Patent & IP news for May 13, 2011

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post image Top 5: Patent and Crowdsourcing Videos on YouTube from info.articleonepartners.com

YouTube is a great place to find educational content and commentary on current events.  This is especially true for patent, IP, and crowdsourcing industries.  These videos provide a sampling of our favorite hits on YouTube ...

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Ocean Tomo Study Highlights Importance of Patents and Inventors from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- A study released earlier this year by Ocean Tomo highlights the emergence of intellectual capital and how the U.S. has transitioned to an innovation-based economy over the past 35 years. The ...

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The Patent and Trade Mark Group for searchers from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

Last night I attended the AGM of the Patent and Trade Mark Group, a "special interest" group of CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The group contains those who...

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The Silent Race For Smartphone Data…including Location and Time Stamp Data from www.iposgoode.ca

Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Recently, Apple garnered unwanted attention when it was discovered by security researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden that the iPhone was recording location and ...

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Patent Litigation Role Reversal — Aren’t Bullies Normally The Bigger Ones? from gametimeip.com

Quarles & Brady‘s Michael Wokasch has written an intriguing piece for Techdirt: Settling Lawsuits Sometimes Makes Sense. Period.  In it, Wokasch makes the case that settling patent lawsuits, as opposed to fighting over “principle,” is ...

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Hayden Christensen Loses Suit Against USA Network from tacticalip.com

Aaron Thalwitzer One of the most individuals from the new Star Wars movies lost his lawsuit against USA Network. Hayden Christensen (who played the fictionalized version of Darth Vader) and his brother Tove (seriously?) sued ...

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Wall Street to Patents: “We Love You, Man” from ipinsider1.wordpress.com

IP Cash is King Right Now JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster takes a long look at Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG), a company that barely survived 2003 that Wall Street currently values at $1.5 ...

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Summer 2011: The PLI Approach to the New Patent Bar Exam from ipwatchdog.com

It has always been my belief that the PLI course is the best, and now I think there is absolutely no doubt. Yes, there are some competitors out there but how many other courses have ...

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Two SCC Justices Retire, Two Openings for the Harper Government to Fill from www.iposgoode.ca

Pauline Wong is Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The Supreme Court of Canada announced today that The Right Honourable Justice Ian Binnie and The Right Honourable Justice Louise Charron will be retiring from the Court ...

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World Health Assembly To Address Organisational Reform, IP Issues from www.ip-watch.org

The state of global health and the work of the international organisation in charge of providing leadership in health matters will be scrutinised at the annual World Health Assembly starting next week. Related Articles:

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Patent Threats Lobbed Against App Developers, But Apple Is The Target from gametimeip.com

A company called Lodsys has apparently sent threatening letters to a number of independent software developers. The common thread was use of Apple’s in-app purchase API. The strategy strikes me as a good way ...

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Claim construction issues in the TenXC patent litigation from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


In a previous post we had touched upon briefly on the TenXC patent litigation, where we had stated that the patent at issue was not an essential patent.  This post provides an analysis of the ...

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USTR Special 301 Report: Canada in US Hall of Shame for the Third Year Running from www.iposgoode.ca

Mark Kohras is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) releases its Special 301 Report. The report provides a detailed list of countries ...

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What will Apple do? Second patent attack on app developers in only six weeks from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Today's big smartphone patent news is not about another lawsuit against some device maker or operating system company. It's about a non-practicing entity trollishly asserting a patent against at least five (but probably ...

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Disclosure of Concerns Leading to Reissue Application Waives Privilege as to Such Concerns from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' "motion to compel a finding of waiver" of the attorney-client privilege as to plaintiffs' motivation for seeking a reissue patent. During a deposition, plaintiff's in-house counsel "expanded on the statements ...

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What law school did not teach me from ipelton.wordpress.com

This blog generally covers trademark, branding and social media issues. But I also sometimes try to shed a little light into our office and into what it is like to manage and run a small ...

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WIPO Members Tee Up Negotiation On Traditional Knowledge, Cultural Expressions from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization members this week set the stage for text-based negotiations for an international instrument on the protection of traditional knowledge, folklore and genetic resources. Related Articles:

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Kodak Wins Over Apple in Patent Infringement Lawsuit from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from an article by Rachel King published on May 13, 2011 at ZDNet: Kodak has won another battle in its ongoing legal wars with Apple over digital camera patent infringements. International ...

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ACI "Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp" Conference, San Diego, CA, July 18-19 from www.orangebookblog.com

American Conference Institute is holding a "Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp" conference in San Diego, California on July 18th and 19th, at the Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa. ACI calls this conference "a primer on IP basics ...

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Next smartphone patent suit: MyPort IP vs. HTC, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Earlier today I reported on patent threats that a company named Lodsys sent to various iOS app developers, but there's also an actual smartphone patent lawsuit that was filed today: Texas-based MyPort IP, Inc ...

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The Rambus Opinions: CAFC rules on the "reasonable forseeability" of litigation from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Micron Technology, Inc. v. Rambus Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2011) Download 09-1263 Hynix Semiconductor Inc. v. Rambus Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2011) Download 09-1299-1347 Panel: Newman (concurring and dissenting in part on Hynix), Lourie ...

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ACI "Life Sciences Collaborative Agreements and Acquisitions" Conference, San Francisco, July 20-21 from www.orangebookblog.com

American Conference Institute is holding its "15th Advanced Forum on Life Sciences Collaborative Agreements and Acquisitions" in San Francisco, California on July 20th and 21st. According to ACI, this conference provides an opportunity to "meet ...

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