When an expert witness casts aspersions on sufficiency: national threat to European patent from patlit.blogspot.com A reader who practises in Italy has written to PatLit with the following question:
"Our client owns a European patent, on which basis he sued another company for infringement, counterfeiting and unfair competition since that ...
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UK intellectual property insurance services: ten or more? Tell NIPCLaw from ipfinance.blogspot.com Insurance: what are the odds ...? Barrister and blogger Jane Lambert is exasperated. But what is it that so troubles her? In "IP Insurance Five Years On", (NIPC inventors club,
here), she explains:
"Exasperated by the ...
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Nichia Sues U.S. Tool Maker Over LED Patents from greenpatentblog.com
Japanese LED maker Nichia has initiated another patent infringement suit, this time against a Washington state hand tool company called Wilmar Corporation (Wilmar).
The complaint (nichia-wilmar-complaint.pdf), filed in the Eastern District of Texas in ...
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USPTO Allowance Rate Increase to 45.6% from hallingblog.com This is the first time since 2003 that the allowance rate has increased. For a historical graph see Patent Allowance Rate Falls (Again). This is excellent news and shows that David Kappos, Director of the ...
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Letter from AmeriKat: Full of Surprises - USPTO fights TM bullies, the Hulk, and Olson takes on YouTube from ipkitten.blogspot.com
Two Fridays ago, the AmeriKat was involved in a technical discussion with a partner at her firm, when a bouquet of beautiful pink and purple flowers interrupted the dialogue as it landed on her desk ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Chief Judge Michel Sequel Part 2: Good Decisions, Bad Decisions, Supreme Court Frustrations and Criticism from ipwatchdog.com Chief Judge Michel graciously agreed to a second interview, which took place on September 24, 2010. In part 1 of this interview sequel, we discussed fee diversion at the USPTO, he gave an insiders view ...
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Negotiators Persist On Biodiversity Benefit-Sharing Treaty Despite Slipping Deadlines from www.ip-watch.org NAGOYA, JAPAN - The monumental statue in the courtyard of the Nagoya Congress Center, featuring a warrior on his horse, could be an illustration of the work of the group of officials charged with negotiating a ...
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CBS Sunday Morning on October 24, 2010 from ipbiz.blogspot.com Charles Osgood introduced the stories for 24 October 2010: Tom Blackstone on The Big One; Julie and David [Eisenhower];
Keith Richards[ Steve Hartman on “everyone has a story” Remarkable earthlings I found.
News for October ...
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Patent # 8,000,000 in 2011? from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com The USPTO is fast approaching another milestone... Patent number 8,000,000 might be less than a year away. The highest numbered utility patent (as of Oct. 19, 2010) is 7,818,816. At the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Are employee-inventors fungible? from ipbiz.blogspot.com In a story about the development of a new type of sensor to detect shock waves traveling through steel, one WIlliam Ketel describes some careless work by one consultant, and how the internal employees solved ...
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Intentional bad acts: in football and in plagiarism from ipbiz.blogspot.com On October 24, Beasley Reece was talking with Ike Reese about the new rules for dangerous and flagrant hits implemented by the NFL. Ike launched into a polemic about how bad the new rules were ...
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Prior art is a term of art from allthingspros.blogspot.com Recently I blogged about an inequitable conduct argument involving an inventor characterization of a drawing as "prior art." Specifically, the accused infringer cried "inequitable conduct" for non-disclosure of a drawing in an invention disclosure form ...
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All Things Pros from allthingspros.blogspot.com Recently I blogged about an inequitable conduct argument involving an inventor characterization of a drawing as "prior art." Specifically, the accused infringer cried "inequitable conduct" for non-disclosure of a drawing in an invention disclosure form ...
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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org October 25, 2010 - Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) - San Francisco, CA November 8, 2010 - Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) - New York ...
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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Galderma Laboratories LP et al. v. Actavis Mid Atlantic LLC 1:10-cv-00887; filed October 15, 2010 ...
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