Patent & IP news for May 27, 2011

Lock them up or make they pay? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What shall we do with them?
(photo by hmmlargeart) The IPKat put in four 16-hour days at the recent International Trademark Association Meeting in San Francisco, but was still unable to cover more than a ...

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Does a Trade Mark Have To Be Factually Truthful? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Several of my fellow Kats managed to do a better job than I in juggling the recent INTA meeting in San Francisco with other tasks, as evidenced by my recent silence. Just for the record ...

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Patent Litigation Defense Aided by Article One Community Research from info.articleonepartners.com

Over the past two years, the Article One Partners community has earned over a million dollars doing patent research.  While that is monumental, what are the results of this research? 

 

Our clients, who sponsor AOP ...

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Editorial Note: Where Has This Blog Been Lately? from ipassetmaximizerblog.com

Subscribers to this blog may have been wondering why posts have been few and far between lately.  There’s a good reason for this:  I am now CEO of a startup company.  You can learn ...

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USPTO Studying Therasense Decision, Will Issue Guidance Soon from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- In a statement released earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was "carefully studying" the Federal Circuit's "important" en banc decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton ...

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Federal Circuit Grants En Banc Review in McKesson Technologies Inc. v. Epic Systems Corp. from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- One day after issuing its en banc decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co., the Federal Circuit decided that the appeal in McKesson Technologies Inc. v. Epic Systems Corp. warrants en ...

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Arris Group v. BT: Vendors and DJ Standing from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Arris Group, Inc. v. British Telecommunications PLC (Fed. Cir. 2011) Download 10-1292 Panel: Rader, Newman, Dyk (author) Arris Group manufactures cable telephony and data products for cable system operators, such as its ...

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Affinage and A.S.P. 2 from ipwars.com

For completeness, I should note that IHC UK has appealed Logan J’s decision earlier this month finding that it infringed IHC Australia’s registered trade mark for AFFINAGE. Summary here. Interestingly, Logan J has ...

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UN Project Examines Better Access To Drugs For the Poor Through Local Production from www.ip-watch.org

Improving access to medicines in developing countries through local pharmaceutical production is at the centre of a project involving several institutional actors working on health and trade. Technology transfer is key to local production, but ...

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EBay/PayPal paving the way for huge mobile payments patent suit against Google from fosspatents.blogspot.com

As a consumer and from an industry point of view, I want healthy competition in the field of electronic (and increasingly mobile) payments. I personally like (and have been an early adopter of) a number ...

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New “Final” ACTA Text Published, Open For Signature from www.ip-watch.org

A new "final" text of the secretive but potent Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been published by the European Commission, according to the Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). Related Articles:

• ‘Final final’ ACTA Text ...

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Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins from www.patentlyo.com

Pro Bono Patents! Members of the Twin Cities legal community are launching a pilot program to provide pro bono legal services to low-income, independent inventors. One of the programs goals is to put a dent ...

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Sanctions Backfire: Defendant's Baseless Requests for Rule 11 Sanctions May Lead to Sanctions Against Defense Counsel from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for Rule 11 sanctions and issued a show cause order against defense counsel why he should not be sanctioned for multiple meritless sanctions motions. "Rule 11 sanctions are reserved ...

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Out of this world: flying car inventions from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

The British Library has just opened its new, exciting (and free) exhibition, Out of this world: science fiction but not as you know it. One of its themes is Future Worlds, and asks if we ...

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The convergence of Therasense (Rule 56) with first to file from ipbiz.blogspot.com

IPBiz received an email on 27 May 2011 concerning an allegation that certain patent attorneys stole inventions from their clients. The matter is not new, and, for example, was discussed on TechDirt on 29 Jan ...

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I Have An Idea For A Smart Phone App! Now What? from tacticalip.com

By: Rene Dial  I have an idea for a smart phone app! Now what? Part I Today I am beginning a series of blogs with regard to creating your own smart phone apps.  Part I ...

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At stake in Therasense: the attorney fees award from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The headline on the storey on the Therasense en banc decision of the CAFC in The American Lawyer was Federal Circuit Guts Inequitable Conduct Defense, Patent Plaintiffs Rejoice .

There is mention of a possible appeal ...

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G8 Highlights Internet, IP Rights, Innovation, WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised countries today concluded their annual meeting, this year held in Deauville, France, with a communiqué bearing extensive discussion of the internet, intellectual property rights, and innovation - and a ...

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Omnibus Crime Bill Raises Concerns About Privacy And Free Speech from www.iposgoode.ca

Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. When Parliament was dissolved on March 25th, 2011, over a dozen criminal justice related bills died with it. During their subsequent election campaign, the Conservative party ...

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Lodsys and videophone patent troll double down and attack Android after Apple's iOS from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Quite frequently, those who assert patents against Apple's iOS and its iOS-based devices also go after Google's Android (and Android-based devices). Most of the time it happens simultaneously, but today I found out ...

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Did Copyright Concerns Motivate the White House’s bin Laden Photo Decision? from www.iposgoode.ca

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Despite public calls driven by morbid curiosity and a yen for closure, the White House has decided not to release the post-mortem photos of ...

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CPCC’s Proposed Memory Card Levy Sparks Debate On Use And Cost from www.iposgoode.ca

Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. The Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC), recently proposed a levy on electronic memory cards that would collect between $0.50 and $3.00 on ...

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They Invented What? (No. 203) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

U.S. Pat. No. 4,922,921: Device for testing one’s breath. I claim: 1. A device for use in testing one’s breath comprising a face mask adapted to fit over the nose ...

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ECLA Change Reports from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com

The European Patent Office is now publishing a monthly report on changes to the European Classification system (ECLA). ECLA has about 140,000 sub-classes, making it on par with the US Patent Classification. Changes are ...

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The Inexact Science Of Patent Valuation from gametimeip.com

Last week, in response to news about Google acquiring a portfolio of mobile phone patents, I harshly criticized the move.  Others have been swift to point out that 1) the purchase price represents an extremely ...

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Federal Circuit Reins In Doctrine of Inequitable Conduct in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. from www.iplawalert.com

On May 25, 2011, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down an en banc decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co., revamping the standards used for judging patentees’ inequitable conduct in ...

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Solazyme IPO on May 27, 2011 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Note San Jose Mercury News headline: Bay Area biofuel IPO: Solazyme climbs 15% in debut

Online WSJ noted: Solazyme's stock opened at $20 a share on the Nasdaq, up 11% from its initial public ...

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Rogue Pharmacies Slide Under Google Radar from www.iposgoode.ca

Nora Sleeth is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google’s advertising policy contains a set of guidelines intended to prevent illegal online pharmacies from advertising on the search engine. Adverts for these ...

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Microsoft Demonstrates How Lucritive Patent Licensing Can Be from gametimeip.com

An interesting addition to my earlier post about the patent licensing business, there’s another data point that demonstrates how profitable it can be. According to a Citi analyst this morning, Microsoft receives $5 from ...

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AIPLA Chemical Patent Practice Road Show: Prosecution and Litigation Strategies, Chicago, June 23 from www.orangebookblog.com

The AIPLA will be holding a full-day seminar entitled "Chemical Patent Practice Road Show: Prosecution and Litigation Strategies," on June 23rd at the Chicago Marriott Downtown. AIPLA describes the seminar as "covering advanced issues relating ...

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SME Foreign Filing Savings: A Single Patent for Europe on its Way? from dcipattorney.com

On this blog site, I have previously advised that over-fling for foreign patent rights is one of the “Top Five IP-related Mistakes” made by small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).  This is because patents are jurisdictional ...

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NAPP Annual Meeting from www.patentdocs.org

The National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) will be holding its 2011 Annual Meeting on July 16-19, 2011 in Las Vegas, NV. An optional short-course entitled: "The Nuts & Bolts of Patent Prosecution Practice," which is ...

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GuttenPlag: German Politician Brought Down By Anonymous Internet Activists from www.iposgoode.ca

Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg stepped down in March 2011 from his position as German defence minister following revelations that he had plagiarized much of his ...

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