Patent & IP news for May 31, 2011

Fifa scandal: the sponsors awaken from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Football's governing body? Is there corruption at the highest levels of the sport which most of the world (i.e. almost everywhere except the USA) calls football?  You may as well ask, do dogs ...

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Non-paper on the non-patent court? from patlit.blogspot.com

The non-paper: will it ever fly? Last Friday the Council of the European Union published a document, Creating a Unified Patent Litigation System - Orientation debate, to which was attached Annex II, delightfully titled in capitals ...

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Smell-alike perfumes - the Bundesgerichtshof's view from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On 5 May 2011, the First Civil Senate of the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) which is, inter alia, responsible for competition law matters decided that trading with smell-alike perfumes, that are imitations of perfume ...

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Trademark Attorney’s Refusal to Register Spoons Yogurt Design Mark Affirmed from www.iptrademarkattorney.com

The USPTO Trademark Attorney refused Davide Mebane’s intent-to-use trademark application to register the Spoons Yogurt design mark on the Principal Register for “frozen yogurt” based on the likelihood of confusion with the previously registered ...

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A Love Story about Piracy - Movie Review: Partners in Crime from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

How often do criminals evaluate the pros and cons of their criminal acts? 'Rarely' would be a fairly appropriate answer. But when we are dealing with 'pirates', there seems to be a certain mode of ...

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Pre-Litigation Defense Strategies Based on Crowdsourcing from info.articleonepartners.com

Last week, we examined the results provided by the AOP community.  Two examples looked at how the Article One Partners community was able to assist clients who were in the midst of patent litigation. 

 

Yet ...

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Inducing from www.patenthawk.com

SEB had commercial success with an electrical deep fryer that it patented: 4,995,312. Sunbeam asked Pentalpha, owned by Global-Tech Appliances, "to supply Sunbeam with deep fryers meeting certain specifications. Pentalpha purchased an SEB ...

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PCC Page 29: Octopuses learn to live with each other – only getting half our cake … and costs. from patlit.blogspot.com

If you only half win, do you deserve
to get more than half your costs? Poignantly portrayed by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), the PCC Pages seek to explain how litigation works in ...

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Delhi High Court imposes costs of Rs. 3 lakhs on Dr. Wobben for withdrawing his appeals from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The Delhi High Court while considering applications for withdrawal of 3 of Dr. Wobben’s appeals, granted liberty to withdraw all 3 appeals on the condition that the appellant (Dr. Wobben) pays costs of Rs ...

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it from ipfinance.blogspot.com

In this, the second in a series of features written for Keith Mallinson (WiseHarbor) for IP Finance, the author has some more positive points to make concerning (F)RAND licensing, pointing to its huge success ...

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Mad Men Thrive in Mid-Town from www.ipeg.eu

Once the iconic Main Street of the advertising industry, Madison Avenue has quietly evolved into a center for Manhattan’s emerging intellectual property businesses. Don Draper, flamboyant Mad Men creative director, however, needn’t worry ...

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Join Me For The IP Chat Channel Reissue Webinar from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On Thursday, June 2, 2011, I will be a speaker for an IPO IP Chat Channel webinar: PATENT REISSUE: THE IMPACT OF RECENT DECISIONS BY THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT As summarized in the IP Chat Channel ...

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The OIN gave Salesforce.com four patents to assert against Microsoft from fosspatents.blogspot.com

About a year ago -- on May 18, 2010 to be precise -- Microsoft sued Salesforce.com "for infringement of nine Microsoft patents by their CRM product." Apparently Salesforce.com had refused to enter into a royalty-bearing ...

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Federal circuit: manufacturer permitted to file declaratory judgment action when its customers face threat of patent infringement suit from ipspotlight.com

In Arris Group Inc. v. British Telecommunications PLC, the Federal Circuit allowed a manufacturer to file a declaratory judgment action after its customers were accused of patent infringement, even through the manufacturer itself was not ...

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Proposed EU Customs Regulation May Not Dispel Fear Of Wrongful Drug Seizures from www.ip-watch.org

The European Commission has issued a new draft customs regulation that it says addresses past concerns over wrongful seizures of generic drug shipments transiting through European ports. But the new regulation does not substantively change ...

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Upcoming Event: Chisum Patent Academy from www.patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Professors Don Chisum and Janice Mueller are two of the leading patent law experts in the US. Chisum's 28–volume treatise is the world's most cited source of patent law ...

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Global-Tech v. SEB: Supreme Court Affirms CAFC Result But Not "Deliberate Indifference" Standard from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Global-Tech Appliances, inc. v. SEB S.A. (2011) Majority: Alito (author), Roberts, C.J., Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan. Dissent: Kennedy Inducement of Infringement Requires Knowledge That the Induced Acts Constitute ...

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US 7,935,528: Liver stem cell from ipbiz.blogspot.com

First claim:

A primary liver stem cell, wherein said stem cell (a) is obtained from normal liver tissue, (b) is isolated from an isolated liver cell cluster comprising a hepatocyte and said stem cell, wherein ...

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No Divided Infringement Of System Claims Where Defendant Does Not "Put Into Service" Every Element Of The Patented System from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiff's motion to reconsider the court's earlier ruling that defendant did not infringe under a theory of divided infringement pursuant to Centillion Data Sys., LLC v. Qwest Communications Int'l ...

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Mark Cuban Doesn’t Shop For Patents On Shark Tank from gametimeip.com

The return of Shark Tank to ABC has captured the interest of patent attorneys (among others) from around the country, fascinated about the ingenuity of the average Joe and the courage to translate their ideas ...

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GLOBAL-TECH APPLIANCES, INC. v. SEB S. A. Affirmed from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from the Syllabus and Opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States' in the above-captioned case decided today, May 31, 2011, obtained from Cornell University Law School's Legal Information ...

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NBA and Stanley Cup Finals: which logo is best? from ipelton.wordpress.com

This week the finals of the NBA and the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs commence. In the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks square off against the Miami Heat. In the NHL, the Boston Bruins take on the ...

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Outgoing US Commerce Chief Backs House Patent Reform Bill, Nearly from www.ip-watch.org

Outgoing United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today gave near-complete approval of legislation to reform US patent law which is awaiting action in the House of Representatives. Related Articles:

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Lodsys sues 7 app developers in Eastern Texas, disagrees with Apple; Android also targeted from fosspatents.blogspot.com

DEVELOPING STORY

I almost appeared to be a "party spoiler" last week: amid all the enthusiasm among iPhone/iPad app developers over Apple's letter to Lodsys, I wrote that "Apple's letter in and ...

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IP Attorneys' Inequitable Conduct Bar Raised from info.inovia.com

Back in my prosecution days, one lesson drilled into my head regarding prior art was “when in doubt about a reference’s materiality, send it to the Examiner and let him/her figure it out ...

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Defamed By Twitter 2 from tacticalip.com

By Daniel Davidson When Courtney Love thumbed open her direct app to twitter on her handy smart phone, ready to give her few thousand followers a piece of her mind, I’m sure she didn ...

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The 2011 G8 Summit and Intellectual Property from dcipattorney.com

The leaders from eight of the world’s richest industrialized countries (commonly known as the “Group of Eight” or “G8”) – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – met in ...

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Patexia Visualization of US Patent Data: A Free Online Tool from intellogist.wordpress.com

We’ve looked at free patent search tools and alert services, but are any free online tools available for analyzing the patent data?  Many subscription-based systems possess advanced analysis capabilities: an article by Lucy Akers ...

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Peer-to-Patent: IPO and IPKat move fast from ipkitten.blogspot.com

About one minute ago, the United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) finally went public on the worst-kept secret since Ryan Giggs' alleged liaison with Imogen Thomas brought down Twitter.  Yes, the IPO is finally ...

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