Patent & IP news for June 19, 2011

Letter from AmeriKat II: US Supreme Court ruling in Stanford v Roche from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Majority OpinionJustice Roberts (picture, below left), giving the majority opinion of the Court stated, after the usual round of dicta about the Progress Clause and unnecessary factual references to the first US Patent ...

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Letter from AmeriKat I: US Supreme Court ruling in Stanford v Roche from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The rain has come to London. Rumor has it that while the AmeriKat was at INTA in May the sun was shining down on the now rain-saturated streets. Now, with her paw pads slipping on ...

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Plumber cleared of internet harassment from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat is always amazed at the opportunities, both for good deeds and for bad deeds, that are available due to advances in internet technology. It is on this basis that she was intrigued ...

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China gets tough on locals over iPad trade secret theft from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Part of the fun of attending the International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting is that you find yourself engaged in conversation with all sorts of good souls into whom one does not often have the ...

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Guest Post on the Tasini et. al. lawsuit against Huffington Post from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Sai Vinod Nayani, a fourth year student of NUJS has sent us this incsive post on the lawsuit filed by Tasini et. al. against the Huffington post.

HUFFERS CRISIS! Claim for Equitable Compensation for Enriching ...

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Phillip Baker resigns from deanship at UAlberta over plagiarism from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Dr. Phillip Baker resigned as Dean at the University of Alberta over his plagiarism of a speech given by Dr. Atul Gawande at Stanford University.

The Montreal Gazette noted: [University of Alberta President] Samarasekera said ...

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Clown drama in real life from ipbiz.blogspot.com

On June 18, 2011, the Chicago Tribune noted: An off-duty Chicago police officer dressed up as a clown for a South Side fundraiser shot and killed a teen who held him at gunpoint tonight after ...

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Peter D. Karol to LumenPulse from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Peter D. Karol, once general counsel of Joule Unlimited, has joined LumenPulse as executive vice president and general counsel. Mr. Karol holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on June 19, 2011 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced the stories for CBS Sunday Morning on Fathers Day, June 19, 2011. Fathers Day is a day when dads are supposed to take it easy. The cover story by Barry Peterson was ...

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Top 10 IP Paper Downloads from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Over at TaxProf Blog (which has interesting posts about legal education as well as about tax law), Paul Caron has been posting weekly updates of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads. Because I am ...

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Father’s Day themed trademarks from ipelton.wordpress.com

Here a a few Father’s Day themed trademarks for all the dads out there. Make it a great day! [click links and images for USPTO records] FATHER’S HALL OF FAME -  providing information relating ...

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Professor David Nimmer excluded as an expert witness in copyright case??? from www.717madisonplace.com

Last week the Ninth Circuit decided the appeal in the copyright dispute over the television series “My Name is Earl.”  The panel deemed the case as not requiring an oral argument. The most interesting aspect ...

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Government Agencies Retaining IP Rights In Violation Of Stated Policy from www.iposgoode.ca

Matt Lonsdale is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. A recent report claims that in 2009, 59% of the intellectual property rights in the work product of contractors hired by ...

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Apple puts the “i” in infringement from tacticalip.com

Scott Nyman   Apple has become well known for its line of “i” products. You may be familiar with the iPod, iPhone, iTunes, iMac, iBooks, and now the iCloud. It turns out that some of these ...

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Obviousness Decisions at the BPAI from www.patentlyo.com

Everyone "knows" that KSR v. Teleflex changed the way that obviousness is treated at the US Patent Office. Using my set of 10,000 recent ex parte BPAI decisions (2009–2011), I looked at the ...

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