Patent & IP news for March 5, 2011

26th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference from www.patentdocs.org

The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law will be holding the 26th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on April 6-9, 2011 in Arlington, VA. Among the topics that will be covered at ...

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International Patent Forum 2011 from www.patentdocs.org

Managing Intellectual Property will be holding the International Patent Forum 2011 on April 5-6, 2011 in London, UK. Among the topics that will be covered at the forum are: • National offices and international trends; • Forum ...

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27th Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar from www.patentdocs.org

The Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations will be holding their 27th Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar on April 27, 2011 in New York, NY. The seminar will consist of ...

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2nd Annual JMLS RIPL Symposium from www.patentdocs.org

The John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property Law will be holding its 2nd Annual Symposium from 9 am to 5 pm on April 15, 2011 at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago ...

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Private prosecutions clause in U.S. patent marking statute found unconstitutional from www.ipeg.eu

A well-known American lawyer, Bill Lerach, once stated:  “I have the greatest practice of law in the world.  I have no clients.”  Peter J. Henning, Behind the Rise and Fall of a Class Action King ...

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Federal Circuit Refuses to Hear Appeal of Stay Pending Reexamination from www.patentlyo.com

Sorensen v. Lexar Media (Fed. Cir. 2011) Sorensen's patent infringement lawsuit against Lexar has been stayed for over two years, awaiting the outcome of the USPTO's reexamination. In early 2010, the examiner issued ...

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Another biofuel IPO coming? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Katie Fehrenbacher at Earth2Tech speculates that there might be an IPO for Coskata in the next four weeks or so:

But anyway, if you know Khosla’s biofuel portfolio at all, there are a couple ...

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Plagiarism and obfuscation from ipbiz.blogspot.com

We've seen confusion as between plagiarism and copyright infringement, between plagiarism and trademark, but how about between plagiarism and obfuscation:

Lady Gaga confuses plagiarism and obfuscation while answering a question about Madonna's musical ...

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Patent examiners citing science articles from journals from ipbiz.blogspot.com

A comment to a TechDirt post titled The Artificially High Price Of Academic Journals And How It Impacts Everyone relates to patent examiners using science articles:

A patent examiner finding an academic article as prior ...

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Psychologically astute, or painfully obvious? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In the patent business, judges, patent examiners, and attorneys have to make judgment calls on what is "obvious" under 35 USC 103.

In an article titled Stop Saving So Much for Retirement, Eric Schurenberg comments ...

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Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy: Another Rambling Diatribe for Open Source Marxist Utopia from hallingblog.com

This paper starts with a bold statement that the theoretical underpinning for intellectual property (patents & copyrights) “has been washed away.” Shortly thereafter it states “it’s hard to imagine big-budget Hollywood movies being made without ...

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