"Anything you can do, we can do better?" Ireland joins the copyright review queue from ipkitten.blogspot.com St Columba started the trend, daringly copying a restricted-
access public domain work. If he lived today, would he be
the patron saint of Google Book and Wikileaks? It's not just the Brits who ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Value of Charity from hallingblog.com From President Bush’s 1000 points of light to President Obama’s biblical argument “aren’t we our brother’s keeper?” for government charity programs it appears everyone agrees that charity is good for our ...
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Judge O’Malley to be Confirmed to Federal Circuit from inventivestep.net Judge Kathleen O’Malley is finally expected to be confirmed today by the full Senate to a seat on the Federal Circuit. As part of a deal between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and ...
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Year End Wrap: Research Tool SciFinder Enhanced from intellogist.wordpress.com Before the year wraps up I want to touch on some prior art search tool updates we haven’t quite fit in to the Intellogist® Blog yet. First on the docket is the Fall 2010 ...
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Bollocks to the Dollops from www.patenthawk.com Akamai Technologies, with MIT riding shotgun, asserted: 6,108,703; 6,553,413; & 7,103,645 against Limelight Networks. The patents generally claim delivering content dollops that go along with serving a web page. The ...
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Canada's Data Protection Regime Upheld from www.patentdocs.org By Catherine Lemay -- Canada's Data Protection regime was upheld by the Federal Court of Appeal on December 9, 2010 (see Apotex Inc. v. Canada (Health), 2010 FCA 334). In a unanimous decision penned by ...
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Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services (Fed. Cir. 2010) from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- On Friday, the Federal Circuit continued its explication of the metes and bounds of patent-eligible subject matter after the Supreme Court's Bilski v. Kappos decision by revisiting (and reconsidering) its ...
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SpicyIP Announcements: IJIPL Call for Papers from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law is India’s only student run journal that is wholly devoted to intellectual property law. Published annually, it is an endeavour of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad in ...
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SpicyIP Events: Consilience - A Conference on Privacy from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The Law and Technology Committee (elTek) of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is hosting ‘Consilience’, a conference where contemporary issues of critical relevance in the field of law and technology are addressed ...
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Klaus Lackner and carbon scrubbers from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk The idea of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it or reusing it has long been a dream. It has long been regarded as impossible to achieve relatively cheaply. An article in the ...
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Top 10 Federal Circuit Oral Advocates of 2007 from www.717madisonplace.com There were many talented advocates who argued patent cases before the Federal Circuit during 2007. I felt the following ten individuals distinguished themselves as ten of the best. These advocates were particularly knowledgeable of patent ...
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Federal Circuit determines that method for optimizing dosing of medication is patent eligible from www.filewrapper.com The
Federal Circuit on Friday looked at the issue of what constitutes an attempt to patent a natural phenomenon. In
Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, the Federal Circuit determined that a method for ...
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Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary Multimedia Patent Trust sues Apple, LG, Canon and TiVo: AT&T video codec patents rear their ugly head again from fosspatents.blogspot.com Certain patent portfolios give rise to litigation again and again over the years. An Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary named Multimedia Patent Trust has previously litigated against Microsoft, Gateway, Dell and a long list of consumer electronics manufacturers ...
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Misuse of post-grant opposition proceedings from spicyipindia.blogspot.com A recent decision by the Controller highlights the use (or rather misuse) of post grant opposition proceedings at the IPO. In Pfizer Health vs. Ranbaxy Labs. Ltd., the Controller had initially dismissed pre-grant opposition proceedings ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Question of Whether to Incur "Substantial Expenses" for Testing and Clinical Trials does not Create Substantial Controversy from docketreport.blogspot.com Sufficient to Assert Declaratory Relief ClaimDefendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's declaratory relief claims of noninfringement and invalidity for lack of subject matter jurisdiction was granted because plaintiff's device was still in ...
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UK Review Seeks Evidence On IP And Growth from www.ip-watch.org An independent review of intellectual property rights and economic growth in the United Kingdom has issued a call for evidence on how the IP system can best support growth.
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Net Neutrality: Requiem for the Internet from hallingblog.com It is a sad day for innovation and freedom. For more information on why see Does Net Neutrality Inhibit Innovation. The FCC decided to enact a set of rules called Net Neutrality, which gives the ...
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