Patent & IP news for May 29, 2011

Top five companies asserting IP against Android have collective market cap of $734 billion from fosspatents.blogspot.com

While all of the major mobile platforms have to deal with widespread "trollish" activities, Android's intellectual property problems have a variety of unique characteristics.

There's no doubt that Android's popularity and its ...

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To cookie or not to cookie? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat is often perturbed that the advertisements in her Gmail and FaceBook accounts seem to be personalised through no action by her. Indeed, recent advertisements on both sites have related to wine, law, cats ...

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New Developments: European Patent With Unitary Effect, EU Patent Jurisdiction from www.ipjur.com

Under the date of May 26, 2011, the EU Council has published Document 10629/11 titled Proposal for a Regulation of the Council and the European Parliament implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the ...

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Injury from www.patenthawk.com

U.S. justice is blind, but not necessarily in a good way. At root, garden-variety judges are easily bamboozled, led by the nose by bias, or simply muddle-headed to begin with. Allergan makes and sells ...

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Peter Lee: Accession and Patent Remedies from writtendescription.blogspot.com

We often refer to patents as "property," so can traditional property remedies teach us something about appropriate remedies in patent infringement cases? This is what Professor Peter Lee (UC Davis) argues in his forthcoming article ...

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Sunday Morning on May 29 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Bill Whitaker interviews Iron Mike Tyson on the Sunday profile. He's now 44 and in Las Vegas, with pigeons. A line: addicted to chaos.

The Indy 500 turns 100. Euaa Mitchell gives a view ...

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Back in paradise from www.717madisonplace.com

Some have wondered whether Professor Arti Rai of Duke Law School has any plans to throw her hat into the ring when a future vacancy arises for the Federal Circuit.  She recently delivered a guest ...

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John Elway demands punk band changes name, still hated by Clevelanders from tacticalip.com

Scott Nyman   With a hometown situated on the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania, half of the locals were fans of the Cleveland Browns, and the other half were Pittsburgh Steelers fanatics. Raised as a Browns ...

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Wegner on Therasense: USPTO should support it from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Harold Wegner has a post on IPFrontline titled A Post-Therasense Rule 56 Duty of Disclosure which tells the USPTO to accept the majority opinion of the 6-4 vote:

It is important that a stable situation ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

June 2, 2011 - EPO Opposition & Appeals -- The Case Law (Patent Resources Group and Management Forum) - Chicago, IL June 3, 2011 - European Patents -- The Case Law (Patent Resources Group and Management Forum) - Chicago, IL June 7-8 ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Abbott Laboratories et al.v. Sandoz Inc. 1:11-cv-00424; filed May 13, 2011 in the District ...

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