, Ezra Klein uses his critiques of the new movie "The Social Network" to talk about innovation. As he notes about the movie:

it misses the richer drama behind transformative innovations ...

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Inaccurate Nobel Prize prediction from ipbiz.blogspot.com

On October 8, 2010, Josh Wright at Truth on the Market wrote:

Every year around this time, I repeat my prediction that Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz, and Ben Klein will win the Nobel Prize for ...

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Integration of intellectual property and regulatory exclusivity strategies for life science companies from ipspotlight.com

In a new podcast, my colleagues Ray Miller and Nicole Endejann, along with Tom Petzinger of Knopp Neurosciences Inc., discuss intellectual property and regulatory exclusivity strategies necessary for emerging life science companies to secure investments ...

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Audio Recording of Bilski Oral Argument Now Available from www.717madisonplace.com

The Supreme Court has finally released the oral argument of Bilski v. Kappos, 561 U.S. ___ (2010).

You can listen to the Bilski oral argument here: [Listen].

You can read the Bilski opinion here ...

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Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge: Challenges Ahead from www.iposgoode.ca

Rachel Migicovsky is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, Traditional Knowledge (TK) is  “knowledge which has a traditional link with a certain community: it is … developed ...

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Apple Ordered to Pay $625.5M Damages Over Patent Infringement from www.iposgoode.ca

Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School A Texas jury awarded $625.5 million in damages against Apple Inc. on October 1st, finding that the computer giant wilfully infringed three ...

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Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction for Subsequent Paragraph IV Filers from www.orangebookblog.com

Teva Pharms. USA v. Eisai et al., No. 2009-1593 (Fed. Cir. 2010)

In a 3-0 decision last week, the Federal Circuit held that Teva has standing to challenge four of Eisai's Orange Book-listed patents ...

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