Over-intellectualisation of European trade mark law -- a fresh example from ipkitten.blogspot.com Tiddles wears the dunce's hat again after
forgetting how to spell "syntactically
" unusual juxtapositions" ... At yesterday's plenary session of the Fordham Intellectual Property Conference, covering issues arising from European intellectual property law, this ...
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Top 5: Celebrity Patents and Inventions, Part 2 from info.articleonepartners.com By Catherine Zielinski
After the success of our first celebrity Top 5, we realized it would be necessary to unearth another set of innovative celebrities with an entrepreneurial spirit. From supermodels to presidents, this week ...
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Fordham IP Conference Report: Part 5 from ipkitten.blogspot.com Today's programme opened with a sunrise seminar at 7.30am on the subject "Rule of Law on the Internet: Feasible or Fantasy?", chaired by renowned IP scholar and jay-walking analyst Hugh Hansen. The keynote ...
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À La Mode from www.patenthawk.com Plastic beverage bottles represent a health hazard and an environmental abomination, but are blandly typical of short-sighted humans on a petroleum-fueled bender to planetary ruin. 7,094,863 & sibling 7,129,317 claim a particular ...
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Domination Abomination from www.patenthawk.com Fabled capitalist economist Adam Smith, inventor of "the invisible hand" of commerce, held the commonplace mentality of Enlightenment thought: that commerce promoted more "civilized" behavior; that virtuous behavior was actually promoted by self-interest. For Smith ...
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Fordham IP Conference 2011: part 6 from ipkitten.blogspot.com Victoria calls for "actual cooperation, not just
fluffy conversation at the top level" The IPKat's final report on the Fordham IP Conference brings you news of the keynote address of
Victoria Espinel, the White ...
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Media Content: Senior Citizens Front and Centre? from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is always reassuring to know that the ravages of late middle age don't necessarily spell catastrophe. As an IP person, this is especially so when it comes to the ability of media companies ...
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Mattel Slammed In Bratz Litigation from tacticalip.com Aaron Thalwitzer Juries. As I may have previously mentioned, I really like them. They can even the playing field, whether it’s man versus the state, man versus man, or mega-corporation versus smaller-but-still-pretty-big-corporation. Case in ...
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Introducing the Office of Policy and External Affairs Dashboard from www.uspto.gov Guest Blog by Administrator for Policy and External Affairs Albert Tramposch
The Office of Policy and External Affairs assists the USPTO Director in advising the President, through the Secretary of Commerce, and other federal agencies ...
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Federal Circuit Permits Reissue To Add Dependent Claims from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In In re Tanaka, the Federal Circuit held that the reissue process can be used to make the sole change of adding dependent claims to a granted patent. The ability to file a reissue application ...
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Red Hat is now a regular customer of patent trolls: another settlement announced from fosspatents.blogspot.com While most of the world was watching the wedding ceremomy at Westminster Abbey, Acacia Research Corporation (a publicly traded non-practicing entity that collects royalties on patents) was doing business as usual and announced a new ...
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Using tax policy the right way to spur investment in intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org The on-line journal Economists' Voice has published a new article on Should the Government Invest, or Try to Spur Private Investment?: The U.S. economy clearly needs stimulation, but the Obama administration's plan for ...
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Monday Deadline To Present at IP Scholars Conference from writtendescription.blogspot.com This year's
IP Scholars Conference is August 11-12 at DePaul in Chicago. According to the conference website, requests to present should be made no later than May 2, which is Monday. I hope to ...
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The Importance of Keeping the Infringer in Mind When Preparing Patent Claims from inventivestep.net Suppose I invent a new chemical molecule. I begin testing the molecule to determine its usefulness. After testing, I determine that when the molecule is combined with certain other ingredients to form a drug, it ...
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Unsupported PDF specifications and USPTO EFS-Web from inventblog.com There are few things more painful than uploading documents via EFS-Web and receiving the dreaded warning that: The attached PDF file does not follow the supported PDF specifications (Versions 1.1 to 1.6). Please ...
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Judge Davis Adopts Another Streamlining Tool in Multi-Defendant Patent Litigation: Early Summary Judgment on Damages from docketreport.blogspot.com As
others have observed, Judge Davis and Judge Love of the Eastern District of Texas recently approved early
Markman hearings as a streamlining tool in certain multidefendant patent cases.
AdjustaCam provides a variation on that ...
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WIPO Delegates Meet On IP And Development Implementation from www.ip-watch.org Intellectual property has often been considered by developing countries as a hindrance to development rather than a driving force. Next week, delegates to the World Intellectual Property Organization will discuss the implementation of the organisation ...
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US, Europe Debate Embryonic Stem Cell Patents and Research from ipwatchdog.com Earlier today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated the preliminary injunction issued by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia preventing the federal government from funding ...
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OCE and IP Osgoode Team Up to Establish New Commercialization Clinic for Innovators from www.iposgoode.ca You have some innovative research you want to commercialize and you are unsure how to protect your smart idea. Where do you go to get help? This burning question has been answered by a new ...
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Discount For IP-Watch Readers At LES Life Sciences Meeting, 4-6 May from www.ip-watch.org Intellectual Property Watch readers have been offered a $200 savings on attendance at next week's
spring meeting of the Licensing Executives Society in New York, focused on life sciences. This year's LES Spring ...
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China's ZTE Fires Back at Huawei from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from an April 29, 2011 article by Michael Kan of PC World published at Yahoo! News: Chinese equipment supplier ZTE has fired back against its rival Huawei Technologies by filing its ...
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“Like” this blog on Facebook! from ipelton.wordpress.com Facebook has tried to register the words “LIKE”. Whether or not they are able to ultimately obtain a registration, you can “LIKE” and follow us on Facebook here: Or follow on twitter here: @tm4smallbiz Tagged ...
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James Donald Smith Named Chief Patent Judge at USPTO from ipwatchdog.com U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has appointed James Donald Smith of Chicago, Ill. to serve as the next Chief Administrative Patent Judge of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) at the U ...
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Plastics Archive at Syracuse Univ Library from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com Syracuse University Library's
Plastics Collection is a great source of information on all things plastic from the late 1800s to the present. Many objects in the collection have patent references.
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USPTO Announces Agenda for Next BCP Customer Partnership Meeting from www.patentdocs.org The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced the agenda for the next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting to be held on June 8, 2011. The proposed agenda is as follows: Morning ...
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