New Researcher Webinar - Article One, Patent Research Tips, and More! from info.articleonepartners.com What is Article One Partners? What are the Best Tips and Techniques for Researching Prior Art? Join us for our "New Researcher Webinar" this Thursday to get all of the information you need to become ...
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The River from www.patenthawk.com i4i squeezed $290 million in damages for an obscure feature in Word 2007. Sociopath Microsoft had tried to invalidate the asserted patent with suspicious testimony. Before the Supreme Court now is whether the patent invalidity ...
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ... IPO search for Latin lovers? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Filemot bear has his own way of searching ... The IPKat has been busily chatting to his friends at the UK Intellectual Property Office about their plans for Ipsum-- an exciting new online patent file system ...
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Google and Facebook Patent Search Engine Features from info.articleonepartners.com By Catherine Zielinski
As the search for information becomes more detailed, and expands in a variety of directions, many key companies are patenting the new types of search. While Google is an obvious player in ...
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Genentech Files Cabilly III Patent Infringement Lawsuit Over Benlysta And Arzerra Sales from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Genentech and City of Hope are the owners of U.S. Patent No. 7,923,221 (“the Cabilly III patent”), entitled “Methods of Making Antibody Heavy and Light Chains Having Specificity for ...
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Patent Office enables online file inspections from spicyipindia.blogspot.com As a part of its continued digitization/transparency drive the Patent Office has started hosting scanned copies of entire patent files on its IPAIRs system which can be accessed over
here. The scanned copies now ...
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Concentration of Patent Cases in the Eastern District of Texas from www.patentlyo.com Patent litigator James Pistorino has emerged from the collapse of Howry as a partner at Perkins Coie. In a recent BNA article, Pistorino provided a brief analysis of patent complaints filed in 2010 with a ...
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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com Personal notes: (i) IPKat team member Jeremy is going to be very thin on the ground over the next couple of weeks, on account of his holidays, followed by a trip to the Fordham IP ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Two Riffs on Sublicensing from ipkitten.blogspot.com Can there be a topic in IP licensing that is more neglected than sublicensing? When this Kat was asked to prepare a talk on the topic a half-decade ago, he was surprised -- no, he was ...
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Supreme Court to Hear Patent Infringement Case from tacticalip.com Aaron Thalwitzer Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Microsoft v. i4i, a case which could alter the very foundations of patent infringement litigation. Dozens of amicus briefs have been filed, and the U ...
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Use of financial services sector mark in City of London of 'more than local significance; from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Fortress Participations BV logo The extent to which the scope of use of an earlier mark which is cited in aid of a Community trade mark opposition or cancellation is becoming an increasingly lively ...
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The royal wedding and trade marks from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk On the 15 November 2010 the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton was announced. Understandably, some companies are interested in using trade marks that involve aspects of royalty to...
(From Steve van Dulken's ...
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Practical Implications Of Supreme Court’s Role In Patent Policy from gametimeip.com Microsoft has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a long-standing rule that requires patent challengers to demonstrate invalidity of a patent by “clear and convincing” evidence (as opposed to the more common civil standard of ...
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Biodiversity, Climate Change Policy On Convergent Roads, Paper Says from www.ip-watch.org Biodiversity and climate change issues are coming together under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), according to a new working paper from the University of Edinburgh.
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Twombly and Iqbal Do Not Apply to Affirmative Defenses from docketreport.blogspot.com In granting in part plaintiff's motion to dismiss defendant's affirmative defenses for failure to state a claim, the court concluded that
Bell Atlantic Corporation v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) and
Ashcroft ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Congress STILL diverting funds of USPTO in April 2011 from ipbiz.blogspot.com from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on 17 April 2011:
Legislators siphoned the funds as part of the emergency spending bill drafted hastily to avert a shutdown of the government this month. The stopgap measure, which ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
ITC staff advocates dismissal of Apple's allegations against HTC and (with respect to one remaining patent) Nokia from fosspatents.blogspot.com Bloomberg's patent expert Susan Decker went to today's beginning of the hearing in ITC investigation no. 337-TA-710 (Apple vs. HTC and, concerning one of the patents, Nokia) and found out that the Office ...
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New VP For US Chamber IP Center from www.ip-watch.org The United States Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Center has announced the addition of an executive vice president, joining from the brand-name pharmaceutical industry.
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WHO Group Strikes Landmark Deal On Global Framework For Flu Pandemics from www.ip-watch.org After a week of discussions, a good part of which centred around intellectual property issues, World Health Organization members agreed to a framework aimed at better addressing future influenza pandemics and facilitating vaccines access for ...
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Microsoft i4i Oral Arguments Complete at Supreme Court from ipwatchdog.com Hungar would go on to say that the clear and convincing standard "makes no sense," which nearly immediately drew the first comment from the bench with Justice Ginsburg saying that it would be difficult to ...
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Peer-to-Patent: IPKat seminar from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has long expressed his enthusiasm for the Peer-to-Patent experiment, which has been trialled in the United States and Australia and will soon, he learns, will be run in the United Kingdom too. In ...
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April Teleseminar on Thursday: Protecting Non-Traditional Trademarks (including marching ducks, voice of Darth Vader & goats on a roof!) from ipelton.wordpress.com This free call will feature information about the protection of branding mechanisms beyond names and logos such as: sounds, colors, scents, product shapes, and building shapes. Learn about these “non-traditional trademarks” and how they can ...
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Microsoft Takes Verbal Beating From Ginsburg And Supreme Court from gametimeip.com Microsoft argued its case to the Supreme Court today, asking for a nine-figure judgment against it to be overturned. In the process, of course, the case could alter the requirement that patent challengers prove invalidity ...
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Could Apple Get Funded Today? from hallingblog.com Book Review of Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership, by Henry R. Nothhaft and David Kline. This pioneering book shows how the US can create jobs and increase per capita income. The policy prescriptions ...
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Supreme Court Considers Microsoft's Appeal In Patent Case from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from an April 18, 2011 article by Brent Kendall published by Dow Jones Newswires available at Fox Business: The U.S. Supreme Court voiced ambivalence Monday about Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT ...
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Report Finds Internet Freedom Under Threat from www.ip-watch.org A newly released report on internet freedom found rising threats from cyberattacks, politically motivated censorship and government control even as the number of global online users continued to grow at explosive rates. The report, Freedom ...
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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on "Clear and Convincing Standard" for Patent Validity from 271patent.blogspot.com Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of
Microsoft v. i4i, where Microsoft argued that attempts to invalidate patents using prior art
not considered by the USPTO should be judged by a ...
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Summary of Microsoft v. i4i Oral Argument from www.patentlyo.com Guest Post by Megan M. La Belle, Catholic University Columbus School of Law Today, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Microsoft Corporation v. i4i Limited Partnership, in which Microsoft has challenged the ...
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