Letter from AmeriKat: From Sea to Shining Sea from ipkitten.blogspot.com The AmeriKat was travelling again this past week. Irrespective of the past 25 years of frequent flying transatlantic-ally, continentally, transpacific-ally, and more, she is always surprised to find herself in a completely new location after ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Patent Cliff: A Coda from ipfinance.blogspot.com As a coda to today's post, attention is drawn to the attached article
here that appeared in Bloomberg News with a by-line date of April 15th ("Drugmakers Posed to Report Biggest Decline Since 2006 ...
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Guest post: Multiple litigations regarding 'Thank you' movie from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Suchita Saigal has sent us this very interesting post on the various disputes surrounding the recent Bollywood movie 'Thank You'.
Three Dirty Doggies surrounded by controversy by Suchita Saigal Is movie mein action hain, drama ...
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What To Do in the Face of a Patent Cliff: A View from Medium Pharma from ipfinance.blogspot.com Once again, a potential substantial takeover in the pharma business has hit the headlines. And once again, the motivations for the proposed acquisition raise questions about how Big (and Medium) Pharma see the future of ...
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The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Recommendations to the International Trade Commission (ITC): Unsound, Unmeasured, and Unauthoritative from www.patentlyo.com In March 2011, the FTC issued a Report entitled “The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition.” In that report, the FTC recommended that the ITC adopt the view that “only those ...
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Copyright Compulsory Licensing Disputes: Copyright Board lacks Jurisdiction from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In this post, I will cover two decisions that deal with the question of whether the Copyright Board has the power to grant an interim compulsory license based on interim royalty rates.
In this case ...
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CBS Sunday Morning on April 17, 2011 from ipbiz.blogspot.com Charles Osgood introduced the stories for Sunday Morning on April 17, 2011. These are taxing times. The cover story is by Seth Doane relates to turmoil over taxes, understanding America's tax code. The second ...
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Top 10 Reasons to Take the PLI Patent Bar Review Course from ipwatchdog.com Effective April 12, 2011, the USPTO has dramatically updated the patent bar examination. As a result, the PLI Patent Bar Review Course has been completely updated – overhauled really. We had already been working on updates ...
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On the accuracy of “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson from ipbiz.blogspot.com "60 Minutes" on April 17 raises some issues concerning the accuracy of items in “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson.
In response to these allegations of inaccuracy, AP notes in a statement issued Saturday ...
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Facebook is at it Again – Trademark Lawsuit Filed Over “FriendFinder” from tacticalip.com By: Mark R. Malek Although I do not have much information about it yet, a recent article indicated that Facebook has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Friend Finder and Adult Friend Finder. Apparently, the ...
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IJIEL: Special issue on Space Law and IEL from spicyipindia.blogspot.com I'm happy to announce on behalf of Abhimanyu George Jain, Chief Editor of IJIEL, student of the graduating batch at the NLSIU and a living example of the religious diversity of India, the release ...
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An Interview with Manny Schecter, IBM Chief Patent Counsel from ipwatchdog.com On April 4, 2011, I had the honor to interview Manny Schecter, the Chief Patent Counsel for IBM Corporation. I met Manny in October 2010 when I did a CLE presentation at IBM's offices ...
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Federal Circuit In re Jung prima facie rejection from allthingspros.blogspot.com Recent Federal Circuit decisions
Federal Circuit decides In re Jung and declines to change requirements for a prima facie rejection
In re Jung No. 2010-1019
(Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2011)
At issue in this case ...
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CSI: Miami's "Paint it black" from ipbiz.blogspot.com The punch line for the story: the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing, literally.
CSI: Miami gets into "cognitive deficit." Ideopathic memory loss. Finally, the CSIs get to dissociative identity disorder ...
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Protecting the Public Domain: WIPO Study on Copyright and the Public Domain from www.iposgoode.ca Pauline Wong is Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) has released a “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain”, prepared by Professor Séverine ...
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VentureLAB: Go-To Innovation Centre for Up-And-Coming York Region Businesses from www.iposgoode.ca ventureLAB, a member of the Ontario Network of Excellence, announces: A new Regional Innovation Centre has been launched to help up-and-coming York Region companies reach the next level of growth. Called ventureLAB, the centre – which ...
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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org April 27, 2011 - 27th Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations) - New York, NY April 29, 2011 - Ethics in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law (John ...
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Microsoft v. i4i Oral Argument - Monday, April 18 from www.patentlyo.com by Jason Rantanen Tomorrow, Monday April 18th, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Microsoft v. i4i, which presents the question whether proving invalidity requires clear and convincing evidence when the prior art on ...
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More Patent Nonsense from the New York Times from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- The New York Times is at it again, proselytizing on its OpEd page about patents and how bad they are. This time the topic is the Supreme Court's upcoming argument ...
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