Patent & IP news for July 8, 2011

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post image Italy implements trade mark registration opposition procedure -- almost! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

STOP PRESS: check the comments posted below and you'll see that the Decree has been published in the Official Gazzette and is in force as of today, 8 July!  The first National Trade Mark ...

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post image Phil the Expatriate: How the U.S. is Driving Technical Talent Away from hallingblog.com

I met Phil in a restaurant in Belize.  Phil spent the first seven years of his life in Belize, but then moved to California.  He got a degree(s) in biochemistry and worked in a ...

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post image Tracking PPL's New Year litigation - Will it continue to repeat itself? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

I’m sure most of us are rather saturated with this blog’s coverage of the happenings IPRS and PPL. But before these issues die the quick death that they are destined to, I would ...

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post image How Strategically Important is IP for China? from ipfinance.blogspot.com


One of things that I like to do in my spare time is follow the various publications that are produced by an energetic local think tank devoted to international relations and strategy. If I am ...

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post image More Friday Fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A sign of the times? Initial Interest Confusion is the title, and indeed the subject matter, of a half-day seminar to be hosted by barristers' chambers Hardwicke in the lovely setting of Lincoln's Inn ...

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post image Court Continues to Struggle with Claim Construction from www.patentlyo.com

Retractable Technologies v. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) (Fed. Cir. 2011) In 2010, Judge Folsom of the Eastern District of Texas confirmed the jury finding that BD was liable for infringing three of RTI's ...

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post image Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

There are lots of fresh events on the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page, specially added for your education, erudition and electrification. Don't forget to check them out here!


The IPKat checks out the acquis ...

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post image Introducing new #trademark tool: GenericTrademarkPage.com from www.erikpelton.com

Introducing the beta version of GenericTrademarkPage.com, a free tool for trademark practitioners and owners! GenericTrademarkPage.com contains easy to use searches and links to many USPTO functions and other commonly used tools. GenericTrademarkPage.com ...

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post image Goodwill, badwill -- read all about it! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This is how the News of the World
reported the Max Mosley episode,
which led to this ruling from
the European Court
of Human Rights
After 168 years of continuous publication, News Group's News ...

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Docs at BIO: Session on IP Challenges for Personalized Medicine from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- On June 29, a panel at the 2011 BIO International Conference discussed the topic of "IP Challenges for Personalized Medicine: Navigating Bilski, Myriad, and Prometheus." This session addressed one of the most ...

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Non-Communicable Diseases Issue Energises Public Health Policymakers from www.ip-watch.org

Concern over non-communicable diseases - traditionally a more developed-country set of problems like diabetes - is energising the international public health policy community. But representatives of the public interest are still grappling with their response. Related Articles ...

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UN Body Addresses Problems With IP Rights Within Europe from www.ip-watch.org

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is holding a two-day meeting to increase awareness of intellectual property rights throughout the region. Related Articles:

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Apple's US 20110163944: INTUITIVE, GESTURE-BASED COMMUNICATIONS WITH PHYSICS METAPHORS from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Apple's patent application begins:

BACKGROUND

[0002] When an individual performs an action in a real world, physical environment, the individual experiences various physical phenomenon that indicates that the task is being performed or has ...

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Top 5: Water Activity Patents from info.articleonepartners.com

As the middle of summer approaches (for the Northern hemisphere, at least), the next couple months will be among the hottest of the year.  In the spirit of staying cool, here are the Top 5 ...

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Request For Sales And Customer Information For Accused Product Creates Actual Controversy Sufficient To Support Declaratory Relief Claim from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's declaratory relief claim for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Defendant's CFO wrote a letter to plaintiff stating in part: "[I]t would appear that ...

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

District Courts Selected for Patent Pilot Program Fourteen federal district courts have been selected to participate in a 10-year pilot project designed to enhance expertise in patent cases. To be eligible to participate, courts had ...

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June employment from www.athenaalliance.org

Are we seeing an economy that has essentially stalled? The news from BLS this morning's on the employment situation is not good: Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the ...

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Oracle fights to keep its Java patent claims alive from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Yesterday's big news concerning Oracle v. Google was this article, which cites Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg as the source for Oracle approaching Android device makers, demanding royalties between $15 and $20 per unit ...

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WIPO Ventures Into Global Debate On Climate Change from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization is continuing its push to become involved in some of the biggest policy questions of the day with an international conference on climate change next week. This follows recent efforts ...

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America Invents Act: Qui tam provision and virtual patent marking from www.postgrant.com

As part of the House version of the patent reform bill now known as the America Invents Act, the false marking statute has been amended to remove the qui tam provision. This provision allowed any ...

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Copyright Controversy: Senate bill S.978 – Big Brother Subscribing to Your YouTube Videos from tacticalip.com

John Frazier, Jr., Guest Author There is a bill being considered by the Senate that could have unintended secondary effects. Senate bill S.978, sponsored by Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar, intends to “amend the criminal ...

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First two app developers must file answer to Lodsys's complaint on or before July 21 from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Three weeks after Lodsys sued seven (mostly very small) app developers on May 31, the court issued a summons to all seven defendants. A summons is a formal you-have-been-sued notice.

Today the court records show ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Here's a recap of the patent/foreign filing news from this week:

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Wanted: Prior Art to Invalidate Lodsys Patents from ipwatchdog.com

Article One Partners is at it again, this time with four patents in the cross-hairs owned by the company suing Apple App Developers for patent infringement — Lodsys. Article One Partners has made a name for ...

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Watson Confirms Favorable Appeals Court Decision in Mucinex(R) Patent Suit from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from a July 7, 2011 Watson press release published at PR Newswire: Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI) today confirmed that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ...

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Patent Reform: House Passes America Invents Act from www.lotempiolaw.com

On June 23, 2011, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted 304-117 to pass H.R. 1249, a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), also known as the America Invents Act, to ...

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